News from the English Countryside, 1851-1950
Author: Clifford Morsley
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13:
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The English
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: Grafton Books
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 852
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA series of brilliantly organized vignettes make skillful use of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers, and the literature of every period to record the daily life of the English people from the Norman Conquest to the post-World War II period. 48 pages of photographs.
The Little Book of Lincolnshire
Author: Lucy Wood
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-09-05
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 0750969369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Little Book of Lincolnshire is a compendium of fascinating information about this historic county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Lincolnshire's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, loony laws, customs ancient and modern, transport, battles and ghostly inhabitants. A reliable reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Film and Community in Britain and France
Author: Margaret Butler
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2004-08-27
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 0857712640
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRelations between France and Britain have always been uneasy and ambivelant. But in cinema, WWII changed all that for a time. Although the two countries' wartime fortunes differed, post-war both were busy reintegrating returning servicemen and prisoners of war, and accomodating the changed aspirations of women. Margaret Butler examines these subjects and more in her comparative study of the cinemas of Britain and France during and after the war. Using the concept of continuity, she shows how cinema dealt directly with ideas of belonging and alienation, inclusion and exclusion, unity and division. She also draws on contemporary debates and offers a perceptive reading of key films, to reveal the meaning and appeal of French classics like "Les Enfants du Paradis" and notable British productions like "Waterloo Road".
The Twentieth-century Newspaper Press in Britain
Author: David Linton
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 424
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bibliography deals with the 20th-century British newspaper press and the individuals concerned with it - proprietors, journalists and illustrators. Its 3500 entries include: books, theses, articles and commemorative issues. A chronology and a detailed subject index are included.
Diary of a Country Clergyman 1848-1851
Author: James Reid
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 2000-04-06
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0773568131
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA crusty yet diffident Scot, James Reid began his career as a sectarian evangelical missionary. The diary finds him thirty years later as a moderate, if conservative, Anglican clergyman. Through this remarkable document, village routines and intrigues, as well as Reid's circle of friends and his clerical colleagues, come vividly to life. His private reflections on the tensions and growing pains experienced by the colonial church at a formative stage in its evolution, and his reaction to events on the wider political scene, give us valuable insights into his life and the times. Reid was a man of considerable complexity and his foibles and vanities are apparent in his narrative. The glimpses of his home life shed much light on gender relations and the history of the family. The diary has been edited and annotated by M.E. Reisner, who provides the background to Reid's narrative. Her informative biographical sketches, collected in an appendix, shed further light on representative local figures and the community dynamics of his town. The Diary of a Country Clergyman will be of interest to the general reader and social historian alike.
The Folklore of Leicestershire and Rutland
Author: Roy Palmer
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 296
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Author: John Wade
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2023-06-01
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1399061399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 1950s was the decade of the Queen’s Coronation and the Festival of Britain; of family shops and pea-souper smogs; listening to the wireless and watching the box; when money was counted in pounds, shillings and pence and weights were in pounds and ounces. It was when children walked to school and ‘six of the best’ was a painful experience; postmen wore uniforms with peaked hats and chimney sweeps rode bikes with their brushes and poles balanced on their shoulders; milk and bread were delivered to your doorstep every morning and orange juice was free for schoolchildren; and when most people still preferred smooth shiny toilet paper to the new absorbent type. The Second World War left Britain in a period of austerity. Yet, born of the relief of the war ending in 1945, there was a spirit of hope for the future and new beginnings, from which grew a climate that was a comforting mix of the traditional past blended with exciting glimpses of an exhilarating future. John Wade records briefly some of the great achievements and events of the 1950s, but concentrates more on what it was like for ordinary British people living their lives during a far from ordinary decade.
