Living and Working in Britain
Author: David Hampshire
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 724
ISBN-13: 9780951652800
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Life in the United Kingdom
Author: Life in the United Kingdom Advisory Group
Publisher: TSO
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780113413591
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the only official handbook for the new Life in the UK tests taken on or after 25 March 2013. This large print version contains all the official learning material for the test and is written in clear, simple language - making it easy to understand. This essential handbook covers a range of topics you need to know to pass your test and apply for UK citizenship or permanent residency, including: The process of becoming a citizen or permanent resident; the values and principles of the UK; traditions and culture from around the UK; the events and people that have shaped the UK's history; the government and the law; getting involved in your community
Living Britain
Author: Peter Crawford
Publisher: BBC Books
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780563384762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text follows the wildlife cycle from January to New Year's Eve, tracking the way life in Britain responds to the climate. In each chapter a specific location is featured and the life of the plants, animals and humans are followed.
Life in the United Kingdom
Author: Life in the United Kingdom Advisory Group
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Published: 2007-08-07
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780113413171
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compendium of information aims primarily to assist teachers of English as a second language, mentors and others helping immigrants to integrate, It will also help immigrants who have workable English and who are required to take a citizenship test if they apply for naturalisation as Briitsh citizens. Sections include: the making of the United Kingdom (history); a changing society; a profile of Britain today; how Britain is governed; everyday needs (housing, health, education, money, leisure etc); employment; sources of help; knowing the law.
In These Times
Author: Jenny Uglow
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2015-01-27
Total Pages: 524
ISBN-13: 1466828226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautifully observed history of the British home front during the Napoleonic Wars by a celebrated historian We know the thrilling, terrible stories of the battles of the Napoleonic Wars—but what of those left behind? The people on a Norfolk farm, in a Yorkshire mill, a Welsh iron foundry, an Irish village, a London bank, a Scottish mountain? The aristocrats and paupers, old and young, butchers and bakers and candlestick makers—how did the war touch their lives? Jenny Uglow, the prizewinning author of The Lunar Men and Nature's Engraver, follows the gripping back-and-forth of the first global war but turns the news upside down, seeing how it reached the people. Illustrated by the satires of Gillray and Rowlandson and the paintings of Turner and Constable, and combining the familiar voices of Austen, Wordsworth, Scott, and Byron with others lost in the crowd, In These Times delves into the archives to tell the moving story of how people lived and loved and sang and wrote, struggling through hard times and opening new horizons that would change their country for a century.
Making a Living in the Middle Ages
Author: Christopher Dyer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2003-08-11
Total Pages: 536
ISBN-13: 0300167075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDramatic social and economic change during the middle ages altered the lives of the people of Britain in far-reaching ways, from the structure of their families to the ways they made their livings. In this masterly book, preeminent medieval historian Christopher Dyer presents a fresh view of the British economy from the ninth to the sixteenth century and a vivid new account of medieval life. He begins his volume with the formation of towns and villages in the ninth and tenth centuries and ends with the inflation, population rise, and colonial expansion of the sixteenth century. This is a book about ideas and attitudes as well as the material world, and Dyer shows how people regarded the economy and responded to economic change. He examines the growth of towns, the clearing of lands, the Great Famine, the Black Death, and the upheavals of the fifteenth century through the eyes of those who experienced them. He also explores the dilemmas and decisions of those who were making a living in a changing world—from peasants, artisans, and wage earners to barons and monks. Drawing on archaeological and landscape evidence along with more conventional archives and records, the author offers here an engaging survey of British medieval economic history unrivaled in breadth and clarity.
Living and Working in Britain
Author: David Hampshire
Publisher:
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 516
ISBN-13: 9781901130508
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis guide is designed for visitors, business people, students, retirees, immigrants, employees, holiday-home owners and anyone planning to spend some time in Britain. It provides a source of information about everyday life in Britain.
A Guide to Studying and Living in Britain
Author: Kris Rao
Publisher: How To Books
Published: 2014-02-21
Total Pages: 129
ISBN-13: 1848030045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery year more than 270,000 students from all around the world come to study in the UK - and the number is growing by 10 per cent a year. At present, most students coming to the UK have to rely on information from their friends, and brief leaflets and booklets supplied by universities. This indispensable guide tells students all they need to know about Britain's higher education system: the application process, funding, immigration controls, health service, accommodation, study methods and employment opportunities, as well as university life, British customs and habits, and lots of other information on day to day living in the UK.
Britain's Living Past
Author: Anthony Burton
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-03-07
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1844865428
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBritain's Living Past is a celebration of the best of the past, of things that have been preserved because they still matter to the community. It is a book in which the emphasis is very much on the word 'living'; looking at traditions, pastimes and working practices, some centuries old, that survive today not as museum pieces or in pages of a history book but as part of everyday modern life. From reminders of Britain's great maritime past in the crafts of the shipwright and the rope maker, to the organised mayhem that is the Ashbourne Tuesday football match and the exotic splendour of Giffords traditional circus, writer Tony Burton and photographer Rob Scott have travelled the length and breadth of our great nation to recreate for the reader the amazing sights they have seen. Together they have travelled from Shetland in the far north to the tip of Cornwall. They have sailed along the Scottish coast in a paddle steamer and learned how to make Melton Mowbray pork pies by hand. They have watched ponies galloping through the streets of Appleby and resisted the temptation to try too many of the sweets in the world's oldest sweet shop. This is a book that delights in the rich diversity of our historic survivors. For both author and photographer it has been a pleasure to witness many skilled people at work: to discover the complexity of building a fairground organ or to marvel at the skill and athleticism of circus performers. This is a book of rich variety that celebrates the great survivors from our islands' history.
