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Author: Mike Hutton Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445679124 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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After a brief period of celebration, reality began to sink in. Britain was exhausted and consumed by grief. There was a growing fear of revolution.
Author: Mike Hutton Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited ISBN: 1445679124 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 346
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After a brief period of celebration, reality began to sink in. Britain was exhausted and consumed by grief. There was a growing fear of revolution.
Author: Mark Swenarton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429762682 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 217
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Homes fit for Heroes looks at the pledge made 100 years ago by the Lloyd George government to build half a million ‘homes fit for heroes’ – the pledge which made council housing a major part of the housing system in the UK. Originally published in 1981, the book is the only full-scale study of the provision and design of state housing in the period following the 1918 Armistice and remains the standard work on the subject. It looks at the municipal garden suburbs of the 1920s, which were completely different from traditional working-class housing, inside and out. Instead of being packed onto the ground in long terraces, the houses were set in spacious gardens surrounded by trees and open spaces and often they contained luxuries, like upstairs bathrooms, unheard-of in the working-class houses of the past. The book shows that, in the turbulent period following the First World War, the British government launched the housing campaign as a way of persuading the troops and the people that their aspirations would be met under the existing system, without any need for revolution. The design of the houses, based on the famous Tudor Walters Report of 1918, was a central element in this strategy: the large and comfortable houses provided by the state were intended as visible evidence of the arrival of a ‘new era for the working classes of this country’.
Author: Ursula Stuart Mason Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 1848846789 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
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The Womens Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a man for sea service. At the peak there was over 5,000 women serving in Britain and overseas, but efforts to maintain the service in peace time were unsuccessful, and it was to be 1939, when the Second World War threatened, before the Wrens were reformed. Theirs was a different and altogether more demanding role which involved the carrying out of some highly secret and responsible duties, and many more of them served outside Britain. By 1945 there were over 75,000 officers and ratings and when the War ended, and those who wished were demobilized, a permanent Service was set up, providing a career for women alongside men of the Royal Navy. This is their story, often told in their own words, which mirrors the changing place of women in our society in a century of tremendous social progress.
Author: Terence Kearey Publisher: Memoirs Publishing ISBN: 1908223545 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 207
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In 1816 the author’s great-great grandfather, Thomas Kearey, arrived in England to seek his fortune. He was the latest – but by no means the last – in a line of strong and resourceful men. This book is the story of the Keareys, and of their place in history through the centuries. It relates how the Ciardha (‘Ciar’s people’) in the Ireland of the Dark Ages evolved into the modern Keareys, how holders of that name laboured, loved and fought through the centuries, and how in more recent times they were proud to fight with honour for their adopted country of Britain in two world wars. Terence Kearey has woven the carefully-researched story of what happened to his family over the centuries into the economic and social history of these islands, explaining how his ancestors coped with, and in some cases helped to change, the vicissitudes of poverty, war and economic and social change. The result is a detailed and vivid picture of a past that is quickly fading from memory.
Author: Roger MacGinty Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317989708 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 135
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This critical and comparative book is comprised of arguments for and against the dominant western style of peace interventions and post-war reconstruction that has been applied around the world. It examines and assesses the nature of the peace that these have achieved or offer for the future.
Author: Dr Philip Bagwell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1134985010 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 501
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An updated version of this classic book which includes an examination of transport developments since 1974, and particularly those of the Thatcher era.
Author: Mike Hutton
Author: Mike Hutton
Author: Paul Barton Johnson
Author: Christopher P. Madden
Author: Mark Swenarton
Author: Christopher Grayling
Author: Ursula Stuart Mason
Author: Terence Kearey
Author: Francis Neilson
Author: Roger MacGinty
Author: Dr Philip Bagwell