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To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner,Victor Gollancz, Joseph Conrad, T.S.Eliot, Nancy Astor and C.L.R. James is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character. Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent British history and have been indispensable for the way we live now. By reproducing the Times obituaries of over one hundred of the most important of these, the reader is given a unique view of their contribution and it is clear how their contribution has been a determinant factor in British history.
The book covers politics, business, art, architecture, music and sport as well as philosophy and religion. The breadth and depth of the influence of immigrants is thus reinforced.
Simon Sebag Montefiore contributes a fascinating introduction surveying our historial and cultural landscape.
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Peter Unwin has contributed many obituaries to The Times since his retirement from the Diplomatic Service. In the course of his diplomatic career he served in Japan, the United States and Germany and, as ambassador, in Hungary and Denmark. From 1989 to 1993 he was a deputy secretary general of the Commonwealth. He has published several books, most notably Hearts, Minds & Interests: Britain's Place in the World and The Narrow Sea, a history of the English Channel.
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- PublisherBloomsbury Academic
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1441159177
- ISBN 13 9781441159175
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages240
- EditorUnwin Peter
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