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Alwyn Turner
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Coming soon: A Shellshocked Nation - as recommended by @robbiemillen.bsky.social.
November 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
No other British pop singer has aged with as much style as Kevin Rowland.
November 1, 2025 at 9:52 AM
To be published 22 January 2026, six months from today...
A Shellshocked Nation: Britain between the Wars.
July 22, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Britain in June 1953 (from the Globe newspaper).
Peggy Cripps (daughter of the late Sir Stafford) marrying Joe Appiah; Clement Attlee at the Durham Miners' Gala; the Queen at a rainy Buckingham Palace garden party; procession in London for the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
April 13, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The Daily Mail's guide to the Best New Paperbacks...
January 10, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Lovely to see Little Englanders in The Times's "Best paperbacks of 2025" today.
January 4, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Now in paperback...
January 2, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I know you'll all be eager to spend those Book Tokens that your auntie gave you for Christmas, but if you just hold your horses a moment... the paperback edition of Little Englanders: Britain in the Edwardian Era will be published on Friday.
December 30, 2024 at 9:11 AM
From the Times History Books of the Year.
November 29, 2024 at 8:01 PM
November 16, 2024 at 8:15 AM
I once saw Tory MP Sir Gerald Nabarro on a railway station in Wales.
November 14, 2024 at 9:11 AM
Tony Hancock finds common cause with @lordbonkers.bsky.social.
November 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
It's a sign of something when the Daily Telegraph doesn't run the resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury as its lead story.
November 12, 2024 at 11:22 PM