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Clem Beckett

Author : Rob Hargreaves
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399098438
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Clem Beckett written by Rob Hargreaves and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clem Beckett was fourteen when he first rode a homemade motorcycle over the cobbled streets of his hometown. It was the start of a lifelong love affair with speed and machines. For Beckett, the motorbike was a means of escape from the uncertain future of Oldham’s stricken industries in the aftermath of the First World War. Beckett’s zest for life, his natural exuberance and determination to be a winner, overcame the disadvantages of a poor home bereft of a father. As a pioneering Dirt Track (speedway) rider he broke records galore, and as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War he broke down class barriers. Whether as a tearaway teenager, an outspoken sportsman, or a member of the Communist Party, his life was characterized by broadsides of irreverence towards authority. To Beckett, the appeal of revolutionary politics was youthful rejection of ‘old fogey’ values and the dominating role of of tweedy gentility in motorcycle sport. Reviving faded memories and anecdotes of his career as a pioneer speedway rider, this book traces Beckett’s extraordinary rise from blacksmith’s apprentice to superstar, in a new sport which typified the energy of the Roaring Twenties, and was characterised by risk-taking and serial injury. Ever the showman, and banned from the Dirt Track for trying to protect his fellow riders from exploitation, Beckett took to riding the Wall of Death. Observing the rise of fascism on his travels in Europe, Beckett’s increasing involvement with politics led to marriage to the mysterious Lida Henriksen, and inexorably to volunteer service in the British Battalion of the International Brigades in Spain. A narrative spiced with anecdotes and new revelations about Beckett shows why from boyhood to the poignant circumstances of his death in battle, Clem Beckett inspired love and loyalty.

Into the Heart of the Fire

Author : James K. Hopkins
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804731270
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book Into the Heart of the Fire written by James K. Hopkins and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the experience of the British volunteers in the Spanish Civil War and places them in a broad intellectual, political, social, and cultural framework.

Dictionary of Labour Biography

Author : Joyce M. Bellamy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134907845X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Labour Biography written by Joyce M. Bellamy and published by Springer. This book was released on 1993-01-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes radicals of the Chartist and earlier periods, trade unionists and other radicals after 1850. The book is especially concerned with 20th-century activists and intellectuals, notably those whose formative years or main political life was spent during the period between the two World Wars.

Clem Beckett

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Clem Beckett written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Death in the Hills

Author : Charles Alan Green
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Death in the Hills written by Charles Alan Green and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1937 dawned over the golden sun kissed lands of Spain, upon a divided country and a vicious and bloody Civil War. The war had, originally, begun as a simple military coup, back in mid-July of the previous year. At first it looked as though it would carry the day, but due to the early up-rising in the Spanish protectorate of Morocco, the timing of the revolt on the mainland was thrown into disarray, and due to this certain areas didn’t commence their planned revolts at the designated time. In particular, the major cities of Barcelona and Madrid were both critically effected by the timing of these events, and the whole of the 18th July was spent in inactivity. It was this delay, to the originally planned timetable, that enabled the republican government, but more importantly, especially in Barcelona, the unions and other forces on the left, to organise some sort of resistance. It was this fact, which meant that they were able to defeat the rebellion in these, and several other vital towns and cities. By the end of the 20th July, after the first two days of the rebellion, and bitter fighting throughout the length and breadth of the country, the battle lines had been drawn, and Spain was a nation split into two basic zones. The areas that remained loyal, under the control of the government, and the rest of Spain, which was now under the command of the rebel’s or nationalist’s as they were to become known.

They Shall Not Pass

Author : Ben Hughes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849089086
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book They Shall Not Pass written by Ben Hughes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a group of idealistic British volunteers who achieved the first victory against Fascism – the greatest unknown turning point of the 20th century. In 1937 a group of idealistic British volunteers sailed from England to fight the dark threat of dictatorship in Spain. In the olive groves of Jarama, near Madrid, they achieved the first victory against Franco's army. It was Fascism's first defeat. Hardly remembered today, it proved a crucial military turning point in the fight against Fascism. For the first time, Ben Hughes reconstructs the battle in a vivid blow-by-blow account, and considers its fascinating aftermath.

Heaven on Earth

Author : Joshua Muravchik
Publisher : Encounter Books
ISBN 13 : 159403964X
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Heaven on Earth written by Joshua Muravchik and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socialism was man's most ambitious attempt to supplant religion with a doctrine claiming to ground itself in “science.” Each failure to create societies of abundance or give birth to “the New Man” inspired more searching for the path to the promised land: revolution, communes, social democracy, communism, fascism, Arab socialism, African socialism. None worked, and some exacted a staggering human toll. Then, after two centuries of wishful thinking and bitter disappointment, socialism imploded in a fin de siècle drama of falling walls and collapsing regimes. It was an astonishing denouement but what followed was no less astonishing. After the hiatus of a couple of decades, new voices were raised, as if innocent of all that had come before, proposing to try it all over again. Joshua Muravchik traces the pursuit of this phantasm, presenting sketches of the thinkers and leaders who developed the theory, led it to power, and presided over its collapse, as well as those who are trying to revive it today. Heaven on Earth is a story filled with character and event while at the same time giving us an epic chronicle of a movement that tried to turn the world upside down—and for a time succeeded.

Dictionary of Labour Biography

Author : Keith Gildart
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137457430
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Dictionary of Labour Biography written by Keith Gildart and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Labour Biography has an outstanding reputation as a reference work for the study of nineteenth and twentieth century British history. Volume XIV maintains this standard of original and thorough scholarship. Each entry is written by a specialist drawing on an array of primary and secondary sources. The biographical essays engage with recent historiographical developments in the field of labour history. The scope of the volume emphasises the ethnic and national diversity of the British labour movement and neglected political traditions.

Sport, Politics and the Working Class

Author : Stephen G. Jones
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719036804
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Politics and the Working Class written by Stephen G. Jones and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clement Attlee

Author : Michael Jago
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849547580
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book Clement Attlee written by Michael Jago and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elected in a surprise landslide in 1945, Clement Attlee was the first ever Labour leader to command a majority government. At the helm for twenty years, he remains the longest-serving leader in the history of the Labour Party. When he was voted out in 1951, he left with Labour's highest share of the vote before or since. And yet today he is routinely described as 'the accidental Prime Minister'. A retiring man, overshadowed by the flamboyant Churchill during the Second World War, he is dimly remembered as a politician who, by good fortune, happened to lead the Labour Party at a time when Britain was disillusioned with Tory rule and ready for change. In Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister, Michael Jago argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Raised in a haven of middle-class respectability, Attlee was appalled by the squalid living conditions endured by his near neighbours in London's East End. Seeing first-hand how poverty and insecurity dogged lives, he nourished a powerful ambition to achieve power and create a more egalitarian society. Rising to become Leader of the Labour Party in 1935, Attlee was single-minded in pursuing his goals, and in just six years from 1945 his government introduced the most significant features of post-war Britain: the National Health Service, extensive nationalisation of essential industry, and the Welfare State that Britons now take for granted. A full-scale reassessment, Clement Attlee: The Inevitable Prime Minister traces the life of a middle-class lawyer's son who relentlessly pursued his ambition to lead a government that would implement far-reaching socialist reform and change forever the divisive class structure of twentieth-century Britain.

Clement Attlee

Author : John Bew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190203412
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Clement Attlee written by John Bew and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-25 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill's wartime heroics and larger-than-life personality propelled him to the center of the world stage. To most, he remains Great Britain's greatest Prime Minister, his fame and charisma overshadowing those who followed in his footsteps. Yet while he presided over his country's finest hour, he was not its most consequential leader. In this definitive new biography, John Bew reveals how that designation belongs to Clement Attlee, Churchill's successor, who launched a new era of political, economic, and social reform that would forever change Great Britain. Bew's thorough and keen examination of Attlee, the former leader of the Labour Party, illuminates how his progressive beliefs shaped his influential domestic and international policy. Alternatively criticized for being "too socialist" or "not radical enough," Attlee's quiet tenacity was intrinsic to the success of his party and highly pertinent to British identity overall. In 1948, he established the National Health Service as part of his "British New Deal"-a comprehensive, universal system of insurance, welfare, and family allowances to be enjoyed by all British citizens. Attlee also initiated key advancements in international relations by supporting the development of both the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and by granting independence to India, Burma, and Ceylon. More controversially, he sanctioned the building of Britain's nuclear deterrent in response to the rise of the Soviet Union and the threat of atomic bombs. Clement Attlee: The Man Who Made Modern Britain explores his tenure in the years after the war, as he presided over a radical new government in an age of austerity and imperial decline. Bew mines contemporary memoirs, diaries, and press excerpts to present readers with an illuminating and intimate look into Attlee's life and career. Attentive to both the man and the political landscape, this comprehensive biography provides new insight into the soul of a leader who transformed his country and by extension the vast empire over which it once ruled.

After Number 10

Author : K. Theakston
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230281389
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book After Number 10 written by K. Theakston and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lost an election, been thrown out by their party, or retired on grounds of ill-health, what do former British prime ministers do? In the first book to look at the lives, political roles and influence of former prime ministers, Theakston analyzes all the former prime ministers from Walpole in the 18th century to Blair today.

Culture as Politics

Author : Christopher Caudwell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1583676864
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book Culture as Politics written by Christopher Caudwell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Selected essays by Christopher Caudwell, on culture, psychology, and capitalism. Material drawn from Caudwell's previous book, "Illusion and Reality, Studies in a Dying Culture" and his essay, "Heredity and Development.""--

Jews and other foreigners

Author : William Williams
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1847798004
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (477 download)

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Download or read book Jews and other foreigners written by William Williams and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of documentary and oral sources, including interviews with refugees, this book explores the responses in Manchester to those threatened by the rise of Fascism in Europe. By exploring the responses of particular segments of Manchester society, from Jewish communal organisations and the Zionist movement to the Christian churches, pacifist organisations and private charities, it offers a critical analysis of the factors which facilitated and limited the work of rescue and their effect on the lives of the seven or eight thousand refugees – Spanish, Italian, German, Austrian and Czech – who arrived in Manchester between 1933 and 1940.

The Nurse Who Became a Spy

Author : Chris Hall
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526779595
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book The Nurse Who Became a Spy written by Chris Hall and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life story of the working-class woman from Manchester, England, who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars. Madge Addy left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican medical services. In Spain, she was wounded in a bombing raid, fell in love with another foreign volunteer who became her second husband, was made a prisoner of war, and was the last British nurse to leave Spain, witnessing the horrors of Franco’s Fascist regime before she left. She was caught up in the “Fall of France,” and lived in Marseille with her Norwegian husband. From 1940 to 1944 Addy was first an amateur resister and later a full-time secret agent, working with the likes of Ian Garrow, Pat O’Leary, and Guido Zembsch-Schreve. She also acted as a courier, flying to Lisbon to deliver and receive secret messages from British intelligence. In addition, she became romantically involved with a Danish secret agent and married him after the war. Ultimately she was recognized by the British with the award of an OBE and by the French with the award of the Croix de Guerre. Chris Hall brings Addy’s story to life in this biography, using archive material and photographs from Britain, France, Spain, and Norway. Her Spanish Civil War experiences are vividly described in a mass of letters she wrote requesting medical aid and describing the harrowing conditions at her wartime hospital. Her activities in the Second World War show a woman with nerves of steel and a bravery at times bordering on recklessness. As she herself said, “I believe in taking the war into the enemy camp.”

Lancastrians

Author : Paul Salveson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787389332
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Lancastrians written by Paul Salveson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new history of the great English county of Lancashire, exploring its people's impact on Britain and beyond.

The Rentier City

Author : Isaac Rose
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1915672198
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Rentier City written by Isaac Rose and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2024-04-09 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did Manchester became the poster-child of neoliberal urbanisation, and what can the people that live there do about it? In cities across the world, gentrification and the housing crisis are facts of life. But how did we get to this point? And is there any way we can fight back? A good place to begin answering these questions is Manchester, England. Over the last thirty years, corporate developers, rentier capitalists and boosterist politicians have reshaped Manchester in their image, replacing its working-class communities, public spaces and affordable housing with skyscrapers, luxury developments and a private rental market that creates wealth for rentiers and impoverishes everybody else. The Rentier City traces this story, showing how it fits within the longer history of Manchester. In doing so unveils a larger story of the relationship between capital and our cities, between rentier and rentee, and gives us a blueprint of how fight back against rentier capitalism and take back control of the cities we live in.