Darwen Born Blackburn Bred Growing Up In The Age Of Affluence
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Darwen Born Blackburn Bred Growing Up In The Age Of Affluence
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Author : Paul Laxton
language : en
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Release Date : 2016-05-25
Darwen Born Blackburn Bred Growing Up In The Age Of Affluence written by Paul Laxton and has been published by New Generation Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-25 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This book is not a scholarly work of history, nor is it truly a memoir or an autobiography, as I am under no illusions that my life merits that kind of treatment. My standpoint is that of the participant observer, and the backdrop is provided by the proud communities of Blackburn and Darwen, where my family lived, where I was educated, and where I worked before moving on to make my own way in life. I am sure that the experiences I describe will resonate with readers in many other once prosperous industrial areas. The key theme of this book is what is what like to grow up in working class communities during what I have called the Age of Affluence, the thirty years that followed World War Two in which the working people of the United Kingdom for the only time in our industrial history, experienced unbroken full employment and saw their lives transformed as a consequence.
The White Slaves Of England
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Author : John C. Cobden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
The White Slaves Of England written by John C. Cobden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with Working class categories.
My Generation
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Author : Paul Laxton
language : en
Publisher: New Generation Publishing
Release Date : 2014-09-01
My Generation written by Paul Laxton and has been published by New Generation Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-01 with History categories.
This book does not claim to be a fully researched history nor is it an autobiography or a memoir although personal experience is invoked at intervals to illustrate the narrative from a sometimes participant observer. It can more accurately be described as a polemic and at times the language is vitriolic for which I make no apology. I am genuinely angry as well as sad about how the educated elite of my generation, the baby boomers, have transformed our country for the worse. The first part of the book examines through the prism of my northern working class background our inheritance and the nature of the world in which we grew up and then takes the reader through the ascendancy of Mrs Thatcher, which is crucial in understanding what follows. The second part of the book begins with an analysis of what constitutes the political class and then examines thematically how the new establishment achieved, wasted and abused power at the expense of those they claimed to represent. The final part of the book optimistically entitled "Power to the People," argues how power can be reclaimed by the electorate from the arrogant political class which dominates our lives at home and in Europe which has systematically conspired to subvert our once vibrant democracy and destroy our national sovereignty.
The Illustrated London News
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
The Illustrated London News written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with categories.
The Glaciers Of The Alps
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Author : John Tyndall
language : en
Publisher: Boston : Ticknor and Fields
Release Date : 1861
The Glaciers Of The Alps written by John Tyndall and has been published by Boston : Ticknor and Fields this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1861 with Alps categories.
Family And Business During The Industrial Revolution
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Author : Hannah Barker
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Family And Business During The Industrial Revolution written by Hannah Barker and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Business & Economics categories.
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Small businesses were at the heart of the economic growth and social transformation that characterized the industrial revolution in Britain. In towns across north-west England, shops and workshops dominated the streetscape, and helped to satisfy an increasing desire for consumer goods. Yet despite their significance, we know surprisingly little about these firms and the people who ran them, for whilst those engaged in craft-based manufacturing, retailing, and allied trades constituted a significant proportion of the urban population, they have been generally overlooked by historians. Instead, our view of the world of business is more usually taken up by narratives of particularly successful firms, and especially those involved in new modes of production. By examining some of the forgotten businesses of the industrial revolution, and the men and women who worked in them, Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution presents a largely unfamiliar commercial world. Its approach, which spans economic, social, and cultural history, as well as encompassing business history and the histories of the emotions, space, and material culture, alongside studies of personal testimony, testatory practice, and property ownership, tests current understandings of gender, work, family, class, and power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It provides us with new insights into the lives of ordinary men and women in trade, whose relatively mundane lives are easily overlooked, but who were central to the story of a pivotal period in British history.
Murder In Samarkand
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Author : Craig Murray
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-05-24
Murder In Samarkand written by Craig Murray and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Craig Murray arrived in Uzbekistan to take up his post in 2002, he was a young ambassador with a brilliant career and a taste for whisky and women. But after hearing accounts of dissident prisoners being boiled to death and innocent people being raped and murdered by agents of the state, he started to question both his role and that of his country in so-called 'democratising' states. Following his discovery that the British government was accepting information obtained under torture, Murray could no longer maintain a diplomatic silence. When he voiced his outrage, Washington and 10 Downing Street decided he had to go. But Uzbekistan had changed the high-living diplomat and there was no way he was going to go quietly. In this candid and at times shocking memoir, Murray lays bare the dark and dirty underside of the War on Terror.
Social Change And Modernity
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Author : Hans Haferkamp
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Social Change And Modernity written by Hans Haferkamp and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Social Science categories.