From East End To Land S End
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From East End To Land S End
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Author : Amberley Publishing
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-05-01
From East End To Land S End written by Amberley Publishing and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-01 with categories.
From East End To Land S End
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Author : Susan Soyinka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-03
From East End To Land S End written by Susan Soyinka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03 with History categories.
From East End to Land's End is the heart-warming and inspiring story of the World War Two evacuation of Jews Free School (JFS) in the East End of London to Mousehole, a remote fishing village on the tip of Cornwall. In June 1940, about 100 JFS children and five of their teachers, together with thousands of other London evacuees, embarked on the lengthy and exhausting train journey from Paddington to Penzance. The JFS group was bussed to Mousehole, where the children were billeted with the villagers, and Jews Free School, Mousehole, was established in the premises of Mousehole School. Arrangements were made for synagogue services to be held in the church hall of a nearby village, while many of the evacuees also attended chapel with their foster families, most of whom were strong Methodists. Remarkably, most of the evacuees quickly integrated into village life, and were accepted by the villagers as their own. They were introduced to swimming, sailing, sculling, fishing, and mending nets, and spent hours playing on the beach or walking along the spectacular coastal paths. The extraordinary coming together of these two vastly different communities was a life-changing experience for many involved on both sides. Seventy years on, some of them have been able to tell their stories, sometimes with tears, often with humour, and always with love and affection. Told for the first time, this unique story of mutual love, acceptance and integration is an inspiration to modern society. What is particularly poignant about this story for the author is that at the very time these children were travelling south-west to love and safety in Cornwall, her own Aunt Sonya, together with thousands of other Jewish children, travelled on a train going in exactly the opposite direction from Paris to Auschwitz, where a very different fate awaited them. The book is based on extensive interviews with evacuees and villagers, as well as on historical research. It is richly illustrated with personal photographs and mementoes, historical documents, newspaper articles and delightful drawings by Steph Haxton. It is further complemented by rare, atmospheric and beautifully contrasting photographs of Mousehole and the Jewish East End.
Land S End
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Author : Michael Cunningham
language : en
Publisher: Picador
Release Date : 2012-05-22
Land S End written by Michael Cunningham and has been published by Picador this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-22 with Travel categories.
"Cunningham's short book is a haunting, beautiful piece of work. . . . A magnificent work of art." -The Washington Post "Easily read on a plane-and-ferry journey from here to the sandy, tide-washed tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Land's End is that most perfect of companions: slender, eloquent, enriching, and fun. . . . A casually lovely ode to Provincetown." -The Minneapolis Star Tribune "Cunningham rambles through Provincetown, gracefully exploring the unusual geography, contrasting seasons, long history, and rich stew of gay and straight, Yankee and Portuguese, old-timer and 'washashore' that flavors Cape Cod's outermost town. . . . Chock-full of luminous descriptions . . . . He's hip to its studied theatricality, ever-encroaching gentrification and physical fragility, and he can joke about its foibles and mourn its losses with equal aplomb." -Chicago Tribune "A homage to the 'city of sand'. . . Filled with finely crafted sentences and poetic images that capture with equal clarity the mundanities of the A&P and Provincetown's magical shadows and light . . . Highly evocative and honest. It takes you there." -The Boston Globe
Lands End To John O Groats With A Bus Pass And A Dog
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Author : Eric Newton
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-10-24
Lands End To John O Groats With A Bus Pass And A Dog written by Eric Newton and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-24 with Transportation categories.
The book is an account of a journey using local service buses from Lands End in the deepest south west of England up to John OGroats in the far north east of Scotland. With the issue of free bus passes to all British citizens over the age of sixty, the author decided to maximise the use of his in undertaking this 1,230 mile trip. By way of being different, the author decided to take with him, his dog Archie, a Jack Russell / cairn terrier cross, as he too enjoys travelling. The book is not just a travel log across and up the length of Britain, but includes much historical and general information of towns and cities visited with time taken at the various stop-over points to look around and explore. In addition to the exploits of the authors dog, the book contains his thoughts and observations during the journey. Some of these are referred to as Rants made on the authors own admission as being a grumpy old man. The detailed planning and preparation of the trip is explained that deliberately took in many historic towns and cities. From Penzance, the route traverses England through Exeter, Bath Oxford, Leicester, Lincoln and then across the Humber and up the east coast by Scarborough, Durham, Newcastle and onto Berwick before crossing the border into Scotland. From here on, the bus journey followed the east coast through Edinburgh, over the Firth of Forth to Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dornoch and Wick before reaching their final destination at John OGroats. The book has been written in a light vein and contains an element of humour. Hopefully, the reader will become a little more knowledgeable about this historic and beautiful island of ours by the end. It is certainly true that travel does broaden the mind.
The East End
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Author : Alan Palmer
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2014-06-12
The East End written by Alan Palmer and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-12 with History categories.
The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague. Alan Palmer's historical overview of the area (first published in 1989 and revised in 2000) takes its extent to be the traditional limits of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Hoxton and Shoreditch, the docklands and their overflow into West Ham and East Ham. And at the heart of the East End lies Spitalfields, home to a transient, often radical and hard-working population. Though it is often seen as London's centre of industry and poverty, in comparison to the well-to-do West End, the East End has always been a diverse place: in the seventeenth century, Hackney was a pleasant country retreat; Stepney and the docklands a bustling world of sailors and merchants. The book traces the development of the area from these roots, through the nineteenth century - when the East End became notorious as the home of radicals, exiled revolutionaries and the very poor, its crowded streets the scene of murder, riot and cholera -to the bombing of the first and second world war; and the subsequent decline and regeneration of the twentieth century.
Our Street
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Author : Gilda O'Neill
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2004-07-01
Our Street written by Gilda O'Neill and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-07-01 with History categories.
Our Street is the perfect companion to Gilda O'Neill's bestselling My East End. This book focuses on the lives of Londoners in the East End during the Second World War. Showing the concerns, hopes and fears of these so-called 'ordinary people' Our Street illustrates these times by looking at the every day rituals which marked the patterns of daily life during WWII. It is an important book and also an affectionate record of an often fondly remembered, more communal, way of life that has all but disappeared.
Sylvia Pankhurst
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Author : Barbara Winslow
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2021-07-27
Sylvia Pankhurst written by Barbara Winslow and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-27 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
An extraordinary political biography of English suffragist, feminist, and socialist Sylvia Pankhurst Along with her mother Emmeline, and her sister Christabel, Sylvia Pankhurst was one of the leading women's suffrage activists in early twentieth-century England, working with the militant Women's Social and Political Union. Unlike her family, however, who looked to parliament and spoke to elite and middle-class women's concerns, Sylvia consistently looked to working women and the labour movement as central to her feminist politics. In this illuminating political biography, feminist historian Barbara Winslow recovers Sylvia Pankhurst's life and work for a new generation of socialists and feminists. From Pankhurst's organizing with immigrant and working women in London's East End to her revolutionary communism and growing internationalism and anti-fascism, Winslow gives us the story of a brilliantly inspiring unorthodox feminist and unorthodox socialist. With a preface from internationally recognized socialist feminist historian and activist, Sheila Rowbotham.
The Dragon S Legacy
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Author : Deborah A. Wolf
language : en
Publisher: Titan Books
Release Date : 2017-04-21
The Dragon S Legacy written by Deborah A. Wolf and has been published by Titan Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-21 with Fiction categories.
The last Aturan King is dying. Control of his weaking power over sa and ka is a lure; the Emperor stirs in his Forbidden City; in the Seared Lands, Eth bring secret death. Eight men and women take their first steps to war, unaware that they will face a greater threat; at the heart of the world, the Dragon stirs. A warrior will become Queen, a Queen will become a monster, and a boy plays his bird-skull flute to keep the shadows of death at bay.
Desert Dreaming
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Author : Steve Elliott
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2021-01-26
Desert Dreaming written by Steve Elliott and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-26 with Fiction categories.
An adventure story set it the Western Australian outback. A geologist accidentally discovers a terrorist group with plans to spread mayhem in Australia. The geologist, after several near misses foils the terrorists and emerges victorious.
The Little History Of The East End
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Author : Dee Gordon
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2020-10-21
The Little History Of The East End written by Dee Gordon and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-21 with History categories.
The modern history of London's East End has been well-documented – but what of its ancient roots? From embryonic beginnings in the Stone Age, through Roman rule and civil wars, all the way to its jam-packed twentieth-century timeline, the East End has always been a place of innovation, diversity and change. Written by an East Ender with a love of her roots, The Little History of the East End is an engaging look at the area's history through the people that made it, one that will enthral and surprise both residents and visitors alike.