Great British speeches
By: [compiled by] Simon Heffer
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9780857383273
Subjects: Politics and government; Sources; Political science; Politische Rede; History; Speeches, addresses, etc., English; Zeithistorisches Ereignis
Notes: Originally published: 2007.

Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: All men were created equal : John Ball speaks to the rebels of the Peasants' Revolt; title: We few, we happy few : Shakespeare's Henry V emboldens his troops before Agincourt; title: I have the heart and stomach of a king : Elizabeth I inspires her troops to face the Spanish Armada; title: Remember, I am your King : Charles I at his trial for treason; title: Ye are a pack of mercenary wretches : Oliver Cromwell lambasts members of the Rump Parliament; title: A flatterer you do not wish for : Edmund Burke on the responsilbilties of a member of parliament; title: The representation of the many by a few : John Wilkes on the need for parliamentary reform; title: The total abolition of the slave trade : William Wilberforce advocates the ending of slavery; title: The pure principles of toleration : Charles James Fox on the need for religious liberty; title: I stand up to defend Thomas Paine : Thomas Erskine defends the rights of Man against charges of 'sedition'; title: Man has the fundamental right to state his opinion : Charles James Fox of the freedom of speech and association; title: The deliverance of Europe : William Pitt, the Younger, on the need to resist French expansionism; title: The arduous and most desperate struggle : William Pitt, the Younger, on the need for strong defences against possible invasion; title: Armed with the liberty of the press : Richard Brinsley Sheridan on the freedom of the press; title: To blast the name of an English queen! : Henry Broughham defends the reputation of Queen Caroline; title: Worship of a hero : Thomas Carlyle lectures on the role of 'great men' in history; title: The immediate suspension of the law : Sir Robert Peel on the need to repeal the Corn Laws; title: Civis Romanus sum...the storng arm of England : Lord Palmerston on the defending British honour abroad; title: The angel of death has been abroad : John Bright on the sufferings in the Crimean War; title: The noblest government in the world : Benjamin Disraeli on the virtues of monarchy and the House of Lords; title: It is his duty to protest : William Ewart Gladstone on the need for home rule in Ireland; title: Methods of barbarism : Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman on the treatment of the Boers; title: Their day of reckoning is at hand : David Lloyd George attacks the vested interests of landowners and landlords; title: A fit country for heroes to live in : David Lloyd George on Britain's prospects following the Great War; title: Glittering prizes : Lord birkenhead on the need to counter 'idealism' in foreign affairs; title: The king has made his decision : Stanley Baldwin on events surrounding the abdication of Edward VIII; title: The woman I love : Edward VIII on his decision to abdicate; title: The suppression of all that we hold dear : George VI at the first Christmas of the war; title: Blood, toil, tears and sweat : Winston Churchill on becoming prime minister and the challenges of war; title: We shall fight on the beaches : Winston Churchill on the evacuation from Dunkirk and the spirit of resistance; title: This was their finest hour : Winston Churchill on the British determination to resist German invasion; title: Never in the field of human conflict : Winston Churchill on the Battle of Britain and the current state of the war; title: An iron curtain : Winston Churchill on the post-war world and the division of Europe; title: Never had it so good : Harold Macmillan on the dangers of overheating of the economy; title: Naked into the conference chamber : Aneurin Bevan on the determental consquences of unilateral nuclear disarmament; title: This affair at Hola Camp : Enoch Powell on the treatment of suspected Mau Mau in Kenya; title: The wind of change : Harold Macmillan on the rise of black African nationalist feeling; title: Fight and fight and fight again : Hugh Gaitskell on the folly of unilateral nuclear disarmament; title: The end of a thousand years of history : Hugh Gaitskell on Britain's status within a converging Europe; title: Never glad confident morning again : Nigel Birch on the implications of the Profumo affair; title: The white heat of the technological revolution : Harold Wilson on the economic potential of technological innovation; title: The River Tiber foaming with much blood : Enoch Powell on the consequences of race relations legislation; title: A serglio of enuchs : Michael Foot opposes reform proposals for the House of Lords; title: The lady's not for turning : Margaret Thatcher on the achievements of her Conservative government; title: The grotesque chaos of a Labour council : Neil Kinnock on the Labour Party's electability; title: Let Europe be a family of nations : Margaret Thatcher on her vision of Europe; title: Conflict of loyalty : Sir Geoffrey Howe on his reasons for resigning from Margeret Thatcher's government; title: The extraordinary and irreplaceable Diana : The 9th Earl spencer on the life of Princess Diana; title: The forces of conservatism : Tony Blair on 'reactionary' forces in british society and politics.