The Bloody British

Author : Paul Hawkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781706709916
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloody British written by Paul Hawkins and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever said sorry to an inanimate object? Formed a queue... on your own? Or spent the whole night standing naked in a stranger's cupboard because you're too polite to ask for help? (Don't ask.) Being British isn't easy. Especially if you live abroad, where your countrymen aren't exactly famous for, well, blending in. As his beloved homeland goes Brexit bananas, bestselling humourist Paul Hawkins takes on Britishness - how it looks from the outside, how to be British abroad and what you only learn about home once you leave it. In this self-deprecating (and only mildly treacherous) handbook, he reveals the awkward secrets, cultural blind-spots and private oddness of the people he once shared an island with. (Revenge is a dish best served politely, after all...) Part memoir, part cheat-sheet for decoding a nation of well-meaning misfits, The Bloody British is full of hilarious insights about Britishness gleaned (often begrudgingly) from the author's own time as another country's foreigner. What does Europe think of us? Featuring invaluable advice for all Brits, expats, brexpats and visitors to the UK alike, including: · The Brit Abroad Language-Speaking Plan · How to be Rude, Politely (the secret code of passive-aggression) · How to be Mean, Nicely (the unwritten rules of successful banter) · ... plus an illustrated Integration Guide for British Refugees in Europe (just in case) For all fans of Very British Problems, Douglas Adams and Bill Bryson, it's the perfect gift for the socially awkward oddball in your life (especially if that socially awkward oddball is you.) Are you ready to meet The Bloody British?

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958111
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Britain written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain’s terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo’s secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood . . .

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780099417774
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Very Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!

Author : Michala Hulme
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075097897X
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Manchester written by Michala Hulme and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-09-07 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchester has one of the darkest histories in Britain. From the Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall to an epidemic of deadly factory fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With coffins washed from their graves and swept away into the city after the River Medlock burst its banks, and the streets of Salford, Gorton and Openshaw overrun by gangs in the latter quarter of the nineteenth century, as well as murders, riots, battles and plagues, the grimmest events in Manchester's history are all here for you to explore. Read this gory and glorious book ... if you dare!

Author : Robert Leader
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075096278X
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Suffolk written by Robert Leader and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death, Danes and disaster in Dark Age Ipswich! The castles are burning! Attacks, rebellions, battles and wars in ancient Suffolk! Queen of Blood and Fire! The dark days of Bloody Mary revealed! Sea of blood! Smugglers, sea battles, U-Boats and invasions along the Suffolk coast! The Zeppelins are coming! Bombs and bodies in the First World War!Suffolk has one of the most amazing histories of any British county. Betrayals, conspiracies and invasions have left their mark on this eastern frontier. Discover how vicious power struggles between the Danes and the Vikings shaped the history of not just the county, but the United Kingdom as a whole. Read of the troublesome Bigod dynasty, the Suffolk city under the sea and the strange story of the thousands of burnt corpses that washed up on the county’s beaches during the Second World War. Discover the dark truth inside!

Author : James Lincoln Collier
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1620644800
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bloody Country written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Ben Buck and his family spent four years clearing the wilderness to build a new home in Pennsylvania. They fought the Indians and the British, and they made sacrifices most people wouldn't have been strong enough to make, all so they could be independent and free. Now someone's trying to take everything away from them-their land, their home, even Ben's best friend, Joe. But the Bucks won't give up without a fight, and Ben knows his family will have to win a war to stay free. But what he doesn't know is that wars sometimes last a very long time. And even if you win in the end, you can lose almost everything along the way.

Author : Eddie Brazil
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750960353
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Buckinghamshire written by Eddie Brazil and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black death at Bletchley! Pustules and pest houses. Burnt at the stake! Lollards tortured and hanged. French kings and guillotines! Exiled King Louis XVIII at Hartwell House. Farmhouse of thieves! The amazing true story of the Great Train Robbery. Buckinghamshire has one of the darkest histories on record. Its residents included the Dinton Hermit – better known as Charles I's executioner – and Sir Everard Digby, the Gayhurst nobleman who tried to blow up James I, as well as a truly apocalyptic priest at Water Stratford. With Romans running amok in the Chilterns and the Anglo-Saxons terrorising Aylesbury, this chilling catalogue of battles, deaths, diseases and disasters will make you see the county in a whole new light.

Author : Daniel Trilling
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1844679608
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Nasty People written by Daniel Trilling and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past decade in the UK saw the rise of the British National Party, the country’s most successful ever far-right political movement, and the emergence of the anti-Islamic English Defence League. Taking aim at asylum seekers, Muslims, ‘enforced multiculturalism’ and benefit ‘scroungers’, these groups have been working overtime to shift the blame for the nation’s ills onto the shoulders of the vulnerable. What does this extremist resurgence say about the state of modern Britain? Drawing on archival research and extensive interviews with key figures, such as BNP leader Nick Griffin, Daniel Trilling shows how previously marginal characters from a tiny neo-Nazi subculture successfully exploited tensions exacerbated by the fear of immigration, the War on Terror and steepening economic inequality. Mainstream politicians have consistently underestimated the far right in Britain while pursuing policies that give it the space to grow. Bloody Nasty People calls time on this complacency in an account that provides us with fresh insights into the dynamics of political extremism.

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958111
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Britain written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain's terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo's secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood ...

Author : Valerie Pitt
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750960183
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Bristol written by Valerie Pitt and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corpses in the street! The Black Death decimates Bristol. A stomach full of arsenic! Poisoned puddings and merry murderers. 'Take that you brute!’ Suffragettes attack Winston Churchill. Bombs drop on Bristol! Blackouts and the Blitz.Bristol has one of the bloodiest histories on record. One of Britain’s key ports, it suffered devastating attacks from every possible invader, from Saxon fleets all the way through to the Nazi bombers of the Second World War. Meanwhile, adventurers, smugglers and pirates sailed from its docks, and more than half a million souls sailed in chains, victims of Bristol’s vile slave trade ended only by the Herculean efforts of the abolitionists – Bristol folk amongst them.Containing hundreds of years of history and amazing true stories of eccentric residents such as con-woman ‘Princess Caraboo’, who ended her days as a Bristol leech-seller, no Bristol bookshelf is complete without this book.