Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, Britain was shaken by war and peace. This title paints a portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.

Confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. This book tells the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification.

Contains an essay by Andrew Marr, an A-Z of works in the collection, including acquisitions, and entries on over 120 artists as well as explanations of key terms in art and museology.

The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.

Britain From Above is the official book accompanying BBC's landmark television series of the same name airing in 2008 and will be presented by Andrew Marr. The centrepiece of the schedules, Britain From Above will air on BBC1, BBC2 and BBC4.

Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. This work paints a portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire.

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? Who earns what? This book presents the modern social history of British journalism.

Presents the story of how the great political visions of New Jerusalem or a second Elizabethan Age, rival idealisms, came to be defeated by a culture of consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification. This book follows various political and economic stories, and deals with topics which include comedy, cars, Sixties anarchists, oil-men and punks.

How do you decide what is a 'story' and what isn't? What does a newspaper editor actually do all day? How do hacks get their scoops? How do the TV stations choose their news bulletins? How do you persuade people to say those awful, embarrassing things? This insider's account aims to provide an answer to all these questions and more.

The extraordinary diaries of Thomas Cairns Livingstone represent twenty years of gorgeously idiosyncratic daily records of a middle-class Glasgow household, over a period spanning shortly before the Great War to the early 1930s.

Reportage resists easy definition and comes in many forms, but it reveals hidden truths about people and events that have shaped the world we know. This book features the author's eyewitness accounts of the atom bomb tests at Bikini atoll and evocations of his encounters with Mao Tse-tung and Winston Churchill.