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Peter Raina
Seamus Heaney wrote hundreds of letters and postcards in long hand, answering almost all the letters he received from friends, fellow poets, university professors, arts councils and of course from…
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Bishop George Bell always felt that the Church must endeavour to meet the problems of the modern world. He was thus foremost in applying the precepts of the Christian faith…
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The second volume of Raina’s House of Lords Reform picks up during the Second World War. Despite the crisis in Europe and elsewhere, reform had not been forgotten. This volume…
Volume 3 of Peter Raina’s magisterial history covers the 1960s and draws on newly released documents. In astonishing detail, it traces new plans drawn up during the Macmillan-Wilson era to…
At the height of the Second World War, Hitler’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, made a dramatic solo flight to the British Isles. His arrival there was sensational news. Why had he…
Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was elected to the Vinerian professorship of English Law in the University of Oxford in 1882. Dicey established himself as a great expert on constitutional history…
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The 7th Earl Beauchamp was a prominent figure in English public life in the years 1900-30, but his career ended in scandal. He was barred from English soil, lost his…
Peter Raina’s study, with its admirable selection of Dadie Rylands’ marvellously lucid radio talks (hitherto unpublished) and its sampling of the multitude of letters he wrote and received, brings to…
This collection of poems by Heinrich Von Kleist (1777-1911) translated into modern English rhyming verse by Peter Raina will bring the stature of this contemporary of Goethe and Schiller into…
Raina’s book, reproducing the secret files kept on Lessing, is a unique insight into her political life. She was eventually disillusioned by communism, seeking a better understanding of human relations…
Presenting hitherto unpublished letters and papers which vividly evoke the contemporary Oxford scene, Peter Raina traces the many and diverse talents of this notable college figure. John Sparrow may have…
In 1987 Tony Blair's New Labour won a landslide victory in the British elections. To show it meant business, the new government immediately embarked on a major legislative programme, granting…
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(Professor Marc Mulholland, Professor of Modern History, Oxford)
This is the second volume in which Peter Raina presents the Blair government's Devolution papers. Here, the focus shifts to Northern…
One of the peculiarities of British history is the development of a constitution headed by the Crown and the two Houses of Parliament. This system emerged to become a balance…
Peter Raina’s magnificent history of Lords reform has already brought into the public domain a mass of original documents and thrown light on the debates they fuelled. In Volume 4…
