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Rebuilding Coventry

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0718159748
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (181 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Coventry written by Sue Townsend and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the Adrian Mole series and The Woman who Went to Bed for a Year comes a brilliant, laugh-out-loud satire on modern Britain and the battle of the sexes 'There are two things that you should know about me immediately: the first is that I am beautiful, the second is that yesterday I killed a man. Both things were accidents . . .' When Midlands housewife Coventry Dakin kills her neighbour in a wild bid to prevent him from strangling his wife, she goes on the run. Finding herself alone and friendless in London she tries to lose herself in the city's maze of streets. There, she meets a bewildering cast of eccentric characters. From Professor Willoughby D'Eresby and his perpetually naked wife Letitia to Dodo, a care-in the-community inhabitant of Cardboard City, all of whom contrive to change Coventry in ways she could never have foreseen . . .

Rebuilding Coventry

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569470909
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Coventry written by Sue Townsend and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ruined and Rebuilt

Author : Richard Thomas Howard
Publisher : Coventry Peace and Reconciliation
ISBN 13 : 9781871281545
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Ruined and Rebuilt written by Richard Thomas Howard and published by Coventry Peace and Reconciliation. This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of British Humorists

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824059903
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Coventry

Author : Caroline Gould
Publisher : English Heritage
ISBN 13 : 1848023413
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Caroline Gould and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coventry Blitz of 14 November 1940 was a key event of the Second World War and in the growth of public consciousness of the destructive power of warfare. The medieval city, already undergoing rapid change, was largely destroyed on that night. The destruction was seen as an opportunity by some including the then City Architect, Donald Gibson. The result was the first of the master plans for post-war redevelopment of Britain's bombed city centres. The redevelopment of Coventry city centre to plans by Gibson and his successors provided an intensely urban and civilised centre, embodying new planning principles. Post-war Coventry was hugely influential and Gibson's ideas helped to shape the rebuilding of other city centres, the post-war new towns and developments in Europe. Despite incremental change in the subsequent decades the planning and architecture of Gibson's city centre are still clearly legible. The modern demands of a growing city on its centre are now very different from those of the post-war years. Coventry needs to grow and plan for its future and change will inevitably affect the city centre. This book aims to inform the public and decision makers of the significance of Coventry, and especially its centre, so that change can be managed in ways that will continue the life, use and enjoyment of the best of Coventry's remarkable post-war heritage.

Rebuilding Coventry

Author : Sue Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749300265
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Coventry written by Sue Townsend and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reconciling People

Author : Christopher Lamb
Publisher : Canterbury Press
ISBN 13 : 184825380X
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (482 download)

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Download or read book Reconciling People written by Christopher Lamb and published by Canterbury Press. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the 50th anniversary in 2012 of the rebuilding of Coventry Cathedral after its destruction by incendiary bombs in November 1940, this lavishly illustrated volume celebrates a unique church with a unique mission. The decision to rebuild the Cathedral was taken the morning after the bombing - not as an act of defiance, but one of faith, trust and hope for the future of the world. Reconciling People tells the story of every aspect the Cathedral's life: its architecture in war and in peace, its theology, worship and spirituality, music and the arts, its mission and ministry, its place in the life of the city, the Cathedral as a place of reconciliation, its people over the decades and its life today. Co-published with the Friends of Coventry Cathedral, this celebratory volume is a record of a how a 900-year old cathedral rose from the ashes of violent destruction to become a symbol of reconciliation and to develop a unique mission among Britain's churches.

Britten's Unquiet Pasts

Author : Heather Wiebe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521194679
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Britten's Unquiet Pasts written by Heather Wiebe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.

The City of Coventry

Author : Adrian Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718363
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The City of Coventry written by Adrian Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The image of Coventry in flames was one of the most haunting of the Second World War. Yet the excitement and optimism of the 1950s and 1960s were succeeded by a quarter century of urban blight and economic slump. The collapse of manufacturing industry - machine tools, aeroplanes, cars - left a proud community adrift and demoralised. Today a revitalised twenty-first century city, Coventry has embraced the new millennium and evolved from bleak post-industrial desert to vibrant cultural oasis, in the process rediscovering a sense of purpose and a vision for the future. "The City of Coventry" tells the story of an experiment in social democracy carried out by a Labour-controlled council which envisaged the bomb shattered city as a model of urban regeneration and imaginative planning. Post-war reconstruction could be a striking success, as in the pedestrian-friendly Precinct and the bold new cathedral, or a notable failure as in the ever more intrusive ring roads and grim high-rise flats. In offering a fresh perspective on the city, this innovative volume of essays rediscovers Coventry as an inspiration for poets and painters such as Philip Larkin and Terry Frost, musicians as varied as Benjamin Britten and The Specials, and film-makers such as Humphrey Jennings, whose "Heart of Britain" was shot in the immediate aftermath of the Blitz. Adrian Smith skilfully mixes memoir, family history and meticulous scholarship to paint a complete and incisive portrait of Coventry. Drawing on new research into topics as diverse as the place of Surrealism in West Midlands culture and the shadowy presence of rugby league in a union bastion, Smith brings a unique insight into the recent history of his native city. Attractively presented, highly readable and with broad appeal, "The City of Coventry" is a lively re-examination of an iconic city of the twentieth century illuminating the profound changes that engulfed industrial England during and after the Second World War.

Man-Made Future

Author : Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134325193
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Man-Made Future written by Iain Boyd Whyte and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-12-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of essays by a group of distinguished scholars investigates post-1945 city planning in Britain; not from a technical viewpoint, but as a polemical, visual and educational phenomenon, shifting the focus of scholarly interest towards the often-neglected emotional and aesthetic aspects of post-war planning. Each essay is grounded in original archival research and sheds new light on this critical era in the development of modern town planning. This collection is a valuable resource for architectural, social and urban historians, as well as students and researchers offering new insights into the development of the mid-twentieth century city.

Coventry Cathedral

Author : Louise Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198175193
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (751 download)

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Download or read book Coventry Cathedral written by Louise Campbell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Louise Campbell discusses Basil Spence's developing design - and its transformation into a cathedral building - in relation to the fast pace of artistic developments in the 1950s and 60s. She analyses the different priorities of the architectural profession, the clergy, and the city; her book provides a study in the history of patronage as well as of architecture.

Coventry

Author : Rachel Cusk
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374717435
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Coventry written by Rachel Cusk and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2019-09-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NPR's Favorite Books of 2019 Rachel Cusk redrew the boundaries of fiction with the Outline Trilogy, three “literary masterpieces” (The Washington Post) whose narrator, Faye, perceives the world with a glinting, unsparing intelligence while remaining opaque to the reader. Lauded for the precision of her prose and the quality of her insight, Cusk is a writer of uncommon brilliance. Now, in Coventry, she gathers a selection of her nonfiction writings that both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions. Coventry encompasses memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about literature, with pieces on family life, gender, and politics, and on D. H. Lawrence, Françoise Sagan, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Named for an essay Cusk published in Granta (“Every so often, for offences actual or hypothetical, my mother and father stop speaking to me. There’s a funny phrase for this phenomenon in England: it’s called being sent to Coventry”), this collection is pure Cusk and essential reading for our age: fearless, unrepentantly erudite, and dazzling to behold.

The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing

Author : John McRae
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415286367
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (863 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Guide to Modern English Writing written by John McRae and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a user-friendly guide to English literature from 1960 to the present. From Philip Larkin, Seamus Heaney to Caryl Churchill, Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett, the book is essential reading for all readers of contemporary writing.

Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities

Author : Jeffry M. Diefendorf
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349104582
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Rebuilding Europe's Bombed Cities written by Jeffry M. Diefendorf and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of Europe's urban reconstruction after World War II, this volume contains 12 essays, based on new research which examine the significant architectural continuities in pre-war and post-war building. They highlight the unusual character of rebuilding in several case studies.

To Say Nothing of the Dog

Author : Connie Willis
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553575384
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book To Say Nothing of the Dog written by Connie Willis and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1998-12-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Connie Willis, winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula Awards, comes a comedic romp through an unpredictable world of mystery, love, and time travel . . . Ned Henry is badly in need of a rest. He’s been shuttling between the 21st century and the 1940s searching for a Victorian atrocity called the bishop's bird stump. It’s part of a project to restore the famed Coventry Cathedral, destroyed in a Nazi air raid over a hundred years earlier. But then Verity Kindle, a fellow time traveler, inadvertently brings back something from the past. Now Ned must jump back to the Victorian era to help Verity put things right—not only to save the project but to prevent altering history itself.

Coventry Climax Racing Engines

Author : Des Hammill
Publisher : Veloce Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1845845102
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book Coventry Climax Racing Engines written by Des Hammill and published by Veloce Publishing Ltd. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 50s & 60s Coventry Climax engines powered many race-winning cars, including some driven by Stirling Moss & Jack Brabham. To get the true inside story, the author, an engineer, has talked to all surviving Coventry Climax personnel who were involved with the racing engines. The author was given full access to all of Walter Hassan's papers, photographs and engine drawings. After 30 months of original research and writing, this book describes exactly how these famous engines developed from industrial fire pumps to the Hillman Imp, from Le Mans winning Lotus Elites to Formula One winners driven by Stirling Moss and Jack Brabham, right through to the company's takeover by Jaguar in 1963. Viewed through the eyes of an engineer, and the detailed recollections of those who were there, this is a fascinating account of the trials and tribulations of leading edge race engine design from 1952 to 1966.

Loitering with Intent

Author : Muriel Spark
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811219755
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Loitering with Intent written by Muriel Spark and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does art start or reality end? Happily loitering about London, c. 1949, with the intent of gathering material for her writing, Fleur Talbot finds a job “on the grubby edge of the literary world” at the very peculiar Autobiographical Association. Mad egomaniacs writing their memoirs in advance — or poor fools ensnared by a blackmailer? When the association’s pompous director steals Fleur’s manuscript, fiction begins to appropriate life.