Radical Newcastle

Author : James Bennett,Nancy Cushing,Erik Eklund
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742241968

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Radical Newcastle by James Bennett,Nancy Cushing,Erik Eklund Pdf

The Star Hotel in Newcastle has become a site of defiance for the marginalized young and dispossessed working class. To understand the whole story of the Star Hotel riot, it should be seen in the context of other moments of resistance such as the 1890 Maritime Strike, Rothbury miners' lockout in 1929 and the recent battle for the Laman Street fig trees. As Australia’s first industrial city, Newcastle is also a natural home of radicalism but until now, the stories which reveal its breadth and impact have remained untold. Radical Newcastlebrings together short illustrated essays from leading scholars, local historians and present day radicals to document both the iconic events of the region’s radical past, and less well known actions seeking social justice for workers, women, Aboriginal people and the environment

Author : James Bennett,Nancy Cushing,Erik Carl Eklund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Newcastle (N.S.W.)
ISBN : 1742247237

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Radical Newcastle by James Bennett,Nancy Cushing,Erik Carl Eklund Pdf

Author : Richard F. Stevenson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752493824

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The Newcastle Book of Days by Richard F. Stevenson Pdf

Taking you through the year day by day, The Newcastle Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods in the history of the city. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Newcastle’s archives and covering the social, criminal, political, religious, industrial, military and sporting history of the region, it will delight residents and visitors alike.

Author : Bill Purdue
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445609348

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Newcastle The Biography by Bill Purdue Pdf

The story of the city of Newcastle, from its earliest origins in Roman Britain to the present day.

Author : Ian Haywood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317234487

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Chartist Fiction by Ian Haywood Pdf

First published in 1999. For the first time since their appearance in Chartist newspapers these two major radical narratives are reprinted in a single volume. The Political Pilgrim’s Progress combines Utopian politics with Bunyanesque satire to tell the story of the journey of Radical and his family from the City of Plunder to the City of Reform. Sunshine and Shadow is the only serialized novel to have been published in the Northern Star. It brings together fictional biography and historical chronicle to form the first truly working-class novel. Both texts offer a unique insight into the literary achievements of the Chartist movement, and will be a valuable and entertaining source for scholars of radical politics. The texts are fully annotated, and the editor also provides an introduction to each story and a bibliography of recent scholarship.

Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882954

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The English Town, 1680-1840 by Rosemary Sweet Pdf

An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller communities as well as the larger industrialising towns. Among the issues examined are demography, social stratification, manners, religion, gender, dissent, amenities and entertainment, and the resilience of provincial culture in the face of the growing influence of London. At its heart is an authoritative study of urban politics: the structures of authority, the realities of civic administration, and the general movement for reform that climaxed in the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835.

Author : H. T. Dickinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317882688

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Britain and the American Revolution by H. T. Dickinson Pdf

This is the first modern study to focus on the British dimension of the American Revolution through its whole span from its origins to the declaration of independence in 1776 and its aftermath. It is written by nine leading British and American scholars who explore many key issues including the problems governing the American colonies, Britain's diplomatic isolation in Europe over the war, the impact of the American crisis on Ireland and the consequences for Britain of the loss of America.

Author : Elizabeth Crawford
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136010620

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The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland by Elizabeth Crawford Pdf

In this comprehensive study, Elizabeth Crawford provides the first survey of women’s suffrage campaigns across the British Isles and Ireland, focusing on local campaigns and activists. Divided into thirteen sections covering the regions of England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland, this book gives a unique geographical dimension to debates on the suffrage campaign of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Through a study of the grass-roots activists involved in the movement, Crawford provides a counter to studies that have focused on the politics and personalities that dominated at a national level, and reveals that, far from providing merely passive backing to the cause, women in the regions were engaged in the movement as active participants Including a thorough inventory of archival sources and extensive bibliographical and biographical references for each region, including the addresses of campaigners, this guide is essential for researchers, scholars, local historians and students alike.

Author : James R. Moore
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0754650006

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The Transformation of Urban Liberalism by James R. Moore Pdf

The Transformation of Urban Liberalism re-evaluates the dramatic and turbulent political decade following the 'third Reform Act', and questions whether the Liberal Party's political heartlands - the urban boroughs - really were in decline. Using parallel case studies, James Moore illustrates how the party gradually began to transform into a social democratic organisation through a re-evaluation of its role and policy direction. This process was heavily influenced by 'grass roots politics', suggesting that late Victorian politics was more democratic and open than sometimes thought.

Author : Paul L Dawson
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399096362

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Fighting Napoleon at Home by Paul L Dawson Pdf

From the sun-baked sierras of Spain, through the stormy waters off Cape Trafalgar to the muddy and bloody fields of Waterloo, Britain’s soldiers and sailors were notching up victories which set the country on the path to becoming the greatest power on the planet. We like to imagine the country was unified against a common enemy, France, and the Tyrant of Europe – Napoleon. Yet if we scratch the surface, we find a nation not just at war with France but with itself. The great successes of Wellington and Nelson, and the glamour of Regency London, cover over the cracks of a divided society, of riots across the industrial north and widespread political opposition. Huge swathes of the country hated the war, booed and hissed at soldiers and ‘lobbed turds’ at the Scots Greys in Halifax. There were repeated ‘Peace Petitions’ which sought to stop the war – and even to prevent the British Army fighting at Waterloo. Armed Associations of gentlemen volunteers and Local Militias led the call to close down the debate on social and democratic reform, while on the other hand thousands of English reformers heeded the call from France and hundreds actually headed to France, with many thousands more believing that the time had come, when its young men were needed to fight for King and Country, for reform. The burgeoning middle class had no vote in parliament; rapidly expanding industrial towns and cities had no MPs, yet small villages – pocket boroughs – often had two. The burden of taxation fell on those least able to afford it; enclosure of common land; corn laws; restrictions on the freedom of expression; the endless killing, all fed into an undercurrent of political dissent that was ideologically opposed to the loyalist cause. It was a battle for the very sole of Britain. For the first time, the shocking reality of life in Britain, during what is often portrayed as being its greatest era, is told through diaries, letters, and newspaper comments. Fighting Napoleon at Home is a startling portrayal of the society from which the soldiers and sailors were drawn and exactly what it was they were fighting to defend. It will become essential reading for anyone attempting to understand why Britain’s aristocracy had to stop Napoleon at any cost and suppress the dangerous ideals of liberté, égalité, fraternité.

Author : Ann Curthoys,Joy Damousi
Publisher : NewSouth
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781742241777

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What Did You Do in the Cold War Daddy? by Ann Curthoys,Joy Damousi Pdf

The Cold War was a turbulent time to grow up in. Family ties were tested, friendships were torn apart and new beliefs forged out of the ruins of old loyalties. In this book, through twelve evocative stories of childhood and early adulthood in Australia during the Cold War years, writers from vastly different backgrounds explore how global political events affected the intimate space of home, family life and friendships. Some writers were barely in their teens when they felt the first touches of their parents’ political lives, both on the Left and the Right. Others grew up in households well attuned to activism across the spectrum, including anti-communism, workers’ rights, anti-Vietnam War, anti-apartheid and women’s rights. Sifting through the key political and social developments in Australia from the end of World War II to the early 1990s, including the referendum to ban the Communist Party of Australia, the rise of ‘the Movement’ and the Labor split, and post-war migration, this book is a powerful and poignant telling of the ways in which the political is personal.

Author : Anne Laurence
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0861932161

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Parliamentary Army Chaplains, 1642-1651 by Anne Laurence Pdf

A comprehensive study of the careers, qualifications, duties, and activities of chaplains serving in all the various parliamentary armies ... A work of impressive scholarship which will remain an invaluable guide for all future research on the parliamentary armies. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORYAuthor Anne Laurence sets out to determine whether parliamentary army chaplains were responsible for the spread of radicalism in the Parliamentary forces.

Author : Ian R. Christie
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520372245

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Myth and Reality In Late Eighteenth Century British Politics by Ian R. Christie Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1970.

Author : Michael Scrivener
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780271076225

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Seditious Allegories by Michael Scrivener Pdf

The multifaceted career of John Thelwall (1764-1834)—poet, novelist, playwright, journalist, politician, scientist—is the lens through which we are offered here a new look at the phenomenon of British Jacobinism, long distorted by the critical view of it as intellectually weak bequeathed to us by Coleridge and Wordsworth, once Jacobins themselves. This book, the first on Thelwall in almost one hundred years, combines literary analysis and historical description to show how this innovative political activist remained true to his radicalism while adapting his methods in the face of the anti-Jacobin reaction that Paine's The Rights of Man helped set off. The three parts of the book set Thelwall's achievements and challenges in the political and literary context of his times. Part One, "Jacobin(s) Writing," focuses on the most essential aspects, ideologically and formally, of the insurgent writing of the 1790s to which Thelwall contributed. Part Two, "The Voice of the People," treats both Thelwall's radical oratory and journalism, as well as his writings and activities as a natural scientist and rhetorician, a professor and technician of "elocution." Part Three, "Jacobin Allegory," expounds on Thelwall's characteristic strategy of indirect expression through synecdoche and allegory, which he used in his later career after repression forced him out of politics. Through Thelwall's life Michael Scrivener succeeds in revealing how British Jacobinism reshaped the public sphere, initiating numerous literary experiments with oratory, pamphlets, periodicals, popularizations, and songs in the spaces opened up by political associations, lectures, meetings, and trials. Jacobinism thus altered the very institutions of reading and writing by expanding literacy, restructuring the popular arena for reading, and generating a body of diverse texts that were "seditious allegories."

Author : Henry Whitten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Home rule
ISBN : OXFORD:591050334

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A key to the difficulty. Home rule: a criticism and an alternative scheme by Henry Whitten Pdf