Bøger af Martin Holmes

The ROUND THE ARCHIVES podcast (created & hosted by LISA PARKER & ANDREW TROWBRIDGE) brings its listeners a unique and fun view of the fascinating world of Archive Television.After successfully completing many editions, one day they decided to risk losing their reputation for high quality podcasting by approaching MARTIN A W HOLMES to contribute to their show, and, because he couldn't find another more spontaneous method, the only way he found that he could do so was by writing down every word before he recorded the articles for them.Consequently, those words were available for publication, and the result is this whopper of a book, which covers his personal opinions on the first episodes of shows as diverse as THE YOUNG ONES, THE SANDBAGGERS, STAR COPS, and THE BLACK ADDER, as well as his six-part examination of QUATERMASS AND THE PIT, and much, much more.

From the running of the 1932 RAC rally, mainly a social event, to the present day, when Rally GB is a high-speed endurance World Championship rally, this is the very first all-embracing history of an important part of British motorsport history. Descriptions of every event, opinions, results and images are brought together for the very first time.

Second revised edition of a study of the Conservative government of 1970-74 which discusses and attacks recent revisionist interpretations which exonerate Heath from culpability for the economic and industrial meltdown of 1972-74. Reveals the economic, political and electoral misjudgements of the Heath government.

A biography of Anne Clifford

Some favour EU membership while rejecting the single currency; others favour renegotiation of Britain's relationship with the EU; But different preferred solutions do not obscure a commonality of belief that the status quo of EU membership, leading inexorably to a monetary and fiscal euroland, is undesirable and should be democratically resisted.

This book examines the pace of change and the nature of the Thatcherite revolution, 1983-87. It draws on 30 interviews with ministers and officials and offers a critique of existing theories of Thatcherism. The author assesses the progress of, opposition to and future of policy.