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Book Synopsis The Making of Wigan by : Mike Fletcher
Download or read book The Making of Wigan written by Mike Fletcher and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2005-04-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of Wigan summarises the evolution, and highlights the significant changes, in one of Lancashires most important towns, from Roman origins through to modern times. Tribute is paid to the resilience and determination of Wiganers in time of adversity, particularly during the English Civil War and when dealing with the Trauma of two World Wars.The towns prosperity and economy expanded during much of the nineteenth century, helped by coal and cotton, but also saw mixed fortunes, as Wigan experienced poverty and unemployment alongside the decline of its traditional industries. In more recent years Wigan has been transformed into a modern urban centre, but remains proud of its history.The book details the developments of the towns transport systems, local collieries with working conditions, strikes, accidents and mining developments all included. Also covered is the history of Wigans cotton history and the many changes to the town centre buildings and the leisure and recreation activities available to locals. Wigans involvement in the English Civil War and in both World Wars is covered along with Jacobite Rebellions.
Book Synopsis The Road to Wigan Pier by : George Orwell
Download or read book The Road to Wigan Pier written by George Orwell and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.
Book Synopsis Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan by : Mike Fletcher
Download or read book Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wigan written by Mike Fletcher and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2007-08-23 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in and Around Wigan is a detailed guide to the town's darker side, exploring, often in gory detail, Wigan's more sinister heritage, by examining accounts of murder and suspicious deaths from the middle ages through to the twentieth century. Victorian Wigan was a town seemingly overflowing with criminals, and some of the most gruesome cases, recounted from the reports taken from the Wigan Observer and Wigan Examiner, occurred in the second half of the nineteenth century. Many of the cases are without motice or provocation. Domestic crime features highly, often involving Wigan's colliers savagely beating their wives to death, and some of the cases remains unsolved. Each of the cases are covered in detail, documenting the crime, the investigation and inquest, and culminates with the eventual court case and punishment.
Book Synopsis A Wigan Childhood by : John Sharrock Taylor
Download or read book A Wigan Childhood written by John Sharrock Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A happy marriage of personal memoir and local history. In a tremendously entertaining style, and with real honesty, the author tells not only of his own childhood but also reveals the stories - skeletons and all - of generations of his family, and tells the history of Wigan along the way.
Book Synopsis Basics Illustration 02: Sequential Images by : Mark Wigan
Download or read book Basics Illustration 02: Sequential Images written by Mark Wigan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-12-24 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basics Illustration 02: Sequential Images addresses the professional, cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of pictorial storytelling and moving image. Sequential image-making is a rich area of original and innovative work, which is leading the resurgence in this field. The evolving world of illustration is exploding with possibilities as converging technologies and disciplines provide new opportunities and outlets for the visual storyteller. In this title, international illustrators, animators, artists and educators at the cutting edge of the narrative renaissance outline their personal methodologies and approaches to sequential image-making.
Book Synopsis The History of Wigan by : David Sinclair
Download or read book The History of Wigan written by David Sinclair and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Book Synopsis Wigan Pier Revisited by : Beatrix Campbell
Download or read book Wigan Pier Revisited written by Beatrix Campbell and published by Virago. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant exposé of poverty and politics in Britain. In 1937 George Orwell published The Road to Wigan Pier, an account of his famous 'urban ride' among the people and places of the Great Depression. Fifty years later we lived through a second Great Depression, and this time the journey north was made by a woman - like Orwell a journalist and a socialist, but, unlike him, working class and a feminist. Wigan Pier Revisited is a devastating record of what Beatrix Campbell saw and heard in towns and cities ravaged by poverty and unemployment. She talked to young mothers on the dole, to miners and their families, to school leavers, battered wives, factory workers, redundant workers; discovered what work, home, family, politics and dignity meant for working-class people. Out of this came her passionate plea for a genuine socialism, one informed by feminism, drawing its strength from the grass roots and responding to people's real needs.
Book Synopsis Savage Civilization by : T Harrisson
Download or read book Savage Civilization written by T Harrisson and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis In & Around Wigan Through Time by : John Sharrock Taylor
Download or read book In & Around Wigan Through Time written by John Sharrock Taylor and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Wigan and the surrounding areas have changed over the last century.
Book Synopsis The History of Wigan by : David Sinclair (of Wigan, Eng.)
Download or read book The History of Wigan written by David Sinclair (of Wigan, Eng.) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Secret Wigan written by Sue Gerrard and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating exploration of the history of Wigan and the secrets that lie within its remarkable heritage.
Book Synopsis The History of Wigan by : David Sinclair
Download or read book The History of Wigan written by David Sinclair and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Paper-making by : Alexander Watt (F. R. S. A.)
Download or read book The Art of Paper-making written by Alexander Watt (F. R. S. A.) and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Soap-making by : Alexander Watt
Download or read book The Art of Soap-making written by Alexander Watt and published by London : C. Lockwood. This book was released on 1907 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster by : Edward Baines
Download or read book History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster written by Edward Baines and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First Industrial Region by : Jon Stobart
Download or read book The First Industrial Region written by Jon Stobart and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-04-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book has much to offer second- and third-year undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in economic, social and urban history, and historical geography."--Jacket.
Book Synopsis The Making of Sporting Cultures by : John Hughson
Download or read book The Making of Sporting Cultures written by John Hughson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of Sporting Cultures presents an analysis of western sport by examining how the collective passions and feelings of people have contributed to the making of sport as a ‘way of life’. The popularity of sport is so pronounced in some cases that we speak of certain sports as ‘national pastimes’. Baseball in the United States, soccer in Britain and cricket in the Caribbean are among the relevant examples discussed. Rather than regarding the historical development of sport as the outcome of passive spectator reception, this work is interested in how sporting cultures have been made and developed over time through the active engagement of its enthusiasts. This is to study the history of sport not only ‘from below’, but also ‘from within’, as a means to understanding the ‘deep relationship’ between sport and people within class contexts – the middle class as well as the working class. Contestation over the making of sport along axes of race, gender and class are discussed where relevant. A range of cultural writers and theorists are examined in regard to both how their writing can help us understand the making of sport and as to how sport might be located within an overall cultural context – in different places and times. The book will appeal to students and academics within humanities disciplines such as cultural studies, history and sociology and to those in sport studies programmes interested in the historical, cultural and social aspects of sport. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in Society.
