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Book Synopsis Growing Up In Wartime Southampton by : James Marsh
Download or read book Growing Up In Wartime Southampton written by James Marsh and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story spanning some of the most turbulent decades in recent world history. James Marsh was born during the first year of the Second World War and many of his infant years were spent in air-raid shelters outside his home. Bombs rained down from the German Luftwaffe as they tried to destroy the city of Southampton, which has now been James' home for more than sixty years. The gritty determination, community spirit and, above all, the humour, with which the local community faced the difficulties of war, have stayed with James throughout his life.Moving on to describe the harsh lessons learned in 1940s and '50s schooling and subsequently describing his teenage years in the merchant navy, this book explores how growing up in the post-war years was both a challenge and a lot of fun.
Book Synopsis Bloody British History: Southampton by : Penny Legg
Download or read book Bloody British History: Southampton written by Penny Legg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along were. Treasonous plots were hatched behind its ancient walls and mutiny hit its shipping. This book looks at such bloody events as the Black Death in the city, what happens when you cross a king, the ill-fated Titanic and the Blitz. Yes, the best bits of Southampton's history are surely the bloodiest!
Book Synopsis Post War Boy: Memoirs of a Baby Boomer by : Trevor Cherrett
Download or read book Post War Boy: Memoirs of a Baby Boomer written by Trevor Cherrett and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2017-09-26 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say if you can remember the Sixties you could not have been there. Well post war baby boomer Trevor Cherrett was there and he can remember them. But his memories are more about what it was really like to grow up in one of the most rapidly changing periods in Britain`s history, as the country emerged from the destruction of the Second World War to a new world of peace, prosperity and the Welfare State. Born almost in sight of the red funnelled Cunarders in the port of Southampton – and on the edge of the Luftwaffe`s bombing run just a few years before – the author evokes his early years of national health orange juice, cod-liver oil, and school milk; discovering the joys of exploring the (then) sleepy country town of Ringwood where you could get away with tri-cycling halfway to Bournemouth; and growing up by the harbours and beaches of Mudeford and the South Coast . In frank detail he explores how he experienced the trials and tribulations of family life and girlfriends in a period which invented `the teenager` and witnessed the passing of much of the `old order`; how school shaped his life in the days of the 11 Plus and the great divide between Grammar schools and Secondary Moderns, and the new opportunities to go to University; and how growing up on the South Coast and the New Forest opened the door to his passions for fishing, boating and football. Like many baby boomers, Trevor acknowledges that they were, and are, a fortunate generation. But, he argues, it wasn`t just good luck or - worse – some kind of inter- generational conspiracy. Much of their good fortune was the result of far-sighted post-war policies aimed at creating a fairer as well as a more prosperous society. And he believes those policies have lessons for us today. This is not the autobiography of a Celebrity. Rather it is the story of an Everyman living through an extraordinary period of history, and making the links between his personal endeavours and the social, economic and cultural changes that affected his life, and the different places in which they were played out.
Book Synopsis 1950s Southampton Childhood by : Penny Legg
Download or read book 1950s Southampton Childhood written by Penny Legg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s was a time of regeneration and change for Southampton. For children growing up during this decade, life was changing fast. They still made their own toys and earned their own pocket money, but, on new television sets, Andy Pandy (1950) and Bill and Ben (1952) delighted them.With rationing discontinued, confectionary was on the menu again and, for children, Southampton life in the 1950s was sweet. If you saw a Laurel and Hardy performance at The Gaumont Theatre, or made dens out of bombed-out buildings, then you’ll thoroughly enjoy this charming and nostalgic account of the era.
Download or read book A 1940s Childhood written by James Marsh and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember collecting shrapnel and listening to Children's Hour? Carrying gas masks or sharing your school with evacuees from the city? The 1940s was a decade of great challenge for everyone who lived through it. The hardships and fear created by a world war were immense. Britain's towns and cities were being bombed on an almost nightly basis, and many children faced the trauma of being parted from their parents and sent away to the country to live with complete strangers. For just over half of this decade the war continued, meaning food and clothing shortages became a way of life. But through it all, and afterwards, the simplicity of kids shone. From collecting bits of shot-down German aircraft to playing in bomb-strewn streets, kids made their own fun. Then there was the joy of the second half of the 1940s, when fathers came home and the magic of 'normal life' returned. This trip down memory lane will take you through the most memorable and evocative experiences of growing up in the 1940s.
Download or read book Post-War Childhood written by Simon Webb and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2017-05-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many British baby boomers are very nostalgic about a supposed golden age; a vanished world when children were generally freer, happier and healthier than they are now. They wandered about all day; only returning home at teatime when they were hungry. Nobody worried about health and safety or 'stranger danger' in those days and no serious harm ever befell children as a result.In Post-War Childhood, Simon Webb examines the facts and figures behind the myth of children's carefree lives in the post-war years, finding that such things as the freedom to roam the streets and fields came at a terrible price. In 1965, for example, despite there being far fewer cars in Britain, 45 times as many children were knocked down and killed on the roads as now die in this way each year.Simon Webb presents a 'warts and all' portrait of British childhood in the years following the end of the Second World War. He demonstrates that contrary to popular belief, it was by any measure a far more hazardous and less pleasant time to be a child, than is the case in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis The War of the Motor Gun Boats by : A. J. Chapman
Download or read book The War of the Motor Gun Boats written by A. J. Chapman and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Chapman was born in Southampton in 1924. Aged 16 he watched with horror as the historic High Street of Southampton burnt to the ground in a firestorm caused by a heavy German bombing raid on the night of 30 November 1940. He vowed to join up and fight back. Tony joined the Navy.Within hours of being posted to his first Motor Gun Boat, Telegraphist Tony Chapman was involved in an epic Coastal Forces engagement when his flotilla took on a force of thirty E-boats. Although their unit of two MGBs sank three E-Boats, it was at a high cost. Half of Tony's shipmates were killed or injured.This was the start of an eventful and dramatic wartime service with these little warships. Tony's flotilla operated in the Mediterranean and Aegean where the Motor Gun Boats played a key role in this important but often neglected theatre.rnDaily life on these small ships is vividly described. The flotilla had a busy time showing the flag in the Levant and on combined operations in the Aegean with the Greek Sacred Regiment of Commandos. The culmination of their efforts was when Tony's boat, ML838, took the surrender of the Island of Kos in 1945.rnrnWritten from the perspective of one of the other ranks, War of the Motor Gun Boats fills an important gap in the literature of the Second World War.As featured in the North Devon Journal and Exmoor Magazine.
Book Synopsis The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 by : David Silbey
Download or read book The British Working Class and Enthusiasm for War, 1914-1916 written by David Silbey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-12-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines what motivated the ordinary British man to go to France in 1914, especially in the early years when Britain relied on the voluntary system to fill the ranks.
Book Synopsis Practice-Based Research in Children's Play by : Wendy Russell
Download or read book Practice-Based Research in Children's Play written by Wendy Russell and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been a growing awareness in recent years of the importance of play in children's learning and development--but that awareness has not been accompanied by sufficient scholarly attention, outside of conceptual studies and how-to textbooks. This collection fills that gap by bringing together scholars from a range of fields and methodological approaches to look at play from a practice-based perspective. Moving beyond the dominant voice of developmental psychology, the book offers a number of new ways of approaching children's play and the roles of adults in supporting it; as a result, it will be valuable to anyone working with or studying children at play.
Book Synopsis The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) by : George Nelson Godwin
Download or read book The Civil War in Hampshire (1642-45) written by George Nelson Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Dec. 1800 to Dec. 1801 by : United States. Office of Naval Records and Library
Download or read book Naval Documents Related to the Quasi-war Between the United States and France: From Dec. 1800 to Dec. 1801 written by United States. Office of Naval Records and Library and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Churchills: In Love and War by : Mary S. Lovell
Download or read book The Churchills: In Love and War written by Mary S. Lovell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lovell presents the epic story of one of England's greatest families, focusing on the towering figure of Winston Churchill.
Download or read book Oral History written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anna's Tree by : Cynthia Elliott Everest
Download or read book Anna's Tree written by Cynthia Elliott Everest and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1941, near the town of Southampton, Ontario, and five young sisters are reeling from an accident that killed their mother and severely injured their father. With help from their aunt, the sisters strive to keep the family farm operating as World War II rages on. But the Ross sisters are not just facing the challenges of caring for their father and managing financial pressures. As Anna, the eldest, begins to fall for a young English pilot training in Ontario, she faces unwanted advances from the jealous farmhand. Gossip, discrimination, and harassment brew around the young women as emotional and physical threats grow. Although each of the sisters is struggling with the hardships of wartime and grieving their mother, they try to support one another when confronted by rigid small-town mores and unforeseen perils. When women’s voices are not respected or believed, is the bond between sisters strong enough to withstand tragedy and war? Little Women meets #MeToo in this rich historical novel about adversity and resilience on the Canadian home front of World War II.
Book Synopsis A 1950s Southampton Childhood by : Penny Legg
Download or read book A 1950s Southampton Childhood written by Penny Legg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s was a time of regeneration and change for Southampton. For children growing up during this decade, life was changing fast. They still made their own toys and earned their own pocket money, but, on new television sets, Andy Pandy (1950) and Bill and Ben (1952) delighted them. With rationing discontinued, confectionary was on the menu again and, for children, Southampton life in the 1950s was sweet. If you saw a Laurel and Hardy performance at The Gaumont Theatre, or made dens out of bombed-out buildings, then you'll thoroughly enjoy this charming and nostalgic account of the era.
Download or read book The Boy's Own Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 894 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories, articles, interviews, puzzles, games, jokes, and other miscellaneous writings for boys.
