Author: Eric Armstrong
Publisher: Images of England
ISBN: 9780752440378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating collection of over 200 picture postcards provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Birmingham during the period 1900-1945. For over a quarter of this time Britain was at war and the political and social changes experienced were immense, not least in Birmingham, a major industrial city. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past alive and describing many aspects of life in the city, including chapters on wartime, work, sport, shopping, entertainment and celebrations, providing a vital record of vanished vistas and past practices. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the area, and also awaken memories of a bygone time for those who worked or lived in the "Second City".
Birmingham 1900-1945
Author: Eric Armstrong
Publisher: Images of England
ISBN: 9780752440378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating collection of over 200 picture postcards provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Birmingham during the period 1900-1945. For over a quarter of this time Britain was at war and the political and social changes experienced were immense, not least in Birmingham, a major industrial city. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past alive and describing many aspects of life in the city, including chapters on wartime, work, sport, shopping, entertainment and celebrations, providing a vital record of vanished vistas and past practices. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the area, and also awaken memories of a bygone time for those who worked or lived in the "Second City".
Publisher: Images of England
ISBN: 9780752440378
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This fascinating collection of over 200 picture postcards provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Birmingham during the period 1900-1945. For over a quarter of this time Britain was at war and the political and social changes experienced were immense, not least in Birmingham, a major industrial city. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past alive and describing many aspects of life in the city, including chapters on wartime, work, sport, shopping, entertainment and celebrations, providing a vital record of vanished vistas and past practices. This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the area, and also awaken memories of a bygone time for those who worked or lived in the "Second City".
Birmingham
Author: Carl Chinn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781382455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781781382455
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This new, factually rich and visually stunning publication is the first major history of Birmingham for more than four decades.
Oscott College in the Twentieth Century
Author: Michael E. Williams
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852445341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
ISBN: 9780852445341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Register of Defunct Companies
Author: NA NA
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349112712
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349112712
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 557
Book Description
Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-century British Literary Biographers
Author: Steven Serafin
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Designed to introduce the lives and works of those individuals who influenced the development of genre in accepting that "the biographer can create a work of truth and pleasure" by merging scholarship with creativity, thus establishing biography as a literary art.
Publisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Designed to introduce the lives and works of those individuals who influenced the development of genre in accepting that "the biographer can create a work of truth and pleasure" by merging scholarship with creativity, thus establishing biography as a literary art.
In the Shadow of Hitler
Author: Dan J. Puckett
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817313281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Dan J. Puckett's In the Shadow of Hitler explores and documents how Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817313281
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
Dan J. Puckett's In the Shadow of Hitler explores and documents how Alabama Jews became aware of and responded to the coming of the Second World War and the Nazi persecution of European Jews.
Winston Churchill in the British Media
Author: Hanako Ishikawa
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030482529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The book explores how Churchill was portrayed in the UK press during the Second World War, comparing his depictions in Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and provincial English newspapers. By using a variety of newspapers from these areas, it examines local opinions about Churchill at the time he was the wartime prime minister. It analyses how Churchill was received and depicted by newspapers in the UK and why differences in these depictions emerged in each area. It contributes to the study of public opinion in the war and of Churchill’s reputation, of the British media, as well as to the study of the notion of Britishness, focusing on local perspectives.
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030482529
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
The book explores how Churchill was portrayed in the UK press during the Second World War, comparing his depictions in Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish, and provincial English newspapers. By using a variety of newspapers from these areas, it examines local opinions about Churchill at the time he was the wartime prime minister. It analyses how Churchill was received and depicted by newspapers in the UK and why differences in these depictions emerged in each area. It contributes to the study of public opinion in the war and of Churchill’s reputation, of the British media, as well as to the study of the notion of Britishness, focusing on local perspectives.
Historic Birmingham & Jefferson County
Author: James Ronald Bennett
Publisher: Historical Publishing Network
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Publisher: Historical Publishing Network
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four
Author: Nathan Waddell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108841090
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four is aimed at undergraduates, postgraduates, and academics. Situating the novel in multiple frameworks, including contextual considerations and literary histories, the book asks new questions about the novel's significance in an age in which authoritarianism finds itself freshly empowered.