Clogs And Shawls

Author : John Cowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1716730198

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Clogs and Shawls by John Cowell Pdf

The trials & tribulations of a Lancashire lad born just prior to the outbreak of the Second World War. The story tells of the boy's dreams and of arduous times from birth, through his formative years, up to being called up into the army to serve two years National Service for his country. His life is a mixture of poverty, sadness, love and wry humour. He is one of six children who lived in abject poverty during the war years into the changing times of the 'Forties' and 'Fifties'. Their home was a small, dark and dank terraced house set amongst countless tall factory chimneys His dad was a rag and bone man and had been to jail twice for shady dealings. Consequently, John & his siblings had to put up with many barbed comments and abuse from their peers in the schoolyard. Despite the adversity & hard times they all came through it with smiling faces. It depicts working class life during the era of cobbled streets, clogs and shawls, coal mines and weaving sheds in a Lancashire town.

Author : Ann Chamberlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Mormon converts
ISBN : 1607817373

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Clogs and Shawls by Ann Chamberlin Pdf

"In the United Kingdom, there is a thriving and profitable literary marketplace for "clogs and shawls" fiction. Books in the genre are typically written by women for middle-class women old enough to remember what life was like during the eras in which many clogs and shawls plots are set. The story arc of any given example is essentially the same, putting different names to formulaic tales of English rural or industrial poverty, wartime hardships, lost or unrequited love, and, ultimately, triumph over adversity. Ann Chamberlin's family memoir "Clogs and Shawls" is therefore appropriately titled. Chamberlin's story is a true to life example of clogs and shawls fiction. It tells of Chamberlin's Mormon grandmother and her seven sisters from Yorkshire, England. The sisters shared a remarkable capacity to endure hard lives with pride, and imbued in their daughters and granddaughters an understanding of self-sacrifice and the value of family. Chamberlin's mother immigrated from England to Salt Lake City, a move that Chamberlin details with an engaging and thoughtful mixture of clever humor, touching pathos, and a tolerance for mistakes, a kind of storytelling Chamberlin shines on her own life in the last part of the manuscript"--

Author : Vanessa Toulmin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781838715519

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Electric Edwardians by Vanessa Toulmin Pdf

Electric Edwardians presents a stunning visual record of the films of Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon, combined with an illuminating discussion of the films and the social context of their production by Vanessa Toulmin, a leading authority on the collection. Advertised as 'local films for local people', the films of Mitchell and Kenyon were commissioned by travelling exhibitors in the early twentieth century for screening in town halls, village fetes and local fairs. Audiences paid to see their neighbours, families and themselves on the screen, glimpsed at work and at play. This attractive volume includes over 200 illustrations drawn from the Mitchell and Kenyon collection, as well as contemporary posters and handbills from the National Fairground Archive. Vanessa Toulmin's lucid accompanying text provides an introduction to the work of the M&K company, the showmen who commissioned their films, and their place in early British cinema. Focusing on major themes, such as Leisure and Recreation, Sport, Industry, the Boer War and the City, Toulmin explores how the M&K collection deepens our understanding of these key aspects of Edwardian life.

Author : Nickianne Moody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351924672

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Judging a Book by Its Cover by Nickianne Moody Pdf

How do books attract their readers? This collection takes a closer look at book covers and their role in promoting sales and shaping readers' responses. Judging a Book by Its Cover brings together leading scholars, many with experience in the publishing industry, who examine the marketing of popular fiction across the twentieth century and beyond. Using case studies, and grounding their discussions historically and methodologically, the contributors address key themes in contemporary media, literary, publishing, and business studies related to globalisation, the correlation between text and image, identity politics, and reader reception. Topics include book covers and the internet bookstore; the links between books, the music industry, and film; literary prizes and the selling of books; subcultures and sales of young adult fiction; the cover as a signifier of literary value; and the marketing of ethnicity and lesbian pulp fiction. This exciting collection opens a new field of enquiry for scholars of book history, literature, media and communication studies, marketing, and cultural studies.

Author : Esther Leslie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031374326

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The Rise and Fall of Imperial Chemical Industries by Esther Leslie Pdf

This book provides a history of Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a large Britain- based chemical firm which was a major industrial player in the twentieth century. Once a model for Britain’s industrial reach and dominance, ICI collapsed in the mid-2000s, with some still profitable elements sold off to other chemical firms. The book focuses on the firm’s origin site in the Northeast of England, around Middlesbrough, engaging the remnants of the company magazine, oral histories and social media posts, and material artifacts in the world, to relate a history of the social, environmental, cultural and imaginative and bodily impact of the presence (and then absence) of ICI. This unique work is open to coincidence and speculation, drawing on science fictional and urban myth narratives which emanate from the area. Through the lens of global narratives of industrial and philosophical innovation, it inquires into uncommon and diverse themes, such as the manufacture of Quorn, the place of photographic mediation of the factory, and industrial disease. Setting out from a context of heavy industry and material processing, the book seeks to stimulate poetic and creative thinking around the ways in which people’s lives were enmeshed with synthetic chemicals and the dreams that seemed to ooze and seep from them as by-products.

Author : Stephen Shafer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134988372

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British Popular Films 1929-1939 by Stephen Shafer Pdf

Challenges the conventional assumption that British feature films of the Thirties were oriented mostly towards the middle-class and demonstrates that far from being alienated, working class men and women flocked to the cinema.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004333345

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Regenerating England by Anonim Pdf

Prominent themes in the discourses on Britain's post-war regeneration include national character, citizenship, fitness, education, utopia, and community. The chapters in the present volume address these themes and break new ground by examining debates well known in political and literary history through their relations to science, medicine, architecture and ideas of social and political ‘health'.

Author : Eileen Pollard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429535819

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Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel by Eileen Pollard Pdf

Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida’s thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher’s preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel’s writing, not just in terms of Derrida’s thought, but through any critical perspective or lens to date.

Author : Robert Roberts
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1990-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780141932354

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The Classic Slum by Robert Roberts Pdf

A study which combines personal reminiscences with careful historical research, the myth of the 'good old days' is summarily dispensed with; Robert Roberts describes the period of his childhood, when the main affect of poverty in Edwardian Salford was degredation, and, despite great resources of human courage, few could escape such a prison.

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1567921337

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George Orwell: An age like this, 1920-1940 by George Orwell Pdf

In his 46 years, Orwell managed to publish ten books and two collections of essays. This volume, one in a set of four, brings together a selection of his non-fiction work - letters, essays, reviews and journalism. His work is broad in scope, moving from English cooking to totalitarianism.

Author : Morag Shiach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521834597

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Modernism, Labour and Selfhood in British Literature and Culture, 1890-1930 by Morag Shiach Pdf

Shiach examines the ways in which labour was experienced and represented between 1890 and 1930. There is a critical tradition in literary and historical studies that sees the impact of modernity on human labour in terms of intensification and alienation. Shiach, however, explores a series of efforts to articulate the relations between labour and selfhood within modernism. Through readings of Sylvia Pankhurst and D. H. Lawrence, Shiach shows how labour underpins the political and textual innovations of the period. This study will be of interest to literary and cultural scholars alike.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In the Footsteps of the Brontes by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stephen Caunce
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0719070260

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Relocating Britishness by Stephen Caunce Pdf

Offering a range of original perspectives on how Britishness might be constructed at the turn of the millennium and where it might be going, this volume pulls together various disciplines and a variety of geographical perspectives to offer a distinctive set of views for the understanding of Britishness and how it is expressed.

Author : Fodor's Travel Guides
Publisher : Fodor's Travel
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307928665

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1936--ON THE CONTINENT by Fodor's Travel Guides Pdf

Three years before the start of WWII, Eugene Fodor published his first guidebook, 1936–-On the Continent–The Entertaining Travel Annual. Fodor's goal was to create a fun-to-read, annually updated guidebook about Europe that emphasized the people and culture of a country--a radical change from the traditional guidebook approach. Seventy-five years later, On the Continentgives readers a nostalgic glimpse and sentimental grand tour of pre-WWII Europe. Today, Fodor's is one of the world's largest and most trusted brands in travel, covering more than 600 destinations worldwide in guidebooks, on Fodors.com, in ebooks and iPhone apps.

Author : Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick,Ellis H. Chadwick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108034166

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In the Footsteps of the Brontës by Mrs Ellis H. Chadwick,Ellis H. Chadwick Pdf

A biography of the Brontë sisters published in 1914 by an author who spent years living near their Haworth home.