A History of Greater Birmingham
Author | : Victor Skipp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Birmingham (England) |
ISBN | : 9780950699806 |
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Author | : Victor Skipp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Birmingham (England) |
ISBN | : 9780950699806 |
Author | : Victor Henry Thomas Skipp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1997-01-01 |
Genre | : Birmingham (England) |
ISBN | : 9781858580968 |
First published in 1980, this new edition of Victor Skipp's seminal history of Birmingham and its envrions should be widely welcomed by students and general readers alike. Fully indexed and illustrated with photographs, maps and engravings.
Author | : Christopher Upton |
Publisher | : Phillimore |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-05-01 |
Genre | : Birmingham (England) |
ISBN | : 9781860776618 |
Birmingham was a village worth only one pound in the Domesday Survey, yet it rose to become the second city of the British Empire with a population that passed a million. Its growth began when Peter de Birmingham obtained a market charter in 1154 for his little settlement by an insignificant river, with all roads leading to its all-important market-place, the great triangular Bull Ring, with the parish church of St Martin's in the middle. In the succeeding centuries, Birmingham has been a product of market forces, as a market of agriculture, trade and metal work.By the 18th century, Birmingham overtook Coventry as the biggest town in Warwickshire and by 1800 it was 'the toy shop of Europe', having cornered the markets for gun-making, jewellery, buttons and buckles with a bewildering variety of specialist craftsmen and traders. The factory system had already begun and men like James Watt, Matthew Boulton, Joseph Priestley and William Murdock made Birmingham the powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, selling their wares in vast quantities to the entire world. The middle of the 19th century saw Birmingham pioneering political reform, education and municipal government.In this first single-volume history of the city for half a century, Dr Upton looks at why Birmingham grew and what it has become. It has always been a place in which to experiment, from the steam engine to the factory in a garden; from the Bull Ring to Spaghetti Junction. To some, the story of Birmingham is one of great industries: Boulton and Watt, Dunlop, Cadbury's, G.K.N., Lloyd's Bank and Austin Rover. But there are many lesser known tales: of the Bull Ring Riots, the Onion Fair, the first floodlit football matches and the tripe sellers. It is a story of communities, too. The Quakers settles in the 17th century, the Irish and Italians in the 19th and, more recently, people from the Caribbean, the Indian subcontinent, China and Vietnam have all made Birmingham their home.As Birmingham makes it marks on the map of Europe again, one thing is certain... the story of the city that brought us Joseph and Neville Chamberlain, Thomas the Tank Engine, Fu Manchu and Mendelssohn's Elijah can hardly be dull. Chris Upton's lively account ensures that Birmingham's fascinating story loses nothing in telling.
Author | : James Ronald Bennett |
Publisher | : Historical Publishing Network |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Stephen Birmingham |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1504026284 |
The #1 New York Times bestseller that traces the rise of the Guggenheims, the Goldmans, and other families from immigrant poverty to social prominence. They immigrated to America from Germany in the nineteenth century with names like Loeb, Sachs, Seligman, Lehman, Guggenheim, and Goldman. From tenements on the Lower East Side to Park Avenue mansions, this handful of Jewish families turned small businesses into imposing enterprises and amassed spectacular fortunes. But despite possessing breathtaking wealth that rivaled the Astors and Rockefellers, they were barred by the gentile establishment from the lofty realm of “the 400,” a register of New York’s most elite, because of their religion and humble backgrounds. In response, they created their own elite “100,” a privileged society as opulent and exclusive as the one that had refused them entry. “Our Crowd” is the fascinating story of this rarefied society. Based on letters, documents, diary entries, and intimate personal remembrances of family lore by members of these most illustrious clans, it is an engrossing portrait of upper-class Jewish life over two centuries; a riveting story of the bankers, brokers, financiers, philanthropists, and business tycoons who started with nothing and turned their family names into American institutions.
Author | : Marvin Clemons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-01-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692537350 |
An illustrated history of Birmingham (AL) Terminal Station, from 1909 to 1969
Author | : Carl Chinn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781781382479 |
This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Author | : Robert E. Schofield |
Publisher | : Oxford, Clarendon P |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1963 |
Genre | : England |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul Hemphill |
Publisher | : University Alabama Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780817310226 |
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, was the site of cataclysmic racial violence: Police commissioner "Bull" Connor attacked black demonstrators with dogs and water cannons, Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote his famous letter from the Birmingham jail, and four black children were killed in a church bombing. This incendiary period in Birmingham's history is the centerpiece of an intense and affecting memoir. A disaffected Birmingham native, Paul Hemphill decides to live in his hometown once again, to capture the events and essence of that summer and explore the depth of social change in Birmingham in the years since -- even as he tries to come to terms with his family, and with himself. -- back cover.