AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“[Healy] makes a convinci...

**A riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commons—a shocking act of political terrorism that pushed England toward civil war and planted the seeds of the American RevolutionNamed a Book of the Year by The Times, The Telegraph, and History Today**“Netflix should make this enjoyable English civil war history into a...

A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' The Times'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century...

AN ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A fresh, exciting, “readable and informative” history (The New York Times) of seventeenth-century England, a time of revolution when society was on fire and simultaneously forging the modern world. • “Recapture[s] a lost moment when a radically democratic commonwealth seemed possible.”—Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker“[Healy] makes a convinci...

The English 'Old Poor Law' was the first national system of tax-funded social welfare in the world. It provided a safety net for hundreds of thousands of paupers at a time of very limited national wealth and productivity. The First Century of Welfare, which focusses on the poor, but developing, county of Lancashire, provides the first major regional study of poverty and its relief in the seventeenth century. Drawing on thousands of individual petitions for poor relief, presented b...

**A riveting account of the five heated months in which King Charles I attempted to arrest five dissident Members of Parliament by bringing an armed force to the House of Commons—a shocking act of political terrorism that pushed England toward civil war and planted the seeds of the American RevolutionNamed a Book of the Year by The Times, The Telegraph, and History Today**“Netflix should make this enjoyable English civil war history into a...

'You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times'Rollicking' Telegraph'Gripping' Financial Times'History as it should be told' Alice LoxtonA thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of civil war, from the acclaimed author of The Blazing WorldA BOOK...

Bloomsbury presents The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey, read by Oliver Hembrough.A WATERSTONES, TELEGRAPH, ECONOMIST AND NEW YORKER BOOK OF THE YEARA major new history of England's turbulent seventeenth century and how it marked the birth of a new world'This is a wonderful book, exhaustively researched, vigorously argued and teeming with the furious joy of seventeenth-century life' The Times'A brilliant, bloody account of England's most dramatic century . ....

Bloomsbury presents The Blood in Winter by Jonathan Healey, read by Mark Meadows.‘You could hardly find a more engrossing or exciting story’ Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times‘Rollicking’ Telegraph‘Gripping’ Financial Times‘History as it should be told’ Alice LoxtonA thrilling political history about the months that brought England to the cusp of...

The professional practice as well as the academic discipline of planning has been fundamentally re-invented all over the world in recent decades. In this astonishing transition, the thinking and scholarship of Patsy Healey appears as a constantly recurring influence and inspiration around the globe. The purpose of this book is to present, discuss and celebrate Healey’s seminal contributions to the development of the theory and practice of spatial planning. The volume contains a selection o...

Mutiny on the Bounty is a gripping adventure of the high seas and a story of treachery and betrayal.First broadcast on BBC Radio 4, this epic three-part serial tells the true story of Fletcher Christian’s dramatic mutiny against his tyrannical Captain and how Lieutenant Bligh when cast adrift in an open rowing boat with 18 loyal men makes an incredible voyage across 3,600 miles of hostile and uncharted seas to the Dutch East Indies, while Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers...

Mutiny on the Bounty: An epic award-winning full-cast dramatisation. BBC Radio Drama.“Television would give an eyetooth for the cast of Mutiny on the Bounty. What is more, they are all very good. Mutiny on the Bounty is Outstanding.” Daily Telegraph“It’s an altogether stunning cast which serves the intelligent, historically aware script splendidly.” Daily Mail“It is a very good production.” The Times“Mutiny on the Bounty is a wonderful dramatisation and has ...