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Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786831775
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)
Download or read book B. L. Coombes written by Bill Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : B. L. Coombes
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1447496191
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)
Download or read book These Poor Hands - The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales written by B. L. Coombes and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coombes' title These Poor Hands first published in 1939, was an instant best-seller, catapulting the author to the forefront of proletarian writers. Coombes was born in England, but he lived for a large part of his in the Vale of Neath, South Wales, and as the economic problems of the 30s worsened, he turned to writing as a way to spread the news of the plight of miners and their communities to the wider world. He presented the daily life of miners in documentary fashion, with special attention to the damaging lockouts of 1921 and 1926, These Poor Hands retains the power to astonish readers with its description of the ways that unfettered capitalism can lay waste to pure human potential.
Author : B. L. Coombes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913640385
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Miner's Day written by B. L. Coombes and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited with an introduction by Peter Wakelin. Part of the Modern Wales series. Originally published in 1945, Miner's Day tells of the coalmining life of the thirties in south Wales.
Author : A. Trevor Tolley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780886290634
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (96 download)
Download or read book John Lehmann written by A. Trevor Tolley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, two novels and a distinguished literary autobiography. All aspects of Lehmann's work are discussed in this book of recollections and essays of friends, critics and other writers.
Author : Martyn Lyons
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526170744
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book The common writer in modern history written by Martyn Lyons and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-05 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book underlines the importance of writing for the subordinate classes, and the variety of uses to which it was put. In eleven new studies by thirteen leading historians of scribal culture, it foregrounds the ‘common writer’ and contributes to a ‘New History from Below’. The book presents pauper letters, ego-documents, life-writing of various kinds, soldiers’ and emigrants’ correspondence, handwritten newspapers and graffiti in streets and prisons, analysing the major genres of ‘ordinary writings’. The studies draw on different disciplines, including cultural history, sociology and ethnography, folklore studies, palaeography and socio-historical linguistics. They range from the early modern Hispanic Empire to twentieth-century Australia, including studies of modern Britain, Iceland, Finland, Italy, Germany, South Africa and the USA. The book demonstrates the importance of studying manuscript culture to give a voice, a presence and dignity to the ordinary protagonists of history.
Author : Christopher Hilliard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674038657
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book To Exercise Our Talents written by Christopher Hilliard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twentieth-century Britain the literary landscape underwent a fundamental change. Aspiring authors--traditionally drawn from privileged social backgrounds--now included factory workers writing amid chaotic home lives and married women joining writers' clubs in search of creative outlets. In this brilliantly conceived book, Christopher Hilliard reveals the extraordinary history of "ordinary" voices. In capturing the creative lives of ordinary people--would-be fiction-writers and poets who until now have left scarcely a mark on written history--Hilliard sensitively reconstructs the literary culture of a democratic age.
Author : BILL. WILLIAMS JONES (CHRIS.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781786831514
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (315 download)
Download or read book B. L. Coombes written by BILL. WILLIAMS JONES (CHRIS.) and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive study of the life and work of Bertie Coombs, writer of fiction and non-fiction material, born in Herefordshire, who followed a career in coal mining, and who through his short stories and articles portrayed the hardship and comradeship of the South Wales mining community. New Edition. Originally Published in 1999.
Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1783160853
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (831 download)
Download or read book These Poor Hands written by Bill Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2002-11-09 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Poor Hands: The Autobiography of a Miner Working in South Wales', was first published in June 1939. It was an instant bestseller, and its fame catapulted its author into the front rank of 'proletarian writers'. B. L. Coombes, an English-born migrant, had lived in the Vale of Neath since before the First World War, but only turned to writing in the 1930s as a way of communicating the plight of the miners and their communities to the wider world. "These Poor Hands" presents, in a documentary style, the working life of the miner as well as the author's experiences in the lock-outs of 1921 and 1926. It demonstrates Coombes' desire to offer an accurate account of the lives of miners and their families, and carries a sincere moral charge in its description of the waste of human potential that is industrial capitalism in decline. Long out of print, "These Poor Hands" has been recognised for over sixty years as the classic miner's autobiography.
Author : Chris Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783161492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (614 download)
Download or read book With Dust Still in His Throat written by Chris Williams and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The real history of the mines ought to be written by a man still at work underground. The dust should still be in his throat as he was writing-it seemed to me-then it would be authentic. Despite my searching, I knew of no man who answered this description.' At the end of a detailed, seemingly dispassionate, description of a shift underground, Bert Coombes felt compelled to tell his readers why he had become a writer. Expressed here in characteristic style, with direct prose and use of everyday language and imagery, his convictions and fundamental purpose in writing remained guiding principles throughout his life and literary career. His work received widespread praise from critics such as J. B. Priestley and Cyril Connolly for its accessibility, authenticity and humanity. This anthology represents four types of writing - all published here for the first time: autobiography; the short story; the novel; and the diary. His clear and unsentimental eye allowed Coombes to observe the regular pattern and rhythm of life and to appreciate the way in which on any day there would have to be a consideration of matters relating to work, to politics, to domestic and personal issues, to the weather and world of nature, and to enriching diversions such his beloved violin. His vision is essentially one of balance and normality and through it we begin to understand how this society survived, how its citizens were not the stage army of historians, but real men and women.
Author : Arthur McIvor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317095839
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Miners' Lung written by Arthur McIvor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arthur McIvor and Ronald Johnston explore the experience of coal miners' lung diseases and the attempts at voluntary and legal control of dusty conditions in British mining from the late nineteenth century to the present. In this way, the book addresses the important issues of occupational health and safety within the mining industry; issues that have been severely neglected in studies of health and safety in general. The authors examine the prevalent diseases, notably pneumoconiosis, emphysema and bronchitis, and evaluate the roles of key players such as the doctors, management and employers, the state and the trade unions. Throughout the book, the integration of oral testimony helps to elucidate the attitudes of workers and victims of disease, their 'machismo' work culture and socialisation to very high levels of risk on the job, as well as how and why ideas and health mentalities changed over time. This research, taken together with extensive archive material, provides a unique perspective on the nature of work, industrial relations, the meaning of masculinity in the workplace and the wider social impact of industrial disease, disability and death. The effects of contracting dust disease are shown to result invariably in seriously prescribed lifestyles and encroaching isolation. The book will appeal to those working on the history of medicine, industrial relations, social history and business history as well as labour history.
Author : David Loades
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000144364
Total Pages : 4319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Reader's Guide to British History written by David Loades and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to British History is the essential source to secondary material on British history. This resource contains over 1,000 A-Z entries on the history of Britain, from ancient and Roman Britain to the present day. Each entry lists 6-12 of the best-known books on the subject, then discusses those works in an essay of 800 to 1,000 words prepared by an expert in the field. The essays provide advice on the range and depth of coverage as well as the emphasis and point of view espoused in each publication.
Author : Brian Elliott
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848842392
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors written by Brian Elliott and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-02-11 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1920s there were over a million coalminers working in over 3000 collieries across Great Britain, and the industry was one of the most important and powerful in British history. It dominated the lives of generations of individuals, their families and communities, and its legacy is still with us today _ many of us have a coalmining ancestor. ??Yet family historians often have problems in researching their mining forebears. Locating the relevant records, finding the sites of the pits, and understanding the work involved and its historical background can be perplexing. That is why Brian Elliott's concise, authoritative and practical handbook will be so useful, for it guides researchers through these obstacles and opens up the broad range of sources they can go to in order to get a vivid insight into the lives and experiences of coalminers in the past. ??His overview of the coalmining history _ and the case studies and research tips he provides _ will make his book rewarding reading for anyone looking for a general introduction to this major aspect of Britain's industrial heritage. His directory of regional and national sources and his commentary on them will make this guide an essential tool for family historians searching for an ancestor who worked in coalmining underground, on the pit top or just lived in a mining community.??As featured in Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine and the Barnsley Chronicle.
Author : Barbara Prys-Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Twentieth-century Autobiography written by Barbara Prys-Williams and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The writing of good autobiography requires an encounter with oneself that can involve the need to wrestle with potent elements from one's past. This work on 20th-century Welsh autobiography in English traces the psychological influences which have shaped the consciousness and world views of seven authors, all by birth, or by adoption, Welsh.
Author : Kirsti Bohata
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526124335
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Disability in industrial Britain written by Kirsti Bohata and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. An electronic version of this book is also available under a Creative Commons (CC-BY-NC-ND) license, thanks to the support of the Wellcome Trust. Coalmining was a notoriously dangerous industry and many of its workers experienced injury and disease. However, the experiences of the many disabled people within Britain’s most dangerous industry have gone largely unrecognised by historians. This book looks at British coal through the lens of disability, using an interdisciplinary approach to examine the lives of disabled miners and their families. A diverse range of sources are used to examine the economic, social, political and cultural impact of disability in the coal industry, looking beyond formal coal company and union records to include autobiographies, novels and existing oral testimony. It argues that, far from being excluded entirely from British industry, disability and disabled people were central to its development. The book will appeal to students and academics interested in disability history, disability studies, social and cultural history and representations of disability in literature.
Author : Robert King
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445666294
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Secret Neath written by Robert King and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore Neath's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author : Proffessor John Burnett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136151001
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (361 download)
Download or read book Useful Toil written by Proffessor John Burnett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful Toil engages freshly and directly with the `ordinary' people of the nineteenth century. John Burnett has assembled twenty seven telling extracts from the diaries and autobiographies of working people - wheelwrights and stone-masons, miners and munition workers, butlers and kitchen maids, navvies, carpenters, potters and ship assistants to list only a few. The men and women who speak in these pages concentrate on their working experiences, though they also write about their homes and their fears. They thus reveal, often unconsciously, the essence of their attitudes, values and beliefs. Burnett's broad and sympathetic introductions focus and contextualise the wealth of material. These stories provide the antithesis of `great name' history, yet they constantly touch on human experiences that are timeless and universal.
Author : A. T. Tolley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773595929
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book John Lehman written by A. T. Tolley and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987-12-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the outstanding editors of this century, John Lehmann founded New Writing and London Magazine as well as other literary journals. He also wrote poems, two novels and a distinguished literary autobiography. All aspects of Lehmann's work are discussed in this book of recollections and essays of friends, critics and other writers.
