Author: Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
A Bibliography of British Railway History
Author: Publisher: London : Allen & Unwin
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
British Railway Enthusiasm
Author: Ian CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
This is the first academic book to study railway enthusiasts in Britain. Far from a trivial topic, the postwar train-spotting craze swept most boys and some girls into a passion for railways. For many in this cohort, train spotting ignited a lifetime's interest. British Railway Enthusiasm traces this postwar cohort and those who followed, as they moved through the life cycle. As the years turned these people invigorated different sectors in the world of railway enthusiasm--train spotting, railway modeling, collecting railway relics--and then, in response to widespread grief at main line steam traction's death, Britain's now-huge preserved railway industry. Today this industry finds itself riven by tensions between preserving a loved past which ever fewer people can remember and earning money from tourist visitors.
Old Cowbridge, Borough, Church, and School
Author: Lemuel John Hopkin-JamesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowbridge (Wales)
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Palestine
Author: Tristan DunningPublisher: Nova Snova
ISBN: 9781536163186
Category : Arab-Israeli conflict
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"The volume traces the evolution of Palestine-Israel conflict through several historically-informed and roughly chronological, yet overlapping, investigations examining, inter alia: the effects of the First World War and the efforts of the Zionist movement culminating in the establishment of the State of Israel and the expulsion of over 700,000 Palestinians from the territories therein in 1947-48; missed opportunities for peace from 1967 to 1990 by reference to official policy documents; the revitalisation of Palestinian nationalism through the PLO after the 1967 war and the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994; the competing rise and evolution of Islamic nationalism in Palestine, predominantly embodied by the Islamic Resistance Movement, Hamas; attempts at Palestinian institution-building contextualised by the profound influence of international donors and Israel; and the ongoing evolution of the relationship between Hamas and Israel. The final chapter canvases some of the rapidly evolving issues that have arisen over the last few years, including upheavals caused by the election of the Trump administration in the United States, and the periodic and ongoing conflicts between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The volume will be of interest to both scholars and the general public wishing to understand the historical and present drivers of the conflict in the Holy Land."--
Notes on the Architectural Antiquities of the District of Gower, in Glamorganshire
Author: Edward Augustus FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Workhouses and women's work
Author: L. TwiningPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5871297048
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Workhouses and women's work reprinted from the Church of England Monthly Review : also, a paper on the condition of workhouses, read in the social economy department of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, at Birmingham, October, 1857.
The Church Circle
Author: Andrew MortonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christian life
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Workhouse Children
Author: Frank CromptonPublisher: Alan Sutton Publishing
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
This book investigates the treatment of children in the workhouses in the period 1780-1871. It examines the way in which children were treated, educated and trained, by whom they were cared for and the outcome of their treatment.
Rock Lighthouses of Britain
Author: Christopher P. NicholsonPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9781870325417
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
When waves higher than the vessels that sail upon them smash against the half-submerged rocks at the extremities our coastline, the whole ocean becomes a raging foam which continues to claim the lives of unwary navigators. Man's struggle to build a permanent and durable structure such as a lighthouse on these sites is a story that cannot fail to stir the emotions of anyone who enjoys tales of endeavour, ingenuity and dogged determination. In this second edition of his book, Christopher Nicholson vividly describes the construction and history to the present day of some of the world's most famous lighthouses. Book jacket.
Imagined Orphans
Author: Lydia MurdochPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813537223
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
"In Imagined Orphans, Lydia Murdoch focuses on the discrepancy between the representation and the reality of children's experiences within welfare institutions - a discrepancy that she argues stems from conflicts over middle- and working-class notions of citizenship that arose in the 1870s and persisted until the First World War. Reformers' efforts to depict poor children as either orphaned or endangered by abusive or "no-good" parents fed upon the poor's increasing exclusion from the Victorian social body. Reformers used the public's growing distrust and pitiless attitude toward poor adults to increase charity and state aid to the children. With a critical eye to social issues of the period, Murdoch urges readers to reconsider the complex situations of families living in poverty."--BOOK JACKET.