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A House Through Time

David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen
A House Through Time Book PDF

Author : David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781529037258

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A House Through Time by David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen Pdf

‘A very readable history of the British way of life viewed through its homes’ Choice Magazine In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to the secrets contained within the four walls of their homes and in doing so finding a direct link to earlier generations. And it is ordinary homes, not grand public buildings or the mansions of the rich, that have all the best stories. As with the television series, A House Through Time offers readers not only the tools to explore the histories of their own homes, but also a vividly readable history of the British city, the forces of industry, disease, mass transportation, crime and class. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from an elegant dwelling in a fashionable district to a tenement for society’s rejects. Packed with remarkable human stories, David Olusoga and Melanie Backe-Hansen give us a phenomenal insight into living history, a history we can see every day on the streets where we live. And it reminds us that it is at home that we are truly ourselves. It is there that the honest face of life can be seen. At home, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, we live out our inner lives and family lives.

A House Through Time

David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen
A House Through Time Book PDF

Author : David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen
Publisher : Picador
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : City and town life
ISBN : 1529037271

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A House Through Time by David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen Pdf

A tie-in to the acclaimed BBC television series.

A House Through Time

David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen
A House Through Time Book PDF

Author : David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen
Publisher : Picador
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781760789879

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A House Through Time by David Olusoga,Melanie Backe-Hansen Pdf

In recent years house histories have become the new frontier of popular, participatory history. People, many of whom have already embarked upon that great adventure of genealogical research, and who have encountered their ancestors in the archives and uncovered family secrets, are now turning to the secrets contained within the four walls of their homes and in doing so finding a direct link to earlier generations. And it is ordinary homes, not grand public buildings or the mansions of the rich that have all the best stories. As with the television series, A House Through Time offers readers not only the tools to explore the histories of their own homes, but also a vividly readable history of the British city, the forces of industry, disease, mass transportation, crime and class. The rises and falls, the shifts in the fortunes of neighbourhoods and whole cities are here, tracing the often surprising journey one single house can take from elegant dwelling in a fashionable district to a tenement for society’s rejects. Packed with remarkable human stories, it is a phenomenal insight into living history, a history we can see every day on the streets where we live. And it reminds us that it is at home that we are truly ourselves. It is there that the honest face of life can be seen. At home, behind closed doors and drawn curtains, we live out our inner lives and family lives.

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski
House of Leaves Book PDF

Author : Mark Z. Danielewski
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780375420528

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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski Pdf

“A novelistic mosaic that simultaneously reads like a thriller and like a strange, dreamlike excursion into the subconscious.” —The New York Times Years ago, when House of Leaves was first being passed around, it was nothing more than a badly bundled heap of paper, parts of which would occasionally surface on the Internet. No one could have anticipated the small but devoted following this terrifying story would soon command. Starting with an odd assortment of marginalized youth -- musicians, tattoo artists, programmers, strippers, environmentalists, and adrenaline junkies -- the book eventually made its way into the hands of older generations, who not only found themselves in those strangely arranged pages but also discovered a way back into the lives of their estranged children. Now this astonishing novel is made available in book form, complete with the original colored words, vertical footnotes, and second and third appendices. The story remains unchanged, focusing on a young family that moves into a small home on Ash Tree Lane where they discover something is terribly wrong: their house is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. Of course, neither Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Will Navidson nor his companion Karen Green was prepared to face the consequences of that impossibility, until the day their two little children wandered off and their voices eerily began to return another story -- of creature darkness, of an ever-growing abyss behind a closet door, and of that unholy growl which soon enough would tear through their walls and consume all their dreams.

Black and British

David Olusoga
Black and British Book PDF

Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 809 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447299745

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Black and British by David Olusoga Pdf

'[A] comprehensive and important history of black Britain . . . Written with a wonderful clarity of style and with great force and passion.' – Kwasi Kwarteng, Sunday Times In this vital re-examination of a shared history, historian and broadcaster David Olusoga tells the rich and revealing story of the long relationship between the British Isles and the people of Africa and the Caribbean. This edition, fully revised and updated, features a new chapter encompassing the Windrush scandal and the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, events which put black British history at the centre of urgent national debate. Black and British is vivid confirmation that black history can no longer be kept separate and marginalised. It is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation and it belongs to us all. Drawing on new genealogical research, original records, and expert testimony, Black and British reaches back to Roman Britain, the medieval imagination, Elizabethan ‘blackamoors’ and the global slave-trading empire. It shows that the great industrial boom of the nineteenth century was built on American slavery, and that black Britons fought at Trafalgar and in the trenches of both World Wars. Black British history is woven into the cultural and economic histories of the nation. It is not a singular history, but one that belongs to us all. Unflinching, confronting taboos, and revealing hitherto unknown scandals, Olusoga describes how the lives of black and white Britons have been entwined for centuries. Winner of the 2017 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize. Winner of the Longman History Today Trustees’ Award. A Waterstones History Book of the Year. Longlisted for the Orwell Prize. Shortlisted for the inaugural Jhalak Prize.

The House on Mango Street

Sandra Cisneros
The House on Mango Street Book PDF

Author : Sandra Cisneros
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345807199

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The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros Pdf

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago • Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2019 PEN/Nabokov Award for Achievement in International Literature. “Cisneros draws on her rich [Latino] heritage...and seduces with precise, spare prose, creat[ing] unforgettable characters we want to lift off the page. She is not only a gifted writer, but an absolutely essential one.” —The New York Times Book Review The House on Mango Street is one of the most cherished novels of the last fifty years. Readers from all walks of life have fallen for the voice of Esperanza Cordero, growing up in Chicago and inventing for herself who and what she will become. “In English my name means hope,” she says. “In Spanish it means too many letters. It means sadness, it means waiting." Told in a series of vignettes—sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes joyous—Cisneros’s masterpiece is a classic story of childhood and self-discovery and one of the greatest neighborhood novels of all time. Like Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street or Toni Morrison’s Sula, it makes a world through people and their voices, and it does so in language that is poetic and direct. This gorgeous coming-of-age novel is a celebration of the power of telling one’s story and of being proud of where you're from.

A Street Through Time

Anne Millard
A Street Through Time Book PDF

Author : Anne Millard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465407733

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A Street Through Time by Anne Millard Pdf

Steve Noon's award-winning A Street Through Time has been revised and updated for a new generation. In a series of fourteen unique illustrations, A Street Through Time tells the story of human history by exploring a street as it evolves from 10,000 BCE to the present day. Readers will see how the landscape and the daily lives of people changed as a small settlement grows into a city, is struck by war and plague, and gains trade and industry.

Tracing the History of Your House

Nick Barratt
Tracing the History of Your House Book PDF

Author : Nick Barratt
Publisher : National Archives UK
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122246387

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Tracing the History of Your House by Nick Barratt Pdf

The second expanded edition of the bestselling guide by TV s Nick Barratt.

The World's War

David Olusoga
The World s War Book PDF

Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781858967

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The World's War by David Olusoga Pdf

'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy 'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History 'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History Monthly In a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and Asia as well as in Europe, which pulled in men and resources from across the globe. Throughout, he exposes the complex, shocking paraphernalia of the era's racial obsessions, which dictated which men would serve, how they would serve, and to what degree they would suffer. As vivid and moving as it is revelatory and authoritative, The World's War explores the experiences and sacrifices of four million non-European, non-white people whose stories have remained too long in the shadows.

The House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende
The House of the Spirits Book PDF

Author : Isabel Allende
Publisher : Everyman's Library
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781400043187

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The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende Pdf

(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed) Chilean writer Isabel Allende’s classic novel is both a richly symbolic family saga and the riveting story of an unnamed Latin American country’s turbulent history. In a triumph of magic realism, Allende constructs a spirit-ridden world and fills it with colorful and all-too-human inhabitants. The Trueba family’s passions, struggles, and secrets span three generations and a century of violent social change, culminating in a crisis that brings the proud and tyrannical patriarch and his beloved granddaughter to opposite sides of the barricades. Against a backdrop of revolution and counterrevolution, Allende brings to life a family whose private bonds of love and hatred are more complex and enduring than the political allegiances that set them at odds. The House of the Spirits not only brings another nation’s history thrillingly to life, but also makes its people’s joys and anguishes wholly our own.

House Histories

Melanie Backe-Hansen
House Histories Book PDF

Author : Melanie Backe-Hansen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 0750992301

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House Histories by Melanie Backe-Hansen Pdf

How to reveal the secrets hiding behind your own front door

Black and British: A short, essential history

David Olusoga
Black and British A short essential history Book PDF

Author : David Olusoga
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781529064421

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Black and British: A short, essential history by David Olusoga Pdf

Winner of the Book of the Year, Children's Illustrated and Non-Fiction at The British Book Awards, 2021 Shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year 2020 A short, essential introduction to Black British history for readers of 12+ by award-winning historian and broadcaster David Olusoga. When did Africans first come to Britain? Who are the well-dressed black children in Georgian paintings? Why did the American Civil War disrupt the Industrial Revolution? These and many other questions are answered in this essential introduction to 1800 years of the Black British history: from the Roman Africans who guarded Hadrian’s Wall right up to the present day. This children's version of the bestseller Black and British: A Forgotten History is illustrated with maps, photos and portraits. Macmillan Children's Books will donate 50p from every copy sold to The Black Curriculum.

A City Through Time

Philip Steele
A City Through Time Book PDF

Author : Philip Steele
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781465413468

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A City Through Time by Philip Steele Pdf

Follow the story of a city from an ancient colony to a vast modern metropolis through stunning full-color illustrations. A City Through Time will transport you back to another age, as the award-winning Steve Noon brings the past to life in style. Panoramic scenes presented in a unique cutaway style are packed with colorful pictures showing everyday life in the city across the centuries. Clear descriptions surround each beautiful and jam-packed illustration to make sure the details aren't lost as you meet the characters who live and work there. Plus, each scene has a page devoted to key features, so you can get up close to a Roman bath-house, a medieval castle, or a modern skyscraper. A photographic section profiles great cities throughout history and a glossary tells you what you need to know about architecture, technology, work, and costumes throughout the ages. Steve Noon's A City Through Time is perfect for parents and children to look at together or for school projects. The more you look, the more you'll see.

The See-Through House

Shelley Klein
The See Through House Book PDF

Author : Shelley Klein
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473569805

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The See-Through House by Shelley Klein Pdf

'A charming account of a daughter, a house and a fastidious dad' Sunday Times Shelley Klein grew up in the Scottish Borders, in a house designed on a modernist open-plan grid. With colourful glass panels set against a forest of trees, it was like living in a work of art. Her father, Bernat Klein, was a textile designer whose pioneering colours and textures were a major contribution to 1960s and 70s style. Thirty years on, Shelley moves back home to care for her father, now in his eighties: the house has not changed and neither has his uncompromising vision - or his distinctive way of looking at the world. Told with great tenderness and humour, this is Shelley's account of looking after an adored yet maddening parent and a piercing portrait of the grief that followed his death. 'A sad, funny, utterly fascinating book about families, home and how to say goodbye' Mark Haddon 'Original, moving and bracingly honest... often hilarious' Blake Morrison, Guardian 'It is strange that grief should produce such a life-affirming book, but it has. Read it for the solace it contains, or for its captivating descriptions. Either way, it's a delight' Telegraph

Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe

Anne Frank
Anne Frank s Tales from the Secret Annexe Book PDF

Author : Anne Frank
Publisher : Halban Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Jews
ISBN : STANFORD:36105216981311

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Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annexe by Anne Frank Pdf

"In these tales the reader can observe Anne's writing prowess grow from that of a young girl's into the observations of a perceptive, edgy, witty and compassionate woman"--Jacket flaps.