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The London Review of Books

Author : Sam Kinchin-Smith
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 9780571358045
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Download or read book The London Review of Books written by Sam Kinchin-Smith and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London Review of Books: An Incomplete History invites readers behind the scenes for the first time, reproducing a fascinating selection of artefacts and ephemera from the paper's archives, personal collections and forgotten filing cabinets. Letters, notebooks, drawings, postcards, fieldnotes and typescripts, many of them never previously published, bring an idiosyncratic slice of Bloomsbury's heritage to life. Fragments by legendary contributors - from Alan Bennett to Angela Carter, Oliver Sacks to Edward Said, Ted Hughes to Christopher Hitchens, Richard Rorty to Jenny Diski, plus the occasional prime minister or Nobel prize-winner - are contextualised with captions and backstories by LRB writers and editors. The result is an intimate account of forty years of intellectual life, which sheds new light on great careers, famous incidents and some of the history going on in the background: a testament to the power of print - and well-edited sentences - in the new information age.

Britain and 1940

Author : Malcolm Smith
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415240765
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Britain and 1940 written by Malcolm Smith and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1940 was the most significant year in European history this century, this book examines what it meant for the people of Britain then and now. Malcolm Smith details the resultant influences that have constructed our national consciousness.

The Making of the English Working Class

Author : Edward Palmer Thompson
Publisher : IICA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the English Working Class written by Edward Palmer Thompson and published by IICA. This book was released on 1964 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of artisan and working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, adds an important dimension to our understanding of the nineteenth century. E.P. Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation and who yet created a culture and political consciousness of great vitality.

London

Author : Edward Rutherfurd
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099551373
Total Pages : 1330 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book London written by Edward Rutherfurd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The triumphs and failures of seven individual family clans span the history of a city from the third-century Roman occupation of Londinium through such eras as the Norman conquest and the Elizabethan period.

The Shows of London

Author : Richard Daniel Altick
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674807310
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Shows of London written by Richard Daniel Altick and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of London entertainment from 1600 to the end of the 1850's.

The Children of Henry VIII

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307806863
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Children of Henry VIII written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-09-21 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating . . . Alison Weir does full justice to the subject.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In this riveting account Alison Weir paints a unique portrait of these extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history. She traces the tumult that followed Henry's death, from the brief intrigue-filled reigns of the boy king Edward VI and the fragile Lady Jane Grey, to the savagery of "Bloody Mary," and finally the accession of the politically adroit Elizabeth I. As always, Weir offers a fresh perspective on a period that has spawned many of the most enduring myths in English history, combining the best of the historian's and the biographer's art. “Like anthropology, history and biography can demonstrate unfamiliar ways of feeling and being. Alison Weir's sympathetic collective biography, The Children of Henry VIII does just that, reminding us that human nature has changed--and for the better. . . . Weir imparts movement and coherence while re-creating the suspense her characters endured and the suffering they inflicted.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Life of Elizabeth I

Author : Alison Weir
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0307834603
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Elizabeth I written by Alison Weir and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate, captivating portrait of Queen Elizabeth I that brings the enigmatic ruler to vivid life, from acclaimed biographer Alison Weir “An extraordinary piece of historical scholarship.”—The Cleveland Plain Dealer Perhaps the most influential sovereign England has ever known, Queen Elizabeth I remained an extremely private person throughout her reign, keeping her own counsel and sharing secrets with no one—not even her closest, most trusted advisers. Now, in this brilliantly researched, fascinating chronicle, Alison Weir shares provocative new interpretations and fresh insights on this enigmatic figure. Against a lavish backdrop of pageantry and passion, intrigue and war, Weir dispels the myths surrounding Elizabeth I and examines the contradictions of her character. Elizabeth I loved the Earl of Leicester, but did she conspire to murder his wife? She called herself the Virgin Queen, but how chaste was she through dozens of liaisons? She never married—was her choice to remain single tied to the chilling fate of her mother, Anne Boleyn? An enthralling epic, The Life of Elizabeth I is a mesmerizing, stunning chronicle of a trailblazing monarch.

Performing the Temple of Liberty

Author : Jenna M. Gibbs
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421413388
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Performing the Temple of Liberty written by Jenna M. Gibbs and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular theater, including blackface characters, reflected and influenced attitudes toward race, the slave trade, and ideas of liberty in early America. Jenna M. Gibbs explores the world of theatrical and related print production on both sides of the Atlantic in an age of remarkable political and social change. Her deeply researched study of working-class and middling entertainment covers the period of the American Revolution through the first half of the nineteenth century, examining controversies over the place of black people in the Anglo-American moral imagination. Taking a transatlantic and nearly century-long view, Performing the Temple of Liberty draws on a wide range of performed texts as well as ephemera—broadsides, ballads, and cartoons—and traces changes in white racial attitudes. Gibbs asks how popular entertainment incorporated and helped define concepts of liberty, natural rights, the nature of blackness, and the evils of slavery while also generating widespread acceptance, in America and in Great Britain, of blackface performance as a form of racial ridicule. Readers follow the migration of theatrical texts, images, and performers between London and Philadelphia. The story is not flattering to either the United States or Great Britain. Gibbs's account demonstrates how British portrayals of Africans ran to the sympathetic and to a definition of liberty that produced slave manumission in 1833 yet reflected an increasingly racialized sense of cultural superiority. On the American stage, the treatment of blacks devolved into a denigrating, patronizing view embedded both in blackface burlesque and in the idea of "Liberty," the figure of the white goddess. Performing the Temple of Liberty will appeal to readers across disciplinary lines of history, literature, theater history, and culture studies. Scholars and students interested in slavery and abolition, British and American politics and culture, and Atlantic history will also take an interest in this provocative work.

Public and Popular History

Author : Jerome De Groot
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135709432
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Public and Popular History written by Jerome De Groot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection considers public and popular history within a global framework, seeking to understand considerations of local, domestic histories and the ways they interact with broader discourses. Grounded in particular local and national situations, the book addresses the issues associated with popular history in a globalised cultural world, such as: how the study of popular history might work in the future; new ways in which the terms ‘popular’ and ‘public’ might inform one another and nuance scholarship; transnational, intercultural models of ‘pastness’; cultural translatability; and the demand for high-quality work on new technologies and history. A wide range of international contributors consider a broad selection of locale and media, from American television and Canadian heritage to the representation of history in contemporary Chinese culture. They consider the way in which the study of public or popular texts invoke multiple historiographies, and demonstrate our need to think about public and popular aspects of the past in new, ‘emerging’ locales, such as China, Eastern Europe and South America. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Rethinking History.

Lost Narratives

Author : Roger Bromley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000445933
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Lost Narratives written by Roger Bromley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Bromley deals with the ways in which certain popular forms contribute to the social production of memories. The texts he examines include the fictions of R. F. Delderfield and Lena Kennedy. This book should be of interest to students of cultural studies and popular fiction.

Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640

Author : Tessa Watt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458276
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (582 download)

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Download or read book Cheap Print and Popular Piety, 1550-1640 written by Tessa Watt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at popular belief through a detailed study of the cheapest printed wares in London in the century after the Reformation.

The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: US popular print culture 1860-1920

Author : Joad Raymond
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (724 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture: US popular print culture 1860-1920 written by Joad Raymond and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Notes and Queries

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Survey of London

Author : John Stow
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Survey of London written by John Stow and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dirty Old London

Author : Lee Jackson
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300192053
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Dirty Old London written by Lee Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Victorian London, filth was everywhere: horse traffic filled the streets with dung, household rubbish went uncollected, cesspools brimmed with "night soil," graveyards teemed with rotting corpses, the air itself was choked with smoke. In this intimately visceral book, Lee Jackson guides us through the underbelly of the Victorian metropolis, introducing us to the men and women who struggled to stem a rising tide of pollution and dirt, and the forces that opposed them. Through thematic chapters, Jackson describes how Victorian reformers met with both triumph and disaster. Full of individual stories and overlooked details--from the dustmen who grew rich from recycling, to the peculiar history of the public toilet--this riveting book gives us a fresh insight into the minutiae of daily life and the wider challenges posed by the unprecedented growth of the Victorian capital.

A Mighty Capital under Threat

Author : Bill Luckin
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987449
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book A Mighty Capital under Threat written by Bill Luckin and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demographically, nineteenth-century London, or what Victorians called the “new Rome,” first equaled, then superseded its ancient ancestor. By the mid-eighteenth century, the British capital had already developed into a global city. Sustained by its enormous empire, between 1800 and the First World War London ballooned in population and land area. Nothing so vast had previously existed anywhere. A Mighty Capital under Threat investigates the environmental history of one of the world’s global cities and the largest city in the United Kingdom. Contributors cover the feeding of London, waste management, movement between the city’s numerous districts, and the making and shaping of the environmental sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Albion Dreaming

Author : Andy Roberts
Publisher : Cyan Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albion Dreaming written by Andy Roberts and published by Cyan Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular belief, LSD is much more connected to Britain than it is to the USA. This engaging book looks at the use of LSD in British society, from its arrival in 1952 to the present day. It provides a hidden history of a controversial drug and how it permeated British culture. The author explores LSD's use by the medical profession in treating a variety of psychological and mental problems. At the same time, The Ministry of Defence believed they were on the brink of harnessing LSD as a battlefield incapacitation drug which would enable wars to be won without loss of life. But LSD's popularity rose with its use among the British counterculture, from the 1950s beatniks through to the late 80s acid house parties. At its height, when it was legal, LSD affected the lives and philosophies of significant individuals (politicians, scientists, writers, educators, entertainers, artists, journalists) as well as ordinary people for good and bad. This book is the first to explore LSD's amazing influence on British culture and society.