Author: John Edward VickersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
A Popular History of Sheffield
Author: John Edward VickersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The Book of Sheffield
Author: Margaret DrabblePublisher: Reading the City
ISBN: 9781912697137
Category : Sheffield (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Popular History of England
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Story of Sheffield
Author: Tim CooperPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750999152
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
Sheffield's story is one of fierce independence and a revolutionary spirit, its industrial origins having their roots in the same forests as the legends of Robin Hood. From Huntsman's crucible steel in the eighteenth century, to Brearley's stainless steel in the twentieth, Sheffield forged the very fabric of the modern world. As the industrial age drew to a close the city's reputation for rebelliousness spawned its popular reputation as capital of the 'People's Republic of South Yorkshire'. Yet in the wake of the Miners' Strike and the Hillsborough Disaster, the early twenty-first century has seen Sheffield retain its unique character while reinventing itself as a centre of education, creativity and innovation.
Dreaming the Beatles
Author: Rob SheffieldPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062207679
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
An NPR Best Book of the Year • Winner of the Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Music Criticism “This is the best book about the Beatles ever written” —Mashable Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them. Dreaming the Beatles is not another biography of the Beatles, or a song-by-song analysis of the best of John and Paul. It isn’t another exposé about how they broke up. It isn’t a history of their gigs or their gear. It is a collection of essays telling the story of what this ubiquitous band means to a generation who grew up with the Beatles music on their parents’ stereos and their faces on T-shirts. What do the Beatles mean today? Why are they more famous and beloved now than ever? And why do they still matter so much to us, nearly fifty years after they broke up? As he did in his previous books, Love is a Mix Tape, Talking to Girls About Duran Duran, and Turn Around Bright Eyes, Sheffield focuses on the emotional connections we make to music. This time, he focuses on the biggest pop culture phenomenon of all time—The Beatles. In his singular voice, he explores what the Beatles mean today, to fans who have learned to love them on their own terms and not just for the sake of nostalgia. Dreaming the Beatles tells the story of how four lads from Liverpool became the world’s biggest pop group, then broke up—but then somehow just kept getting bigger. At this point, their music doesn’t belong to the past—it belongs to right now. This book is a celebration of that music, showing why the Beatles remain the world’s favorite thing—and how they invented the future we’re all living in today.
The Popular History of England, 5
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Popular History of England: From the Revolution of 1688, to the accession of George I
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Chief
Author: Gary SheffieldPublisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1845137345
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
‘Well written and persuasive …objective and well-rounded….this scholarly rehabilitation should be the standard biography’ **** Andrew Roberts, Mail on Sunday ‘A true judgment of him must lie somewhere between hero and zero, and in this detailed biography Gary Sheffield shows himself well qualified to make it … a balanced portrait’ Sunday Times ‘Solid scholarship and admirable advocacy’ Sunday Telegraph Douglas Haig is the single most controversial general in British history. In 1918, after his armies had won the First World War, he was feted as a saviour. But within twenty years his reputation was in ruins, and it has never recovered. In this fascinating biography, Professor Gary Sheffield reassesses Haig’s reputation, assessing his critical role in preparing the army for war.
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