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Derek Taylor
The mid-20th century saw the birth of a new kind of big band/orchestral music in what came to be called 'Easy Listening'. Like its contemporary, rock 'n' roll, it took…
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Samuel Montagu started life as a poor boy from a Jewish immigrant family in Liverpool. He ended life as Lord Swaythling in the City of London and left an estate…
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Over the centuries, arguments have raged over whether or not Britain should be welcoming toward immigrants. This is a book about a tiny proportion of the immigrants to whom Britain…
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A comprehensive directory of the communal institutions and organizations that make up the fabric of British Jewish society, this book covers Jewish institutions, local organizations, statistics, UK legislation concerning Jews…
Derek J. Taylor
The survival of the Jewish Community in Britain as an Orthodox body has been an extraordinary story of success against all odds. Most of the credit goes to 22 men…
A collection of poems by the poets who attended the inaugural happening of the NACTON POETS in Nacton Village Hall, Nacton, Suffolk, England, UK September 2018
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The house of Don Pacifico, President of the Jewish community in Athens, was looted by a mob in April 1847. The riot was government-inspired and the courts were crooked. This…
Rabbi Dr Solomon Schonfeld was a controversial figure in British Jewry, after he took over the fledgling Charedi Union of Hebrew Congregations from his late father in 1933. Against all…
Chief Rabbi Joseph Herman Hertz (1872-1946), perhaps Britain’s greatest Chief Rabbi, led his community through two World Wars and was instrumental in the rescue of Jewish refugees from Nazism. He…
A guide for managers in the hospitality industry wanting to achieve maximum profits from their sales promotions. It discovers: market segments and groups; how you can reach them effectively; the…
Jews’ College played a major part in educating the ministers who grew and nurtured congregations in Britain and abroad for over 150 years. This is the story of those who…
Adler remains the longest serving Chief Rabbi in Anglo-Jewry. Taylor’s biography details his achievements over 45 years as Chief Rabbi, and for the first time examines his early life in…
Today Hermann Adler, called ‘My Chief Rabbi’ by Edward VII, is largely forgotten. He kept the community Orthodox, helped the country absorb 300,000 Jewish refugees, gave over 2,000 sermons and…
First full biography of Gaster: a Zionist before Herzl, the only senior British Jewish spiritual figure to be dismissed, a world expert on the Samaritans, a collector of 2,000 manuscripts…
A little book of traditional folk ballads from the English speaking world. A portable pocket book handy to keep in your pocket or handbag for easy use at folk clubs…
DEREK TAYLOR
A DIRECTORY ONLY OF COUNTRY MUSIC ARTISTS AND THEIR NOSTALGIC BACKING GROUPS FROM THE 1920s TO THE PRESENT
With a new foreword by Jon Savage, the classic memoir of the 1960s music industry by one of the Beatles’ most trusted friends.
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What do you want to know about the Jewish community in Britain? For 115 years the answers have been found in The Jewish Year Book: the institutions, the organizations, the…
E. Derek Taylor
What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson’s other novels is Richardson’s unique awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, in its engagement with virtually every…
Derek Taylor Kent
Hardcover Children’s Book - Roar with laughter while learning interesting facts about all the dinosaurs. Themes: STEM concepts, science, paleontology, vehicles, persistence, height doesn’t matter, poetry, rhyme, trains, planes, race…
Hardcover Children’s Book - The perfect LOL picture book to teach kids about the joys of travel, experiencing new cultures and foods, and learning about famous monuments, landmarks, and artwork…
What distinguishes Clarissa from Samuel Richardson’s other novels is Richardson’s awareness of how his plot would end. In the inevitability of its conclusion, its engagement with every category of human…
Derek W. Taylor
The Bible is meant to be read in the church, by the church, as the church. Following the example of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Derek Taylor argues that we should regard the…
Hardcover Children’s Book - Welcome to the town of Gross, where everyone is trying to out-gross one another and you won’t believe what you see… especially on the grossest day…
For 800 years, Magna Carta has inspired those prepared to face torture, imprisonment and even death in the fight against tyranny. Back in 1215, when King John was forced to…
When social media has put mass communication in the hands of anyone with a smartphone - from US Presidents to any crook, liar or foreign enemy - Derek Taylor asks…
The English are often confused about who they are. They say ‘British’ when they mean ‘English’, and ‘English’ when they should say ‘British.’ And when England, more than the rest…
The only book to tell Magna Carta’s story through places associated with it, through England and France to the USA
A unique travelogue that follows in the footsteps of the remarkable Celia Fiennes
Andrew Darlington
This is the definitive biography of a man that was at the heart of the music world of the 1960s and 1970s. It is essential reading for anyone with an…
An examination of the effect Stalinism has had on the Soviet cinema. Contributors look at the development of the relationship and how the Soviet cinema is coming to terms with…
What do you want to know about the Jewish community in Britain? For 115 years, the answers have been found in The Jewish Year Book: the institutions, the organizations, the…
Derek J. Taylor,A. Jakobovits
For over 115 years, readers have been referring to the Jewish Year Book for information regarding Britain’s Jewish community - the institutions, the organizations, the charities, contact details, and a…
Probably no book published in the last decade has been so ambitious as Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age. He seeks nothing less than to account for the spread of secularism…
Derek Taylor Kent,Derek the Ghost
When his homework comes to life and eats his dog alive, gutsy 11-year-old Rudy Berkman embarks on a dangerous quest with his kooky grandpa and the school bully to rescue…
