The Official History of Britain - Boris Starling

A wonderfully written and entertaining book which places Britain under the microscope and asks who we are today and how we’ve changed as a nation.‘Entertaining and absorbing’ – The Sunday Times In 1841 there were 734 female midwives working in Britain, along with 9 artificial eye makers, 20 peg makers, 6 stamp makers and 1 bee dealer. Fast forward nearly two centuries and there are 51,000 midwives working in the UK and not an eye maker in sight! For the past two centuries, the National Census... Zobrazit více