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Author: Mark Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1317318048
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.
Author: John Boynton Priestley
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Published: 1972
Total Pages: 76
ISBN-13: 9780822205722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe members of an eminently respectable British family reveal their true natures over the course of an evening in which they are subjected to a routine inquiry into the suicide of a young girl.
Author: Pat Thane
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2010-02-19
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1441107312
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book probes what equality is and this means for both those at the centre and on the margins of British society.
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Publisher: Imperial War Museums
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781904897460
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen World War II began, Britain had an immediate crisis on its hands: its ability to import food drastically curtailed, the island would very quickly have to find ways both to produce more and use less. For that latter task, the kitchen was the headquarters, and this little book presents the battle plan. Drawn from scattered sources in the archives of the Imperial War Museums and presented here in a charming gift book, the recipes of Victory is in the Kitchen helped guide British cooks as they coped with unprecedented scarcity and restrictions. Rustling up creative dishes out of meager rations, the recipes gathered here include scrap bread pudding, potato pastry, and sheep's heart pie, as well as adapted English standbys like Lancashire hot pot, Queen's Pudding, and crumpets. Interwoven with the recipes are colorful reproductions of inspirational wartime posters, while an introduction sets the historical context. The resulting package is the perfect gift for any cook, a reminder of a time when ration books and recipes had to be made to work together.
Author: Charles Woodley
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1844151867
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBEA was formed in 1946 and took over most UK domestic and European routes under the British government's nationalisation policy. It began operations with a fleet of outdated and hopelessly uneconomic passenger aircraft that were derivatives of wartime types such as the DC-3, Avro Viking and Rapide. By the end of 1955 the airline had re-equipped with more modern types such as the jet-prop Viscount and moved into a profit for the first time. From 1960 onwards the airline introduced larger jets such as the Comet, Trident and BAC 1-11. BEA merged with the British Overseas Airways Corporation in 1974 to form British Airways. This book looks at BEA's predecessors, its formation and early operation from Croydon and Northolt and the move to the newly-opened London Heathrow. The evolving structure is explained with chapters covering engineering bases, terminals, European and domestic services, cargo services and helicopter operations. The aircraft flown are all described in detail and the book includes anecdotes from former crew and ground-staff, a full fleet list and is highly illustrated throughout.
Author: Helen Pearson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-02-25
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 0141976624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 ORWELL PRIZE The remarkable story of a unique series of studies that have touched the lives of almost everyone in Britain today On 3rd March 1946 a survey began that is, today, the longest-running study of human development in the world, growing to encompass six generations of children, 150,000 individuals and some of the best-studied people on the planet. The simple act of observing human life has changed the way we are born, schooled, parent and die, irrevocably altering our understanding of inequality and health. This is the tale of these studies; the scientists who created and sustain them, the remarkable discoveries that have come from them. The envy of scientists around the world, they are one of Britain's best-kept secrets.
Author: Dennis L. Dworkin
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780822319146
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA history of British cultural Marxism. This book traces its development from beginnings in postwar Britain, through transformations in the 1960s and 1970s, to the emergence of British cultural studies at Birmingham, up to the advent of Thatcherism, to reflect a tradition, that represents an effort to resolve the crisis of the postwar British Left.
Author: Wayne D. Cocroft
Publisher: Historic England Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 9781873592816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book looks at the physical manifestations - buildings and structures - of the Cold War in England. Illustrated with contemporary and archive photographs, site and building plans it looks at the buildings within their military and political context.
Author: William Shurtleff; Akiko Aoyagi
Publisher: Soyinfo Center
Published: 2015-06-14
Total Pages: 1726
ISBN-13: 1928914764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world's most comprehensive, well documented, and well illustrated book on this subject. With extensive index. 333 color photographs and illustrations. Free of charge in digital PDF format on Google Books.
Author: Virginia Nicholson
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 710
ISBN-13: 014103789X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Ambitious, humane and absorbing . . . this book could not be better.' Spectator 'A deeply satisfying chronicle of women's lives at a time when this nation was tested as never before. Introduces you to hundreds of wonderful women - a magnificent regiment - you wish you had met in the flesh, and when you close it you feel enlarged as well as amazed by their experiences. Women were fire watchers, ARP workers, first aiders, ambulance drivers, police officers, messengers, transport, demolition and repair workers. A rich, entwined narrative, which moves in and out of the lives of an absorbing cast of characters during ten years.' Daily Mail 'A magnificent work of social history written with passion and panache.' Daily Express 'Splendid. Using diaries, autobiographies, memoirs and interviews, Nicholson charts the work, the lives, the relationships and the emotions of typists, factory workers, housewives, debutantes and artists working as nurses, in the services, in intelligence, in factories, on the land and as codebreakers. A tremendous achievement.' Observer 'A deeply moving account of female courage both at home and overseas. The joy of Nicholson's book is the way she has plaited scores of individual stories into a richly textured account of the many forms that female courage can take.' Mail on Sunday
