Author : Peter J. Beck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1135230307
This work studies the links between international football and politics in Britain between 1900 and 1939. It shows how the British government saw sport as an instrument of policy and cultural propaganda.
Author : Stuart Weir
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 041509643X
Democratic Institutions and Practices is the second study carried out under the Democratic Audit of the UK. This volume explores the formal institutions and processes of the liberal democratic state: including the executive, elections, parliament and the civil service.
Author : Eric Lemon
Publisher : Eric Lemon
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 37,69 MB
Release : 2024-04-12
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0645362638
Over 500 pages of facts, statistics, and records of every match and every player for the Australian national Rugby Union team from the first match in June 1899 up to December 2023.
Author : Russell Ash
Publisher : Hamlyn
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0600622517
From the bestselling author of "Hamlyn's Top 10 of Everything" series comes a special collection of 250 unique lists that observe of the idiosyncrasies of our Isles and encompass everything British. Discover hundreds of essential, intriguing and bizarre facts about your country's most iconic subjects, including: the 10 most produced plays by Shakespeare; 10 defunct British national holidays; the 10 longest seaside piers; the 10 lowest-scoring UK Eurovision entries; the 10 latest winners of the World Conker Championships; the 10 first performed Gilbert & Sullivan operas; the Top 10 singles of all time banned by the BBC; 10 unusual British laws; the Top 10 Tesco's lines; the 10 latest winners of the Pub of the Year award ...plus 240 other fascinating lists in this at-a-glance guide to what makes Britain great.
Author : Eric Lemon
Publisher : Eric Lemon
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 30,34 MB
Release : 2024-11-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0645362670
Over 500 pages of facts, statistics, and records of every match and every player for the New Zealand national Rugby Union team from the first match in May 1884 up to December 2023.
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Publisher :
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 1922
Category :
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Author : Norman Ferguson
Publisher : Summersdale
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2015-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1783726172
Have you ever wondered... • How fast a Spitfire could travel? • Which pilot won Fighter Command’s only Victoria Cross? • What a ‘Stuka Party’ was? Telling the stories of the commanders, the air raids, the pilots, the aircraft and the vital use of the world’s first radar air defence system, this comprehensive miscellany is a compelling guide to this most crucial of Second World War battles – the first to be fought solely in the air.
Author : Philip Kaplan
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1783409029
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary RAF fighter aces during the Battle of Britain. The accounts of the experiences of fighter pilots are based on archival research, diaries, letters, published and unpublished memoirs and personal interviews with veterans.
Author : Colin Edwards
Publisher : Austin Macauley Publishers
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 139846497X
You do not leave school one day and win an Olympic gold medal the next. This book is about 50 sporting champions and how they got started. It contains a biography of each followed by their career records. It shows in detail their achievements from school, youth, under 20, under 30, to seminar level, from county, area, national and international honours. It is a multi-sport book that should appeal to multi-sport lovers.
Author : ... Stonehenge
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 30,73 MB
Release : 1857
Category : Sports
ISBN :
