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Author : Ian MacDougall
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Docks
ISBN : UOM:39015054381127
The spoken recollections transcribed for this volume were recorded in interviews by the Scottish Working People's History Trust. Each individual recorded speaks directly of his experiences working in Edinburgh's Leith Docks.
Author : Ian MacDougall
Publisher : Birlinn
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780857906137
Newspaper journalism is a romantic profession. The men and women who wrote for newspapers in the twentieth century started work in a 'Hold the front page!' atmosphere: hot metal, clicking typewriters and inky fingers. In this fascinating collection, the latest in the Scottish Working People's History Trust series, Ian MacDougall has captured the memories of 22 veteran journalists from a wide range of newspapers all over Scotland, some local, some national. The earliest entrant started work in 1929, just before the Great Depression, the latest in the mid 1950s. Their accounts, like so much of oral history, describe a physical world we have almost lost sight of since the computer revolution. But it was a different social world too: it would be unusual for school leavers today to start work as 'copy-boys' running out for cigarettes or filling gluepots for their scary older colleagues. Journalists had to turn their hands to anything from flower shows to air raids, from Hess's landing near Eaglesham to royal visits; and women often had to fight their corner to get started as young reporters. As journalist Neal Ascherson says in his foreword, the book contains 'a swathe of Scottish social history': virtually all these journalists made their way from humble backgrounds, drawn by the desire for an exciting rather than a safe job - and above all one full of human interest.
Author : Marc Levinson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691170817
In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that reshaped manufacturing. But the container didn't just happen. Its adoption required huge sums of money, years of high-stakes bargaining, and delicate negotiation on standards. Now with a new chapter, The Box tells the dramatic story of how the drive and imagination of an iconoclastic entrepreneur turned containerization from an impractical idea into a phenomenon that transformed economic geography, slashed transportation costs, and made the boom in global trade possible. -- from back cover.
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748630417
Over the twentieth century Scots' lives changed infast, dramatic and culturally significant ways. By examining their bodies,homes, working lives, rituals, beliefs and consumption, this volume exposeshow the very substance of everyday life was composed, tracing both theintimate and the mass changes that the people endured. Using novelperspectives and methods, chapters range across the experiences of work, artand death, the way Scots conceived of themselves and their homes, and theway the 'old Scotland' of oppressive community rules broke down frommid-century as the country reinvented its everyday life and culture. Thisvolume brings together leading cultural historians of twentieth-centuryScotland to study the apparently mundane activities of people's lives,traversing the key spaces where daily experience is composed to expose thecontroversial personal and national politics that ritual and practice cangenerate. Key features: *Contains an overview of the material changesexperienced by Scots in their everyday lives during the course of thecentury*Focuses on some of the key areas of change in everyday experience,from the way Scots spent their Sundays to the homes in which they lived,from the work they undertook to the culture they consumed and eventually theway they died. *Pays particular attention to identity as well asexperience
Author : Lynn Abrams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317277989
Oral history is increasingly acknowledged as a key tool for anyone studying the history of the recent past, and Oral History Theory provides a comprehensive, systematic and accessible overview of this important field. Combining the study of theories drawn from disciplines ranging from linguistics to psychoanalysis with the observations of practitioners and including extensive examples of oral history practice from around the world, this book constitutes the first integrated discussion of oral history theory. Structured around key themes such as the peculiarities of oral history, the study of the self, subjectivity and intersubjectivity, memory, narrative, performance, power and trauma, each chapter provides a clear and user-friendly explanation of the various theoretical approaches, illustrating these with examples from the rich field of published oral history and making suggestions for the practicing oral historian. This second edition includes a new chapter on trauma and ethics, a preface discussing new developments in the field and updated glossary and further reading sections. Supplemented by a new companion website (www.routledge.com/cw/abrams) containing a comprehensive range of case studies, audio material and further resources, this book will be invaluable to experienced and novice oral historians, professionals, and students who are new to the discipline.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Oral history
ISBN : UOM:39015057966395
Author : Ian MacDougall
Publisher : Mercat Press Books
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110456485
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : London (England)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112367789
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2248 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : UOM:39015079755925
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Books
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026438064
Author : Various Authors
Publisher : Haunt Publishing Ltd
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781916234710
Scotland has a strong tradition of oral storytelling, from the firesides of the nation's legendary storytelling families to the platforms of today's narrative performers. Haunted Voices showcases Scotland's best oral storytellers, from archived stories of past masters to the work of contemporary tellers, and their most disturbing tales of terror.
Author : Irvine Welsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473520967
‘Back to his violent best...dark, gruesome and captivating’ Esquire The most terrifying character from Trainspotting returns. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life – and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. Some say he’s a fake and a con man, while others see him as a genuine visionary. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. When he crosses the Atlantic to his native Scotland, for the funeral of a murdered son he barely knew, his old Edinburgh community expects him to take bloody revenge. But as he confronts his previous life, all those friends and enemies – and, most alarmingly, his former self – Francis seems to have other ideas. When Melanie discovers something gruesome in California, which indicates that her husband’s violent past might also be his psychotic present, things start to go very bad, very quickly. The Blade Artist is an elegant, electrifying novel – ultra violent but curiously redemptive – and it marks the return of one of modern fiction’s most infamous, terrifying characters, the incendiary Francis Begbie from Trainspotting.
Author : Tim Bell
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781804251546
Much more than transgressional entertainment, Irvine Welsh's book Trainspotting and its derivatives is a window into the social mayhem that was everyday life in one of the most deprived areas in 1980s Britain. Thatcherism. Greed. Poverty. Heroin. HIV. Disenfranchised youth. In the back garden of posh, prosperous Edinburgh, Leith had the lot. For 20 years, Bell has interpreted Trainspotting on the streets of Leith for locals, tourists, aficionados and academics. In this book, a critical analysis of Trainspotting – the book, the play, and the film – he splices well-researched erudition with street-level wisdom and lived-experience testimony to tell the story behind the story. This new edition refocuses Trainspotting as a creative chronicle of the early years of the ongoing and uniquely Scottish drug death culture.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arts
ISBN : IND:30000100389968
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : English literature
ISBN : IND:30000046783688