Leicester in the 1960s
Author: Stephen Butt
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2015-05-15
Total Pages: 181
ISBN-13: 1445640902
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the fifties faded away, sixties style swept Leicester into the modern age
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The Story of Leicester
Author: Siobhan Begley
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013-11-01
Total Pages: 372
ISBN-13: 0752498061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Story of Leicester traces the evolution of this remarkable city. When the Romans arrived they developed an existing settlement into Ratae, an administrative capital. During the Tudor, Stuart and Georgian periods the town lost status, but remained an important market town. Industrialisation and population growth radically changed Leicester during Victorian times and it became prosperous, its economy underpinned by the hosiery, boot and shoe and engineering industries – the basis of modern Leicester. This popular history brings the story of the city up to date and provides new insights that will delight both residents and visitors.
Church History in Leicestershire
Author: Nick Miller
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Published: 2024-01-28
Total Pages: 635
ISBN-13: 1835740081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChurch History in Leicestershire charts the story of religion in England from pre-Christian times to the twentieth century, viewed through events and the eyes and experiences of people in Leicestershire. Weaving together ecclesiastical, political and social strands it chronicles the tortuous tale of religion, churches and the people who worshipped there. Where did churches and chapels come from; who built them, when and why? What significance lies in their looks and names? What made people so devoted to them? Why do they still exist? The book covers sweeping religious and political movements, potentates of church and state, but centre-stage are the clergy, their parishioners, churches and chapels: how they thrived or perished, weathered plague and invasions, grappled with their consciences during the Reformation and Civil Wars, founded powerful new denominations and championed social reform when Leicester(shire) became a hub of Christian Socialism and Secularism. Closing sections reflect on the church’s past and future, as it faces debates as fundamental as any previously encountered.
Experiential Learning in Organizations
Author: Laurence J. Gould
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-01
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 0429913419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book shows the ways in which the boundaries of the basic group relations training conference model of experiential learning have been extended to provide creative, conceptual, and applied links to both management and group and organizational education, training, and consultancy practice.
Studies in Victorian and Modern Literature
Author: William Baker
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-07-29
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 1611476933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is both a celebration of the life and career of the eminent literary scholar, critic, and journalist John Sutherland and an extension of Sutherland’s work in various fields, including nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American literature, the publishing industry, and its impact upon creativity and literary puzzles. With contributions from over twenty-five distinguished critics, literary journalists and scholars, this book goes beyond merely describing Sutherland’s work. The essayists pay homage to Sutherland while also staking their own critical/scholarly claims. From investigating the publishing dimension, Victorians major and minor, the complexities of Dickens and George Eliot, the “archeology” of Pride and Prejudice to examining the implications of Shakespearean souvenirs, literary puzzles, and Non-Victorians, the essays offer fresh dimensions to Sutherland’s rich career as a professor, critic, and journalist.
'Sleepwalking to segregation'?
Author: Nissa Finney
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2009-01-21
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1847424414
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the context of renewed debates about diversity and cohesion, this book interrogates contemporary claims about race and migration. It demonstrates that many of the claims are myths, presenting evidence in support of and in opposition to them in an accessible yet academically rigorous manner. The book combines an easy-to-read overview of the subject with innovative new research. It tackles head-on questions about levels of immigration, the contribution of immigrants, minority self-segregation, ghettoisation and the future diversity of the population. The authors argue that the myths of race and migration are the real threat to an integrated society and recommend that focus should return to problems of inequality and prejudice.
From Immigrants to Ethnic Minority
Author: Lorna Chessum
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 1351935445
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile there is an extensive sociological literature concerning race relations, racial discrimination and the process of migration, this has tended to focus on snapshots at a given moment in time. There are few historical accounts of the development of black communities in Britain. This book will be the first social history of a black community in modern times which attempts to weave many aspects of life together to give a more comprehensive understanding of the lives of black people in Britain. The book will address the way peoples’ lives are constructed through racialized identities and how African Caribbean people in Leicester relate to the wider community. It provides an important contribution to the debate concerning the social class profile of different ethnic groups. The work is gendered throughout and discusses the different nature of the experiences of men and women. The 1991 census shows Leicester to have the highest proportion of ethnic minority residents of any city outside London, however compared to other cities with black and Asian communities, it has received little attention from academics. The present study charts the development of Leicester’s African Caribbean community from its origins in the Second World War to 1981 and its changing construction from 'immigrants' to 'ethnic minority'.
The Official Leicester City Quiz Book
Author: Chris Cowlin
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Published: 2012-01-23
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1907792260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCan you outfox your friends and family by answering the 1,000 cunning questions about Leicester City Football Club contained in this quiz book, or will you be like a rabbit caught in the headlights? Questions cover all aspects of the club, from memorable managers and players to transfer fees, opponents and awards, and are sure to conjure up fond reminiscences of the colourful characters and nail-biting matches that have peppered the club's long history. With a fitting foreword by Tony Cottee, this is as much a treasure trove of interesting facts and figures as it is a quiz book, and is guaranteed to provide hours of entertainment for young and old alike.
An Immigration History of Britain
Author: Panikos Panayi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-09-11
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1317864239
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmigration, ethnicity, multiculturalism and racism have become part of daily discourse in Britain in recent decades – yet, far from being new, these phenomena have characterised British life since the 19th century. While the numbers of immigrants increased after the Second World War, groups such as the Irish, Germans and East European Jews have been arriving, settling and impacting on British society from the Victorian period onwards. In this comprehensive and fascinating account, Panikos Panayi examines immigration as an ongoing process in which ethnic communities evolve as individuals choose whether to retain their ethnic identities and customs or to integrate and assimilate into wider British norms. Consequently, he tackles the contradictions in the history of immigration over the past two centuries: migration versus government control; migrant poverty versus social mobility; ethnic identity versus increasing Anglicisation; and, above all, racism versus multiculturalism. Providing an important historical context to contemporary debates, and taking into account the complexity and variety of individual experiences over time, this book demonstrates that no simple approach or theory can summarise the migrant experience in Britain.
Imagining Cities
Author: Sallie Westwood
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-05-11
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 1351171186
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997, Imagining Cities gives students access to the most exciting recent work on the city from within sociology, cultural studies and cultural geography. Contributions are grouped around four major themes: The theoretical imagination Ethnic diversity and the politics of difference Memory and nostalgia The city as narrative The book considers the interplay of past and present, imagined and substantive, and links present and future in examining the idea of the virtual city. Here, the world of cyberspace not only recasts views of space and communication, but has a profound impact on the sociological imagination itself.
