The Diaries Of Absalom Watkin

Author : Absalom Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004463423

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The Diaries of Absalom Watkin by Absalom Watkin Pdf

"Absalom Watkin came to Manchester in 1801, a poor boy of fourteen, to work in his uncle's business. Through his eyes we see the growth of Manchester from small manufacturing town to major industrial city and witness the changes that growth imposed on its inhabitants. As a young man, Watkin helped to write the famous Peterloo Protest and also to draw up Manchester's petition in favour of the Great Reform Bill. A sharp and critical observer, he was involved in many of the movements for social reform of his day. His diaries record conversations with famous contemporaries and relate fascinating details of daily living including the prices of food, houses and travel. Although successful in business and public affairs he remained dissatisfied with his own life, unhappy in his marriage and his work, longing, most of all, to write, tend his garden and read alone in his library." "Magdalen Goffin, a descendant of the diarist, has written a commentary which links the diary entries and places them in their historical context. Absalom Watkin's diaries are a valuable social document of an important period in English industrial history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Absalom Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015032740121

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The Diaries of Absalom Watkin by Absalom Watkin Pdf

"Absalom Watkin came to Manchester in 1801, a poor boy of fourteen, to work in his uncle's business. Through his eyes we see the growth of Manchester from small manufacturing town to major industrial city and witness the changes that growth imposed on its inhabitants. As a young man, Watkin helped to write the famous Peterloo Protest and also to draw up Manchester's petition in favour of the Great Reform Bill. A sharp and critical observer, he was involved in many of the movements for social reform of his day. His diaries record conversations with famous contemporaries and relate fascinating details of daily living including the prices of food, houses and travel. Although successful in business and public affairs he remained dissatisfied with his own life, unhappy in his marriage and his work, longing, most of all, to write, tend his garden and read alone in his library." "Magdalen Goffin, a descendant of the diarist, has written a commentary which links the diary entries and places them in their historical context. Absalom Watkin's diaries are a valuable social document of an important period in English industrial history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Geoff Scargill
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526792785

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Victoria's Railway King by Geoff Scargill Pdf

The accomplishments and initiatives, both social and economic, of Edward Watkin are almost too many to relate. Though generally known for his large-scale railway projects, becoming chairman of nine different British railway companies as well as developing railways in Canada, the USA, Greece, India and the Belgian Congo, he was also responsible for a stream of remarkable projects in the nineteenth century which helped shape people’s lives inside and outside Britain. As well as holding senior positions with the London and North Western Railway, the Worcester and Hereford Railway and the Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, Watkin became president of the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada. He was also director of the New York, Lake Erie and Western Railways, as well as the Athens–Piraeus Railway. Watkin was also the driving force in the creation of the Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway’s ‘London Extension’ – the Great Central Main Line down to Marylebone in London. This, though, was only one part of his great ambition to have a high-speed rail link from Manchester to Paris and ultimately to India. This, of course, involved the construction of a Channel tunnel. Work on this began on both sides of the Channel in 1880 but had to be abandoned due to the fear of invasion from the Continent. He also purchased an area of Wembley Park, serviced by an extension of his Metropolitan Railway. He developed the park into a pleasure and events destination for urban Londoners, which later became the site of Wembley Stadium. It was also the site of another of Watkin’s enterprises, the ‘Great Tower in London’ which was designed to be higher than the Eiffel Tower but was never completed. Little, though, is known about Watkin’s personal life, which is explored here through the surviving diaries he kept. The author, who is the chair of The Watkin Society, which aims to promote Watkin’s life and achievements, has delved into the mind of one of the nineteenth century’s outstanding individuals.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : David Trutt
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Derbyshire (England)
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Haddon Hall's Poems An Afterword by Anonim Pdf

Author : John BRIGHT (Right Hon.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0017820074

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The Letter of John Bright, Esq., M.P. [to Absalom Watkin], on the War, Verified and Illustrated by Extracts from the Parliamentary Documents, &c. [With the Text of the Letter.] by John BRIGHT (Right Hon.) Pdf

Author : Richard Cobden
Publisher : Oxford University Press (UK)
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199211975

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The Letters of Richard Cobden by Richard Cobden Pdf

The third volume of Cobden's Letters covers the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the preliminary negotiations over the Anglo-French Commercial Treaty of 1860. It reveals the tension between public and private life experienced by Cobden from 1854 until 1859.

Author : Absalom Watkin,A. E. Watkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Businessmen
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036947906

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Absalom Watkin by Absalom Watkin,A. E. Watkin Pdf

Author : Emma Griffin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0197263216

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England's Revelry by Emma Griffin Pdf

Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes.

Author : Tamara L. Hunt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351945646

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Defining John Bull by Tamara L. Hunt Pdf

Late Georgian England was a period of great social and political change, yet whether this was for good or for ill was by no means clear to many Britons. In such an era of innovation and revolution, Britons faced the task of deciding which ideals, goals and attitudes most closely fitted their own conception of the nation for which they struggled and fought; the controversies of the era thus forced ordinary people to define an identity that they believed embodied the ideal of 'Britishness' to which they could adhere in this period of uncertainty. Defining John Bull demonstrates that caricature played a vital role in this redefinition of what it meant to be British. During the reign of George III, the public's increasing interest in political controversies meant that satirists turned their attention to the individuals and issues involved. Since this long reign was marked by political crises, both foreign and domestic, caricaturists responded with an outpouring of work that led the era to be called the 'golden age' of caricature. Thus, many and varied prints, produced in response to public demands and sensitive to public attitudes, provide more than simply a record of what interested Britons during the late Georgian era. In the face of domestic and foreign challenges that threatened to shake the very foundations of existing social and political structures, the public struggled to identify those ideals, qualities and characteristics that seemed to form the basis of British society and culture, and that were the bedrock upon which the British polity rested. During the course of this debate, the iconography used to depict it in graphic satire changed to reflect shifts in or the redefinition of existing ideals. Thus, caricature produced during the reign of George III came to visually express new concepts of Britishness.

Author : Paul Pickering,Alex Tyrell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567204974

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The People's Bread by Paul Pickering,Alex Tyrell Pdf

Formed in 1839, the Anti-Corn Law League was one of the most important campaigns to introduce the ideas of economic liberalism into mainstream political discourse in Britain. Its aspiration for free trade played a crucial role in defining the agenda of nineteenth-century liberalism and shaping the modern British state. Its faith in the free market still resonates in Britain's public policy debates today. This is the first comprehensive study of the League which makes use of recent methodological developments in social history.

Author : Katrina Navickas
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191565502

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Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 by Katrina Navickas Pdf

Loyalism and Radicalism in Lancashire, 1798-1815 is a lively and detailed account of popular politics in Lancashire during the later years of the French Revolution and during the Napoleonic wars. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, such as letters, diaries, and broadside ballads, it offers fresh insights into the complicated dynamics between radicalism, loyalism, and patriotism, and emphasises Lancashire's distinctive political culture and its place at the heart of the industrial revolution. This region witnessed some of the most intense, disruptive, and violent popular politics in this period and beyond. Highly active and vocal groups emerged - extreme republicans, more moderate radicals, Luddites, early trade unionists, and also strong networks of 'Church-and-King' loyalists and Orange lodges. Katrina Navickas explains how this heady mix created a politically charged region where both local and national affairs played their part. She follows the inner workings of popular political activity in response to both internal and external threats, including loyalist processions and civic events, volunteer corps formed as defence against invasion, food riots, strikes by trade unions, and both secret and public meetings on the key issues of peace and parliamentary reform. Navickas argues for a distinct sense of regional identity that shaped not only local politics but also patriotism. Lancastrians felt British in the face of the French, but it was a particularly Lancastrian type of Britishness.

Author : Paul A. Pickering,Alex Tyrrell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351948975

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Contested Sites by Paul A. Pickering,Alex Tyrrell Pdf

The second half of the nineteenth century witnessed a new phenomenon in public monuments and civic ornamentation. Whereas in former times public statuary had customarily been reserved for 'warriors and statesmen, kings and rulers of men', a new trend was emerging for towns to commemorate their own citizens. As the subjects immortalised in stone and bronze broadened beyond the traditional ruling classes to include radicals and reformers, it necessitated a corresponding widening of the language and understanding of public statuary. Contested Sites explores the role of these commemorations in radical public life in Britain. Despite recent advances in the understanding of the importance of symbols in public discourse, political monuments have received little attention from historians. This is to be regretted, for commemorations are statements of public identity and memory that have their politics; they are 'embedded in complex class, gender and power relations that determine what is remembered (or forgotten)'. Examining monuments, plaques and tombstones commemorating a variety of popular movements and reforming individuals, the contributions in Contested Sites reveal the relations that went into the making of public memory in modern Britain and its radical tradition.

Author : Malcolm Chase
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781847791368

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Chartism by Malcolm Chase Pdf

Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.

Author : Simon Morgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351903615

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Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Liberalism by Simon Morgan Pdf

Richard Cobden (1804-65) rose from humble beginnings to become the leading advocate of nineteenth-century free-trade and liberalism. As a fierce opponent of the Corn Laws and promoter of international trade he rapidly became an influential figure on the national stage, whose name became a byword for political and economic reform. Yet despite the familiarity with which contemporaries and historians refer to 'Cobdenism' his ideals and beliefs are not always easy to identify and classify in a coherent way. Indeed, as this volume makes clear, the variety, diversity and malleability of the 'Cobdenite project' attest to the lack of a strict dogma and highlight Cobden's underlying pragmatism. Divided into five sections, this collection of essays offers a timely reassessment of Cobden's career, its impact and legacy in the two hundred years since his birth. Beginning with an investigation into the intellectual and cultural background to his emergence as a national political figure, the volume then looks at Cobden's impact on the making of Victorian liberal politics. The third section examines Cobden's wider influence in Europe, particularly the impact of his tour of 1846-47 which was in many ways a defining moment not only in the making of Cobden's liberalism but in the making of liberal Europe. Section four broadens the theme of Cobden's contemporary impact, including his contribution to the debate on peace, internationalism and the American Civil War; whilst the final section opens up the theme of Cobden's contested legacy, the variety of interpretations of Cobden's ideas and their influence on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century politics. Offering a broad yet coherent investigation of the 'Cobdenite project' by leading international scholars, this volume provides a fascinating insight into one of the nineteenth century's most important figures whose ideas still resonate today.

Author : K. Downing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137348951

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Restless Men by K. Downing Pdf

Robinson Crusoe's call to adventure and do-it-yourself settlement resonated with British explorers. In tracing the links in a discursive chain through which a particular male subjectivity was forged, Karen Downing reveals how such men took their tensions with them to Australia, so that the colonies never were a solution to restless men's anxieties.