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Author : Paul Lanagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06
Category : Fairs
ISBN : 0955505909
Originating as a temperance festival in 1882, Newcastle's Hoppings Fair has become Europe's largest fairground. This book examines the rich history of this unique event.
Author : Frank Baron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Festivals
ISBN : IND:39000005569780
Author : Louis Rice,David Littlefield
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317593553
Transgression means to 'cross over': borders, disciplines, practices, professions, and legislation. This book explores how the transgression of boundaries produces new forms of architecture, education, built environments, and praxis. Based on material from the 10th International Conference of the AHRA, this volume presents contributions from academics, practicing architects and artists/activists from around the world to provide perspectives on emerging and transgressive architecture. Divided into four key themes – boundaries, violations, place and art practice - it explores global processes, transformative praxis and emerging trends in architectural production, examining alternative and radical ways of practicing architecture and reimagining the profession. The wide range of international contributors are drawn from subject areas such as architecture, cultural geography, urban studies, sociology, fine art, film-making, photography, and environmentalism, and feature examples from regions such as the United States, Europe and Asia. At the forefront of exploring inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary research and practice, Transgression will be key reading for students, researchers and professionals with an interest in the changing nature of architectural and spatial disciplines.
Author : Noreen Masud
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781685890254
"sorrowful, tender...beautiful." – The New York Times Book Review “...arresting and memorable….Masud both finds a way to comprehend her own story and establishes a strong voice that confirms her as a significant chronicler of personal and national experience.” – Financial Times "Sharply, subtly, and very movingly, Masud thinks with places, seeking as she does to find a way back into, and then out of, the traumas of her early life." - Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland: A Deep Time Journey A surprising and lyrical journey—part memoir, part nature book—meditating on the meaning of "flatness" and its literary tradition to find ways to understand ourselves and our trauma in one of nature’s most undervalued wonders. For readers of Robert Macfarlane, G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn, Amy Liptrot's The Outrun, and Richard Mabey's Nature Cure Does the concept of "flat" have an undeservedly bad rap? There are centuries’ worth of adoration for rolling hills and dramatic, mountainous landscapes. In contrast, flat landscapes are forgettable and seemingly unworthy of poetic or artistic attention. Noreen Masud suffers from complex post-traumatic stress disorder: the product of a profoundly disrupted and unstable childhood. It flattens her emotions, blanks out parts of her memory, and colours her world with anxiety. Undertaking a pilgrimage around Britain's flatlands, seeking solace and belonging, she weaves her impressions of the natural world with poetry, folklore and history, and with recollections of her own early life. Masud's British-Pakistani heritage makes her a partial outsider in these landscapes: both coloniser and colonised, inheritor and dispossessed. Here violence lies beneath the fantasy of pastoral innocence, and histories of harm are interwoven with nature's power to heal. Here, as in her own family history, are many stories that resist the telling. She pursues these paradoxes fearlessly across the flat, haunted spaces she loves, offering a startlingly strange, vivid and intimate account of the land beneath her feet. Masud combines memoir, nature writing, and literary reflection to explore what can be drawn from these powerful places, and to understand her own experience of complex trauma and post-traumatic stress, as well as grief and loss. A Flat Place is a book that drives to the heart of what it means to experience place — bodily and psychologically — and the healing properties of literature and landscape.
Author : Harry Pearson
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780349139708
Following his acclaimed book about football in the north-east,THE FAR CORNER, Harry Pearson vowed that his next project would not involve hanging around outdoors on days so cold that itinerant dogs had to be detached from lamp-posts by firemen. It would be about the summer: specifically, about a summer of shows and fairs in the north of England. Encompassing such diverse talents as fell-running, tupperware-boxing and rabbit fancying (literally), and containing many more jokes about goats than is legal in the Isle of Man, Racing Pigs and Giant Marrows is without doubt the only book in existence to explain the design faults of earwigs and expose English farmers' fondness for transvestism. Warm, wise and very funny, it confirms increasing suspicions that Harry Pearson is really quite good.
Author : Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781904098560
The threats from global cultural change and abandonment of traditional landscape management increased in the last half of the twentieth century and ten years into the twenty-first century show no signs of slowing down. Their impacts on global biodiversity and on people disconnected from their traditional landscapes pose real and serious economic and social problems which need to be addressed now. The End of Tradition conference held in Sheffield, UK, was organised by Ian D. Rotherham and colleagues. It addressed the fundamental issues of whether we can conserve the biodiversity of wonderful and iconic landscapes and reconnect people to their natural environment. And, if we can, how can we do so and make them relevant for the twenty-first century. The book is in two parts: Part 1. A History of Commons and Commons Management and Part 2. Commons: Current Management and Problems.
Author : Jo Bath
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750958585
Voices of Geordie Childhood is a remarkable compilation of oral history extracts drawn from the extensive Beamish Museum Audio Archive, revealing what childhood was like as recalled by over one hundred Tynesiders born at the turn of the century and onwards.Vivid memories are recounted, including stories of family and friends, of play, school, home and work, of sheltering from air raids and trips to the seaside. This delightful compendium of memories offers a child’s-eye view of life, from staying in hospital to making Christmas decorations, from watching street entertainers to wearing charity boots – revealing a Geordie childhood now fading from memory.Richly illustrated with over sixty pictures from the museum archive, many previously unpublished, this volume is sure to bring back wonderful reminiscences of childhood, and jog memories for those who grew up in Tyne and Wear.
Author : Christopher Rodgers,Rachel Hammersley,Alessandro Zambelli,Emma Cheatle,John Wedgwood Clarke,Sarah Collins,Olivia Dee,Siobhan O’Neill
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781000999976
The book presents a novel examination of urban commons which provides a robust base for education initiatives and future public policy guidance on the protection and use of urban commons as invaluable urban green spaces that offer a diverse cultural and ecological resource for future communities. The book's central argument is that only through a deep understanding of the past and a rigorous engagement with present users, can we devise new futures or imaginaries of culture, well-being and diversity for the urban commons. It argues that understanding the genesis of, and interactions between, the different pressures on urban green space has important policy implications for the delivery of nature conservation, recreational access and other land use priorities. The stakeholders in today’s urban commons, whether land users, policy makers or the public, are the inheritors of a complex cultural legacy and must negotiate diverse and sometimes conflicting objectives in their pursuit of a potentially unifying goal: a secure future for our urban commons. The book offers a unique and strongly interdisciplinary study of urban commons, one that brings together original historical investigation, contemporary legal scholarship, extensive oral history research with user groups, and research examining the imagined futures for the urban common in modern society. It explores the complex social and political history of the urban common, as well as its legal and cultural status today, using four diverse case studies from within England as exemplars of the distinctively urban common. These are Town Moor in Newcastle, Mousehold Heath in Norwich, Clifton and Durdham Downs in Bristol and Valley Gardens in Brighton. The book concludes by looking forward and considering new tools and methods of negotiation, inclusivity and creativity to inform the future of these case studies, and of urban commons more widely. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of the commons, green spaces, urban planning, environmental and urban geography, environmental studies and natural resource management.
Author : Rob Kirkup
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780750952415
From reports of haunted castles, pubs, theaters, and shopping arcades, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists, and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly Tyne & Wear investigates 30 of the most haunted locations in Tyne & Wear today. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this selection includes a phantom highwayman at Blacksmith’s Table Restaurant in Washington, a Carry On film legend who haunts the Empire Theatre in Sunderland, a mischievous poltergeist at the the Central Arcade in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, as well as sightings of phantom soldiers at Arbeia Roman Fort in South Shields. Illustrated with more than 60 photographs, together with location and access details for each location, this book is sure to appeal all those interested in finding out more about the area’s haunted heritage.
Author : Mark Bowden,Graham Brown,Nicky Smith
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848021761
This is the first published overview of the archaeology of urban common land. By recognising that urban common land represents a valid historical entity, this book contributes towards successful informed conservation. It contains a variety of interesting and illuminating illustrations, including contemporary and archive photographs. Historically, towns in England were provided with common lands for grazing the draft animals of townspeople engaged in trade and for the pasturing of farm animals in an economy where the rural and the urban were inextricably mixed. The commons yielded wood, minerals, fruits and wild animals to the town's inhabitants and also developed as places of recreation and entertainment, as extensions of domestic and industrial space, and as an arena for military, religious and political activities. However, town commons have been largely disregarded by historians and archaeologists; the few remaining urban commons are under threat and are not adequately protected, despite recognition of their wildlife and recreational value. In 2002, English Heritage embarked upon a project to study town commons in England, to match its existing initiatives in other aspects of the urban scene. The aim was to investigate, through a representative sample, the archaeological content and Historic Environment value of urban commons in England and to prompt appropriate conservation strategies for them. The resulting book is the first overview of the archaeology of town commons - a rich resource because of the relatively benign traditional land-use of commons, which preserves the physical evidence of past activities, including prehistoric and Roman remains as well as traces of common use itself. The recognition of town commons as a valid historical entity and a valued part of the modern urban environment is an important first step towards successful informed conservation. An important consideration for the future is maintaining the character of town commons as a different sort of urban open space, distinct from parks and public gardens.
Author : Stanly Stephen
Publisher : Stanly Stephen
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Welcome to the enchanting world of Newcastle Upon Tyne, as envisioned by the author Stanly Stephen in his comprehensive guide, "Explore Newcastle Upon Tyne." This book is not just a travel guide; it's a Geordie adventure, offering a vivid tapestry of the city's rich history, vibrant culture, and contemporary charm. Introduction: The journey begins with an engaging introduction, setting the stage for an exploration of Newcastle Upon Tyne. The author invites readers to delve into the contrasting yet charming essence of this city, with a brief overview of its rich history, including the monumental Hadrian's Wall and its industrial legacy. The narrative unfolds, highlighting how Newcastle has evolved into a cultural hub where creativity knows no bounds. Chapter 1: History of Newcastle upon Tyne - A City of Contrasts and Charm 1.1 Rich History: Uncover the layers of Newcastle's past, from medieval times to its modern-day identity. 1.2 Hadrian's Wall: Explore the remnants of this ancient boundary that once marked the northern limits of the Roman Empire. 1.3 Industrial Legacy: Witness the transformative impact of the Industrial Revolution on the cityscape. 1.4 The Cultural Hub of Newcastle: Immerse yourself in the thriving arts scene that makes Newcastle a haven for creative expression. Chapter 2: Embracing Life in Newcastle upon Tyne - A Geordie Adventure 2.1 City of Warmth and Friendliness: Experience the famed Geordie hospitality that sets the tone for a welcoming stay. 2.2 Markets and Festivals: Join the celebrations that define life in Newcastle, from bustling markets to lively festivals. 2.3 Football Fever: Unleash Newcastle United fans' passion and feel the city's pulse during match days. 2.4 Gigs and Nights Out Let the music resonate through the air as you explore the city's vibrant nightlife. 2.5 City of Learning: Discover Newcastle as a hub for students and scholars, fostering intellectual growth. 2.6 Navigating Newcastle: Get practical insights with a guide to the city's transport facilities. Chapter 3: Top Attractions in Newcastle Upon Tyne 3.1 Historical Places: Visit iconic landmarks that narrate the city's history. 3.2 Art & Cultural Lovers: Immerse yourself in the artistic treasures scattered across the city. 3.3 Foodies & Night Owls: Indulge in the culinary delights and experience the vibrant nightlife. 3.4 Commercial Zones: Explore the bustling commercial areas that add a modern flair to the city. Chapter 4: Newcastle Legends - Global Icons from the Heart of Tyne Celebrate the individuals who have emerged from Newcastle to become global icons, leaving an indelible mark on the world. Chapter 5: Author's Choice Join Stanly Stephen on his personal recommendations and favourite spots in Newcastle. Chapter 6: Emergency Contacts Stay informed with essential emergency contacts for a secure and worry-free exploration. Chapter 7: Maps Navigate the city effortlessly with detailed maps, including regional, Newcastle Gateshead, and Tyne and Wear Metro maps. "Explore Newcastle Upon Tyne" is not just a book; it's an invitation to experience the heartbeat of this vibrant city through the eyes of a passionate explorer. Whether you're a history buff, a cultural connoisseur, or an avid traveller, this book is your key to unlocking the treasures of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
Author : Jo Bath
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780752493824
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 : Barry McCauley
Publisher : Barry McCauley
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
'I am a serial killer. You don't know me. You may know of my work, my accomplishments, my deeds and my triumphs. You will not, however, know of my mistakes, my near misses or what made and inspired me to be the person I am today.' Gary Robinson has an ordinary name, but not an ordinary life. He's a man who takes a great amount of care, and derives a great amount pleasure from his work. He is a mass murderer, a monster. He kills for the pleasure of it. This is his story, written as only he can tell it. It is not for the faint-hearted.
Author : Ken Hutchinson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781445665092
Explore the fascinating history of Newcastle in this fully illustrated A-Z tour of the city's people and places.
Author : Emily Woof
Publisher : Europa Editions
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781609453428
From the author of The Whole Wide Beauty: “Transcendent. What unfolds is a story not just of young love but of how to cope when it is lost and shattered” (Financial Times). United Kingdom circa the 1980s—Ursula and Jerry find themselves surrounded by hip hairdos and dominating parents. The future looks bleak if they do not change their lives dramatically. Both are itching to escape their current lives and engage with the wider world. Ursula’s work as a teacher takes her far away to India to instruct disabled children, while Jerry accepts a scholarship to Magdalen College—but only to “highlight the absurdity of privilege.” Their written exchanges are deep, political, and full of irony. All the while, Jerry stays committed to Ursula in mind but not in body, questioning their relationship and the nature of their love. “Woof . . . succeeds in conveying ‘the infinity of moments’ that make up a lifetime.” —The New Yorker “An unusual but convincing love story that charts the often-distant lives of her two distinctive and appealing characters, written with wit and a lyrical flourish.” —The Daily Mail “Engaging . . . In precise, lyrical prose, Woof creates empathy for her characters’ struggles and desires.” —Kirkus Reviews “Woof is a storyteller and you can tell this from the first few pages.” —The Times (London) “Woof finds humor and poignancy in the gulf between how things are and how they ought to be.” —The Observer “[A] quixotic, forceful voice . . . [An] indubitable talent.” —The Guardian