Author: Susan Whyman
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191615854
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Susan Whyman draws on a hidden world of previously unknown letter writers to explore bold new ideas about the history of writing, reading and the novel. Capturing actual dialogues of people discussing subjects as diverse as marriage, poverty, poetry, and the emotional lives of servants, The Pen and the People will be enjoyed by everyone interested in history, literature, and the intimate experiences of ordinary people. Based on over thirty-five previously unknown letter collections, it tells the stories of workers and the middling sort - a Yorkshire bridle maker, a female domestic servant, a Derbyshire wheelwright, an untrained woman writing poetry and short stories, as well as merchants and their families. Their ordinary backgrounds and extraordinary writings challenge accepted views that popular literacy was rare in England before 1800. This democratization of letter writing could never have occurred without the development of the Royal Mail. Drawing on new information gleaned from personal letters, Whyman reveals how the Post Office had altered the rhythms of daily life long before the nineteenth century. As the pen, the post, and the people became increasingly connected, so too were eighteenth-century society and culture slowly and subtly transformed.
Author: Joseph Spence Hodgson
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Category : Schools
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Author: Simon Newton Dexter North
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Category : Press
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Author: Roger Swift
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317240359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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First published in 1985, this book explores the social history of the Irish in Britain across a variety of cities, including Bristol, York, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Stockport. With contributions from foremost scholars in the field, it provides a thorough critical study of Irish immigration, in its social, political, cultural and religious dimensions. This book will be of interested to students of Victorian history, Irish history and the history of minorities.
Author: Public Free Libraries (Manchester)
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Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Author: Connecticut Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 1034
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Author: Connecticut Historical Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Author: Michigan State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 962
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Author: Benjamin Litherland
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315404680
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits. Sport’s Relationship with Other Leisure Industries: Historical Perspectives spans the bowling greens of early modern England to the postmodern exhibition halls of contemporary Las Vegas, and considers examples from Europe, North America and India. Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus, carnival and film. The collection takes into account the economic, cultural, geographic and political interactions sport has forged and poses a series of questions: about how sport has been forged in contemporary consumer capitalism; about the manner in which it has been shaped by space and place; and the ways in which entrepreneurs, sportspeople and artists have represented sporting competition. The collection will help both students and scholars conceptualise sporting networks, and will be of interest to those working in multiple fields. This book was previously published as a special issue of Sport in History.
Author: State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 264
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