Roy Hattersley's dog Buster stepped into the limelight in April 1996 after an incident with a goose in St James's Park; a goose which happened to belong to the Queen. Pursued by the press ever since, he has sought solace in writing. Here he details the absurdities of his life with The Man, who clearly wants to be a dog but lacks the necessary qualities. The blood of the tundra wolves roars through Buster's veins and demands that he hold strong views on the role and status of the fin-de-siecle dog. Buster's book exposes the truth about man-made fallacies such as diet, discipline and exercise,...
Roy Hattersley's dog Buster stepped into the limelight in April 1996 after an incident with a goose in St James's Park; a goose which happened to belo...
John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist Connexion was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the new relationship which it created between clergy and people.
John Wesley led the Second English Reformation. His Methodist Connexion was divided from the Church of England, not by dogma and doctrine but by the n...
A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Liberal Prime Minister of Great Britain, was the founding father of the welfare state and as great a peacetime leader as Churchill was in war.
A Welshman among the English, a nonconformist among Anglicans and a self-made man in the patrician corridors of power, David Lloyd George, the last Li...
A history of England through the eyes of one its most famous and powerful families, the Devonshires
The story of the Cavendish family and the first eight Dukes of Devonshire is the story of England. From 1381--when Sir John Cavendish, Lord Chief Justice of England, was killed during the Peasant's Revolt--to 1906, when the Duke of Devonshire's resignation brought down the Tory government: the family's fortunes (and misfortunes) mirrored the life of the nation. This is also the story of the huge support networks of servants and labor needed to sustain the supremacy of a family...
A history of England through the eyes of one its most famous and powerful families, the Devonshires
The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'a first-class storyteller' The Times
Throughout the three hundred years that followed the Act of Supremacy - which, by making Henry VIII head of the Church, confirmed in law the breach with Rome - English Catholics were prosecuted, persecuted and penalised for the public expression of their faith. Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalised discrimination.
The first book to tell the story of the...
The story of Catholicism in Britain from the Reformation to the present day, from a master of popular history - 'a first-class storyteller'
