Author: Alun Seward
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144563046X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rhondda has changed and developed over the last century.
Rhondda Through Time
Author: Alun Seward
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144563046X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rhondda has changed and developed over the last century.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144563046X
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Rhondda has changed and developed over the last century.
Rhondda Colleries Through Time
Author: David Swindenbank
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445610647
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rhondda' - even now, the name evokes the turbulent times when Rhondda (actually two valleys, the Fawr and Fach) was synonymous with the deep-mining of steam coal. This is a story of pioneering deep-mining and unbridled capitalism: the prospecting of two valleys, unfettered by health and safety, amid divisive industrial relations and scarce health-care. The result fired railways, steam-powered shipping and the engines of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Using a mixture of historical and modern photographs, coloured by personal testimony and memories, this book reveals the vibrant, turbulent, often tragic record of Rhondda: from pastoral vale via 'black gold'-rush to grimy industrial prime, followed by the twentieth-century economic slide, the demise of all its fifty-three collieries and today's valleys - a mainly residential landscape of green hills.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445610647
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Rhondda' - even now, the name evokes the turbulent times when Rhondda (actually two valleys, the Fawr and Fach) was synonymous with the deep-mining of steam coal. This is a story of pioneering deep-mining and unbridled capitalism: the prospecting of two valleys, unfettered by health and safety, amid divisive industrial relations and scarce health-care. The result fired railways, steam-powered shipping and the engines of the Industrial Revolution across the world. Using a mixture of historical and modern photographs, coloured by personal testimony and memories, this book reveals the vibrant, turbulent, often tragic record of Rhondda: from pastoral vale via 'black gold'-rush to grimy industrial prime, followed by the twentieth-century economic slide, the demise of all its fifty-three collieries and today's valleys - a mainly residential landscape of green hills.
Call My Name, Clemson
Author: Rhondda Robinson Thomas
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson’s public history. This book traces “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” a Clemson English professor’s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution’s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
ISBN: 1609387414
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun’s Fort Hill Plantation in upstate South Carolina. Calhoun’s plantation house still sits in the middle of campus. From the establishment of the plantation in 1825 through the integration of Clemson in 1963, African Americans have played a pivotal role in sustaining the land and the university. Yet their stories and contributions are largely omitted from Clemson’s public history. This book traces “Call My Name: African Americans in Early Clemson University History,” a Clemson English professor’s public history project that helped convince the university to reexamine and reconceptualize the institution’s complete and complex story from the origins of its land as Cherokee territory to its transformation into an increasingly diverse higher-education institution in the twenty-first century. Threading together scenes of communal history and conversation, student protests, white supremacist terrorism, and personal and institutional reckoning with Clemson’s past, this story helps us better understand the inextricable link between the history and legacies of slavery and the development of higher education institutions in America.
A Moment in History
Author: Bryan Morse
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902320267
Category : Operation Overlord
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781902320267
Category : Operation Overlord
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
A Dark Past
Author: Elaine Hawkins
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953977116
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780953977116
Category : Murder
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Turning the Tide
Author: Angela V. John
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909844728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. A leading British industrialist, she was also instrumental in securing a seat for women in the House of Lords. Closely associated with figures such as Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain and George Bernard Shaw, she founded and edited the progressive weekly paper Time and Tide . Drawing upon a rich array of sources, many previously unused, Angela V. John explores both the public achivements and the fascinating private world of one of the movers and shakers of British society in the first half of the twentieth century.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781909844728
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. This rich biography tells the remarkable tale of Margaret Haig Thomas who became the Viscountess Rhondda. She was a Welsh suffragette, held important posts during the First World War and survived the sinking of the Lusitania. A leading British industrialist, she was also instrumental in securing a seat for women in the House of Lords. Closely associated with figures such as Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain and George Bernard Shaw, she founded and edited the progressive weekly paper Time and Tide . Drawing upon a rich array of sources, many previously unused, Angela V. John explores both the public achivements and the fascinating private world of one of the movers and shakers of British society in the first half of the twentieth century.
The Tonypandy Riots
Author: Gwyn Evans
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Riots
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Riots
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
Forecast
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Food
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Up the Rhondda!
Author: John Geraint
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1800995423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker's eye the exuberant life of this former mining community in changing times. Comic and evocative, the book shows how the values the valley has lived by could guide the Rhondda - and the wider world - towards a better future.
Publisher: Y Lolfa
ISBN: 1800995423
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker's eye the exuberant life of this former mining community in changing times. Comic and evocative, the book shows how the values the valley has lived by could guide the Rhondda - and the wider world - towards a better future.
Our Mothers' Land
Author: Angela V John
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783162872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women’s history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women’s community sanctions and the perils facing collier’s wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters’ wives. They also tackle the idealised images of respectable Welsh women in periodicals and the tragic reality of those who took their own lives as well as showing us the transgressive actions of suffrage rebels. They examine how women carved out space within movements such as temperance and track the fluctuating fortunes of women’s employment and domestic life from the Great War to the eve of the Second World War. This volume makes available once more a book that has become a classic in its field and a vital part of the historiography of modern Wales. This expanded edition also brings us up to date. It reveals the research and publications of the last two decades and comments upon the extent to which Wales has moved beyond being the familiar ‘land of our fathers’. Written in a lively and accessible style, it nevertheless draws upon a wealth of research and expertise and should appeal to both the academic community and to a much wider readership.
Publisher: University of Wales Press
ISBN: 1783162872
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
This volume marks the twentieth anniversary of the first publication of this groundbreaking book. It reflects the pioneering research of its contributors to the development of modern Welsh women’s history. The eight chapters range widely across time (1830-1939) and place, from exploring working class women’s community sanctions and the perils facing collier’s wife to the very different lifestyles of ironmasters’ wives. They also tackle the idealised images of respectable Welsh women in periodicals and the tragic reality of those who took their own lives as well as showing us the transgressive actions of suffrage rebels. They examine how women carved out space within movements such as temperance and track the fluctuating fortunes of women’s employment and domestic life from the Great War to the eve of the Second World War. This volume makes available once more a book that has become a classic in its field and a vital part of the historiography of modern Wales. This expanded edition also brings us up to date. It reveals the research and publications of the last two decades and comments upon the extent to which Wales has moved beyond being the familiar ‘land of our fathers’. Written in a lively and accessible style, it nevertheless draws upon a wealth of research and expertise and should appeal to both the academic community and to a much wider readership.