Featuring some 85 colour illustrations, 'Bygone London' is an exploration of a changing city. Alongside photographs of the long-departed trams and trolleybuses are rare colour images portraying the Festival of Britain in 1951 and other facets of Metropolitan life during these years.
The nineteenth century is too often invoked as moment where Britain alone exerted global dominance, without the need for European collaboration. This book shows how this is fundamentally wrong by exploring British collaboration with France between 1848 and 1914. Gillen redefines our understanding of Britain's role in the world in the age of empire.
The culmination of a half-century of historical investigation, A People Betrayed is not only a definitive history of modern Spain but also a compelling narrative that becomes a lens for understanding the challenges that virtually all democracies have faced in the modern world.
