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Portsmouth's World War One Heroes

Author : James Daly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750951990
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Portsmouth's World War One Heroes written by James Daly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 6,000 men from Portsmouth are believed to have been killed during the First World War – the greatest loss of life that the city has ever known. Not only were thousands of Portsmouth soldiers killed on the Western Front, but Portsmouth-based ships were sunk throughout the war, causing massive loss of life. Thanks to a wealth of sources available and painstaking use of database software, it is possible to tell their stories in more detail than ever before. James Daly builds an extremely detailed picture of Portsmouth's First World War dead, down to where they were born and where they lived. Not only will their powerfully poignant stories tell us about how the war was fought and won, and their sacrifices, but they will also provide a vividly clear picture of how Portsmouth and its people suffered during the war to end all wars.

The World's Worst

Author : Christopher M. Reeves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781940190235
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The World's Worst written by Christopher M. Reeves and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, galvanized in part by the musical experiments of John Cage, Gavin Bryars, and Cornelius Cardew, students at Portsmouth College of Art formed their own symphony orchestra. Christened the Portsmouth Sinfonia, the primary requirement for membership specified that all players, regardless of skill, experience, or musicianship, be unfamiliar with their chosen instruments. This restriction, coupled with the decision to play "only the familiar bits" of classical music, challenged the Sinfonia's audience to reconsider the familiar, as the ensemble haplessly butchered the classics at venues ranging from avant-garde music festivals to the Royal Albert Hall. By the end of the decade, after three LPs of their anarchic renditions of classical and rock music and a revolving cast of over one hundred musicians-including Michael Nyman and Brian Eno-the Sinfonia would cease performing, never officially retiring.The World's Worst: A Guide to the Portsmouth Sinfonia, the first book devoted to the ensemble, examines the founding tenets, organizing principles, and collective memories of the Sinfonia, whose reputation as "the world's worst orchestra" underplays its unique accomplishment as a populist avant-garde project. In the simple constraint that defined the ensemble, the trappings of European concert hall traditions commingled with an experimental approach to music, producing a sense of joyful collectivism that was shared with the Sinfonia's audiences. The unorthodox journey of the Portsmouth Sinfonia unfolds here through interviews with the orchestra's original members and publicist/manager, magazine publications, photographs, and unseen archival material, alongside an essay by Christopher M. Reeves.

Naval Seamen's Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author : Melanie Holihead
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 183765011X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)

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Download or read book Naval Seamen's Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Melanie Holihead and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-11-19 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the lived experiences of the women of lower deck seamen in the nineteenth century British navy. This book explores the lived experiences of the women - the mothers, sisters, foster-mothers of motherless children, but above all the wives - of lower deck seamen in the nineteenth century British navy. It makes extensive use of the "allotment" scheme, a system which enabled men to convey portions of their pay to dependants at home. The scheme had been devised by a Royal Navy worried by the adverse effect on naval manpower caused by experienced and mature sailors quitting the service in order to support loved ones suffering poverty on shore. Drawing also on civil, parish and local data, the book reveals hitherto unknown differences between naval and civilian patterns of nuptiality, family life, occupation and household structure. It illustrates the impact of naval breadwinners' long-term absence in analyses of local migration, mutual support networks, and clusterings of "same ship" families, and to bring the picture to life it includes microhistories and stories of individual women. The book concludes that while the sailor's woman's "allotted place" in the popular imagination shifted with changing perceptions of sailors' reputation and standing, a constant "otherness" attached to women who chose marriage to long-absent men, and a life of necessary self-reliance.

Common People

Author : Alison Light
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633094X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Common People written by Alison Light and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in 2014 by the Penguin Group"--Title page verso.

The Chemist and Druggist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1562 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Chemist and Druggist written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spirit of '76

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of '76 written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spirit of the Blitz

Author : Paul Addison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192588060
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of the Blitz written by Paul Addison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Blitz, the morale of the British people was clandestinely monitored by Home Intelligence, a unit of the Ministry of Information that kept watch on the behaviour and opinions of the public and eavesdropped on their conversations. Drawing on a wide range of intelligence sources from every region of the United Kingdom, a small team of officials based at the Senate House of the University of London compiled secret reports on the state of popular morale as the Luftwaffe attacked Britain's major towns and cities between September 1940 and May 1941. Edited and introduced by two leading historians of the period, who tell the inside story of Home Intelligence and why it proved so controversial in Whitehall, the complete and unabridged sequence of reports provide us with a unique and extraordinary window into the mindset of the British during a momentous period in their history. Not only do they include in-depth reports on the effects of the bombing, including special reports on Coventry, Clydebank, Hull, Barrow-in-Furness, Plymouth, Merseyside and Portsmouth, but also insights into almost every aspect of everyday life in Britain as well as the response of the public to the shifting military fortunes of the war. Reading like the collective diary of a nation, the reports strip away the nostalgia that has grown up around the period, reminding us instead of the sufferings and sacrifices, the many frustrations and difficulties of daily life, the administrative bungling, the grumbling and petty jealousies, and the determination of the overwhelming majority to put up with it all for the sake of beating Hitler.

Knights of the Sea

Author : David Hanna
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451239202
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (512 download)

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Download or read book Knights of the Sea written by David Hanna and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-02-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a September day in 1813, as citizens watched from the rocky shore of Pemaquid, Maine, two of the last and bravest military sailing commanders engaged in a battle that would change the course of the War of 1812... Samuel Blyth was the youthful commander of His Britannic Majesty’s brig Boxer, and William Burrows, younger still, commanded the USS Enterprise. Both men valued honor above all, and on this day their commitment would be put to the ultimate test. Though it lasted less than an hour, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise was a brutal contest whose outcome was uncertain. When the cannon smoke cleared, good men had been lost, and the U.S. Navy's role in the war had changed. In Knights of the Sea, David Hanna brings to life a lost era, paying tribute to the young commanders who considered it the highest honor to harness the wind to meet their foes, and would be immortalized by the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The only major naval battle of the War of 1812, the battle between the Boxer and the Enterprise came to represent not only a military turning point, but a maritime era that would soon be gone forever. INCLUDES PHOTOS AND MAPS

The Spiritual Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 782 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Spiritual Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portsmouth's World War Two Heroes

Author : James Daly
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249029X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Portsmouth's World War Two Heroes written by James Daly and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on research into 2,549 servicemen and women from Portsmouth who were killed during World War 2, this book uncovers stories that have never been told before: a naval bomb disposal Petty Officer awarded the George Cross; a 16-year-old Para; a Battle of Britain hero; men killed in battleships, submarines, bombers and tanks throughout Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.By using database software, the author has been able to analyse all 2,549 casualties and look at statistics such as their age and where in Portsmouth they came from. As well as telling the stories of individuals and units, it has been possible to build a picture of the effect that World War 2 had on Portsmouth’s communities.

War, Trade and the State

Author : David Ormrod
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783273240
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book War, Trade and the State written by David Ormrod and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2020 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reassessment of the Anglo-Dutch wars of the second half of the seventeenth century, demonstrating that the conflict was primarily about trade.

The Spirit of Missions

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Spirit of Missions written by and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Society.

The Magical Imagination

Author : Karl Bell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002001
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Magical Imagination written by Karl Bell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-23 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.

Literature

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 732 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 732 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chemist and Druggist

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2712 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Chemist and Druggist written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 2712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art

Author : Michelle Foot
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350405833
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art written by Michelle Foot and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-10 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering account of Modern Spiritualism in late 19th and early 20th-century Scotland is a compelling history of the international movement's cultural impact on Scottish art. From spirit-mediums creating séance art to mainstream artists of the Royal Scottish Academy, this exposition reveals for the first time the extent of Spiritualist interest in Scotland. With its interdisciplinary scope, Modern Spiritualism and Scottish Art combines cultural and art history to explore the ways in which Scottish art reflected Spiritualist beliefs at the turn of the 20th century. More than simply a history of the Spiritualist cause and its visual manifestations, this book also provides a detailed account of scepticism, psychical research, and occulture in modern Scotland, and the role that these aspects played in informing responses to Spiritualist ideology. Utilising extensive archival research, together with in-depth analyses of overlooked paintings, drawings and sculpture, Michelle Foot demonstrates the vital importance of Spiritualist art to the development of Spiritualism in Scotland during the 19th century. In doing so, the book highlights the contribution of Scottish visual artists alongside better-known Spiritualists such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Daniel Dunglas Home.