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ISBN10: 0199671540, ISBN13: 9780199671540, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford, etc.] Hardcover First Edition 2013. x, 1242pp. "Following on from the Oxford DNB's first supplement volume-noteworthy people who died between 2001 and 2004-this new volume offers biographies of more than 850 men and women who left their mark on twentieth and twenty-first century Britain, and who died in the years 2005 to 2008. Here are the people responsible for major developments in national life: from politics, the arts, business, technology, and law to military service, sport, education, science, and medicine. Many are closely connected to specific periods in Britain's recent history. From the 1950s, the young Harold Pinter or the Yorkshire cricketer, Fred Trueman, for example. From the Sixties, the footballer George Best, photographer Patrick Lichfield, and the Pink Floyd musician, Syd Barrett. It's hard to look back to the 1970s without thinking of Edward Heath and James Callaghan, who led the country for seven years in that turbulent decade; or similarly Freddie Laker, pioneer of budget air travel, and the comedians Ronnie Barker and Dave Allen who entertained with their sketch shows and sit coms. A decade later you probably browsed in Anita Roddick's Body Shop, or danced to the music of Factory Records, established by the Manchester entrepreneur, Tony Wilson. In the 1990s you may have hoped that 'Things can only get better' with a New Labo ...
OUP Oxford, 07/03/Date: 2013 00:00:01. hardcover. Good. 5.1961 in x 25.1809 in x 19.5851 in. NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. 2013. OUP Oxford ISBN 0199671540 9780199671540 [GB]
ISBN10: 0199671540, ISBN13: 9780199671540, [publisher: OUP Oxford] Hardcover NOT an ex-library book. Clean copy in good condition. Quick dispatch from UK seller. [Bradford, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
ISBN10: 0199671540, ISBN13: 9780199671540, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Like New [Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2013]
ISBN10: 0199671540, ISBN13: 9780199671540, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover [DH, SE, Spain] [Publication Year: 2013]
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