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Book Synopsis A Yorkshire Boyhood by : Roy Hattersley
Download or read book A Yorkshire Boyhood written by Roy Hattersley and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was not until he was dead and I was forty that I realised my father was once in Holy Orders,' Roy Hattersley tells us in the opening pages of A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD; so setting the tone for an elegant, continually surprising book. A somewhat precocious only child, Roy grew up surrounded by protective, ever-anxious adults, equally determined to expose him to books and to shield him from germs -- second-hand books were decontaminated by a sharp session in the oven. Uncle Ernest, a timber merchant's clerk celebrated for his skill at 'fretwork and the manipulation of Indian clubs'; a ten-year feud with the next-door neighbours; unwavering devotion to Sheffield Wednesday - all the pleasures and pangs of northern working-class childhood are magnificently evoked as Roy Hattersley takes us through the hardships of the Thirties and the Blitz; and into the 1940s, the 11-plus examination and Grammar School. Completely updated, A YORKSHIRE BOYHOOD is an autobiographical essay of unusual wit, eloquence and candour.
Book Synopsis Poverty to Possibility by : Diane Bailey-Boulet
Download or read book Poverty to Possibility written by Diane Bailey-Boulet and published by Evensong Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Britain, during the desperate Depression-era 1930s and war-torn 1940s, a poor but promising and determined Yorkshire coal miner's son finds the friendship, love, and community he needs to break the forceful grip of poverty and let his boldest dreams take flight.
Book Synopsis A Yorkshire Boyhood by : Random House
Download or read book A Yorkshire Boyhood written by Random House and published by . This book was released on 2001-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Yorkshire Boyhood by : Roy Hattersley
Download or read book Yorkshire Boyhood written by Roy Hattersley and published by . This book was released on 1996-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Allerton Bywater written by Bruce Haywood and published by XOXOX Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary Nonfiction. Biography and memoir. ALLERTON BYWATER by Bruce Haywood is a charming and thoughtful gaze back across the Atlantic at a very specific place in time--the author's home ground, an English coal mining town of the 1930s and 40s. The peculiar human ways of that place and its people come across clearly and endearingly in this lively memoir. The process of becoming American and seeing his old home ground anew, through American eyes, is an insightful thread throughout.
Download or read book The Devonshires written by Roy Hattersley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-09 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, the Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made and lost fortunes, fought and fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts and pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, and, in the end, came to terms with changing times.
Book Synopsis Yorkshire Boyhood B by : Roy Hattersley
Download or read book Yorkshire Boyhood B written by Roy Hattersley and published by . This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Tale Of Two Cities by : Karen Evans
Download or read book A Tale Of Two Cities written by Karen Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Tale of Two Cities is a study of two major cities, Manchester and Sheffield. Drawing on the work of major theorists, the authors explore the everyday life, making contributions to our understanding of the defining activities of life.
Book Synopsis Coldest Harbour in the Land by : Luca Codignola
Download or read book Coldest Harbour in the Land written by Luca Codignola and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1624 Simon Stock, a missionary priest of the Discalced Carmelite order in England, began correspondence with the recently founded Congregation of the Propaganda Fide in Rome in an attempt to interest it in the establishment of a novitiate for English priests of his order. Luca Codignola draws on the letters of Simon Stock and material in the archives of the Propaganda Fide and the Carmelite order to present a fascinating picture of seventeenth-century Catholic colonization.
Download or read book On My Honour written by Tammy M. Proctor and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arising in the first decades of the twentieth century, the Boy Scout and Girl Guide movements came into existence in Britain in an era of social and political unrest and were initially the center of intense controversy. Through the years, Guiding and Scouting broke down class, race, and gender distinctions and helped youth cope with an emerging mass culture and allowed boys and girls to stretch gender and generational boundaries. Using official documents, logbooks, diaries, and oral histories, Tammy Proctor explores the formation of the Scouts and Guides and their transformation during and after World War I. The interwar period marked a departure for the two organizations as they emerged as large multinational organizations that targeted not only adolesents, but also smaller children and young adults.
Download or read book Family Affairs written by Mary Abbott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the secret life of English families from 1920 to 1990, Mary Abbott takes the reader into her subjects' homes and hearts and provokes us to reflect on families past and speculate on families future.
Book Synopsis Partners of the Imagination by : Robert Leach
Download or read book Partners of the Imagination written by Robert Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Partners of the Imagination is the first in-depth study of the work of John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, partners in writing and cultural and political campaigns. Beginning in the 1950s, Arden and D’Arcy created a series of hugely admired plays performed at Britain’s major theatres. Political activists, they worked tirelessly in the peace movement and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’, during which D’Arcy was gaoled. She is also a veteran of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace camp. Their later work included Booker-listed novels, prize-winning stories, essays and radio plays, and D’Arcy founded and ran a Woman’s Pirate Radio station. Raymond Williams described Arden as ‘the most genuinely innovative’ of the playwrights of his generation, and Chambers and Prior claimed that ‘The Non-Stop Connolly Show’, D’Arcy and Arden’s six-play epic, ‘has fair claim to being one of the finest pieces of post-war drama in the English language’. This study explores the connections between art and life, and between the responsibilities of the writer and the citizen. Importantly, it also evaluates the range of literary works (plays, poetry, novels, essays, polemics) created by these writers, both as literature and drama, and as controversialist activity in its own right. This work is a landmark examination of two hugely respected radical writers.
Book Synopsis Party, Parliament and Personality by : Peter Jones
Download or read book Party, Parliament and Personality written by Peter Jones and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays on political psychology from some of the best known names in political science in the UK, including Ivor Crewe, Vincent Wright, Rod Hague, David Hine and Iain McLean.
Book Synopsis The People's Peace by : Kenneth O. Morgan
Download or read book The People's Peace written by Kenneth O. Morgan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published as "The People's Peace" 1990."
Book Synopsis City of Sheffield (Part 1 of 3) by :
Download or read book City of Sheffield (Part 1 of 3) written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 945 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series by : Various Authors
Download or read book Routledge Revivals: History Workshop Series written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 4146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1975 and 1991, this set reissues 13 volumes that originally appeared as part of the History Workshop Series. This series of books, which grew out of the journal of the same name, advocated ‘history from below’ and examined numerous, often social, issues from the perspectives of ordinary people. In the words of founder Raphael Samuel, the aim was to turn historical research and writing into ‘a collaborative enterprise’, via public gatherings outside of a traditional academic setting, that could be used to support activism and social justice as well as informing politics. Some of the topics examined in the set include: mineral workers, rural radicalism, and the lives and occupations of villagers in the nineteenth century; working class association; the development of left-wing workers theatre and the changing attitudes to mass culture across the twentieth century; the changing fortunes of the East End at the turn of the century; the position of women from the nineteenth century to the present; the miners’ strike of 1984-5; the social and political images of late-twentieth century London; and a three volume analysis of the myriad facets of English patriotism. This set will be of interest to students of history, sociology, gender and politics.
Book Synopsis Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 by : David Kynaston
Download or read book Austerity Britain, 1945-1951 written by David Kynaston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As much as any country, England bore the brunt of Germany's aggression in World War II, and was ravaged in many ways at the war's end. Celebrated historian David Kynaston has written an utterly original, and compellingly readable, account of the following six years, during which the country rebuilt itself. Kynaston's great genius is to chronicle the country's experience from bottom to top: coursing through through the book, therefore, is an astonishing variety of ordinary, contemporary voices, eloquently and passionately evincing the country's remarkable spirit. Judy Haines, a Chingford housewife, gamely endures the tribulations of rationing; Mary King, a retired schoolteacher in Birmingham, observes how well-fed the Queen looks during a royal visit; Henry St. John, a persnickety civil servant in Bristol, is oblivious to anyone's troubles but his own. Together they present a portrait of an indomitable people and Kynaston skillfully links their stories to bigger events thought the country. Their stories also jostle alongside those of more well-known figures like celebrated journalist-to-be John Arlott (making his first radio broadcast), Glenda Jackson, and Doris Lessing, newly arrived from Africa and struck by the leveling poverty of post-war Britain. Kynaston deftly weaves into his story a sophisticated narrative of how the 1945 Labour government shaped the political, economic, and social landscape for the next three decades.
