Enhanced by interviews with rock musicians, artistis, photographers, and promoters, looks at hundreds of rock posters created between 1972 and 1982 featuring individual musicians and such groups as the The Clash and the Sex Pistols.

Cult Rock Posters: Ten Years of Classic Posters from the Punk, New Wave, and Glam Era

Arts & Photography

Turner, Alwyn W.

Crimlis, Roger

Music

Billboard Books

Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

ReadHowYouWant.com Ltd

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British Empire came to a halt to remember the dead of the Great War. During that first two - minute silence all transport stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in the streets. The only human sound to be heard was the desolate weeping of those overcome by grief. Then the moment was brought to an end by the playing of the Last Post. A century on, that lone bugle call remains the most emotionally charged piece of music in public life. In an increasingly secular society, it is the closest thing we have to a sacred anthem. Yet along with the poppy, the Cenotaph and the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, its power is profoundly modern. It is a response to the trauma of war that could only have evolved in a democratic age. In this moving exploration of the Last Post's history, Alwyn W. Turner considers the call's humble origins and shows how its mournful simplicity reached beyond class, beyond religion, beyond patriotism to speak directly to peoples around the world. Along the way he contemplates the relationship between history and remembrance, and seeks out the legacy of the First World War in today's culture.

The Last Post: Music, Remembrance and the Great War [large print edition]

ReadHowYouWant

The Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have simultaneously fascinated and terrified generations of children, their instant success ensuring, and sometimes eclipsing, that of Doctor Who. They sprang from the imagination of Terry Nation, a failed stand-up comic who became one of the most prolific writers for television that Britian ever produced. Survivors, his vision of a post-apocalyptic England, so haunted audiences in the Seventies that the BBC revived it over thirty years on, and Blake’s 7, constantly rumored for return, endures as a cult sci-fi classic. But it is for his genocidal pepperpots that Nation is most often remembered, and on the 50th anniversary of their creation they continue to top the Saturday-night ratings. Yet while the Daleks brought him notoriety and riches, Nation played a much wider role in British broadcasting’s golden age. He wrote for Spike Milligan, Frankie Howerd and an increasingly troubled Tony Hancock, and as one of the key figures behind the adventure series of the Sixties – including The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders! – he turned the pulp classics of his boyhood into a major British export. In The Man Who Invented the Daleks, acclaimed cultural historian Alwyn W. Turner, explores the curious and contested origins of Doctor Who's greatest villains, and sheds light on a strange world of ambitious young writers, producers and performers without whom British culture today would look very different.

Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

White Lion Publishing

The Eighties may seem to many of us like yesterday, but in many ways the Britain of thirty years ago was a thoroughly foreign country. During the years when Thatcherism wiped out almost a quarter of Britain’s heavy industry through savagely monetarist policies, a naval Task Force also sailed to re-take an insular outpost in the South Atlantic. In the same decade as the extraordinary pitched battles of the miners’ strike, Boy George sweetly crooned “Karma Chameleon”. As the world faced the early days of panic over the AIDS virus, pop stars took to the stage for Live Aid.

History

Europe

Aurum

"Superb" NICK COHEN, author of What's Left? "Tremendously entertaining" DOMINIC SANDBROOK, Sunday Times "Like his previous histories of the Seventies and Eighties, A Classless Society is an extraordinarily comprehensive work. Turner writes brilliantly, creating a compelling narrative of the decade, weaving contrasting elements together with a natural storyteller's aplomb...engaging and unique" IRVINE WELSH, Daily Telegraph "Ravenously inquisitive, darkly comical and coolly undeceived...Turner is a master of the telling detail" CRAIG BROWN, Mail on Sunday When Margaret Thatcher was ousted from Downing Street in November 1990, after eleven years of bitter social and economic conflict, many hoped that the decade to come would be more 'caring'; others dared to believe that the more radical policies of her revolution might even be overturned. Across politics and culture there was an apparent yearning for something the Iron Lady had famously dismissed: society. Yet the forces that had warred over the country during the 1980s were to prevent any simple turning back of the clock. The 'New Britain' to emerge under John Major and Tony Blair would be a contradiction: economically unequal but culturally classless. While Westminster agonised over sleaze and the ERM, the country outside became the playground of the New Lad and his sister the Ladette, of Swampy and the YBAs, of Posh and Becks and Jarvis Cocker. A new era was dawning which promised to connect us via the 'information superhighway' and entertain us with 'docusoaps'. It was also a period that would see old moral certainties swept aside, and once venerable institutions descend into farce - followed, in the case of the Royal Family, by tragedy. Opening with a war in the Gulf and ending with the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001, A Classless Society goes in search of the decade when modern Britain came of age. What it finds is a nation anxiously grappling with new technologies, tentatively embracing new lifestyles, and, above all, forging a new sense of what it means to be British. "Deserves to become a classic" EDWINA CURRIE "Rich and encyclopaedic" ROGER LEWIS, Daily Mail "Excellent" D.J. TAYLOR, Independent

A Classless Society

Aurum Press Ltd

At eleven o'clock on the morning of the 11th November 1919 the entire British EmpireÂ came to a haltÂ to remember theÂ dead of the Great War.
During that first two-minute silence all transportÂ stayed still, all work ceased and millions stood motionless in the streets. The only human sound to be heard was the desolate weeping ofÂ thoseÂ overcome by grief.
Then the moment was brought to an end by the playing of the Last Post.
A century on,Â that lone bugle callÂ remains the most emotionally charged piece of music in public life. In an increasingly secular society, it is the closest thing we have to a sacred anthem.Â Yet along withÂ the poppy, the Cenotaph andÂ the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, itsÂ power is profoundly modern.Â ItÂ isÂ a response to the trauma of warÂ that could only have evolved inÂ a democraticÂ age.
In this movingÂ exploration of the Last Post's history, Alwyn W. TurnerÂ considersÂ the call'sÂ humble origins andÂ shows howÂ its mournful simplicity reached beyond class, beyond religion, beyond patriotism to speak directly to peoples around the world. AlongÂ the way he contemplatesÂ the relationship between history andÂ remembrance, andÂ seeks outÂ the legacy of theÂ First World War in today's culture.Â Â Â Â

The Last Post: Music, Remembrance and the Great War

Aurum Press

Welcome to Big Biba: Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World

Thomas, Steven

Photography & Video

Acc Art Books

‘vivid, brilliantly researched … Turner may be an anorak, but he is an acutely intelligent anorak’ Francis Wheen, New Statesman ‘a masterful work of social history … told with much wit’ Roger Lewis, Mail on Sunday The 1970s. Strikes, power-cuts, the three-day week, inflation, Paki-bashing and the dead left unburied. Or, from another perspective, a period dominated by Morecambe & Wise, glam rock, detective fiction, club football, Get Carter, The Sweeney and The Good Life. It was the best of times and the worst of times. Wealth inequality was at a record low, but industrial disruption was reached a record high. These were the glory years of Doctor Who and Coronation Street, but the darkest days of the Northern Ireland conflict. In 1978 London Weekend Television launched a new series, The South Bank Show, announcing that it would cover ‘the consumed arts – cinema, rock, paperbacks and even television.’ It was an acknowledgement that if you wanted to understand modern Britain, you had to look at popular culture. Crisis? What Crisis? follows that lead, telling the story of Britain in the 1970s through the soaps and sitcoms, the music and movies, the fiction, fashion and sport of the time. And it adds one crucial ingredient: politics considered as one of the ‘consumed arts’. This is not an insider’s account of the crises that wracked Britain in that decade. Rather it is a viewer’s history, a world seen through the eyes of the mass media, in which Enoch Powell, Margaret Thatcher and Tony Benn jostle for space with David Bowie, Hilda Ogden and Margo Leadbetter. Alwyn W. Turner is the author of The Biba Experience and Cult Rock Posters. He lives in London. www.alwynwturner.com; • Popular history in the vein of Dominic Sandbrook’s Never Had it So Good (9780316860833), David Kynaston’s Austerity Britain (9780747585404) and Jon Savage’s England’s Dreaming (9780571227204) • Draws on extensive original interviews with the politicians, rock stars, actors and celebrities of the time including: Tony Benn, Zandra Rhodes, Norman Tebbit, Shirley Williams and James Herbert

Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

Aurum Pr Ltd

Terry Nation was one of the most successful, prolific, and celebrated writers for popular television that Britain ever produced. His late 1970s science fiction series Survivors and Blake's 7 have been durable, cult and critical hits, both being remade 30 years later. His most famous creations, the Daleks, ensured, and at times eclipsed, the success of Doctor Who. Indeed, almost half a century after their first appearance in 1963, new additions to Dalek mythology continue to be made, while the word itself has entered the Oxford English Dictionary, passing into the language as the name of the most famous race of aliens in fiction. While his science fiction work remains at the core of his appeal, Nation also had a role to play in the early days of radio and television comedy—as part of the legendary Associated London Scripts, he wrote for Spike Milligan, Tony Hancock, and Frankie Howerd—and in the internationally successful adventure series of the 1960s: The Avengers, The Saint, The Persuaders!, and others. This account of his life and contributions will shed light on a fascinating melting pot of ambitious young writers, producers, and performers without whom British culture today would look very different.

The Man Who Invented the Daleks: The Strange Worlds of Terry Nation

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Cult Rock Posters: Ten Years of Classic Posters from the Punk, New Wave, and Glam Era

Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

The Last Post: Music, Remembrance and the Great War [large print edition]

Terry Nation: The Man Who Invented the Daleks

Rejoice! Rejoice!: Britain in the 1980s

A Classless Society

The Last Post: Music, Remembrance and the Great War

Welcome to Big Biba: Inside the Most Beautiful Store in the World

Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s

The Man Who Invented the Daleks: The Strange Worlds of Terry Nation