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Author: Phill Gatenby Publisher: Empire Publications ISBN: 9781901746716 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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A guide book dedicated to locations associated with The Smiths. It features several tours featuring other world famous Manchester bands from the Buzzcocks via Joy Division to Oasis, Elbow and Doves as well as the various scenes from beat to acid house or even lo-fi.
Author: Jonathan Schofield Publisher: ISBN: 9780992759070 Category : Languages : en Pages : 335
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The book looks at Manchester’s past, present and future, it describes the main monuments, museums and galleries while also providing full information on where to stay, eat, drink, dance, watch sport or shop. There are several walking itineraries, including new ones, and recommendations for excursions. Biographies of key citizens and episodes in Manchester’s lively history are revealed, again in an extended section. [From publishers website]
Author: Rachel Bryant Davies Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 1526128918 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 299
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This collection brings together scholars from disciplines including Children’s Literature, Classics, and History to develop fresh approaches to children’s culture and the uses of the past. It charts the significance of historical episodes and characters during the long nineteenth-century (1750-1914), a critical period in children's culture. Boys and girls across social classes often experienced different pasts simultaneously, for purposes of amusement and instruction. The book highlights an active and shifting market in history for children, and reveals how children were actively involved in consuming and repackaging the past: from playing with historically themed toys and games to performing in plays and pageants. Each chapter reconstructs encounters across different media, uncovering the cultural work done by particular pasts and exposing the key role of playfulness in the British historical imagination.
Author: William Manchester Publisher: Back Bay Books ISBN: 0316082791 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 367
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A "lively and engaging" history of the Middle Ages (Dallas Morning News) from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion. From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester leads us from a civilization tottering on the brink of collapse to the grandeur of its rebirth: the dense explosion of energy that spawned some of history's greatest poets, philosophers, painters, adventurers, and reformers, as well as some of its most spectacular villains. "Manchester provides easy access to a fascinating age when our modern mentality was just being born." --Chicago Tribune
Author: Dean Kirby Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1473880289 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 228
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“A record of how a city of great wealth ignored the desperate poverty at its very heart . . . It is a lesson in the price of capitalism.” —North West Labour History Journal “It is all free fighting here. Even some of the windows do not open, so it is useless to cry for help. Dampness and misery, violence and wrong, have left their handwriting in perfectly legible characters on the walls.” —Manchester Guardian, 1870 Step into the Victorian underworld of Angel Meadow, the vilest and most dangerous slum of the Industrial Revolution. In the shadow of the world’s first cotton mill, 30,000 souls trapped by poverty are fighting for survival as the British Empire is built upon their backs. Thieves and prostitutes keep company with rats in overcrowded lodging houses and deep cellars on the banks of a black river, the Irk. Gangs of “scuttlers” stalk the streets in pointed, brass-tipped clogs. Those who evade their clutches are hunted down by cholera, typhoid and tuberculosis. Lawless drinking dens and a cold slab in the dead house provide the only relief from a filthy and frightening world. In this shocking book, journalist Dean Kirby takes readers on a hair-raising journey through the gin palaces, alleyways and underground vaults of this nineteenth-century Manchester slum considered so diabolical it was re-christened “hell upon earth” by Friedrich Engels. ENTER ANGEL MEADOW IF YOU DARE . . . “In this book the author expertly achieves driving home the grim horror that was Angel Meadow. These were conditions at the bottom of human endurance and conditions that go beyond imaginations of modern-day citizens.” —Crime Traveller
Author: Phill Gatenby Publisher: Empire Publications (UK) ISBN: 9781901746563 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
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Lyrically unique, Morrissey saw post-industrial Manchester differently. Where most recognised the derelict remains of a Victorian powerhouse, he saw humour, where others saw post-industrial squalor, he felt the frisson of romance. As a result Manchester became as much a part of The Smiths output as the guitars, drums and vocals. As their fame grew, strangers in far away lands wondered about the location of the 'Cemetery Gates' or the setting of 'Vicar in a Tutu' . Unusually, these places still exist and provide the devotee with places of pilgrimage -- could Manchester offer anything else? In the first edition of this guidebook, Phill Gatenby set out three tours covering 20 or more sites that either featured in The Smiths music or were fundamental to their development as a band -- from early rehearsal spaces to the scene of their most memorable gigs. Now updated, "Morrissey's Manchester" has added new places to visit, more lyrical references and more background information on one of the world's most influential bands. However the most fundamental change any reader/visitor will notice are the continual changes to Manchester itself - a city in perpetual flux. Since the first edition venues have either been demolished, refurbished or shorn of their identity -- hence the need for an update. Now containing 40 new images, an improved layout, a revised map of the city centre and an opportunity to take the Smiths Tour without ever leaving the comfort of your home via google maps, "Morrissey's Manchester" has been fully updated for the 21st century.
Author: Hayley Flynn Publisher: ISBN: 9781445621074 Category : Manchester (England) Languages : en Pages : 96
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Central Manchester, best described as the central district of both Manchester and Greater Manchester, is an area full to the brim with culture, history and energy. Close to the River Irwell, Manchester is as welcoming an area as it is attractive. Extensively redeveloped since the Manchester Blitz in the 1940s, the city centre remains as the commercial and cultural hub of Manchester, and is home to some of the largest buildings and attractions not only in the county but the wider regions of the United Kingdom also.With much to do and see in Central Manchester, the area has been split into many subdivisions, including the Northern Quarter, the Millennium Quarter, Spinningfields, Castlefield, Piccadilly and Chinatown, each of which have their own personal traits that contribute to the huge popularity surrounding Manchester. With fantastic transport links, the city is well-connected with the neighbouring areas and wider locations across the country, ensuring that visitors can return and return again to be a part of the city’s enthusiasm. Well-known researcher Hayley Flynn uncovers this city’s story, telling the tales of its magnificent journey from past to present through a wonderful collection of old and new photographs.
Author: Jean & John Bradburn
Author: Jean & John Bradburn
Author: Jean & John Bradburn
Author: Phill Gatenby
Author: Jonathan Schofield
Author: Rachel Bryant Davies
Author: William Manchester
Author: Dean Kirby
Author: Phill Gatenby
Author: Hayley Flynn
Author: Samuel Hibbert