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Book Synopsis Escape to Gwrych Castle by : Andrew Hesketh
Download or read book Escape to Gwrych Castle written by Andrew Hesketh and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2023-06-22 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2020 and 2021, at the height of the Covid pandemic, Gwrych Castle was familiar to the British public as the setting of I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! Lesser known is that, at the beginning of the Second World War, this once-grand country house in North Wales became home to around two hundred Jewish refugee children who had been rescued from Europe on the Kindertransport. Under trying conditions, while the families they had been separated from faced the gravest of dangers, these children and their adult guardians established a Hachshara at Gwrych Castle: a training centre intended to prepare them for the dream of establishing a Jewish homeland in Palestine (Eretz Yisrael), where they hoped one day to be reunited with the families they left behind. In this fascinating debut, historian Andrew Hesketh tells the story of these refugees and the community they built, shining a light on a chapter of Jewish history that deserves to be far more widely known. He recounts moving moments of friendship, respect, tension and humour as the new arrivals and local residents came to know each other, while the shadows of war loomed ever closer, and the Hachshara project found itself facing an uncertain future.
Book Synopsis Escape the Medieval Castle by : Stella Caldwell
Download or read book Escape the Medieval Castle written by Stella Caldwell and published by Escape. This book was released on 2022-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Healthiest and Most Beautiful Watering Places in the British Islands ... by :
Download or read book A Guide to the Healthiest and Most Beautiful Watering Places in the British Islands ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Where Shall We Go? by : Adam and Charles Black (Firm)
Download or read book Where Shall We Go? written by Adam and Charles Black (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Castle written by John Goodall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant history of the castle in Britain, from the early Middle Ages to the present day The castle has long had a pivotal place in British life, associated with lordship, landholding, and military might, and today it remains a powerful symbol of history. But castles have never been merely impressive fortresses--they were hubs of life, activity, and imagination. John Goodall weaves together the history of the British castle across the span of a millennium, from the eleventh to the twenty-first century, through the voices of those who witnessed it. Drawing on chronicles, poems, letters, and novels, including the work of figures like Gawain Poet, Walter Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and P. G. Wodehouse, Goodall explores the importance of the castle in our culture and society. From the medieval period to Civil War engagements, right up to modern manifestations in Harry Potter, Goodall reveals that the castle has always been put to different uses, and to this day continues to serve as a source of inspiration.
Book Synopsis A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales by : John Murray (Firm)
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in North Wales written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Babel Message by : Keith Kahn-Harris
Download or read book The Babel Message written by Keith Kahn-Harris and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Quite simply, and quite ridiculously, one of the funniest and most illuminating books I have ever read. I thought I was obsessive, but Keith Kahn-Harris is playing a very different sport. He really has discovered the whole world in an egg.' Simon Garfield A thrilling journey deep into the heart of language, from a rather unexpected starting point. Keith Kahn-Harris is a man obsessed with something seemingly trivial - the warning message found inside Kinder Surprise eggs: WARNING, read and keep: Toy not suitable for children under 3 years. Small parts might be swallowed or inhaled. On a tiny sheet of paper, this message is translated into dozens of languages - the world boiled down to a multilingual essence. Inspired by this, the author asks: what makes 'a language'? With the help of the international community of language geeks, he shows us what the message looks like in Ancient Sumerian, Zulu, Cornish, Klingon - and many more. Along the way he considers why Hungarian writing looks angry, how to make up your own language, and the meaning of the heavy metal umlaut. Overturning the Babel myth, he argues that the messy diversity of language shouldn't be a source of conflict, but of collective wonder. This is a book about hope, a love letter to language. 'This is a wonderful book. A treasure trove of mind-expanding insights into language and humanity encased in a deliciously quirky, quixotic quest. I loved it. Warning: this will keep you reading.' - Ann Morgan, author of Reading the World: Confessions of a Literary Explorer
Book Synopsis The Kindertransport by : Andrea Hammel
Download or read book The Kindertransport written by Andrea Hammel and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2024-01-05 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938 and 1939, some 10,000 children and young people fled to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. Known as the ‘Kindertransport’, this effort has long been hailed as a wartime success story – but there are uncomfortable truths at its heart. The Kindertransport was a complex visa waiver scheme, and its organizers did not necessarily act with altruism. The British government required a guarantee to indemnify itself against any expenses, and refused to admit the child refugees’ parents. The selection criteria prioritized those who were likely to make the best contribution to society, rather than the most urgent cases. And some children and young people were placed in unsuitable homes, where many arrangements irrevocably broke down. Written with striking empathy and insight, Andrea Hammel’s expert analysis casts new light on what really happened during the Kindertransport. Revelatory and impassioned, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of migration and refugees, and offers thought-provoking lessons for how we might make life easier for children fleeing conflict today.
Book Synopsis Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales by : Thomas Roscoe
Download or read book Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales written by Thomas Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis ... And the Policeman Smiled by : Bloomsbury Publishing
Download or read book ... And the Policeman Smiled written by Bloomsbury Publishing and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For ten months before the Second World War, there was an organised movement of mainly Jewish children out of Nazi Europe. The children were bundled onto trains, waved goodbye to their parents and set off across Germany and Holland to the ferries which took them to England. Only a few spoke English, most had no family or friends here. Almost none ever saw their families again. The first memory of the children arriving at dawn in Harwich after their long trek was 'the policeman smiled', a telling witness to the authoritarian regime they were escaping from. Based on previously unpublished records and extensive interviews, ...And the Policeman Smiled traces the poignant story of the Kindertransporte, those who helped organise the transports, the families who took them in, but above all the often painful adjustments of the young refugees to a strange country and often lonely life of billeting, fostering, evacuation and even deportation. By turns moving and amusing, the book captures the lives of both those who came to terms with their new existence and those who were unable to.
Book Synopsis A guide to the healthiest and most beautiful watering places in the British islands ... Illustrated with engravings on wood by : GUIDE.
Download or read book A guide to the healthiest and most beautiful watering places in the British islands ... Illustrated with engravings on wood written by GUIDE. and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Movie-Made Jews written by Helene Meyers and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Movie-Made Jews focuses on a rich, usable American Jewish cinematic tradition. This tradition includes fiction and documentary films that make Jews through antisemitism, Holocaust indirection, and discontent with assimilation. It prominently features the unapologetic assertion of Jewishness, queerness, and alliances across race and religion. Author Helene Meyers shows that as we go to our local theater, attend a Jewish film festival, play a DVD, watch streaming videos, Jewishness becomes part of the multicultural mosaic rather than collapsing into a generic whiteness or being represented as a life apart. This engagingly-written book demonstrates that a Jewish movie is neither just a movie nor for Jews only. With incisive analysis, Movie-Made Jews challenges the assumption that American Jewish cinema is a cinema of impoverishment and assimilation. While it’s a truism that Jews make movies, this book brings into focus the diverse ways movies make Jews.
Book Synopsis The Gossiping Guide to Wales ... by : Askew Roberts
Download or read book The Gossiping Guide to Wales ... written by Askew Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Historic Notices by : Henry Taylor (of Flint, Wales.)
Download or read book Historic Notices written by Henry Taylor (of Flint, Wales.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Murder is for Keeps by : Elizabeth J. Duncan
Download or read book Murder is for Keeps written by Elizabeth J. Duncan and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Murder is for Keeps, the latest book in an award-winning mystery series, celebrated for its small-town charm and picturesque Welsh setting, starring amateur sleuth Penny Brannigan. Local artist Penny Brannigan has been spending her summer painting Gwrych Castle and its surrounding landscapes. A privately owned, castellated Welsh country house, Gwrych has been sadly neglected for decades and is in a heartbreaking state of disrepair. So when she learns architectural historian Mark Baker is leading a team of enthusiastic volunteers to restore the castle grounds and gardens to their former grandeur, Penny is thrilled. But it’s not long before disagreements over the restoration turn deadly, and Penny is horrified to discover the body of a volunteer hidden in a castle outbuilding. Penny enlists her friend Gareth Davies, recently retired from the North Wales Police Service, to help investigate. As the two dig deeper into the castle's history, including its glamorous heyday in the 1920s, they find startling connections between an old, unsolved murder and Gareth's own family, and as they solve the present-day murder, Penny recovers a stunning piece of the castle's architectural heritage.
Book Synopsis Through North Wales with my wife by : James Roderick O'Flanagan
Download or read book Through North Wales with my wife written by James Roderick O'Flanagan and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreigners written by Caryl Phillips and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed, award-winning novelist comes this brilliant hybrid of reportage, fiction, and historical fact: the stories of three black men whose tragic lives speak resoundingly to the problem of race in British society. With his characteristic grace and forceful prose, Phillips describes the lives of three very different men: Francis Barber, “given” to the 18th-century writer Samuel Johnson, whose friendship with Johnson led to his wretched demise; Randolph Turpin, a boxing champion who ended his life in debt and decrepitude; and David Oluwale, a Nigerian stowaway who arrived in Leeds in 1949 and whose death at the hands of police twenty years later was a wake up call for the entire nation. As Phillips weaves together these three stories, he illuminates the complexities of race relations and social constraints with devastating results.
