Colwyn Bay In The 1950s
Author: Graham Roberts
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-10-15
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1445640805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom austerity to the start of the swinging sixties
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A-Z of Colwyn Bay
Author: Graham Roberts
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2018-04-15
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1445681625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the fascinating history of Colwyn Bay in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to the town's people and places.
Secret Colwyn Bay
Author: Graham Roberts
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 1445664321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplore the secret history of Colwyn Bay through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Brittle with Relics
Author: Richard King
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2022-02-22
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0571295665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrittle with Relics is a landmark history of the people of Wales during a period of great national change.'Richly humane, viscerally political, generously multi-voiced, Brittle with Relics is oral history at its revelatory best.'DAVID KYNASTON'Fascinating.' OBSERVER'Powerful.' LITERARY REVIEW'Inspired.' GUARDIANBrittle with Relics is a vital history of Wales undergoing some of the country's most seismic and traumatic events: the disasters of Aberfan and Tryweryn; the rise of the Welsh language movement; the Miners' Strike and its aftermath; and the narrow vote in favour of partial devolution.Drawing upon the voices of its inhabitants - includin Neil Kinnock, Rowan Williams, Leanne Wood, Gruff Rhys, Michael Sheen, Nicky Wire, Sian James, language activists, members of former mining communities and many more - this is a vivid portrait of a nation determined to survive, while maintaining the hope that Wales will one day thrive on its own terms.'Passionate.' HISTORY TODAY'Compels attention.' IRISH TIMES'Superb.' DAILY TELEGRAPH'A testament to the brutal circumstances that bonded the communities of Wales into a new polity for the 21st century.'GRUFF RHYS'This book is a guide to remembering who we can be when we work together.'GWENNO SAUNDERS'An essential telling of Welshness that contains a powerful reflection of Englishness, too.'EMMA WARREN
Liverpool's Children in the 1950s
Author: Pamela Russell
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-01-31
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0752482416
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFull of the warmth and excitement of growing up in the 1950s, awakening nostalgia for times that seemed cosy and carefree with families at last enjoying peacetime, this book is packed with the experience of school days, playtime, holidays, toys, games, clubs and hobbies conjuring up the genuine atmosphere of a bygone era. As the decade progressed, rationing ended and children’s pocket money was spent on goodies like Chocstix, Spangles, Wagon Wheels and Fry’s Five Boys. Television brought Bill and Ben, The Adventures of Robin Hood and, for teenagers, The Six-Five Special, along with coffee bars and rock ‘n’ roll.This book opens a window on an exciting period of optimism, when anything seemed possible, described by the children and teenagers who experienced it. Liverpool’s traditional sense of community, strengthened by the war years, provided a secure background from which children and teenagers could welcome a second Elizabethan era.
Pie 'n' Mash and Prefabs - My 1950s Childhood
Author: Norman Jacobs
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Published: 2015-03-05
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1784183571
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Blitz had made many families in the East End of London homeless. One solution was to erect prefabs on fields and open spaces to give temporary accommodation to those who had been bombed out. It was in one of these 'modern' boxes that young Norman Jacobs grew up through the 1950s and 1960s. In a lively, detailed and humorous picture of a postwar Hackney childhood, Norman takes us back to an age of rationing, bomb sites, street markets, colourful characters and camaraderie. And in reminiscing about stodgy school food, jumpers for goalposts, Listen with Mother, greyhound racing, pie 'n' mash, holiday camps, and the advent of American-style burger bars, he provides a glimpse into a way of life that has vanished for ever.Set against a backdrop of Rock 'n' Roll, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the assassination of President Kennedy, funny, poignant and sometimes sad, Norman's is a story full of innocence and happiness that will take you back to the best of times - the days we thought would never end.
Conwy & District Pubs
Author: Peter Johnson
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2016-01-15
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1445653133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating history of the alehouses of Conwy and the surrounding area.
British Piers The Postcard Collection
Author: Nigel Sadler
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2017-03-15
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1445661225
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century.
The Jews of Wales
Author: Cai Parry-Jones
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Published: 2017-06-01
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 178683085X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study considers Welsh Jewry as a geographical whole and is the first to draw extensively on oral history sources, giving a voice back to the history of Welsh Jewry, which has long been a formal history of synagogue functionaries and institutions. The author considers the impact of the Second World War on Wales’s Jewish population, as well as the importance of the Welsh context in shaping the Welsh-Jewish experience. The study offers a detailed examination of the numerical decline of Wales’s Jewish communities throughout the twentieth century, and is also the first to consider the situation of Wales’s Jewish communities in the early twenty-first, arguing that these communities may be significantly fewer in number and smaller than in the past but they are ever evolving.
Escaping Suburbia
Author: David J Eveleigh
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0750993413
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBorn into the gap between the eras of austerity and boom, David grew up in Merseyside amid an inexorable tide of progress, developing a fascination with the past. With a vivid eye for detail and boundless childhood curiosity for everything from steam trains to 'My Old Man's a Dustman', his account documents the uneasy relationship between worlds old and new. Featuring unique photographs and authoritative observations on architecture, social and local history based on forty years' work in museums and heritage conservation, Escaping Suburbia offers a different view of the 'swinging' sixties.
