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Author | : Anthony Burton |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2019-03-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1844865428 |
Britain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes and working practices, some centuries old, that survive today not as museum pieces or in pages of a history book but as part of everyday modern life. From reminders of Britain's great maritime past in the crafts of the shipwright and the rope maker, to the organised mayhem that is the Ashbourne Tuesday football match and the exotic splendour of Giffords traditional circus, writer Tony Burton and photographer Rob Scott have travelled the length and breadth of our great nation to recreate for the reader the amazing sights they have seen. Together they have travelled from Shetland in the far north to the tip of Cornwall. They have sailed along the Scottish coast in a paddle steamer and learned how to make Melton Mowbray pork pies by hand. They have watched ponies galloping through the streets of Appleby and resisted the temptation to try too many of the sweets in the world's oldest sweet shop. This is a book that delights in the rich diversity of our historic survivors. For both author and photographer it has been a pleasure to witness many skilled people at work: to discover the complexity of building a fairground organ or to marvel at the skill and athleticism of circus performers. This is a book of rich variety that celebrates the great survivors from our islands' history.
Author | : Louise Lamprey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Patrick Wright |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2009-02-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199541957 |
This is the book that put Britain's 'heritage industry' on the map, opening one of the defining cultural and political debates of its time, and showing why conservation was a subject of broad significance, far broader than its professional status might suggest.
Author | : Juliet Gardiner |
Publisher | : Reader's Digest Association |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 9780276446634 |
The middle of the twentieth century– from the early 1930s, through theSecond World War, to the end of the1970s – was a period in which Britainchanged perhaps more definitivelyand dramatically than at any othertime in its long history. Historian andbroadcaster Juliet Gardiner has studiedthis period extensively and in Memoriesof Britain Past she looks back at thekey areas of everyday life – childhood,work, housing, entertainment andcelebrations – and with the help ofunique photographs from the GettyCollection, brings them to life again.With more than 300 illustrations, manypersonal recollections and an evocative,informative text, this book shows howlife really was in those days gone by.
Author | : David Hampshire |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780951652800 |
Author | : Evan Davis |
Publisher | : Abacus |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2011-05-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0748127178 |
What are countries famous for making? For Japan, the answer might be electronic goods. For Germany, automobiles. For France, perhaps a Louis Vuitton bag. But what about Britain? Here, Evan Davis sets himself the task of finding out. Offering a fascinating look at our manufacturing industries and revealing the various companies that might not be household names, but are very much world leaders in their fields, he shows how we have learnt to specialise in high end and niche areas that are the envy of the world. Taking in our disappointments and successes, Made in Britain is a brilliantly readable tour of our economic history, exploring the curious blend of resilience, innovation and economic free-thinking that makes us who we are.
Author | : Jenny Uglow |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2015-01-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1466828226 |
A beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.
Author | : Tim Hitchcock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 479 |
Release | : 2015-12-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107025273 |
This book surveys the lives and experiences of hundreds of thousands of eighteenth-century non-elite Londoners in the evolution of the modern world.
Author | : Patrick Wright |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Cultural property |
ISBN | : 9781383044935 |
This is the book that put Britain's 'heritage industry' on the map, opening one of the defining cultural and political debates of its time, and showing why conservation was a subject of broad significance, far broader than its professional status might suggest.
Author | : Janet Shepherd |
Publisher | : Shire Publications |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2012-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780747810971 |
The 1970s is remembered as a decade of punk rock, the Winter of Discontent, Bloody Sunday and The Female Eunuch. The iconic images of the 70s, from the break-up of the Beatles to the striking Merseyside graveyard diggers and mountains of municipal rubbish in Leicester Square, provide a glimpse into the extraordinary contrasts of the decade. Britain in the 1970s has been painted as a country in crisis, but despite the strikes, power cuts, and stagflation, recent research has proclaimed that 1976 was the best time in Britain since 1950. The country underwent huge social and cultural shifts, with the blossoming of modern feminism, the Gay Liberation Front, and the establishment of the Commission for Racial Equality. The high street enjoyed the impact of new technology and new brands, and global travel was brought within the reach of many. In 1970s Britain, Janet Shepherd and John Shepherd will reassess a decade rich in continuities and contrasts, from different national and local perspectives.