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Author : Chris Holland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780957421615
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (216 download)
Download or read book Coventry and Warwickshire 1914-1919 written by Chris Holland and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750969075
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Great War Britain Coventry: Remembering 1914-18 written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War claimed over 995,000 British lives, and its legacy continues to be remembered today. Great War Britain: Coventry offers an intimate portrayal of the city and its people living in the shadow of the 'war to end all wars'. A beautifully illustrated and highly accessible volume, it describes local reaction to the outbreak of war; charts the experience of individuals who enlisted; the changing face of industry; the work of the many hospitals in the area; the effect of the conflict on local children; the women who defied convention to play a vital role on the home front; and concludes with a chapter dedicated to how the city and its people coped with the transition to life in peacetime once more. The Great War story of Coventry is told through the voices of those who were there and is vividly illustrated through evocative images from the archives of Culture Coventry.
Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750956631
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Story of Coventry written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-12-02 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Coventry traces the evolution of the city, from the myths of Godiva, through to the issues, challenges and opportunities facing it in the twenty-first century. Exploring Coventry's heritage through records, architectural developments and anecdotes, it reveals a fascinating and much misunderstood city, whose history is often overshadowed by its bombing during the Second World War. Peter Walters, well known for his numerous newspaper features and active role in local heritage, shows that there is a great deal more to the history of Coventry than first meets the eye. This beautifully illustrated text will delight both residents and visitors alike.
Author : Peter Walters
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750992816
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book The Little History of Coventry written by Peter Walters and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Little History Of Coventry packs into its pages the colour and incident of a thousand years, telling the story of a city that has perhaps been overlooked by mainstream historians, but has often been at the heart of this country's great events. From the testing ground of the saintly Godiva to fourteenth-century boom town, from Second World War Blitz victim to the next UK City of Culture, Coventry has always been an inventive place with an unerring ability to bounce back from misfortune and make its mark. This is a truly eye-opening journey through the events and characters that have shaped its story and made the city one of England's hidden jewels.
Author : Leonard Markham
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 147384505X
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Coventry in the Great War written by Leonard Markham and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During World War One, the city of Coventry was a powerhouse that kept the barrels loaded and the engines of war purring. An industrial giant, Coventry produced munitions by the million and built tanks, aircraft and fighting vehicles of every description. It never slept.Coventry in the Great War commemorates the centenary of the outbreak of the conflict in 1914, telling the dour and ungilded story of the people who laboured and endured for over four grueling years. This eclectic narrative of the lives of city residents and incomers alike is juxtaposed with often-bloody accounts from the many theatres of war to give a representative and nuanced picture of one of the darkest chapters in world history. The 100th anniversary of the firing of the first fateful bullet is not a time for celebration but rather an opportunity for quiet reflection and studied lesson learning. The 2,599 men of Coventry who died in the cause of freedom deserve no less. During the First World War, the advanced state of the machine tooling industry in the city meant that pre-war production could quickly be turned to war production purposes, with the Coventry Ordnance Works assuming the role of one of the leading production centres in the UK, manufacturing a quarter of all British aircraft produced during the war.But the experience of war also impacted on the inhabitants of the area, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Coventry were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.
Author : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Economic and Social History of the World War written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Army. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The History of the 2/6th Battalion the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, 1914-1919 written by Great Britain. Army. Royal Warwickshire Regiment and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hubert Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)
Download or read book British Archives and the Sources for the History of the World War written by Hubert Hall and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 614 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Colonial Office List written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger Lloyd-Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351959573
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Alfred Herbert Ltd and the British Machine Tool Industry, 1887-1983 written by Roger Lloyd-Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-29 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the beginning of the twentieth century Britain was amongst the world leaders in the production of machine tools, yet by the 1980s the industry was in terminal decline. Focusing on the example of Britain's largest machine tool maker, Alfred Herbert Ltd of Coventry, this study charts the wider fortunes of this vital part of the manufacturing sector. Taking a chronological approach, the book explores how during the late nineteenth century the industry developed a reputation for excellence throughout the world, before the challenges of two world wars necessitated drastic changes and reorganisations. Despite meeting these challenges and emerging with confidence into the post-war market place, the British machine tool industry never regained its pre-eminent position, and increasingly lost ground to foreign competition. By using the example of Alfred Herbert Ltd to illuminate the broader economic and business history of the British machine tool industry, this study not only provides a valuable insight into British manufacturing, but also contributes to the ongoing debates surrounding Britain's alleged decline as a manufacturing nation.
Author : Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Economic and Social History of the World War written by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Division of Economics and History and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lord Anglesey
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1473815029
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (738 download)
Download or read book A History of the British Cavalry written by Lord Anglesey and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 1994-04-25 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V covers the last glory days of cavalry in World War I's Middle Eastern theater, as British, Indian, Australian and New Zealand cavalry conducted some of the most brilliant mounted operations of all time.
Author : A. Winton Thorpe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 722 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Burke's Handbook to the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire written by A. Winton Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Douglas Richardson
ISBN 13 : 1461045134
Total Pages : 2352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition, 2011 written by and published by Douglas Richardson. This book was released on with total page 2352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damien Kimberley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752490419
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Coventry's Motorcar Heritage written by Damien Kimberley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-04-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coventry, home of the cycle industry, was also to become the birthplace of the motor industry when the Daimler Company became the first in Britain to mass produce cars in the late 1890s. Spearheaded by H.J. Lawson, Coventry soon became a hub of motoring activity, and by the early 1900s was teaming with small and large companies, testing cars, motor-bicycles and tricycles around the local streets and surrounding country lanes. Many of these companies had previously been established as cycle manufacturers, yet introduced engines to their cycle frames in various forms, as well as producing safer three- and four-wheeled experimental machines. Other companies were established solely as motor manufacturers, many were short-lived, but others would survive and prosper. This new-found industry soon attracted a new type of worker to Coventry, specialised in mechanical engineering. These men and their families came from all parts of the UK and beyond, and made new lives for themselves in the city. Coventry has been home to well in excess of 100 independent motor manufacturers, but in recent years the city has suffered greatly with the loss of huge companied like Jaguar and Peugeot. The legacy of many of these historic cars can, however, still be enjoyed through museums and private collections. This outstanding volume is illustrated with 200 archive photographs and ephemera from the collection held at Coventry Transport Museum, and is a valuable record of the motor companies and their machines, as well as the individuals who both founded and worked for these manufacturers.
Author : Great Britain. Army
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2700 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Monthly Army List written by Great Britain. Army and published by . This book was released on 1924-10 with total page 2700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Damien Kimberley
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951680
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Coventry's Bicycle Heritage written by Damien Kimberley and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coventry has a remarkable bicycle manufacturing heritage. From the first velocipedes built in 1868, the city went on to become the home of the British cycle industry and at one time produced the greatest output of cycles in the world – with well in excess of 450 individual cycle manufacturers over a 100-year period. The Coventry Machinists Company were the first in Britain to mass-produce cycles, and steadily, more and more companies were established in the city. Soon Coventry became internationally recognised as a place where only the very best machines were made, and the name 'Coventry' itself became a stamp of quality engineering and fine craftsmanship. Richly illustrated with over 100 outstanding images from Coventry History Centre, many previously unpublished, this is the first book of its kind to cover the history of Coventry bicycle manufacture and the people who built them. From Dunlop, Hobart, Singer, Premier, Rover and Triumph to other lesser-known local companies, their legacies are still enjoyed by cyclists and local historians today.
