From Bovril To Champagne

Author : Matthew Eastley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781452005829

Get Book

From Bovril to Champagne by Matthew Eastley Pdf

There was a time, not so long ago, when the FA Cup really mattered. When fans would go to extraordinary lengths to get tickets for Wembley and when the biggest teams of the day saw the FA Cup as a 'must have' rather than a 'nice to have.' The 1970s was, quite simply, a fantastic decade for the most famous domestic competition in the world, a decade in which the wonderful 'David and Goliath' stories which were the very essence of the Cup, at last spread themselves to the final itself. Of course, football fans everywhere know the stories. The famous goals by the likes of Porterfield, Stokes, George, Webb and Osborne. The saves by Montgomery, the misses by Macdonald, the flukes by Greenhoff and Kelly and the 'five minutes of madness' of the 1979 final. But what are not known are the stories of the fans who were at Wembley to witness these amazing matches which are so fondly remembered today. This book features, first-hand, exclusive stories from the fans who were there. Fans who defied the FA's patently unfair ticket allocation to get to Wembley. The book features love, tragedy, kinship and loyalty all played out before a backdrop of pop music, television, films, news and politics. It is a book not about players and celebrities but about true football fans, many of whom regard their personal Wembley experience as one of the greatest - or worst - occasions of their life.

Author : Mary Addyman,Laura Wood,Christopher Yiannitsaros
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351727143

Get Book

Food, Drink, and the Written Word in Britain, 1820–1945 by Mary Addyman,Laura Wood,Christopher Yiannitsaros Pdf

This volume explores the intersection between culinary history and literature across a period of profound social and cultural change. Split into four parts, essays focus on the relationships between eating and childhood reading in the Victorian era, the role of hunger in depicting social instability and reform, the cultivation of taste through advertising and the formation of cultural legacies through imaginative and emotional experiences of food and drink. Contributors show that studying consumption is necessary for a full understanding of class, gender, national identity and the body. The works of writers such as Elizabeth Gaskell, Edward Lear, Isabella Beeton and Bram Stoker are considered alongside advice manuals, Home Front narratives and advertising to provide an innovative work that will be of interest to scholars of social, cultural and medical history as well as literary studies.

Author : Matthew Eastley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-04
Category : F.A. Cup (England)
ISBN : 1909626449

Get Book

From Bovril to Champagne by Matthew Eastley Pdf

There was a time, not so long ago, when the FA Cup really mattered. When fans would go to extraordinary lengths to get tickets, and the whole nation seemed to stop for a soccer match when Cup Final day seemingly threw up unlikely dramas every year. "From Bovril to Champagne" articulates this magic through the eyes of the fans who attended games etched into the memories of supporters all over the globe. Volume 1 tells the story of the 1960s, centering around great club sides, previously lesser-known heroes who won the day, and characters such as Everton s joyful pitch invader Eddie Cavanagh. Most important are the stories of the fans who were there inside Wembley. Who were they? How do they look back on those halcyon days? Here s stories of soccer, social change, love, and kinship all played out against a backdrop of pop music, films, and contemporary news."

Author : Derek Cooper
Publisher : Routledge & Kegan Paul Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Cooking
ISBN : CORNELL:31924003560202

Get Book

The Beverage Report by Derek Cooper Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1856 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : COLUMBIA:HR00121193

Get Book

British Medical Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : Hume Nisbet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Australian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105213324952

Get Book

Ashes by Hume Nisbet Pdf

Author : Seán Tobin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : UOM:39015053145309

Get Book

Lady Gregory Autumn Gatherings by Seán Tobin Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2863313

Get Book

The Epicure by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lady Gregory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015037791806

Get Book

Lady Gregory's Diaries, 1892-1902 by Lady Gregory Pdf

These diaries, covering the decade or so following the death of her husband in 1892 until they peter out in 1902, chart the course of Lady Gregory's gradual but remarkable remaking of her life. Widowed at thirty-nine, with a London social circle composed mainly of her husband's friends, broadly Unionist in her political views, and with only a few minor publications to her name, she was by her fiftieth year an influential Nationalist, close friend of the major figures of the Irish literary movement, widely acknowledged as the hostess of a `workshop of genius' at Coole Park, and on the threshold of lasting literary prominence in her own right. The rich account these pages give of Lady Gregory's life in the 1890s and of her deepening friendship with and patronage of W.B.Yeats radically changes the existing image of her evolution as an Irish writer and Nationalist. As the only contemporary diary kept by a major figure in the Irish literary movement during these years, their day-to-day record of the summer visits of Synge, George Moore, AE, Hyde and others to Coole, of the early years of the Irish Literary Theatre, and of the swiftly changing allegiances and tensions in her extensive literary circle, provides a revealing and frequently corrective counterweight to the narratives of these years written long afterwards (in the light of later autobiographical imperatives) by Yeats, Moore, Lady Gregory herself and others.

Author : Stephen Lloyd
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843838982

Get Book

Constant Lambert by Stephen Lloyd Pdf

"To the economist and ballet enthusiast John Maynard Keynes he was potentially the most brilliant man he'd ever met; to Dame Ninette de Valois he was the greatest ballet conductor and advisor this country has ever had; to the composer Denis ApIvor he was the greatest, mostr lovable, and most entertaining personality of the musical world; whilst to the dance critic Clement Crisp he was quite simply a musician of genius. Yet sixty years after his ... death Constant Lambert is little known today. As a composer he is remembered for his jazz-inspired The Rio Grande but little more, and for a man who ... devoted the graeter part of his life to the establishment of English ballet his work is largely unrecognized today. [This book] looks not only at his music but at his journalism, his talks for the BBC, his championing of jazz (in particular, Duke Ellington), and, more privately - his longstanding affair with Margot Fonteyn. ..."--Book jacket.

Author : Steve Cowens
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 830 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781782190769

Get Book

Steel City Rivals - One City. Two Football Clubs, One Mutually Shared Hatred by Steve Cowens Pdf

Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs' supporters berate each other with a venomous passion, their long-running feud intense enough to divide families and workplaces from 1889 to the present day. But why? How does a natural rivalry that, in the 1960s, saw supporters from both clubs going to Hillsborough Stadium (Wednesday's ground) one week then Bramell Lane (home to United) the next turn to such enmity? In Steel City Rivals, authors Cowens (a United supporter) and Cronshaw (Wednesday) leaven their insider knowledge and fan anecdotes with a dark humour and bitter fascination with football violence. The struggle for supremacy between red (United) and blue (Wednesday), between 'blade' and 'owl', is absolute. To the people of Sheffield, Britain's fourth largest city, it's never just a game.

Author : Fiona Ross
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442252301

Get Book

Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes, and Outlaws by Fiona Ross Pdf

Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes and Outlaws is a marvelously funny journey into the gastronomic peccadilloes of the great, the good, and the not-so-good. Based on the findings of the British gastro-detective Fiona Ross, the Dining with Destiny series establishes a new genre: the food biography, with scandals, recipes, and their stories, allowing you to taste the culinary secret lives of presidents and prime ministers; dictators and revolutionaries; heroes and geniuses - and serve them up at your own dinner table. From Winston Churchill to Malcolm X, Golda Meir to Albert Einstein, and more, each of these figures took part in landmark historical and cultural events that have shaped and defined our way of life – but they also had to eat. Now it is time to look at their plates to discover what makes them a revolutionary, a hero, a rogue! Dining with Leaders, Rebels, Heroes and Outlaws lets you taste what’s on Darwin’s fork.

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Rosetta Books
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780795352430

Get Book

The Merry Heart by Robertson Davies Pdf

“A splendid gallimaufry of the eminent Canadian’s talks and essays, mostly about literature and the creative life . . . a thought-filled and amusing book.”—The Washington Post For devotees of Davies and all lovers of literature and language, here is the “urbanity, wit, and high seriousness mixed by a master chef,” vintage delights from an exquisite literary menu (Cleveland Plain Dealer). Robertson Davies’s rich and varied collection of writings on the world of books and the miracle of language captures his inimitable voice and sustains his presence among us. Coming almost entirely from Davies’s own files of unpublished material, these twenty-four essays and lectures range over themes from “The Novelist and Magic” to “Literature and Technology,” from “Painting, Fiction, and Faking,” to “Can a Doctor Be a Humanist?” and “Creativity in Old Age.” Davies himself says merely: “Lucky writers . . . like wine, die rich in fruitiness and delicious aftertaste, so that their works survive them.” “Splendid—wise, witty, wide-ranging.”—The New York Times Book Review “Some of Davies’s ideas are iconoclastic, and will delight those who share them while stimulating those who do not. All his judgments are interesting, steeped in humanism, and most elegantly put.”—The Atlantic Monthly “The inimitable novelist gives an exuberant posthumous performance in this eclectic collection of (mostly) previously unpublished addresses, talks, and incidental pieces . . . Davies diffuses his opinions entertainingly, if occasionally superficially, but never loses his audience.”—Kirkus Reviews

Author : Great Britain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : SRLF:D0000552752

Get Book

The London Gazette by Great Britain Pdf

Author : William Mida
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : Liquor laws
ISBN : UCAL:B4498950

Get Book

Mida's Compendium of Information for the Liquor Interests by William Mida Pdf