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Bollocks to Alton Towers

Author : Alex Morris,Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris,Robin Halstead
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780141905990

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Bollocks to Alton Towers by Alex Morris,Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris,Robin Halstead Pdf

The British Lawnmower Museum, Keith Harding's World of Mechanical Music and Mad Jack's Sugar Loaf. In a world of theme parks, interactive exhibits, over-priced merchandise and queues, don't worry, these are names to stir the soul. Reassuring evidence that there's still somewhere to turn in search of the small, fascinating, unique and, dammit, British. In a stumbling journey across the country in search of the best we have to offer our intrepid heroes discovered dinosaurs in South London, a cold war castle in Essex, grown men pretending to be warships in Scarborough, unexplained tunnels under Liverpool and a terraced house in Bedford being kept warm for Jesus's return. And along the way they met the people behind them all: enthusiasts, eccentrics and, you know, those who just sort of fell into looking after a vast collection of gnomes ... Makes you proud!

More Bollocks to Alton Towers

Author : Alex Morris,Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris,Robin Halstead
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141918778

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More Bollocks to Alton Towers by Alex Morris,Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris,Robin Halstead Pdf

Leave the hordes behind, pack some sandwiches and head off for a grand day out. Whether it's the National Fruit Collection or the pub where time stood still, Britain is stuffed full of surprising and idiosyncratic local attractions. The authors of Bollocks to Alton Towers, the bestselling celebration of the plucky underdogs of tourism, have ventured even farther off the beaten track and into the corners that corporate branding forgot, to bring you more unique, glorious and uncomonly British days out. Here you'll discover: The garden centre with a replica of Del Boy's living room The joys of a Melton Mowbray pork pie pilgramage The rude charms of the Boscastle Witchcraft Museum The Clowns' Gallery that paints a smile on Hackney's face This book is a reminder of all the odd things that make the British what we are. A hidden, eccentric and joyous world of teas, fans, trains, shoes and puppets is waiting for you out there - far from the sodding crowd.

Micromuseology

Author : Fiona Candlin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781474254977

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Micromuseology by Fiona Candlin Pdf

How would our understanding of museums change if we used the Vintage Wireless Museum or the Museum of Witchcraft as examples – rather than the British Museum or the Louvre? Although there are thousands of small, independent, single-subject museums in the UK, Europe and North America, the field of museum studies remains focused almost exclusively on major institutions. In this ground-breaking new book, Fiona Candlin reveals how micromuseums challenge preconceived ideas about what museums are and how they operate. Based on extensive fieldwork and analysis of more than fifty micromuseums, she shows how they offer dramatically different models of curation, interpretation and visitor experience, and how their analysis generates new perspectives on subjects such as display, objects, collections, architecture, and the public sphere. The first-ever book dedicated to the subject, Micromuseology provides a platform for radically rethinking key debates within museum studies. Destined to transform the field, it is essential reading for students and researchers in museum studies, anthropology, material culture studies, and visual culture.

Filthy English

Author : Peter Silverton
Publisher : Portobello Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781846274527

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Filthy English by Peter Silverton Pdf

When the Sex Pistols swore live on tea-time telly in 1976, there was outrage across Britain. Headlines screamed. Christians marched. TVs were kicked in. Thirty years on, all those words are media-mainstream - bandied about with impunity on TV and in the papers. This is the story of our bad language and its three-decade journey from the fringes of decency to the working centre of a more linguistically liberal nation. Silverton takes a clear, comprehensive and witty look at swearing and the impact of its new acceptability on our language, our manners and our society. He considers how we have become more openly emotional, yet more wary about insulting others. And how it's seemingly become alright to say **** and **** but not ****** or ****. This is the story of that cultural revolution, written by one who was there at the start, proudly striking some of the first blows in the long struggle for the right to reclaim filthy English and use it.

A Ladybird Book About Donald Trump

Author : Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781405944342

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A Ladybird Book About Donald Trump by Jason Hazeley,Joel Morris Pdf

As we prepare to wave the President out of the White House, commemorate the past four years with this charming introduction to his very important life and his many, many friends - the perfect stocking filler this Christmas. _________ 'When Donald won the election, he did not believe it. "This election was a bad, unfair election," said Donald, about the election that he won. One day, Donald might lose an election. He will not like that election at all. And when Donald is told it is time to stop being the President, who knows what exciting things will happen next?' _________ 'Anyone can grow up to become the President. Or they can become President first and think about growing up later.' _________ This delightful book is the latest in the series of Ladybird books which have been specially planned to help grown-ups with the world about them. Something the President himself could do with. The large clear script, the careful choice of words, the frequent repetition and the thoughtful matching of text with pictures all enable grown-ups to think they have taught themselves to cope. Featuring original Ladybird artwork alongside brilliantly funny, brand new text. Praise for The Story of Brexit: 'Hilarious' Stylist 'One of the Best Comedy Books of 2018' The List 'The latest offering in the hilarious Ladybird for Grown Ups series is a funny mickey-take of the Brexit debate (and boy, do we need some fun)' Sunday Post

Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!

Author : Alan Smithie
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781438981581

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Sperm, Wonderful Sperm! by Alan Smithie Pdf

I remember a report some time ago extolling the health benefits of the vitamins found in sperm, with the advice that in preparation for having a healthy and intelligent baby, for some months before becoming pregnant a woman should swallow her partner's sperm. You can rest assured this report was compiled by a team of men. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact I set out to write a book entitled "49," a humorously light-hearted fly-on-the-wall look at my life from the day before my forty-ninth birthday to the day I hit fifty. A story of how I was coping with being too old for a mid-life crisis, counting the days tick down until the inevitable half-century. Should I be wearing socks with sandals; when would I start to enjoy pastimes that involved either binoculars, a fishing rod, making boats out of used matchsticks, a tandem bicycle or Morris dancing? Was I developing man-breasts, and more importantly, would the next woman I meet have bingo-wings? What pre-fifty pastimes would I be consigning to the dusty bin of life - wearing Ramones T-shirts and ogling young girls; my T-shirt definitely had to go. Maybe I wouldn't even make it to the end of the book; instead I'd meet my end running the Snowdonia Marathon. As it was I did make it to the end. Having spent a year writing "49" and many months trying to get a publishing deal without success, I started to write a blog. I pretty soon realised the missing ingredient - sex: sex sells. Post a good title and you have a success; mention anal sex and you have a best-seller. Without a second thought I changed the book title to "Sperm, Wonderful Sperm!" and quickly contacted an online print-on-demand publisher. This is the result...

Archaeological Practice in Great Britain

Author : John Schofield,John Carmen,Paul Belford
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0387094539

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Archaeological Practice in Great Britain by John Schofield,John Carmen,Paul Belford Pdf

This manual provides a unique ‘user guide’ to practicing archaeology and working in the cultural heritage sector within the diverse settings of Great Britain, comprising of: England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. As part of their training, archaeologists often seek work in parts of Britain, either for experience before travelling elsewhere, or directly as part of their career progression. While this does involve reading published material on excavation techniques, archaeological theory, and specific heritage management practices, or research using the Internet, the ideal preparation to working in Britain for the first time requires practitioners to know a little about a lot. Currently, there is no single resource which provides that primary resource for budding archaeologists. Archaeological Practice in Great Britain will provide just such a resource: presented in an accessible style, with a comprehensive and up-to-date bibliography and lists of useful websites. Professionals with particular areas of expertise will contribute short sections on particular subjects, incorporated into the main text prepared by the authors. Throughout, the specific contexts and differences between the various component nations and regions of Great Britain will be made clear.

What are Archives?

Author : Louise Craven
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781134759804

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What are Archives? by Louise Craven Pdf

This collection of essays breaks new ground in archival studies in the UK where professional archival texts have traditionally concentrated on the how, not the why, of archival work. Studies of the theoretical role of, for example, the archive and the text or the archive and political power, have meanwhile been undertaken in other academic disciplines where there is an established forum for the discussion of related issues. This book invites the archivist to join that arena of debate, whilst appealing to all those interested in archives from other disciplines; the authors encourage archivists to step away from the practicalities of keeping archives to consider what it is they actually do in the cultural context of the early 21st century. The wider context of technological innovation and the internet form the backdrop to this collection. The book explores change and continuity in the archival paradigm, the textual nature of archives and asks if views of manuscripts and personal papers are changing; it looks at specific developments in community archives, at concepts of identity and culture in archives and it presents the fruits of innovative studies of users of archives. Taken together, these essays, written by leading experts in the field, provide a new understanding of the role of the archive today.

In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker

Author : Luke Bennett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781783487356

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In the Ruins of the Cold War Bunker by Luke Bennett Pdf

This edited collection investigates the ways in which the physical remains of now abandoned military and civil defence bunkers from the Cold War have become the totems and sites of memory.

Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900

Author : Clive Bloom
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783030791544

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Bestsellers: Popular Fiction Since 1900 by Clive Bloom Pdf

This book charts the publishing industry and bestselling fiction from 1900, featuring a comprehensive list of all bestselling fiction titles in the UK. This third edition includes a new introduction which features additional information on current trends in reading including the rise of Black, Asian and LGBTQIA+ publishing; the continuing importance of certain genres and up to date trends in publishing, bookselling, library borrowing and literacy. There are sections on writing for children, on the importance of audiobooks and book clubs, self- published bestsellers as well as many new entries to the present day including bestselling authors such as David Walliams, Peter James, George R R Martin and far less well known authors whose books s sell in their thousands. This is the essential guide to best-selling books, authors, genres, publishing and bookselling since 1900, providing a unique insight into more than a century of entertainment, and opening a window into the reading habits and social life of the British from the death of Queen Victoria to the Coronavirus Pandemic.

Bee

Author : Claire Preston
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 186189256X

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Bee by Claire Preston Pdf

Written in a lively, engaging style, and containing many fascinating bee facts, anecdotes, fables, and images, 'Bee' is a wide-ranging, highly-illustrated meditation on the natural and cultural history of this familiar and much-admired insect.

March of the Lemmings

Author : Stewart Lee
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571357048

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March of the Lemmings by Stewart Lee Pdf

As a Metropolitan Elitist Snowflake, Stewart Lee was disappointed by the Brexit referendum result of 2016. But he knew how to weaponise his inconvenience. He would treat all his subsequent writing, until we left the EU, as interrelated episodes of a complete work. The cast of characters include Lemming-obsessed Michael Gove, violent tanning-salon entrepreneur Tommy Robinson and Boris Piccaninny Watermelon Bumboys Letterbox Cake Disaster Weightloss Haircut Bullshit Johnson. A dramatic chorus is made up of online commenters and Kremlin bots. And Lee himself would play the defeated, unreliable narrator-hero, whose resolve and tolerance would gradually unravel as the horror show dragged on. Until the 29 March, 2019, when it would all definitely be over Drawing on three years of newspaper columns, a complete transcript of the Content Provider stand-up show, and Lee's caustic footnote commentary, March of the Lemmings is the scathing, riotous record the Brexit era deserves.

James May's Man Lab

Author : James May
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781444736335

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James May's Man Lab by James May Pdf

For at least two decades now modern man has been on the brink of a crisis. Persuaded by both the post-feminist political landscape and his representation in the popular media to remodel himself as an endearingly hopeless halfwit, he now exists only as an object of pity. James and his happy band of brothers (plus a few women, but we try to edit them out) are engaged on a quest to lead maledom to a broad sunlit upland strewn with slim books of English verse and neatly stacked with correctly sharpened tools arranged in descending size order. From here they confront the mysteries of romance and fashion, the cult of men's cooking and the daunting underworld of hardcore DIY. Read it and remember that, as a chap, your first duty is to be dependable. And then you can have a pint.

The Hell of it All

Author : Charlie Brooker
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-22
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780571255528

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Brooker on the BNP Party Political Broadcast: 'Nick Griffin's first line is "Don't turn it off!", which in terms of opening gambits is about as enticing as hearing someone shout "Try not to be sick!" immediately prior to intercourse.' Brooker on Philip from The Apprentice: 'If it were legal or even possible to do so, he'd probably marry himself, then conduct a long-term affair with himself behind himself's back, eventually fathering nine children with himself, all of whom would walk and talk like him. And then he'd lock those mini-hims in a secret underground dungeon to have his sick way with his selves, undetected, for decades.' Brooker on Royal Ascot: 'Every year it's the same thing: a 200-year-old countess you've never heard of, who closely resembles a Cruella De Vil mannequin assembled entirely from heavily wrinkled scrotal tissue that's been soaked in tea for the past eight decades, attempts to draw attention away from her sagging neck - a droopy curtain of skin that hangs so low she has to repeatedly kick it out of her path as she crosses the royal compound - by balancing the millinery equivalent of Bilbao's Guggenheim museum on her head.'

Be Funny or Die

Author : Joel Morris
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781800183117

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Comedy is a game that all humans play. There are big social prizes if you win, but it is easy to end up with custard pie on your face... or worse. Comedy can soothe our pain, vent our anger, make us feel less alone and provide the answer to life’s most difficult questions, such as, ‘What do you call a man with a seagull on his head?’* It’s a social glue but it can also be divisive, and the joke is on us if we don’t understand how it works. So, what are the rules? How does comedy do its magic and why does it matter? Join professional comedy writer Joel Morris on a hilarious journey into the hidden world of shared laughter where he reveals the mechanisms that make jokes work and what comedy can teach us about ourselves. Offering astute analysis of everything from stand-up to slapstick and sitcom to spoof, Morris examines comedic patterns, rhythms and dynamics to uncover the algorithms that secretly underpin comedy. Packed with gags and examples of comedy at its best – plus some invaluable tips on how to master that b’dum tish timing – Be Funny or Die is a fascinating investigation into how our species has developed and mastered this essential art form where laughter is the universal language and only the funniest survive. *Cliff.