Sheffield At Work
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Author | : Melvyn and Joan Jones |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2018-08-15 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1445677547 |
A pictorial history of the working life of Sheffield and it's people over the last century and more.
Author | : Tim Cooper |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0750999152 |
Sheffield's story is one of fierce independence and a revolutionary spirit, its industrial origins having their roots in the same forests as the legends of Robin Hood. From Huntsman's crucible steel in the eighteenth century, to Brearley's stainless steel in the twentieth, Sheffield forged the very fabric of the modern world. As the industrial age drew to a close the city's reputation for rebelliousness spawned its popular reputation as capital of the 'People's Republic of South Yorkshire'. Yet in the wake of the Miners' Strike and the Hillsborough Disaster, the early twenty-first century has seen Sheffield retain its unique character while reinventing itself as a centre of education, creativity and innovation.
Author | : Gary Sheffield |
Publisher | : Three Rivers Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2008-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307352234 |
This above-average sports memoir is peppered with engaging on-the-field anecdotes, forays inside the competitive mind of a world-class athlete, and thoughtfully presented glimpses of the harsh, often uncaring world of big-time sports.
Author | : Ruth Harman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780300105858 |
Sheffield has been synonymous with steelmaking since the eighteenth century and with cutlery for centuries before that. But while it has an extraordinary variety of industrial buildings connected to its metal trades, there is another side to what is England's least known big city. Set amidst magnificent scenery, it has some surprising survivals of its earlier history, as well as handsome public, commercial and religious buildings designed by its Victorian local architects. The leafy western suburbs that rise towards the Peak District were described by Sir John Betjeman as the finest in England. The 1950s and 60s saw the city famed for its innovative public housing, university buildings and churches. After the decline of its manufacturing sector in the 1980s, major new venues for sport and entertainment, the prize-winning Peace Gardens and exciting new buildings such as the Millennium Galleries, Winter Garden and Persistence Works are visible signs of a renaissance in the city's fortunes. This is the first comprehensive architectural guide to Sheffield. It describes the buildings of the city centre and those of the inner suburbs within a two mile radius of it. It also covers the lower Don valley, still the heart of Sheffield's steel industry, the outer suburbs to the west where those who made their fortunes from it lived in splendour and there are excursions to some outstanding buildings on the outskirts. Major buildings including the Town Hall, the two Cathedrals and the Winter Garden are given more detailed treatment, as are the two Universities. The central areas are the subject of walks, those further out have suggested tours by car. Illustrated throughout in colour with specially commissioned photographs and with these images augmented by historic maps, paintings and drawings, Sheffield will enable residents to look at familiar buildings in a fresh light and encourage visitors to discover for themselves the city's enticing contrasts of industrial heritage and natural beauty.
Author | : Mark Metcalf |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2020-02-19 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1526761378 |
A visual portrait of a British city and its people fighting to survive an era of industrial decline, captured by a steelworker-turned-photographer. The social, industrial, and economic changes imposed on the Sheffield area during the 1980s are captured with remarkable clarity in this volume featuring the work of steelworker-turned-photographer Martin Jenkinson. Like many northern England and Scottish cities during that decade, Sheffield went through troubled times, even as parts of southeast England, especially the City of London, boomed. The gap between north and south became a chasm. Jenkinson photographed people in their everyday lives at work and at play. However, where he particularly excelled was his work with the trade union and labor movement, in workplaces and on protests, demonstrations, and pickets. Some of the images in this book capture joy and laughter; some portray suffering. They provide a loud cry for social justice, a better world where unemployment is no more, poverty is swept away, and everyone, black and white, male and female, can enjoy a life where their talents are used for the collective improvement of all. In reflecting on the not-so-distant past, Jenkinson’s photographs are about a world we still must aim to obtain.
Author | : Peter Warr |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2015-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1473827868 |
This book is out of the ordinary. As well as describing the many changes in Sheffield between 1914 and 1918, it tells about the troubling events in following years as poverty and riots took hold. It is also special in identifying hundreds of small as well as large Sheffield companies that worked to provide the necessities of war. With many previously-hidden facts, the book describes the city's 'national factories', the new Ministry of Munitions, the government's control of companies, arguments about the employment of women, an increased emphasis on workers' welfare, the impact of the Sheffield Committee on Munitions of War, and the special contributions of the Cutlers' Company. Compulsory call-up, conscientious objectors and the work of the Sheffield Military Tribunal are also brought to life, as are problems caused by a shortage of food and the eventual imposition of rationing. The city's German prisoners of war are introduced, as are the ravages of influenza and the terrible poverty and conflict that soon afflicted the city. These local changes are presented against a background of important national events and with more than 100 original photographs.
Author | : United States. National Labor Relations Board |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1528 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Labor laws and legislation |
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Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 1908 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Alexander Robertson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 820 |
Release | : 1817 |
Genre | : Currency question |
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Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1924 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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