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Blackpool The Postcard Collection
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Book Synopsis Blackpool The Postcard Collection by : Allan W. Wood
Download or read book Blackpool The Postcard Collection written by Allan W. Wood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capturing old Blackpool in all its glory.
Book Synopsis British Piers The Postcard Collection by : Nigel Sadler
Download or read book British Piers The Postcard Collection written by Nigel Sadler and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century.
Book Synopsis Lytham St Annes The Postcard Collection by : Peter Byrom
Download or read book Lytham St Annes The Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old Lytham St Annes in all its glory.
Book Synopsis The Architecture of Pleasure by : Josephine Kane
Download or read book The Architecture of Pleasure written by Josephine Kane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.
Book Synopsis Preston The Postcard Collection by : Peter Byrom
Download or read book Preston The Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of Preston presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.
Book Synopsis Worktowners at Blackpool by : Gary Cross
Download or read book Worktowners at Blackpool written by Gary Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.
Book Synopsis Chester The Postcard Collection by : Peter Byrom
Download or read book Chester The Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader on an evocative journey into Chester’s past through a selection of beautiful old postcards.
Book Synopsis Llandudno The Postcard Collection by : John Lawson-Reay
Download or read book Llandudno The Postcard Collection written by John Lawson-Reay and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and evocative collection of postcards depicting the North Wales seaside resort of Llandudno across the decades.
Book Synopsis South Shields The Postcard Collection by : Caroline Barnsley
Download or read book South Shields The Postcard Collection written by Caroline Barnsley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old South Shields in all its glory
Book Synopsis Sefton The Postcard Collection by : Hugh Hollinghurst
Download or read book Sefton The Postcard Collection written by Hugh Hollinghurst and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old Sefton in all its glory. Offers a fascinating window into the history of the Merseyside metropolitan borough.
Book Synopsis Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection by : Marcus Hearn
Download or read book Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection written by Marcus Hearn and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold, but were exported all over the world. After WW2, Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today - henpecked husbands, naughty nurses and randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems, with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book's introduction reveals the story behind the company, and the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.
Download or read book Blackpool at War written by John Ellis and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although it escaped bombing raids, Blackpool played an important role in the Second World War as a centre for training — with numerous airfields and factories surrounding the area. This book is the first to offer a dedicated history of the town in the period. It includes many interesting stories such as the people’s playground, the Freckleton Air Disaster and an event-by-event account of activities. Despite being less affected than some other areas, the difficult war years still impacted on local people. Filled with true tales of local courage and of the spirit of the people of Blackpool during these tumultuous years, this nostalgic volume will be of interest to all who know and love Blackpool.
Book Synopsis Penny in the Slot- Conceiving the Internet- the Birth of the Coin Machine 1735-1883 by : Nicholas Costa
Download or read book Penny in the Slot- Conceiving the Internet- the Birth of the Coin Machine 1735-1883 written by Nicholas Costa and published by D'Aleman Publishing. This book was released on 2023-01-29 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the untold story of the earliest days of coin operated devices which ultimately resulted in today's internet. It rewrites the history of Victorian technology. Many of the devices now claimed as the earliest or the first in fact were not. The supposed low brow technology used by the masses, hitherto deemed by the mainstream as not worth recording as history actually led directly to today's world. It ultimately succeeded in the late 1800s because it attracted some very high brow and highly influential money men as backers following the commercial success of a female patentee in the 1870s. Ironically the technology spread to America in the way that it did in the early 1880s because a young randy man couldn't keep his trousers on and had to be got out of the way for the sake of maintaining the respectability of members of Queen Victoria's household! Nic Costa is the acknowledged expert in the field, author of the best selling Automatic Pleasures
Book Synopsis English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art by :
Download or read book English Mechanic and Mirror of Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Welcome to Britain by : Jan Williams
Download or read book Welcome to Britain written by Jan Williams and published by teNeues. This book was released on 2008 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caravan Gallery is a mobile exhibition venue and visual arts project run by artists Jan Williams and Chris Teasdale who are on a mission to record the ordinary and extraordinary details of life in 21st century Britain. This is the imagery you won't find in a tourist brochure. From tacky seaside signage and risquA(c) double entendres, to the just plain weird, these tongue-in-cheek vignettes chronicle the perplexities of modern British life. Their focus is everyday eccentricity and the often overlooked. This fresh approach shows just how funny modern "art" can be.
Book Synopsis Empire of Things by : Frank Trentmann
Download or read book Empire of Things written by Frank Trentmann and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What we consume has become a central—perhaps the central—feature of modern life. Our economies live or die by spending, we increasingly define ourselves by our possessions, and this ever-richer lifestyle has had an extraordinary impact on our planet. How have we come to live with so much stuff, and how has this changed the course of history? In Empire of Things, Frank Trentmann unfolds the extraordinary story of our modern material world, from Renaissance Italy and late Ming China to today’s global economy. While consumption is often portrayed as a recent American export, this monumental and richly detailed account shows that it is in fact a truly international phenomenon with a much longer and more diverse history. Trentmann traces the influence of trade and empire on tastes, as formerly exotic goods like coffee, tobacco, Indian cotton and Chinese porcelain conquered the world, and explores the growing demand for home furnishings, fashionable clothes and convenience that transformed private and public life. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries brought department stores, credit cards and advertising, but also the rise of the ethical shopper, new generational identities and, eventually, the resurgence of the Asian consumer. With an eye to the present and future, Frank Trentmann provides a long view on the global challenges of our relentless pursuit of more—from waste and debt to stress and inequality. A masterpiece of research and storytelling many years in the making, Empire of Things recounts the epic history of the goods that have seduced, enriched and unsettled our lives over the past six hundred years.
Book Synopsis The Anthropology of Writing by : David Barton
Download or read book The Anthropology of Writing written by David Barton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-07-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies included in the book examine quotidien acts of writing and their significance in a textually-mediated world.
