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Books in British Studies Resource Points

• Lavery, C, Focus on Britain Today-Cultural Studies for the Language Classroom, Macmillan, 1995
• Lavery, C, Focus on Britain Today-Teacher’s Book, Macmillan, 1995
• Harvey, P and Jones, R, Britain Explored, Longman, 1992
• McClean, A. C., Profile UK, Heinemann, 1993
• Laird, E., Faces of Britain, Longman, 1986
• Rabley, S., Customs and Traditions in Britain, Longman, 1986
• Sheerin, S. Seath, J. White, G., Spotlight on Britain, OUP, 1995
• Geddes, M., About Britain, Macmillan, 1988
• Nolasco, R & Medgyes, P., When in Britain, OUP, 1990

• O’Driscoll, J, Britain, The Country and its People: An Introduction for Learners of English, OUP, 1995
• Broomhead, P., Life in Modern Britain, Longman, 1991
• McDowall, Britain in Close-up, Longman, 1997
• Musman, R., Britain Today, Longman, 1989
• Mardsen, B. Mclver, N., People and Places, (coursebook and 2 videos), BBC English, 1990
• Irwin, J, Modern Britain, Routledge, 1994
• Dyson, A, Britain In View, (book and video), British Council, 1994
• Maule, D., Focus on Scotland, Macmillan Publishers Ltd., 1989
• Christian, C, Focus on English Speaking Countries, Phoenix
• Addis, C, Britain Now, (books and audiocassettes), BBC English, 1992

Tourist Guides to the UK

• Insight Guides: Wales, APA Publications, 1989
• Insight Guides: Great Britain, APA Publications, 1997

• People in Britain; Northern Ireland; Focus on Britain; London, Portrait of a City; Britain’s System of Government; Britain and the Commonwealth; Education in Britain; British democracy in action; Employment in Britain; Older People in Britain; Justice and the Law; British Skills; Britain in the European Union

Materials for the classroom

• Carlisle, Essential Articles 1-4: the Resource File for Issues, Carel Press, 1996
• Polish Materials Writers, Images of Scotland – British Cultural Studies Materials for the EFL Classroom, The British Council and The University of Strathclyde, 1999

British Social and Economic History

• Culpin, C, Making Modern Britain, Collins Educational, 1996
• Abercrombie et al, Contemporary British Society, Polity Press, 1994
• Abercrombie and Ward, (ed.), Social Change in Contemporary Britain, Polity Press, 1992
• Obelkevich, J, Catterall, P. (eds), Understanding Post-War British Society, Routledge, 1994
• Saton, R. et al (eds), Three centuries of Change, Collins Educational, 1998
• Coleman, D. & Salt, J. The British Population, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1992

• Fact File 1995: A Copiable Resource, Carel Press, 1998
• Social Trends 27, Office for National Statistics, The Stationery Office, London 1997
• Facts about Britain 1945-95, (CD ROM), Office for National Statistics, The Stationery Office, London 1997
• Social Trends, (CD ROM), Office for National Statistics, The Stationery Office, London 1997
• Champion, T. et al (eds) The Population of Britain in the 1990’s: a Social and Economic Atlas, OUP, 1996
• Alldritt, A Statistical Focus on Wales, MWL
• Living in Britain, Office for National Statistics
• Britain 1997 – An Official Handbook, The Stationery Office, 1996
• Jowell, R. et al (eds) British Social Attitudes (13^th Report), Dartmouth Publishing Company, 1996
• Annual Abstract of Statistics, Office for National Statistics, The Stationery Office, London 1997

• Kearney, H, The British Isles: A History of Four Nations, CUP, 1989
• McDowall, D., An Illustrated History of Britain, Longman, 1989
• Hobsbawm, E. and Ranger, T., (ed.), The Invention of Tradition, CUP, 1983
• Porter, R., Myths of the English, Polity Press, 1992
• McCrone, D. Morris, A. & Kiely, R., Scotland - the Brand: The Making of Scottish Heritage, Edinburgh, 1985
• Gilbert, M. The Dent Atlas of British History, Dent, London, 1993
• Hobsbawn, E. & R. Ranger, The Invention of Tradition, Canto, Cambridge, 1996
• Morgan, K, The People’s Peace-British History 1945-1989, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1990
• Brooman, J, People at Work, Longman History Project, Longman, 1994
• Brooman, J, A Changing Nation, Longman History Project, Longman, 1994
• Brooman, J, Communication and Culture, Longman History Project, Longman, 1994
• Brooman, J, A Caring People, Longman History Project, Longman, 1994
• Brooman, J, People and Politics, Longman History Project, Longman, 1994
• Fry, S, Kings and Queens, Dorling Kindersley, 1997
• Giles, J. Middleton, T., Writing Englishness 1900 - 1950, Routledge, 1995
• Cloake, J, Britain in the Modern World, (Oxford History at key stage 4), OUP, 1994

Geography

• Punnett, N. (ed.) Interactive Atlas of GB (on CD ROM)
• Punnett, N. (ed.) The Local Environment and the British Isles, Simon & Schuster Education, 1988
• Kimpton, L, Britain in Focus, Hodder and Stoughton, 1990

Arts, Sports & Leisure

• Holt, R, Sport and the British, Clarendon, London, 1989
• Urry, J. The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies, Sage, London, 1997
• Urry, J, Consuming Places, Routledge, 1995
• Cashmore, E, Making Sense of Sports, Routledge, 1990

• Oakland, J, British Civilization: An Introduction, Routledge
• Oalkand, J, A Dictionary of British Institutions, Routledge, 1993
• Roberts, D. (ed.), British Politics in Focus, Causeway, 1995
• Hudson, R & Williams, A., Divided Britain, Wiley, 1995
• Lively, J. & Lively, A., Democracy in Britain. A Reader, Backwell, 1994
• Paxman, J., Friends in High Places - Who runs Britain?  Penguin, 1991

Class

• Raw, L, Changing Class Attitudes, British Council, 1994

Gender

• Woods, P. & Hammersley, M., (eds), Gender & Ethnicity in schools, Routledge, 1993
• McRobbie, A., Feminism and Youth Culture, Macmillan, 1991

Language, Culture and Society

• Cameron, D., Verbal Hygiene, Routledge, 1995
• Montgomery, M. & Reid-Thomas, H., Language and Social life, British Council, 1994
• Montgomery, M, An Introdction to Language and Society, Routledge, 1996
• McKay, S., (ed), Sociolingustics and Language Teaching, CUP, 1996

Cultural Studies

• Alasuutari, P., Researching Culture: Qualitative method and Cultural Studies, Sage Publications, 1995
• Turner, G, British Cultural studies: An Introduction, Routledge
• Gray, A. and McGuigan, J. (eds), Studying Culture: an Introductory Reader, Arnold, 1993
• Bassnett, S, (ed.), Studying British Culture: An Introduction, Routledge
• Turner, G, British Cultural Studies: an Introduction, Unwin Hyman, London, 1990
• McNeill, P, Research methods, Routledge, 1990
• Ford, B (ed.), Modern Britain-The Cambridge Cultural History , CUP, 1992

Religion

• Bruce, S, Religion in Modern Britain, OUP, 1995

Aspects of Popular Culture

• Hebdige, D, Subculture: the Meaning of Style, Routledge, London, 1993
• Skelton, T & G. Valentine (eds), Cool Places: Geographies of Youth Cultures, Routledge, London, 1998
• Fiske, J, Understanding Popular Culture, Routledge, 1995
• Fiske, J, Reading the Popular, Routledge, 1995
• Longhurst, B, Popular Music and Society, Polity Press, 1996
• McRobbie, A., Feminism and Youth Culture, Macmillan, 1991

• Gilroy, P, There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack, Routledge, London, 1993
• Mason, D, Race and Ethnicity in Modern Britain, OUP, 1996
• Social Focus on Ethnic Minorities, Office for National Statistics, 1996
• Cashmore, E., Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations, Routledge, 1996
• Mirza, H.S., Young, Female and Black, Routledge, 1992

Communication and Media Studies

• Edginton, B. and Montgommery, M, The Media, The British Council, 1996
• Hart, A, Understanding the Media-A practical guide, Routledge, 1991
• Fowler, R, Language in the News-Discourse and Ideology in the Press, Routledge, 1991
• O’Sullivan, T. et al, Studying the Media - An Introduction, Routledge, 1994
• Bell, A, The Language of the News Media, Blackwell, 1991
• Goodwin, A. and Whannel, G. (eds), Understanding Television, Routledge, 1990
• O’Sullivan, T. et al, Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies, Routledge, 1996
• Fiske, J, Introduction to Communication Studies, Routledge, 1997
• Turner, Media and Popular Culture, Routledge
• Thomson, K. (ed.), Media and Cultural Regulation, SAGE Publications, 1997
• McNair, B., News and Journalism in the UK, Routledge, 1994
• du Gay, P, Production of Culture,Cultures of Production, The Open University. Sage Publications 1997

• Longman Dictionary of Language and Culture, Longman, 1992
• Nation, M, A Dictionary of Modern Britain, Penguin, 1991
• Room, A., An A-Z of British Life, OUP, 1990
• Oakland, J., A Dictionary of British Institutions, Routledge, 1993
• Williams, R, Keywords: a Vocabulary of Culture and Society, Fontana, London, 1983

• Crystal, D, English as a Global Language, CUP, 1997
• Crystal, D, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of English Language, Cambridge, 1995
• Story of English (Video series, 7 Volumes), BBC

• Byram, M, Cultural Studies In Foreign Language Education, Multilingual Matters, 1989
• Byram, M, Culture and Language Learning in Higher Education, Multilingual Matters
• Byram, M, et all, Teaching-and-Learning Language-and-Culture, Multilingual Matters, 1994
• Byram, M & Esarte-Sarries, Investigating Cultural Studies in Foreign Language Teaching, Multilingual Matters
• Byram, M, Teaching and Assessing Intercultural Communicative Competence, Multilingual Matters, London, 1998
• Kramsch, C, Context and Culture in Language Teaching, OUP, 1993
• Valdes, J. M, (ed.), Culture Bound, CUP, 1986
• Wadham, Smith, N. (ed.), British Studies Now Anthology, British Council, London, 1998
• Bulgarian Cultural Studies Network, Branching Out: A Cultural Studies Syllabus, The British Council, 1998

• Bryson, B, Notes From a Small Island, Black Swan, 1995
• A Guide to the National Curriculum – Essential Reading for Parents and Teachers, OUP, 1991

• Introducing Great Britain, parts 1 & 2, Longman, 1990
• London, Longman, 1997
• Ireland, Longman 1990
• BBC Essential English Guide to Britain, BBC English, 1990

• Krzysztof Knauer, Simon Murray (eds), Britishness and Cultural Studies: Continuity and Change in Narrating the Nation
• Bandura et al, British Studies Materials for Polish Teachers of English – A Cross-Cultural Approach
• Houten and Pulverness (eds) New Directions, New Opportunities – British Studies Conference Proceedings, Puławy, 2001
• Lawrence Raw, The Country and the City, The British Council, 1997

• Longman Dictionary of Language and Culture, Longman, 1992
• Crowther, J. Kavanagh, K. (eds), Oxford Guide to British and American Culture, OUP 1999
• Collie, J & Martin, A., What’s It Like? CUP, 2000
• Andrews et al, Zoom In, Swan Communication, 2001
• Pulverness, A, Changing Skies-The European Course for Advanced Learners, Swan Communication, 2001