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Daniel Todman BRITAIN'S WAR Into battle 1937-1941 827pp. Allen Lane. 30 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 713 99927 3 Anyone hoping to revisit ITMA, Woolton pies or the documentary films of [...]

A number of papers given at the third annual summer school of the Institute of Contemporary British History have been collected in What Difference Did the War Make?, ed. Brian [...]

HISTORIANS of twentieth-century British politics are fixated on party. Hence monographs on party themes abound and every leading party politician attracts a biographer. On their individual merits, such works often [...]

Churchill and His Generals. By Raymond Callahan. (Lawrence, Kans.: University Press of Kansas, 2007. Pp. x, 310. $34.95.) Tensions between political and military leaders are almost inevitable in wartime, but [...]

David Marquand MAMMON'S KINGDOM An essay on Britain, now 276pp. Allen Lane. 20 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84614 672 5 'If way to the Better there be', wrote Thomas Hardy, [...]

Selina Todd THE PEOPLE The rise and fall of the working class, 1910-2010 456pp. John Murray. 25 [pounds sterling]. 978 1 84854 881 7 At the start of the twentieth [...]

James H. Mills CANNABIS NATION Control and consumption in Britain, 1928-2008 292pp. Oxford University Press. 35 [pounds sterling] (US $65). 978 019 928342 2 Peter Hitchens THE WAR WE NEVER [...]

Lucy Lethbridge SERVANTS A downstairs view of twentieth-century Britain 385pp. Bloomsbury. 20 [pounds sterling]. 978 0 7475 9017 0 In 1901, there were more than 1.3 million indoor domestic servants [...]

Thirteen essays on the history of Britain since 1945, some of which originated as papers to the first summer school of the Institute of Contemporary British History, have been collected [...]

The BBC is often said to have made a crucial contribution to the unity and morale of the British people during the Second World War. As Sian Nicholas shows in [...]