Author : Elizabeth Laird
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1068166198
Faces of Britain
Elizabeth Laird
Faces Of Britain
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Faces of Britain, a Picture of Britain 1880-1919
N. Hindmarch Keen
Author : N. Hindmarch Keen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1856051803
Faces of Britain, a Picture of Britain 1880-1919 by N. Hindmarch Keen Pdf
The Face of Britain
Simon Schama
Author : Simon Schama
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780241963715
The Face of Britain by Simon Schama Pdf
Simon Schama brings Britain to life through its portraits, as seen in the five-part BBC series The Face of Britain and the major National Portrait Gallery exhibition Churchill and his painter locked in a struggle of stares and glares; Gainsborough watching his daughters run after a butterfly; a black Othello in the nineteenth century, the poet-artist Rossetti trying to capture on canvas what he couldn't possess in life, a surgeon-artist making studies of wounded faces brought in from the Battle of the Somme; a naked John Lennon five hours before his death. In the age of the hasty glance and the selfie, Simon Schama has written a tour de force about the long exchange of looks from which British portraits have been made over the centuries: images of the modest and the mighty; of friends and lovers; heroes and working people. Each of them - the image-maker, the subject, and the rest of us who get to look at them - are brought unforgettably to life. Together they build into a collective picture of Britain, our past and our present, a look into the mirror of our identity at a moment when we are wondering just who we are. Combining his two great passions, British history and art history, for the first time, Schama's extraordinary storytelling reveals the truth behind the nation's most famous portrayals of power, love, fame, the self, and the people. Mesmerising in its breadth and its panache, and beautifully illustrated, with more than 150 images from the National Portrait Gallery, The Face of Britain will change the way we see our past - and ourselves.
About Faces
Sharrona Pearl
Author : Sharrona Pearl
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0674054407
About Faces by Sharrona Pearl Pdf
When nineteenth-century Londoners looked at each other, what did they see, and how did they want to be seen? Sharrona Pearl reveals the way that physiognomy, the study of facial features and their relationship to character, shaped the way that people understood one another and presented themselves. Physiognomy was initially a practice used to get information about others, but soon became a way to self-consciously give information--on stage, in print, in images, in research, and especially on the street. Moving through a wide range of media, Pearl shows how physiognomical notions rested on instinct and honed a kind of shared subjectivity. She looks at the stakes for framing physiognomy--a practice with a long history--as a science in the nineteenth century. By showing how physiognomy gave people permission to judge others, Pearl holds up a mirror both to Victorian times and our own.
Face of Britain
Robin McKie
Author : Robin McKie
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : British
ISBN : 0743295293
Face of Britain by Robin McKie Pdf
Written into our facial features is a story going back generations. it is the story of who we are and where we are from - the history of Britain through war and conquest, migration and racial integration. The Channel 4 series, The Face of Britain, begins with the largest ever research project into the genetic make-up of the British public. The Welcome Trust has given a £2million grant to Oxford geneticist Sir Walter Bodmer to take DNA samples from hundreds of volunteers throughout Britain and find tell-tale fragments of DNA that reveal the biological traces of successive waves of colonisers - Celts, Saxons, Vikings, etc. - in various parts of Britain. These traces in part determine our facial features. In effect, this project will produce a genetic map of our islands revealing where today's Cornish or East Anglians originally came from. The project is unique in that it uses cutting edge technology to question our accepted notions of our history. Added to this, the series and the book will meld science, history and personal stories to investigate our linguistic history, our surnames and placenames and compare findings with the results of the Bodmer study. The Face of Britain will be a launch pad to explore Britain's earliest history while investigating why we look the way we do.
The Myriad Faces of War
Trevor Wilson
Author : Trevor Wilson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 971 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780571287635
The Myriad Faces of War by Trevor Wilson Pdf
'By far the best study of Britain and the First World War that has yet been written.' London Review of Books The Myriad Faces of War, first published in 1987, is a unique and compelling study of the First World War from the standpoint of British involvement. It explores the reasons for Britain's entry into the war, the nature and course of Britain's participation, and the far-reaching repercussions of the war on British society. The result is a rich and comprehensive chronicle of the social, political, diplomatic and military aspects of the 'Great War.' 'Professor Trevor Wilson's mighty work on the first world war... is a truly significant contribution to our understanding of what the war meant to the British people... a disciplined, unsentimental and thoughtful book - and it also retains strongly the human touch.' Spectator 'Wilson ranges impressively over all major aspects of the conflict... a judicious, readable overview of a monster subject.' New York Times
Britain Faces Europe
Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
Author : Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781512805925
Britain Faces Europe by Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr. Pdf
Transformations of thought among British foreign policy makers since World War II have motivated this new study. For the first time in its history, during the postwar decade, Britain began to abandon its worldpower outlook and to turn toward a European consensus, substituting regional interests for its global perspective. The author asks: How does a people so attuned to worldwide interests and commitments reconcile itself to such drastically altered circumstances as those that followed World War II? How does a people that has historically viewed with hostility the unification of continental Europe develop as a top foreign priority participation in the European integration movement? The book focuses on the response of the British Government to changing international and domestic forces, including elite groups at home. Britain Faces Europe is the first book to examine both the development of British policy and the evolution of attitudes in the British private sector toward European integration between 1957 and 1967. Drawing on public documents and interviews, the author traces the movement of British policy toward a more European outlook. Investigating publications of interest groups such as the National Farmers Union, the Trades Union Congress, the Confederation of British Industry, and such Europe-oriented groups as Federal Union and the United Kingdom Council for Europe, the author traces the development of support for Common Market membership in the private sector. Developing attitudes in representative British newspapers and journals and those of parliamentary parties art described. Publications and statements of "anti-European organizations and public opinion polls are also examined. Important elements of the study for all students and observers of world affairs are its examination of British expectations from European integration and its assessment of the British Common Market case from propositions about integration drawn from theoretically-oriented literature. The book is an innovation in approach in that other studies have focused almost exclusively on descriptions of official policy without major reference to either the private sector or theories of integration at the international level.
Faces of Perfect Ebony
Catherine Molineux
Author : Catherine Molineux
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674050082
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Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British imagination. For two hundred years, as Britain shipped over three million Africans to the New World, popular images of blacks as slaves and servants proliferated in London art, both highbrow and low. Catherine Molineux assembles a surprising array of sources in her exploration of this emerging black presence, from shop signs, tea trays, trading cards, board games, playing cards, and song ballads to more familiar objects such as William Hogarth's graphic satires. By idealizing black servitude and obscuring the brutalities of slavery, these images of black people became symbols of empire to a general populace that had little contact with the realities of slave life in the distant Americas and Caribbean. The earliest images advertised the opulence of the British Empire by depicting black slaves and servants as minor, exotic characters who gazed adoringly at their masters. Later images showed Britons and Africans in friendly gatherings, smoking tobacco together, for example. By 1807, when Britain abolished the slave trade and thousands of people of African descent were living in London as free men and women, depictions of black laborers in local coffee houses, taverns, or kitchens took center stage. Molineux's well-crafted account provides rich evidence for the role that human traffic played in the popular consciousness and culture of Britain during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and deepens our understanding of how Britons imagined their burgeoning empire.
Portrait of Britain Volume 3
Hoxton Mini Press
Author : Hoxton Mini Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1910566772
Portrait of Britain Volume 3 by Hoxton Mini Press Pdf
Coming at a pivotal time in UK politics, Portrait of Britain, the British Journal of Photography's annual photography exhibition, is back for 2019 and Hoxton Mini Press will once again be producing the accompanying publication. The winning photographs from this open-call competition are selected by a panel of expert judges and will be displayed on digital billboard screens nationwide at the same time as the book's launch where they are seen by over 10 million people. These captivating portraits celebrate the diversity, culture and identity of Britain at a critical time in its history.
Album of a Nation
Anonim
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0709206275
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The different faces of Britain
Stephen Speight
Author : Stephen Speight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3140400853
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Gangs of Britain
Wensley Clarkson
Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : John Blake
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07
Category : Gangsters
ISBN : 1786062585
Gangs of Britain by Wensley Clarkson Pdf
Today's gangsters are a far cry from their earlier counterparts. The godfathers of old were seen by many as a stabilizing influence; their power inspired respect and they kept the underworld in check. Gangs of the 21st century have spread their brutality far and wide. The old crimes of prostitution and extortion are being dropped in favor of multi-million dollar drug deals, bringing gangsters more money and power than ever before. It is a cut-throat industry that is conducted in the shadows and driven solely by profit. Acclaimed true crime author Wensley Clarkson has met many of Britain's richest and most powerful gangs. In this fascinating and gripping account, he provides an extraordinary insight into the dark and glamorous underworld of British organized crime. His investigation leads to the shocking conclusion that crime is perhaps the third largest industry in the UK.
Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Michi Messer,Renee Schroeder,Ruth Wodak
Author : Michi Messer,Renee Schroeder,Ruth Wodak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-05-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783709109502
Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Michi Messer,Renee Schroeder,Ruth Wodak Pdf
This volume covers the most important contributions to and discussions at the international symposium Migrations: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (1-3, July, University of Vienna), organised by Renée Schroeder and Ruth Wodak which was dedicated to the multiple interdisciplinary dimensions of ‘migrations’, both from the viewpoints of the Social Sciences and Humanities as well as from the manifold perspectives of the Natural Sciences. The book is organized along the following dimensions: Urban Development and Migration Peer Relations in Immigrant Adolescents: Methodological Challenges and Key Findings Migration, Identity, and Belonging Migration in/and Ego Documents Debating Migration Fundamentals of Diffusion and Spread in the Natural Sciences and beyond Media Representations of Migrants and Migration Migration and the Genes
Royal Faces
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain),Hugh Clayton
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain),Hugh Clayton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008463815
Royal Faces by National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain),Hugh Clayton Pdf
Faces of Britain
Howard Thomas,Michael Lewis
Author : Howard Thomas,Michael Lewis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : English language
ISBN : 0906717205