Author: Christopher G. Powell
Publisher:
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Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: C. G. Powell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780416320107
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Author: Christopher G. Powell
Publisher: London : Architectural Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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Author: Christopher G. Powell
Publisher: London : Architectural Press
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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Author: Christopher Powell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113674276X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This scholarly and well-researched study of the building industry documents the interplay of new materials and technologies, costs and the changing social and economic forces that affected the decision-making about our built environment over the last two centuries. The author provides a succinct and readable survey of the growth and development of British building which will be of interest to all building specialists and those training for a career in the construction industry.

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Languages : en
Pages : 211

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Author: Christopher G. Powell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 0419207309
Category : Construction industry
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Powell introduces and describes two centuries of building activity and the building industry, addressing such questions as why and what was built, who decided to build, and how they did so.

Author: F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521438155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.

Author: Keith Robbins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198224969
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 962

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Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.

Author: Roger Hansford
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 024420179X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 114

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Despite recent academic interest in oral history and working-class writing, few other autobiographies reveal daily life for early twentieth-century itinerant gasworks bricklayers, or 'retort-setters'. Charles Hansford recounts constructing his own home single-handedly aged twenty-one, describes economic privations and poor weather conditions. 'Brick Bonds' documents his relationships with fellow workers and specific building techniques they used (a bond is a brick-laying pattern). His personal memories of enemy action in wartime, working-class social and leisure pursuits in London, the 1924 National Building Strike, and notable ships like Titanic and Bismarck are set into historical context. Hansford reveals an evolving class awareness and trade union activism; a declared Socialist, he readily left building sites in protest, even into the 1970s. His career encompassed Fawley Refinery, Royal Netley War Hospital, British Overseas Airways Company flying-boat bases, and Harrods store in London.