Captain Swing
Captain Swing

Author: Eric Hobsbawm

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 1781685339

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Sir Your name is down amongst the Black hearts in the Black Book and this is to advise you and the like of you, who are Parson Justasses, to make your wills Ye have been the Blackguard Enemies of the People on all occasions, Ye have not yet done as ye ought - Swing In our increasingly mechanized age, the Swing revolts are a timely record of the relationship between technological advance, labour and poverty. With the onset of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism swept from the cities into the countryside, and tensions mounted between agricultural workers and employers. From 1830 on, a series of revolts, known as the "Swing" shook England to its core. Landowners wanting to make their land more profitable started to use machinery to harvest crops, causing widespread misery among rural communities. Captain Swing reveals the background to that upheaval, from its rise to its fall, and shines a light on the people who tried to change the world and save their livelihoods.

Heads Together 1972-2014
Heads Together 1972-2014

Author: T.G. McEwan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2014-12-15

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 132643201X

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"Songwriting as sensemaking" is the approach taken by TG McEwan. This book contains the lyrics of all of the songs he sang during a fulltime career in the 1980s, and more recent work, along with the chords to most of them

Promises
Promises

Author: T.G. McEwan

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0244058377

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The songbook to accompany TG McEwan's seventh album of original music. It contains full chords and lyrics to the released songs, details of previous releases and videos available online, and a list of over a thousand live performances

Night Watch
Night Watch

Author: Terry Pratchett

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-02-14

Total Pages: 88

ISBN-13: 1472537238

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A new stage adaptation of one of Pratchett's best-selling novels Set in Ankh-Morpork one of the most thoroughly imagined cities in fantasy, Night Watch is the story of Sam Vimes, running hero of the Guards sequence, who finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth. With a psychopath from his own time rising in the vile ranks of the Cable Street Unmentionables complicating things, Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to, and to keep his younger self alive."One of the funniest English authors alive" (Independent)

Rural Conflict, Crime, and Protest
Rural Conflict, Crime, and Protest

Author: Timothy Shakesheff

Publisher: Boydell Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9781843830184

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Evidence from the west of England balances that already available from the eastern regions of England. Rural Conflict, Crime and Protest makes a major contribution to the historiography of nineteenth century crime. The work presents a new analysis of several important and controversial themes: the concept of social crime, petty crime and protest in the English countryside between 1800 and 1860. The bulk of the research into rural crime has traditionally emanated from East Anglia, the south and the east; however, the bulk of the evidence for this bookhas come from Herefordshire, in the west of England, adding to the historiography of nineteenth century rural crime. Based upon a rich vein of primary source material and liberally interspersed with court room revelations and newspaper reports this work is both informative and scholarly and would make a useful addition to the bookshelves of academics and students alike, without excluding the casual reader. TIMOTHY SHAKESHEFF is lecturer in modern British social history at the University College, Worcester.