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Re-living Britain in the 1940s

Author : Robin Wichard
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399018132
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Re-living Britain in the 1940s written by Robin Wichard and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s remains an iconic period in world history and retains a fascination for so many. Re-enacting the 40s is becoming increasingly popular but there is little available information explaining how to start in the hobby. This book is the first to offer enthusiasts of the 40s a way to advance their interest whether it be military or civilian. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of re-enacting from civilian roles (including children) to military roles with many different potential impressions explored for each area. Each chapter is lavishly illustrated with many previously unseen color photographs of contemporary re-enactors and events. There are further chapters introducing those people who portray wartime political and military leaders as well as those who bring back to life some of the most iconic musicians and performers of the period. For those choosing to enter the hobby through ownership of a civilian or military vehicle, that is also covered with many examples of some of the most well-known vehicles. Each chapter offers a brief contextual history with detailed notes on where to obtain uniform and equipment, some of the best groups to join as well as links to related sites and recommendations for wider reading. No book can cover every single possible role but this offers an excellent starting point for further research and involvement while stressing the need to always remain respectful of those we seek to commemorate.

How We Lived Then

Author : Norman Longmate
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409046435
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book How We Lived Then written by Norman Longmate and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-01-26 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although nearly 90% of the population of Great Britain remained civilians throughout the war, or for a large part of it, their story has so far largely gone untold. In contrast with the thousands of books on military operations, barely any have concerned themselves with the individual's experience. The problems of the ordinary family are barely ever mentioned - food rationing, clothes rationing, the black-out and air raids get little space, and everyday shortages almost none at all. This book is an attempt to redress the balance; to tell the civilian's story largely through their own recollections and in their own words.

The 1940s House

Author : Juliet Gardner
Publisher : Channel 4 Book
ISBN 13 : 9780752265148
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (651 download)

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Download or read book The 1940s House written by Juliet Gardner and published by Channel 4 Book. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty-five years after the end of the Second World War, the Hymers family moved into a 1940s house in Kent under the skies where the Battle of Britain was fought. The family experienced many different aspects of life on the home front. Juliet Gardiner draws on the letters and diaries of many home front veterans as well as the experiences of the Hymer family to create a unique insight into life in Britain during the Second World War.

Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900-1992

Author : Wheeler Winston Dixon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438401264
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900-1992 written by Wheeler Winston Dixon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-Viewing British Cinema, 1900–1992 is a collection of essays on British cinema history and practice. It offers both the casual reader and the film scholar a different view of British filmmaking during the past century. Arranged in chronological order, the book explores those areas of British cinema that have not been fully examined in other works and also offers fresh interpretations of a number of classic films. From the work of Frederic Villiers, the pioneering British newsreel cameraman who at the turn of the century brought home images of battlefield carnage, to essays on the British "B" film and the long-forgotten "Independent Frame" method of film production, to new readings of classics such as The Red Shoes, Passport to Pimlico, and Peeping Tom, the authors offer a look behind the scenes of the British film industry and engage the reader in some of the most compelling interpretational and historical issues of recent film history and critical theory. In addition, the volume contains a number of interviews with such key directors as Stephen Frears, Terence Davies, Wendy Toye, and Lindsay Anderson and also pays particular attention to the work of early twentieth-century British feminist filmmakers whose films have often been ignored by conventional film theory and history. It also offers new material on the British "film noir," the English horror film, and the pioneering gay director Brian Desmond Hurst. Taken as a whole, this book presents an entirely new series of viewpoints on British film practice, theory, and reception and affords a fresh and vibrant view of the British film medium.

The 1940s House

Author : Juliet Gardiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780752272535
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book The 1940s House written by Juliet Gardiner and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Yorkshire family experience the Second World War, by living in a semi-detatched house in Kent and having a comittee of historical experts, a nutritionist and vetrans of the Home Front, controlling how they live. They can withdraw foods, requisition their car, and even limit how much bath water they use.

Children of the 1940s

Author : Mike Hutton
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1399049542
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Children of the 1940s written by Mike Hutton and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city centre kids and their country cousins. All endured strict discipline at school and a shortage of food due to stringent rationing. Bomb sites provided ready made adventure playgrounds. Pleasures were simple with a weekly pilgrimage to the local cinema for Saturday morning pictures. Sales of comics boomed and Enid Blyton churned out countless books generally loved by the young. The arrival of the Americans caused a flutter of excitement for children and quite a few of their elder sisters and mums too. Just when it appeared it was all over there was a new threat as buzz bombs brought fear and devastation. Eventually there was a brief moment of celebration with VE Day followed by a massive victory parade. Austerity continued to gnaw away, not helped by cold winters with frost lining the inside of window frames. Returning fathers were often unwanted strangers while some returning were confronted with babies fathered by other men. There was much to be sorted out. Mike Hutton takes you back to a different world. One where streets offered live theatre populated by knife grinders, rat catchers and the cries of the rag and bone man. The skinny army of the 1940s are old now but their stories live on. Some are desperately sad, all warmly nostalgic while others are quite hilarious.

The Living Mountain

Author : Nan Shepherd
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857863606
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Download or read book The Living Mountain written by Nan Shepherd and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

The Act of Documenting

Author : Brian Winston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 150130917X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Act of Documenting written by Brian Winston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical review of documentary in the 21st century.

In Search of the Real Dads Army

Author : Stephen Cullen
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1848842694
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book In Search of the Real Dads Army written by Stephen Cullen and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the Home Guard? Who were the men and women who served in it? And what can be said of their real role and significance once the popular myths have been stripped away? Despite the fame of the Home Guard of Dads Army the true story of this wartime organization tends to be neglected. The myths obscure the reality. Stephen Cullens aim in this thoroughgoing new study is to cut through the misunderstandings in order to reassess the Home Guard and its contribution to Britains war effort and to deepen our understanding of the men and women who were members of it. He sets the Home Guard in the long historical context of domestic defense planning, then focuses on the preparations made before the outbreak of the Second World War. In detail he traces the changing role of the Home Guard during its wartime existence as it adapted to meet the multitude of challenges it faced from civil defense and intelligence gathering to training for guerrilla warfare. Using vivid eyewitness testimony and oral history, he takes a grassroots look at the men - and women from all ages and social backgrounds who made up this national defense force. The equipment, uniforms, weapons and vehicles they used and the field defenses they manned are described as their role developed over the course of the war. He also examines the evolution of popular views of the Home Guard from wartime days to the present the notion of the Peoples Army, the thinking of early Home Guard commentators like George Orwell, and the writings of more recent historians who have sought to explain an organization that retains such an extraordinary hold on the popular imagination.

The 1940s

Author : Nance Lui Fyson
Publisher : Trafalgar Square Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780713456288
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (562 download)

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Download or read book The 1940s written by Nance Lui Fyson and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1988 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the news of the decade year by year, including coverage of the war and scientific advances over the ten year period.

Decolonization and the French of Algeria

Author : Sung-Eun Choi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520752
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Decolonization and the French of Algeria written by Sung-Eun Choi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1962, almost one million people were evacuated from Algeria. France called these citizens Repatriates to hide their French Algerian origins and to integrate them into society. This book is about Repatriation and how it became central to France's postcolonial understanding of decolonization, the Algerian past, and French identity.

Les Parisiennes

Author : Anne Sebba
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466849568
Total Pages : 601 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Les Parisiennes written by Anne Sebba and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Anne Sebba has the nearly miraculous gift of combining the vivid intimacy of the lives of women during The Occupation with the history of the time. This is a remarkable book.” —Edmund de Waal, New York Times bestselling author of The Hare with the Amber Eyes New York Times bestselling author Anne Sebba explores a devastating period in Paris's history and tells the stories of how women survived—or didn’t—during the Nazi occupation. Paris in the 1940s was a place of fear, power, aggression, courage, deprivation, and secrets. During the occupation, the swastika flew from the Eiffel Tower and danger lurked on every corner. While Parisian men were either fighting at the front or captured and forced to work in German factories, the women of Paris were left behind where they would come face to face with the German conquerors on a daily basis, as waitresses, shop assistants, or wives and mothers, increasingly desperate to find food to feed their families as hunger became part of everyday life. When the Nazis and the puppet Vichy regime began rounding up Jews to ship east to concentration camps, the full horror of the war was brought home and the choice between collaboration and resistance became unavoidable. Sebba focuses on the role of women, many of whom faced life and death decisions every day. After the war ended, there would be a fierce settling of accounts between those who made peace with or, worse, helped the occupiers and those who fought the Nazis in any way they could.

THE AGEING OF GREAT BRITAIN

Author : Martin Slattery
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789018196
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book THE AGEING OF GREAT BRITAIN written by Martin Slattery and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain is ageing, but doesn’t seem to know it. Despite numerous warnings from official reports, the Government has ignored or neglected the ‘car-crashes’ ahead. Our Health & Social Care services, our pensions system and our housing provision are all in crisis whilst almost every family now faces the dilemma of ageing parents and boomerang children unable to leave home. Yet it doesn’t have to be all doom & grey gloom. In this detailed new book, Martin Slattery seeks to show there is a “silver side” to this Age Revolution; the potential for a New Age manifesto that might propel Ageing up the political agenda, create a new Intergenerational Social Contract and force the government to plan ahead for the 100 Year Life now facing over a third of all children born today. If the Japanese, the Scandinavians and the Bolivians can do it, why not Great Britain? We owe that to our children and to the generations ahead. Welcome to the Ageing World of the 21st Century!

A History of Foreign Students in Britain

Author : H. Perraton
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137294957
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book A History of Foreign Students in Britain written by H. Perraton and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreign students have travelled to Britain for centuries and, from the beginning, attracted controversy. This book explores changing British policy and practice, and changing student experience, set within the context of British social and political history.

Insane Society: A Sociology of Mental Health

Author : Peter Morrall
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351271148
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Insane Society: A Sociology of Mental Health written by Peter Morrall and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book critiques the connection between Western society and madness, scrutinizing if and how societal insanity affects the cause, construction, and consequence of madness. Looking beyond the affected individual to their social, political, economic, ecological, and cultural context, this book examines whether society itself, and its institutions, divisions, practices, and values, is mad. That society’s insanity is relevant to the sanity and insanity of its citizens has been argued by Fromm in The Sane Society, but also by a host of sociologists, social thinkers, epidemiologists and biologists. This book builds on classic texts such as Foucault’s History of Madness, Scull’s Marxist-oriented works and more recent publications which have arisen from a range of socio-political and patient-orientated movements. Chapters in this book draw on biology, psychology, sociological and anthropological thinking that argues that where madness is concerned, society matters. Providing an extended case study of how the sociological imagination should operate in a contemporary setting, this book draws on genetics, neuroscience, cognitive science, radical psychology, and evolutionary psychology/psychiatry. It is an important read for students and scholars of sociology, anthropology, social policy, criminology, health, and mental health.

Britain's New Towns

Author : Anthony Alexander
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134025521
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Britain's New Towns written by Anthony Alexander and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Towns Programme of 1946 to 1970 represents one of the most substantial periods of urban development in Britain. This book covers the story of how these towns came to be built, how they aged, and the challenges and opportunities they now face as they begin phases of renewal. The New Towns provide lessons for social, economic and environmental sustainability which are of great relevance for the regeneration of twentieth century urbanism and the creation of new urban developments today.

Politics UK

Author : Bill Jones
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000413470
Total Pages : 1211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Politics UK written by Bill Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 1211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated tenth edition of the bestselling textbook Politics UK is an indispensable introduction to British politics. It provides a thorough and accessible overview of the institutions and processes of British government, an excellent grounding in British political history and an incisive introduction to the issues and challenges facing Britain today. This edition welcomes three brand new chapters - ‘Elites in the United Kingdom’, 'Gender and British politics' and 'UK Immigration policy in hostile environment' - alongside rigorously updated revised chapters. It delivers excellent coverage of contemporary events, with significant new material covering: the Johnson premiership and the national challenge of Covid-19, the end of the May premiership and the implementation of Brexit, the Labour Party’s transition from Corbyn to Starmer, infrastructure and innovation, 'fake news', populism and nationalism, the UK’s place in a post-Brexit world, climate change, social mobility and elite recruitment, devolution and regionalism, constitutional strain, the role of political advisers, abuse and incivility in politics and much more. Other features of the new edition include: A wide range of illustrative material, boxes and case studies providing illuminating examples alongside the analysis. A comprehensive ‘who’s who’ of politics in the form of Profile boxes featuring key political figures. And another thing . . . pieces containing short articles on salient and pressing topics, written by distinguished commentators including Sir John Curtice, Sir Simon Jenkins, Andrew Rawnsley, Baroness Julie Smith of Newnham, and Philip Collins. Online interviews on the book’s website see notable figures from British political life discussing the pressing issues of today. With chapters written by highly respected scholars in the field and contemporary articles on real-world politics from well-known political commentators, this textbook is an essential guide for all students of British politics.