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Passport to Peckham

Author : Robert Hewison
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 191338005X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Passport to Peckham written by Robert Hewison and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and engaging social and cultural history of the London community of Peckham that offers lessons in urban living. “Is there life in Peckham?” asks a pop song of the 1980s. Peckham has been treated as a joke and a place to be avoided. It has been celebrated in television comedies, and denigrated for its levels of crime. It is a center for the arts and the creative industries, yet it also suffers from social deprivation and racial tension. Passport to Peckham is a guide to an unofficial part of London—social and cultural history written from the ground up. In this entertaining and engaging account, Hewison invites readers to explore Peckham’s streets and presents the portrait of a community experiencing the stresses of modern living. Old and new residents rub against each other as they try to adjust to the challenges created by urban regeneration and the more subtle process of gentrification. Artists have lived and worked in Peckham for more than a century, and now Caribbean and West African communities are adding their own flavors in terms of music, drama, poetry, and film. Focused on a few square miles, Passport to Peckham raises issues of urban policy, planning, culture, and creativity that have a far wider application. As London and other major cities recover from the COVID crisis, are there lessons in urban living to be learned from the pleasures and pains of Peckham? The answer from one of Britain’s most distinguished cultural critics is an emphatic yes.

Every Assistance & Protection

Author : Jane Doulman
Publisher : Federation Press
ISBN 13 : 9781862876873
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (768 download)

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Download or read book Every Assistance & Protection written by Jane Doulman and published by Federation Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every Assistance and Protection is the first book presenting an in-depth history of the Australian passport. In charting the development of the passport from its early beginnings to its present form, the book traverses changes in government policy and social history from the early 19th century to the modern era. It shows how the Australian passport evolved from a signifier of British nationality into a badge of membership of one of the most multicultural countries in the world. The book explores the landmark events in this history:the great 19th century diasporas, resulting from relaxation of official controls on the movement of people; the early passport regime regulating the movement of "ticket-of-leave" convicts; the establishment of the centralised passport system during World War I; the enactment of the first passport legislation for the Commonwealth, The Passports Act 1920, and the reaction of some Australians who felt the new law infringed the liberties of the British subject; changes to the laws in 1938 such that possession of a passport was no longer mandatory for an Australian to travel, though still a practical necessity; the use of the government's discretionary power to cancel or withhold passports to inhibit the movement of individual communists; the establishment of Australian citizenship in 1948 - the basis for possession of an Australian passport; the removal of the word "British" from the cover in 1967; the effects of globalisation and heightened security in the late 20th and early 21st century. It also touches on the lives of individuals: boxer Les Darcy, journalist Wilfred Burchett, and General Sir Thomas Blamey, are among the many Australians featuring in these pages. The book is based on an exhaustive examination of hitherto unexamined primary sources of many government departments, including the Departments of External Affairs, the Prime Minister's, the Attorney-General's, Defence, Home and Territories, Immigration and Foreign Affairs. Sponsored by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Murder in the Smithsonian

Author : Margaret Truman
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079534502X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Smithsonian written by Margaret Truman and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a mystery replete with “nonstop action and a brilliantly evocative setting,” a noted historian is murdered at the National Museum of Art (Booklist). Dr. Lewis Tunney, a brilliant historian who had stumbled onto an international art scandal, was brutally murdered in front of two hundred guests at an elegant party at the Smithsonian. Taking the case, DC police Cpt. Mac Hanrahan begins to uncover a web of secrets, lies, and revenge surrounding the historian’s killing. From the deceased Tunney’s strong-willed fiancée, Heather McBean, to the congressmen with secrets to hide, Hanrahan finds himself unsure who to believe. Soon after, two more murders add to the intrigue. Murder in the Smithsonian is the fourth volume in Margaret Truman’s beloved Capital Crimes series, in which Truman enlivens history with her first-hand knowledge as the daughter of US President Harry S. Truman. Each of the novels revolve around Washington, DC, and its landmarks. The Smithsonian’s museums, with their quirky staff, forensic scientists, and sometimes-spooky exhibits are the perfect setting for a thrilling political crime novel. “Truman’s novels of Washington will continue to entertain both mystery and Washington buffs.” —The Washington Post

The Guide to American Law Supplement

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide to American Law Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments Act of 1992

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Immigration and Naturalization Housekeeping Amendments Act of 1992 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Reports

Author : United States. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book United States Reports written by United States. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology

Author : Suffolk Institute of Archaeology
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology written by Suffolk Institute of Archaeology and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Proceedings of the Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute

Author : Bury & West Suffolk Archæological Institute
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History

Author : Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
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Download or read book Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History written by Suffolk Institute of Archæology, Statistics, and Natural History and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Radical Sydney

Author : Terry Irving
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1742230938
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Radical Sydney written by Terry Irving and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sydney: a beautiful international city with impressive buildings, harbour-side walkways, public gardens, cafes, restaurants, theatres and hotels. This is the way Sydney is represented to its citizens and to the rest of the world. But there has always been another Sydney not viewed so fondly by the city's rulers, a radical part of Sydney. The working-class suburbs to the south and west of the city were large and explosive places of marginalised ideas, bohemian neighbourhoods, dissident politics and contentious action. Through a series of snapshots, Radical Sydney traces its development from The Rocks in the 1830s to the inner suburbs of the 1980s. It includes a range of incidents, people and places, from freeing protestors in the anti-conscription movement, resident action movements in Kings Cross, anarchists in Glebe, to Gay Rights marches on Oxford Street and Black Power in Redfern.

State Magazine

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Dead Fashion Girl

Author : Fred Vermorel
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1907222081
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Dead Fashion Girl written by Fred Vermorel and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crime and a six-decade cover-up: the death of a fashion designer in the cesspit of vice and violence that was 1950s London. In 1954, Jean Mary Townsend was strangled with her own scarf and stripped of her underwear but not sexually assaulted. The subsequent police investigation was bungled, leading to a six-decade cover-up, ensuring that this twenty-one-year-old fashion designer was effectively killed twice: first bodily, and then as her significance and her memory were erased. Fred Vermorel's forensic, troubling (and trouble-making) investigation digs deep into Jean Townsend's life and times, and her transgressive bohemian milieu. It disentangles the lies and bluffs that have obscured this puzzling case for over half a century and offers a compelling solution to her murder and the official secrecy surrounding it. More than just a true crime story, Vermorel's investigation deploys Townsend's death as a wild card methodology for probing the 1950s: a cesspit of vice and violence, from coprophiles to bombsite gangs and flick knives in the cinema. Densely illustrated with archival material, Dead Fashion Girl is a heavily researched, darkly curious exposé of London's 1950s society that touches on celebrity, royalty, the postwar establishment, and ultimately, tragedy.

London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre

Author : Michelle Jones
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262046571
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book London Couture and the Making of a Fashion Centre written by Michelle Jones and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How design collaboration, networks, and narratives contributed to the establishment of a recognized English couture industry in the 1930s and 1940s. In the 1930s and 1940s, English fashion houses, spurred by economic and wartime crises, put London on the map as a major fashion city. In this book, Michelle Jones examines the creation of a London-based couture industry during these years, exploring how designer collaboration and the construction of specific networks and narratives supported and shaped the English fashion economy. Haute couture—the practice of creative made-to-measure womenswear—was widely regarded as inherently French. Jones shows how an English version emerged during a period of economic turbulence, when a group of designers banded together in a collective effort to shift power within the international fashion system. Jones considers the establishment of this form of English design practice, analyzing the commercial, social, and political factors that shaped the professional identity of the London couturiers. She focuses on collaborative activity that supported this form of elite, craft-based fashion production—from the prewar efforts of the Fashion Group of Great Britain to the wartime establishment of the Incorporated Society of London Fashion Designers, modeled loosely after French fashion’s governing body, the Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. It was these collective efforts by couturiers that established and sustained London’s place as an internationally recognized center for creative fashion.

Immigration, Crime and Justice

Author : William McDonald
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1848554397
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (485 download)

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Download or read book Immigration, Crime and Justice written by William McDonald and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the nexus between immigration and crime from all of the angles. This work addresses not just the evidence regarding the criminality of immigrants but also the research on the victimization of immigrants; human trafficking; domestic violence; the police handling of human trafficking; and, the exportation to crime problems via deportation.

Long Days, Short Years

Author : Andrew Bomback
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262370816
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (623 download)

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Download or read book Long Days, Short Years written by Andrew Bomback and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-08-09 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How parenting became a verb, from Dr. Spock and June Cleaver to baby whispering and free-range kids. When did “parenting” become a verb? Why is it so hard to parent, and so rife with the possibility of failure? Sitcom families of the past—the Cleavers, the Bradys, the Conners—didn’t seem to lose any sleep about their parenting methods. Today, parents are likely to be up late, doomscrolling on parenting websites. In Long Days, Short Years, Andrew Bomback—physician, writer, and father of three young children—looks at why it can be so much fun to be a parent but, at the same time, so frustrating and difficult to parent. It’s not a “how to” book (although Bomback has read plenty of these) but a “how come” book, investigating the emergence of an immersive, all-in approach to raising children that has made parenting a competitive (and often not very enjoyable) sport. Drawing on parenting books, mommy blogs, and historical accounts of parental duties as well as novels, films, podcasts, television shows, and his own experiences as a parent, Bomback charts the cultural history of parenting as a skill to be mastered, from the laid-back Dr. Spock’s 1950s childcare bible—in some years outsold only by the actual Bible—to the more rigid training schedules of Babywise. Along the way, he considers the high costs of commercialized parenting (from the babymoon on), the pressure on mothers to have it all (and do it all), scripted parenting as laid out in How to Talk So Kids Will Listen, parenting during a pandemic, and much more.

This is London

Author : Ben Judah
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447274806
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)

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Download or read book This is London written by Ben Judah and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is London in the eyes of its beggars, bankers, coppers, gangsters, carers, witch-doctors and sex workers. This is London in the voices of Arabs, Afghans, Nigerians, Poles, Romanians and Russians. This is London as you've never seen it before. Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-fiction 2016 Shortlisted for the Ryszard Kapuscinski Award for Literary Reportage 2019 'An eye-opening investigation into the hidden immigrant life of the city' Sunday Times 'Full of nuggets of unexpected information about the lives of others . . . It recalls the journalism of Orwell' Financial Times 'Ben Judah grabs hold of London and shakes out its secrets' The Economist

World's End

Author : Charlie Gere
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 1912685973
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book World's End written by Charlie Gere and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir and cultural history the World’s End, a West London area once home to bohemian artists and punk rock and now an outpost of neoliberalism. Charlie Gere’s account of growing up in the World’s End area of West London during the Cold War combines local history, cultural history, memoir, and a strong sense of the apocalyptic. Once a rundown part of Chelsea at the wrong end of the King’s Road, the World’s End has long been a place for bohemian writers and artists, including Turner, Whistler, Beckett, Bacon, and Bacon’s muse Henrietta Moraes, all of whom evinced an appropriate apocalyptic sensibility. After World War II, in which the area suffered severe bombing, it became a center of the counterculture that emerged from what Jeff Nuttall called “Bomb Culture,” formed by the threat of nuclear annihilation. The famous boutique Granny Takes a Trip opened there in 1966, joined later on by Hung On You, Puss Weber’s Flying Dragon Tea Room, and the commune Gandalf’s Garden. The area also featured trepanning aristocrats and pet lions, among other eccentricities. In the 1970s, the World’s End was the center of punk rock. Gere’s parents arrived as part of a wave of gentrification, and Gere, born and brought up there, witnessed its social and cultural evolution. As an adolescent, he was traumatized by the prospect of nuclear war. He has lived long enough to see the World’s End now bearing the marks of out-of-control neoliberalism and its grotesque accompanying inequality. But this too shall pass as worlds end.