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The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain

Author : Craig Horner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350054216
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain written by Craig Horner and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 19th century, bicyling and motoring offered new ways for a hardy minority to travel. Escaping from the 'tyranny' of the train timetables, these entrepreneurs were able to promote private mobility when the road, technology and infrastructure were unequal to the task. With a moribund network out of town, poor roadside accommodation and few services, how could road traction persist and ultimately thrive? Drawing on a wealth of primary sources, including magazines, newspapers and advice books on stable management, this book explores the emergence and development of bicycling and automobility in Britain, with a focus on the racing driver-cum-entrepreneur SF Edge (1868-1940) and his network. Craig Horner considers the motivations, prejudices and cultures of those who promoted and consumed road traction, providing new insights into social class, leisure, sport and tourism in Britain. In addition, he places early British bicycling and automobility in an international context, providing fruitful comparisons with the movements in France, Germany and the United States. The Emergence of Bicycling and Automobility in Britain is an excellent resource for scholars and students interested in mobility studies, social and cultural history, and the history of technology.

British Car Advertising of the 1960s

Author : Heon Stevenson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476611300
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book British Car Advertising of the 1960s written by Heon Stevenson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1960s, the automobile finally secured its position as an indispensable component of daily life in Britain. Car ownership more than doubled from approximately one car for every 10 people in 1960 to one car for every 4.8 people by 1970. Consumers no longer asked "Do we need a car?" but "What car shall we have?" This well-illustrated history analyzes how both domestic car manufacturers and importers advertised their products in this growing market, identifying trends and themes. Over 180 advertisement illustrations are included.

British Radio and Television

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book British Radio and Television written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 1444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Making of Modern Britain

Author : Andrew Marr
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0230747175
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Britain written by Andrew Marr and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Making of Modern Britain, Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria and the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war and peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known and the episodes of peace among the most turbulent and surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ‘How should we live?’ Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism and nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today and the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers and Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults and economic madness, of revolutionaries and heroic inventors, sexual experiments and raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs and celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page.

British Radio and Television Retailing

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book British Radio and Television Retailing written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the sections: James Huxley's service department, no. 19-40, July, 1956-Aug. 1958; BRTR service engineer, no. 1-12; May, 1958-Apr. 1959; Audio trade review, no. 1-7; June 1958-Apr. 1959; Electrical trade digest, no. 1-3; Feb.-Apr. 1959.

The Architecture of Pleasure

Author : Josephine Kane
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317044738
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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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 354 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.

Western Europe 2003

Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781857431520
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Western Europe 2003 written by Europa Publications and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition brings together analyses, statistics and directory data on the countries and territories of Western Europe.

A Comparative History of Motor Fuels Taxation, 1909–2009

Author : Carl-Henry Geschwind
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498553818
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (985 download)

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Book Synopsis A Comparative History of Motor Fuels Taxation, 1909–2009 by : Carl-Henry Geschwind

Download or read book A Comparative History of Motor Fuels Taxation, 1909–2009 written by Carl-Henry Geschwind and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slowing down global warming is one of the most critical problems facing the world’s policymakers today. One favored solution is to regulate carbon consumption through taxation, including the taxation of gasoline. Yet gasoline tax levels are much lower in the United States than elsewhere. Why is this so, and what does it tell us about the prospects for taxing carbon here? A Comparative History of Motor Fuels Taxation, 1909–2009: Why Gasoline Is Cheap and Petrol Is Dear examines these questions by tracing the evolution of gasoline tax policies in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand since the early twentieth century. In the process, it highlights the crucial role played by fiscal crises.

Atlantic Automobilism

Author : Gijs Mom
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782383778
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Automobilism written by Gijs Mom and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a sweeping transatlantic perspective, this book explains the current obsession with automobiles by delving deep into the motives of early car users. It provides a synthesis of our knowledge about the emergence and persistence of the car, using a broad range of material including novels, poems, films, and songs ...

Welcome to the Idiots

Author : Phil Davies
Publisher : Vivlia Limited
ISBN 13 : 0995466211
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Welcome to the Idiots written by Phil Davies and published by Vivlia Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Business Memoir including 236 insights into the mistakes pitfalls and pratfalls of building a business

Law and Society in England 1750-1950

Author : William Cornish
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509931252
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Law and Society in England 1750-1950 written by William Cornish and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-31 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Society in England 1750–1950 is an indispensable text for those wishing to study English legal history and to understand the foundations of the modern British state. In this new updated edition the authors explore the complex relationship between legal and social change. They consider the ways in which those in power themselves imagined and initiated reform and the ways in which they were obliged to respond to demands for change from outside the legal and political classes. What emerges is a lively and critical account of the evolution of modern rights and expectations, and an engaging study of the formation of contemporary social, administrative and legal institutions and ideas, and the road that was travelled to create them. The book is divided into eight chapters: Institutions and Ideas; Land; Commerce and Industry; Labour Relations; The Family; Poverty and Education; Accidents; and Crime. This extensively referenced analysis of modern social and legal history will be invaluable to students and teachers of English law, political science, and social history.

British Sources of Information

Author : P. Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135794936
Total Pages : 772 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book British Sources of Information written by P. Jackson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive and versatile reference source will be a most important tool for anyone wishing to seek out information on virtually any aspect of British affairs, life and culture. The resources of a detailed bibliography, directory and journals listing are combined in this single volume, forming a unique guide to a multitude of diverse topics - British politics, government, society, literature, thought, arts, economics, history and geography. Academic subjects as taught in British colleges and universities are covered, with extensive reading lists of books and journals and sources of information for each discipline, making this an invaluable manual.

The Landscapes of W. H. Auden’s Interwar Poetry

Author : Ladislav Vít
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000510425
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Landscapes of W. H. Auden’s Interwar Poetry written by Ladislav Vít and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study foregrounding Auden’s sense of place as a means for enhancing our grasp of this crucial twentieth-century poet. Proposing that Auden had a remarkable spatial sensibility, this book concentrates on his treatment of his homeland England, as well as the North Pennines and Iceland, both of which served as his ‘good’ places, ‘holy’ grounds and sources of topophilic sentiment. The readings draw on the scholarship of humanistic geography, tracing patterns of mental constructs which emerge from spatial experience. In a scholarly but engaging way, this book argues that focusing on Auden’s poetics of place as it emerged and evolved can be instrumental to our understanding of this influential poet not only in relation to his epoch but also to the Anglophone poetic tradition. Precisely because of his stature, these elaborations on Auden’s preoccupation with places, escapism, borders and local identity promise to enrich our understanding of the cultural and intellectual climate of the interwar period, when established notions of local places and cultures were beginning to be contested by internationalisation. This study will be of interest to both academics and students in the field of Anglophone literary studies while also appealing to those attracted to Auden’s poetry, interwar culture and the literary representation of space.

A Long Time in Making

Author : James Nye
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191026786
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Long Time in Making written by James Nye and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Smiths Group (formerly Smiths Industries), part of the UK FTSE 100 index, is a global engineering company with a market capitalisation over £5bn. Evolving from beginnings in the Victorian jewellery trade, to significant market presences in the twentieth century motor accessory, clock and watch industries, it has reinvented itself again as a diversified international company, operating in the medical, communications, security and engineered components sectors. Its narrative history, illuminating the reasons for its survival and adaptability, offers useful data and information to aid wider research into questions such as the legitimacy of conglomerates as a business model, the creation and maintenance of corporate culture, issues of succession, the effects of mergers and the questionable value placed upon targeted synergies-even the role of serendipity. The story begins with several generations of the Smith family amassing a fortune in retail, and then, following a 1914 stock-market flotation, describes the transition from family run business to the development of a professionally-run managerial enterprise. Since the 1970s it has had to face the decline of major markets and competitive pressures, leading to the adoption of new business lines, globalisation, and the internationalisation of its workforce. It now has 23,000 employees across more than 50 countries-along the way shocking the markets by abandoning core businesses and undergoing a controversial merger. Unfettered access to company records, and interviews with former staff members, provide insights into the strategy and management of the firm, illuminating the rich culture of Smiths, characterised by the frequent fostering of technical brilliance and a cast of larger than life characters.

Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1014 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Maps and Atlases written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transport in British Fiction

Author : A. Gavin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137499044
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Transport in British Fiction written by A. Gavin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport in British Fiction is the first essay collection devoted to transport and its various types horse, train, tram, cab, omnibus, bicycle, ship, car, air and space as represented in British fiction across a century of unprecedented technological change that was as destabilizing as it was progressive.

Reproduction by Design

Author : Angus McLaren
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226560716
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book Reproduction by Design written by Angus McLaren and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernity in interwar Europe frequently took the form of a preoccupation with mechanizing the natural; fears and fantasies revolved around the notion that the boundaries between people and machines were collapsing. Reproduction in particular became a battleground for those debating the merits of the modern world. That debate continues today, and to understand the history of our anxieties about modernity, we can have no better guide than Angus McLaren. In Reproduction by Design, McLaren draws on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s and '30s, as well as the work of biologists, psychiatrists, and sexologists, to reveal surprisingly early debates on many of the same questions that shape the conversation today: homosexuality, recreational sex, contraception, abortion, euthanasia, sex change operations, and in vitro fertilization. Here, McLaren brings together the experience and perception of modernity with sexuality, technology, and ecological concerns into a cogent discussion of science’s place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.