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George 'Dadie' Rylands
Shakespearean Scholar and Cambridge Legend
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2020
1186 kr
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Just once in a while, actors and performers change the whole way in which they approach the words in their scripts. Such a change happened in the early-to-middle years of the twentieth century; and the person behind it was "Dadie" Rylands. He was a man with an ear acutely attuned to the nuances of …
Heinrich von Kleist Poems
Introduced and translated into English rhyming verse
Av Peter Raina
Häftad, 2020
699 kr
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This collection of poems by Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) translated into modern English rhyming verse by Peter Raina will bring the stature of this contemporary of Goethe and Schiller into sharp focus and will reach a new readership of English speakers across the world.The subjects treated in …
Doris Lessing - A Life Behind the Scenes
The Files of the British Intelligence Service MI5
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2021
642 kr
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In March 1949 the security service MI5 received notice of a suspect person about to enter Britain and went to great pains to keep her under surveillance. This person was the author Doris Lessing. She would eventually go on to win the Nobel Prize for literature as an «epicist … who with scepticism, …
Devolution of Power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland:The Inner History
Tony Blair’s Cabinet Papers, 1997 Volume One, Devolution in Scotland and Wales
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2023
861 kr
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In 1987 Tony Blair’s New Labour won a landslide victory in the British elections. To show it meant business, the new government immediately embarked on a major legislative programme, granting devolution to the outlying «Regions» joined with England in the UK. The cabinet papers concerned with this …
Devolution of Power to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland: The Inner History
Tony Blair’s Cabinet Papers, 1997 Volume Two, The Representative Government in Northern Ireland
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2023
861 kr
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«Raina’s documentation provides invaluable insight into the high-powered and high-level political calculations that made it happen. It is perhaps the most signal achievement of the era and this expertly curated collection on its genesis and evolution is unquestionably of permanent value.»(Professor …
Seamus Heaney
A Portrait in Letters
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2024
470 kr
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«An admirable undertaking, as impressive for its scholarship as its sympathy. Heaney is presented here at the centre of a worldwide network of correspondents, and what emerges is a vivid sense of both the great writer and the living man.»(Seamus Perry, Fellow of Balliol College and Tutor in English …
Seventh Earl Beauchamp
A Victim of His Times
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2016
1286 kr
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The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a prominent figure in English public life in the years 1900–30, but his career ended in scandal. He was barred from English soil, his reputation was destroyed and his papers were withheld from public view. In this book, Peter Raina uses previously unreleased documents to …
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 1. The Origins to 1937: Proposals Deferred- Book One: The Origins to 1911- Book Two: 1911–1937
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2011
1619 kr
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One of the peculiarities of British history is the development of a constitution headed by the Crown and the two Houses of Parliament. This system emerged to become a balance of democracy, efficiency and moderation that became the admiration of the world. The contribution of the House of Lords to …
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 2. 1943–1958: Hopes Rekindled
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2013
1761 kr
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Peter Raina’s House of Lords Reform recounts the long struggle to bring an ancient institution up to date. The first volume ended in 1937, as crisis overwhelmed Europe. Reform issues were not forgotten, however. This second volume continues the story, presenting a wealth of illuminating records, a …
House of Lords Reform: A History
Volume 3. 1960-1969: Reforms Attempted
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2014
1617 kr
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Volume 3 of Peter Raina’s magisterial history covers the 1960s and draws on newly released documents. In astonishing detail, it traces new plans drawn up during the Macmillan-Wilson era to reform the House of Lords. ‘Mission impossible,’ a civil servant declared. But when, to remain a Commons MP, …
Daring Venture
Rudolf Hess and the Ill-Fated Peace Mission of 1941
Av Peter Raina
Häftad, 2014
723 kr
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At the height of the Second World War, Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, made a dramatic solo flight to the British Isles. His arrival there was sensational news – and it baffled everyone. Why had he come?Hess claimed he had flown to Britain entirely of his own initiative and was on a personal mission …
Bishop George Bell
House of Lords Speeches and Correspondence with Rudolf Hess
Av Peter Raina
Häftad, 2009
616 kr
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Bishop George Bell always felt that the Church must endeavour to meet the problems of the modern world. He was thus foremost in applying the precepts of the Christian faith to national and international issues. George Bell very often raised his voice in the House of Lords (of which he was a …
A.V. Dicey: General Characteristics of English Constitutionalism
Six Unpublished Lectures- With a Foreword by Lord Plant of Highfield
Av Peter Raina
Inbunden, 2009
585 kr
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Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was elected to the Vinerian professorship of English Law in the University of Oxford in 1882. Dicey established himself as a great expert on constitutional history when in 1885 he published his Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution, a major classic …
