Travellers' Children in London Fields
Author: Colin O'Brien
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780957656901
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Spitalfields Life
Author: The Gentle Author
Publisher: Saltyard Books
Published: 2013-07-16
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781444703962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I am going to write every single day and tell you about my life here in Spitalfields at the heart of London..." Drawing comparisons with Pepys, Mayhew and Dickens, the gentle author of Spitalfields Life has gained an extraordinary following in recent years, by writing hundreds of lively pen portraits of the infinite variety of people who live and work in the East End of London. Everything you seek in London can be found here - street life, street art, markets, diverse food, immigrant culture, ancient houses and history, pageants and parades, rituals and customs, traditional trades and old family businesses. Spend a night in the bakery at St John, ride the rounds with the Spitalfields milkman, drop in to the Golden Heart for a pint, meet a fourth-generation paper bag seller, a mudlark who discovers treasure in the river Thames, a window cleaner who sees ghosts and a master bell-founder whose business started in 1570. Join the bunny girls for their annual reunion, visit the wax sellers of Wentworth Street and discover the site of Shakespeare's first theatre. All of human life is here in Spitalfields Life.
The Good Girl's Guide to Getting Lost
Author: Rachel Friedman
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2011-03-29
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 038534337X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape impending life decisions), she buys a ticket to Ireland, a place she has never visited. There she forms an unlikely bond with a free-spirited Australian girl, a born adventurer who spurs Rachel on to a yearlong odyssey that takes her to three continents, fills her life with newfound friends, and gives birth to a previously unrealized passion for adventure. As her journey takes her to Australia and South America, Rachel discovers and embraces her love of travel and unlocks more truths about herself than she ever realized she was seeking. Along the way, the erstwhile good girl finally learns to do something she’s never done before: simply live for the moment.
Growing Up Travelling
Author: Jamie Johnson
Publisher: Kehrer Verlag
Published: 2020-04
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9783868289688
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Underground
Author: Bob Mazzer
Publisher:
Published: 2014-06
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780957656932
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile working as projectionish in a porn cinema in the 1980s, Bob Mazzer began photographing on the tube during his daily commute, creating irresistibly joyous pictures alive with humour and humanity. His pictures are published here for the first time.
Indigenous London
Author: Coll Thrush
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2016-10-25
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0300224869
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn imaginative retelling of London’s history, framed through the experiences of Indigenous travelers who came to the city over the course of more than five centuries London is famed both as the ancient center of a former empire and as a modern metropolis of bewildering complexity and diversity. In Indigenous London, historian Coll Thrush offers an imaginative vision of the city's past crafted from an almost entirely new perspective: that of Indigenous children, women, and men who traveled there, willingly or otherwise, from territories that became Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United States, beginning in the sixteenth century. They included captives and diplomats, missionaries and shamans, poets and performers. Some, like the Powhatan noblewoman Pocahontas, are familiar; others, like an Odawa boy held as a prisoner of war, have almost been lost to history. In drawing together their stories and their diverse experiences with a changing urban culture, Thrush also illustrates how London learned to be a global, imperial city and how Indigenous people were central to that process.
Spitalfields Nippers
Author: Horace Warner
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780957656949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAround 1900, photographer Horace Warner took a series of portraits of some of the poorest people in London - creating relaxed, intimate images that gave dignity to his subjects and producing great photography that is without parallel. Discovered recently and only seen by members of Warner's family for more than a century, almost all of these photographs are published here for the first time.
Gypsies and Travellers
Author: Joanna Richardson
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1847428940
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNow more than ever the issues of accommodation, education, health care, employment, and social exclusion for British Gypsy and Traveller communities need to be addressed. This book looks at Gypsies and Travellers in British society, touching on topics such as media and political representation, power, justice, and the impact of European initiatives for inclusion. In doing so, it offers important new insights for students, academics, policy makers, journalists, service providers, and others working with these groups.
No Place to Call Home
Author: Katharine Quarmby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-08-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1780741065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe shocking poignant story of eviction, expulsion, and the hard-scrabble fight for a home They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the Troubles, a wave of Irish Travellers moved to England to make a better, safer life. They found places to settle down – but then, as Occupy was taking over Wall Street and London, the vocal Dale Farm community in Essex was evicted from their land. Many did not leave quietly; they put up a legal and at times physical fight. Award-winning journalist Katharine Quarmby takes us into the heat of the battle, following the Sheridan, McCarthy, Burton and Townsley families before and after the eviction, from Dale Farm to Meriden and other trouble spots. Based on exclusive access over the course of seven years and rich historical research, No Place to Call Home is a stunning narrative of long-sought justice.
Where the Indus is Young
Author: Dervla Murphy
Publisher: Eland Publishing
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781906011666
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne winter, Dervla Murphy and her six-year-old daughter explored 'Little Tibet' high up in the Karakoram Mountains in the frozen heart of the Western Himalayas. Dervla records their adventures, from crumbling tracks over bottomless chasms, to assaults by lascivious Kashmiris.
