Night Song Of The Last Tram

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444719352

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Night Song of the Last Tram - A Glasgow Childhood by Robert Douglas Pdf

This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it is also filled with humorous and happy memories. "Night Song of The Last Tram" is a superb evocation of childhood and of a Glasgow of trams and tenements that has long since disappeared.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
ISBN : 0340838604

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Night Song of the Last Tram by Robert Douglas Pdf

Memoir of growing up in the postwar period in a one room in a Glasgow tenement.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04
Category : Glasgow (Scotland)
ISBN : 0750533382

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Night Song of the Last Tram by Robert Douglas Pdf

This is a wonderfully colourful and deeply poignant memoir of growing up in a 'single end' - one room in a Glasgow tenement - during and immediately after the Second World War. Although young Robert Douglas's life was blighted by the cruel if sporadic presence of his father, it was equally blessed by the love of his mother, Janet. While the story of their life together is in some ways very sad, it is also filled with humorous and happy memories. "Night Song of The Last Tram" is a superb evocation of childhood and of a Glasgow of trams and tenements that has long since disappeared.

Author : Piers Dudgeon
Publisher : Headline
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780755364466

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Our Glasgow by Piers Dudgeon Pdf

This ebook edition contains the full text version as per the book. Doesn't include original photographic and illustrated material. This oral history of Glasgow spans most of the last century - a time of economic downturn and eventual renewal, in which the many communities making up the city experienced upheavals that tore some apart and brought others closer together. It tells of the beating heart of no mean city in the words of the people who made it what it is. Piers Dudgeon has listened to dozens of people who remember the city as it was, and who have lived through its many changes. They talk of childhood and education, of work and entertainment, of family, community values, health, politics, religion and music. Their stories will make you laugh and cry. It is people's own memories that make history real and this engrossing book captures them vividly.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Headline
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755394432

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Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball by Robert Douglas Pdf

Glasgow, 1971. The old way of life is under threat for the tight-knit community in Dalbeattie Street, Maryhill. The shadow of the wrecker's ball looms large over their homes, and they must face the choice of moving to a new estate or dispersing throughout the city. But powerful friendships refuse to be broken. These characters have gone through too much together to be destroyed by some measly planning scheme. They'll face this with the same inimitable Scottish humour and strength of spirit that have carried them through other tough times. Douglas' vivid portrait of Seventies Glasgow recreates, in glorious detail, a particular time and place, but at its heart are the universal themes of love, friendship and community.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Headline
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780755388516

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Whose Turn for the Stairs? by Robert Douglas Pdf

This is an utterly charming story about twelve families and their tightly knit street in 1950s Maryhill. Following the end of the war, the close rebuilds its ties and the strong sense of community and friendly neighbourhood bonds are soon back in place. There is young love for Rhea and Robert; a surprising new start for James; a change of direction for George; and all overseen by the matriarch of the street - Granny Thomson. And of course, all buoyed up by a big helping of Scottish humour and strength of spirit. Yet it is all not perfect in their world: the families have to deal with poverty, religious bigotry, racism, heartbreak, lies, violence and death. But the powerful friendships cannot ultimately be broken. In Robert Douglas's first novel, he recreates a time and place particular to Glasgow but to which everyone will relate.

Author : Eddie Crooks
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781447780274

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Follow the Arrow by Eddie Crooks Pdf

The question, 'Who do you think you are?' is answered by knowing the history of your ancestors. Some know this from ancestral records tracing their family back in time over many generations. For others their family history is lost in the ancient mists of time. This book explores a tenuous trail going back in history when men and women survived or perished on the outcome of conflicts between powerful forces that exerted unconditional control over their fate. The book is built around a time frame spanning more than a millenium. It covers times and events when families were forced to seek new lives, sometimes setting sail to distant lands in search of freedom from hardship and oppression. It is from the consequences of such events that the author's ancestors were forced to leave Ireland during the potato famine in the 19th century to a new life in Scotland. Although this is a personal story it will appeal to readers with an interest in how the past has made them what they are today.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444719345

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At Her Majesty's Pleasure by Robert Douglas Pdf

In the final instalment in his autobiographical trilogy, Robert Douglas takes us through the sixties and into the eighties with his memories of life as a prison officer, and, at the end of his career, as an electricity chargehand driving around the Yorkshire Dales. He tells us of his prison experiences, with anecdotes about many of the most famous criminals in British history -- the Krays, the Richardsons, the Great Train Robbers, Soviet spies and many more. Told in the same endearing and fascinating voice that readers of LAST SONG OF THE NIGHT TRAM and SOMEWHERE TO LAY MY HEAD first fell in love with, this volume continues the story of Robert's remarkable journey of self-education, introducing us to larger-than-life characters on both sides of the bars, and evoking a strong sense of social change as Britain emerged from the post-War gloom into the bright lights of the Beatles years.

Author : David Kynaston
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 717 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802719645

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Family Britain, 1951-1957 by David Kynaston Pdf

As in his highly acclaimed Austerity Britain, David Kynaston invokes an astonishing array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices to drive his narrative of 1950s Britain. The keen-eyed Nella Last shops assiduously at Barrow Market as austerity and rationing gradually give way to relative abundance; housewife Judy Haines, relishing the detail of suburban life, brings up her children in Chingford; the self-absorbed civil servant Henry St John perfects the art of grumbling. These and many other voices give a rich, unsentimental picture of everyday life in the 1950s. Well-known figures are encountered on the way, such as Doris Lessing (joining and later leaving the Communist Party), John Arlott (sticking up on Any Questions? for the rights of homosexuals) and Tiger's Roy of the Rovers (making his goal-scoring debut for Melchester). All this is part of a colourful, unfolding tapestry, in which the great national events - the Tories returning to power, the death of George VI, the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth, the Suez Crisis - jostle alongside everything that gave Britain in the 1950s its distinctive flavour: Butlin's holiday camps, Kenwood food mixers, Hancock's Half-Hour, Ekco television sets, Davy Crockett, skiffle and teddy boys. Deeply researched, David Kynaston's Family Britain offers an unrivalled take on a largely cohesive, ordered, still very hierarchical society gratefully starting to move away from the painful hardships of the 1940s towards domestic ease and affluence.

Author : J. Procter,B. Benwell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137276407

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Reading Across Worlds by J. Procter,B. Benwell Pdf

Combining sustained empirical analysis of reading group conversations with four case studies of classic and contemporary novels: Things Fall Apart, White Teeth, Brick Lane and Small Island, this book pursues what can be gained through a comparative approach to reading and readerships.

Author : J. Lyons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137376800

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America in the British Imagination by J. Lyons Pdf

How was American culture disseminated into Britain? Why did many British citizens embrace American customs? And what picture did they form of American society and politics? This engaging and wide-ranging history explores these and other questions about the U.S.'s cultural and political influence on British society in the post-World War II period.

Author : David Wilson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780233239

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Pain and Retribution by David Wilson Pdf

Today, the Tower of London is a tourist site, home only to the crown jewels, but not long ago the imposing structure held traitors, political prisoners, and more, often on their way to the chopping block. Even outside of this famous building, prisons have changed radically since the Norman Conquest in 1066. In the first book on the history of prisons in Britain, former prison governor and professor of criminology David Wilson offers unrivaled insight into the penal system in England, Scotland, and Wales, charting the rise and fall of forms of punishments that take place behind their walls. Pain and Retribution explores prisons as an institution and examines how they are designed, organized, and managed. Wilson reveals that prisons have to satisfy the demands of three interested parties: the public, from politicians and media commentators to everyday citizens; the prison staff; and the prisoners themselves. He shows how prevailing concerns and issues of the times allow one faction or another to have more power at varying points in history, and he considers how prisons are unable to satisfy all three at the same time—leading to the system being seen as a failure, despite rising numbers of prisoners and growing funds invested in keeping them incarcerated. With intriguing comparisons between the prisons of New York City and Britain and searching questions about the purposes of the current penal system, Pain and Retribution provides unparalleled access to prison landings, staffs, and the people behind the locked doors.

Author : Robert Douglas
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781444719369

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Somewhere To Lay My Head by Robert Douglas Pdf

We left Robert a long way from home, a sixteen-year-old recruit in the RAF. Now, we follow his escape from the Forces (until National Service a few years later!), his return to Glasgow and life down the pit. Once more, Robert's fantastic memory for people, places and anecdotes, combined with an ear for individual voices and the brilliant ability to evoke a bygone sense of community, will enchant his readers and sometimes appal them with the brutality of conditions he experienced.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Russian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015069055625

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Soviet Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1712 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Indexes
ISBN : UOM:39015064843504

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The Times Index by Anonim Pdf

Indexes the Times and its supplements.