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  • Reference: B219
  • Author: Edward Snowden
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Edition/Date: Edition / Date
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  • Comments: 2013 with the reveal of mass surveillance.
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • Description: Explains how the system was built and then exposed it.
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Armies and Politics

  • Reference: B220
  • Author: Jack Woddis
  • Publication Date: 1977
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  • Comments: Critical book
  • Publisher: Lawrence and Wishart
  • Description: Index, 309 pages Chapters include: Coups - right left and centre, The Army and Political Power, Coups and Conspiracies, Officers and Social Class, Why reactionary coups succeed, Chile - why that coup won, Portugal - an army won and lost.
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Laws and Orders

  • Reference: B214
  • Author: CK Allen, Sir Carlton Kemp Allen
  • Publication Date: 1965
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  • Comments: First edition 1945
  • Publisher: Stevens and Son
  • Description: Third Edition, Index, 412 pages Legal Handbook
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Strikers, Hobblers, Conchies, and Reds: A radical history of Bristol 1880 – 1939

  • Reference: B215
  • Author: Dave Backwith, Roger Ball, Steven E Hunt, Mike Richardson
  • Publication Date: 2014
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  • Comments: Radical History of Bristol
  • Publisher: Breviary Stuff Publications
  • Description: 8 Chapters including: Anarchism in Bristol and the West Country, Pirates to Proletarians, Bristol strike wave 1889-1890, Bristol and the Labour unrest, Bread or Battons? The unemployed workers in the 1930s. Index, 350 pages
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Some Lives! A GP’s East End

  • Reference: B216
  • Author: Dave Widgery
  • Publication Date: 1991
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  • Comments: First published by Sinclair-Stevenson 1991, to tremendous acclaim. The Lancet who reviewed it, says: "It is a political book, with a human heart and a delight to read'.
  • Publisher: Sinclair-Stevenson
  • Description: Index, 248 pages Chapters include: On yer bus, In search of the cockney, Growing up tough, Gin Lane/Skid Row, Docs into Dockland, Unhappy City
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King Coal: Miners, Coal and Britain’s Industrial Future

  • Reference: B217
  • Author: Tony Hall
  • Publication Date: 1981
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  • Comments: National Union of Mineworkers. Before the 1984/85 strike.
  • Publisher: Penguin
  • Description: Index, 278 Chapter 9: 1972 The Miner's greatest victory, Postscript: Victory without Tears 1981
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Tools for conviviality

  • Reference: B218
  • Author: Ivan Illich
  • Publication Date: 1973
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  • Comments: First Published in Britain 1973. Born in Vienna in 1926, left for the states in 1954
  • Publisher: Calder Boyas
  • Description: About Creativity and Deschooling. Industrial mode of production, and mass production of education. Questions capitalism.
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Trotsky’s history of the Russian Revolution

  • Reference: B209
  • Author: Leon Trotsky
  • Publication Date: 1965
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  • Comments: Translated from the original Russian.
  • Publisher: Gollancz
  • Description: In three volumes. Volume 1: Russian Revolution Volume 2: An Attempted Counter Revolution, 342 pages Volume 3: The Triumph of the Soviets, 405 pages
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In Defence of the Realm

  • Reference: B210
  • Author: Alun Chalfont
  • Publication Date: 1987
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  • Comments: Straight history. Chalfont was Chair of the
  • Publisher: Collins
  • Description: Present Danger, The Global Context, Greece, Turkey and the Med, Britain's Role
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Policing in Hackney 1945 – 1984

  • Reference: B211
  • Author: The Roach Family Support Committee
  • Publication Date: 1988
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  • keywords Colin Roach, Hackney
  • Comments: A report commissioned by The Roach Family Support Committee, Independent Committee Inquiry. Includes detailed history of Hackney, including Battle of Cable Street
  • Publisher: Karia Press
  • Description: Foreword by Stuart Hall, Chapter 1: Death of Colin Roach Chapter 2: Campaign for Public Inquiry Chapter 3: Inquest Chapter 6: Policing in Hackney, a history
  • Contributor: Stuart Hall
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