In 'The Making of Modern Britain', Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the 20thcentury as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the...

Accompanying the major BBC TV series, 'A History of Modern Britain' confronts head-on the victory of shopping over politics. It tells the story of how the great political visions, and rival...

Marr tells the story of how the great political visions came to be defeated by consumerism, celebrity and self-gratification - and, every time, the British people turn out to be stroppier and...