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Author : Ian Littlechilds,Phil Page
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445640938
A fascinating look at this industrial route from Bugsworth basin to Manchester
Author : Archibald Prentice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Manchester (Eng.)
ISBN : WISC:89092568039
Author : Ian Littlechilds,Phil Page
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445651378
Explore Stockport’s secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author : Phil Page,Ian Littlechilds
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445640280
Explore Manchester’s secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Author : Stuart Hylton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752494012
Did You Know? In 1824 a Pendleton tollkeeper set up Britain’s first true public bus service, thought to be one of the first in the world. Communism can claim to have been conceived, if not born, in Manchester as Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx used to meet in the city. Manchester has the grim distinction of being the place where the first death of the English Civil War occurred. The Little Book of Manchester is an intriguing, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of places, people and events in the city, from its Roman origins to the present day. Here you can read about the important contributions the city made to the history of the nation, learn about the individual communities and how they came together to form the modern city and meet some of the great men and women, the eccentrics and the scoundrels with which its history is littered. A reliable reference book and quirky guide, its bite-sized chunks of history can be dipped into time and again to reveal some new facts about the story of this amazing city. This is a remarkably engaging little book.
Author : Philip Shenon
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429943697
A groundbreaking, explosive account of the Kennedy assassination that will rewrite the history of the 20th century's most controversial murder investigation The questions have haunted our nation for half a century: Was the President killed by a single gunman? Was Lee Harvey Oswald part of a conspiracy? Did the Warren Commission discover the whole truth of what happened on November 22, 1963? Philip Shenon, a veteran investigative journalist who spent most of his career at The New York Times, finally provides many of the answers. Though A Cruel and Shocking Act began as Shenon's attempt to write the first insider's history of the Warren Commission, it quickly became something much larger and more important when he discovered startling information that was withheld from the Warren Commission by the CIA, FBI and others in power in Washington. Shenon shows how the commission's ten-month investigation was doomed to fail because the man leading it – Chief Justice Earl Warren – was more committed to protecting the Kennedy family than getting to the full truth about what happened on that tragic day. A taut, page-turning narrative, Shenon's book features some of the most compelling figures of the twentieth century—Bobby Kennedy, Jackie Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Chief Justice Warren, CIA spymasters Allen Dulles and Richard Helms, as well as the CIA's treacherous "molehunter," James Jesus Angleton. Based on hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to the surviving commission staffers and many other key players, Philip Shenon's authoritative, scrupulously researched book will forever change the way we think about the Kennedy assassination and about the deeply flawed investigation that followed. A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2013
Author : Elliott O'Donnell
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1915-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001287002
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521129362
Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521058317
Nicoll's History, which tells the story of English drama from the reopening of the theatres at the time of the Restoration right through to the end of the Victorian period, was viewed by Notes and Queries (1952) as 'a great work of exploration, a detailed guide to the untrodden acres of our dramatic history, hitherto largely ignored as barren and devoid of interest'.
Author : Phil Page
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781445697758
A fascinating exploration of Stockport’s architectural treasures and notable landmarks from across the centuries.
Author : Tim Newark
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781510723474
Sometimes the best intentions can have the worst results. In 1908, British reformers banned the export of Indian opium to China. As a result, the world price of opium soared to a new high and a century of lucrative drug smuggling began. Just as the banning of alcohol in America during Prohibition made illicit fortunes for the Mafia and other gangsters, organized criminals grew rich on the trade of illegal narcotics throughout the British Empire. Empire of Crime introduces the reader to a whole new collection of heroes and villains, including US international drug-buster Harry J. Anslinger, Shanghai underworld master criminal Du Yue-sheng, and tough North-West Frontier police chief Lieutenant-Colonel Roos-Keppel, nemesis of Afghan criminal gangs. The book shows how gangsters exploited the Empire’s global trade routes to establish criminal networks across the world. In many ways, these early drug dealers were the forerunners of today’s cartels. Digging deep into colonial archives, author Tim Newark weaves hidden reports, secret government files and personal letters together with first-hand accounts to tell this epic but little-known story of the battle between law enforcement and organized crime.
Author : Geoff McNamara
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387765624
Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron stars, the collapsed cores of once massive stars that ended their lives as supernova explosions. In this book, Geoff McNamara explores the history, subsequent discovery and contemporary research into pulsar astronomy. The story of pulsars is brought right up to date with the announcement in 2006 of a new breed of pulsar, Rotating Radio Transients (RRATs), which emit short bursts of radio signals separated by long pauses. These may outnumber conventional radio pulsars by a ratio of four to one. Geoff McNamara ends by pointing out that, despite the enormous success of pulsar research in the second half of the twentieth century, the real discoveries are yet to be made including, perhaps, the detection of the hypothetical pulsar black hole binary system by the proposed Square Kilometre Array - the largest single radio telescope in the world.
Author : Michael Billington
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750988629
The townships of Urmston, Flixton and Davyhulme nestle neatly in a triangular area bordered on the south by the River Mersey, on the north-west by the River Irwell/Manchester Ship Canal and on the east by the M60 motorway. In this, the first substantial book on the area since 1898, local historian Michael Billington draws on census records, newspaper reports, antiquarian books, church accounts, Victorian church magazines, trial records, OS maps, burial records, Industrial School Act records and conversations with local historians and residents. The author, himself an Urmstonian, takes the reader on a journey of discovery in his portrayal of old houses (many now demolished due to disrepair or to make way for the motorway), churches, farms, weaving, the arrival of the railway, children and education, entertainment, sport, customs, culture, the war years and more. There are many previously unpublished photographs, maps and stories to take older residents on a nostalgic journey down memory lane whilst also introducing younger readers to a fascinating trio of townships some seven miles or so to the south-west of Manchester, itself immersed in the glory of the Industrial Revolution.
Author : Till Geiger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954761
Many accounts of British development since 1945 have attempted to discover why Britain experienced slower rates of economic growth than other Western European countries. In many cases, the explanation for this phenomenon has been attributed to the high level of defence spending that successive British post-war governments adhered to. Yet is it fair to assume that Britain's relative economic decline could have been prevented if policy makers had not spent so much on defence? Examining aspects of the political economy and economic impact of British defence expenditure in the period of the first cold war (1945-1955), this book challenges these widespread assumptions, looking in detail at the link between defence spending and economic decline. In contrast to earlier studies, Till Geiger not only analyses the British effort within the framework of Anglo-American relations, but also places it within the wider context of European integration. By reconsidering the previously accepted explanation of the economic impact of the British defence effort during the immediate post-war period, this book convincingly suggests that British foreign policy-makers retained a large defence budget to offset a sense of increased national vulnerability, brought about by a reduction in Britain's economic strength due to her war effort. Furthermore, it is shown that although this level of military spending may have slightly hampered post-war recovery, it was not in itself responsible for the decline of the British economy.
