British Council Learn English Podcasts Part 1 LearnEnglish Themes Podcasts are for learners at Intermediate to Advanced level and cover a large number of themes. LearnEnglish Themes Podcasts are a way for you to practise your English language listening skills...
The mythic status of the Oxbridge man at the height of the British Empire continues to persist in depictions of this small, elite world as an ideal of athleticism, intellectualism, tradition, and ritual. In his investigation of the origins of this myth, Paul R. Deslandes explores the everyday life of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge to examine how they experienced manhood...
A unique insight into British life and culture. Both videos in this series contain eight factual reports, introduced by a presenter. Window On Britain 2 topics are: Work, Animals, Holidays, The Media, Leisure, The Environment, Health, and Law and Order. The reports combine factual information with some semi-dramatized scenes. At each level the video is supported by an Activity Book for students and a Video Guide for teachers.
Uniting the Kingdom?: The Making of British History
Added by: bukka | Karma: 785.36 | Non-Fiction, Other | 10 April 2009
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Product Description This highly illuminating collection of original essays forms an ideal introduction to the most up-to-date thinking about the problems of British history and identities. How was the United Kingdom formed? How were Wales, Scotland and Ireland incorporated to a unified British polity? Uniting the Kingdom? is a timely examination of this history.
Assembling the most distinguished historians of Britian, this landmark book explores themes and questions across the entire span of British and United Kingdom history. Traditional chronological frontiers are broken down as medievalists, early modernists and modernists sustain a dynamic dialogue around the key issues of the British state such as expansion and contraction, the nature of political tensions and conflicting historiographies. Uniting the Kingdom? represents a comprehensive survey of the most recent historical scholarship and will preserve its resonance for years to come.
No, this is not another medical thriller by Robin Cook. This Robin Cook is a British politician who resigned his cabinet post in March 2003 in protest over Britain's involvement in the impending war on Iraq. Cook, who served as Tony Blair's foreign secretary and (later) leader of the House of Commons, was one of Blair's close friends and confidants. His book, the bulk of which is taken up with extracts from diaries spanning the two-year period leading up to his resignation, provides a wealth of information for political junkies.
