Oxford University Press

Mining has had a profound impact upon Britain for over 4,000 years. Geoff Coyle explores how mining has shaped Britain and its landscape, emphasising the impact on social history, and the lives of the mining people. He also considers the present state of mining and its future in Britain....

'We were dumped at a roundabout with our labels on. People pulled and tugged at        the children they wanted. It was a bit like a cattle market... people just waded in.          I went with a lady and her daughter - she was like a second Mum.'Alexander King,        evacuated aged elevenBased on the stories of thirteen children and...

An examination of the various different expressions of the distinctive German 'myth of the East' that has been such a marked feature of German culture over the last two centuries, influencing German attitudes both to Eastern Europe itself and also to Germans' own sense of identity....

A selection of essential essays, by leading scholars, on Lucan's civil war epic,    De Bello Civili. Five essays appear in English for the first time, and quotations from Latin and Greek have been translated. A specially written Introduction, by Susanna Braund, provides an up-to-date guide to scholarship and reception....

Irish neutrality during the Second World War presented Britain with significant challenges to its security. Exploring how British agencies identified and addressed these problems, O'Halpin casts fresh light on the significance of both espionage and cooperation between agencies for developing wider relations between the two countries....

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