The Silvertown Explosion
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The Silvertown Explosion
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Author : Graham Hill
language : en
Publisher: Tempus Pub Limited
Release Date : 2003
The Silvertown Explosion written by Graham Hill and has been published by Tempus Pub Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
The Silvertown explosion
The Silvertown Explosion 1917
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
The Silvertown Explosion 1917 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with categories.
Silvertown 1917
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Author : Michael Paris
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Silvertown 1917 written by Michael Paris and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Business & Economics categories.
A Glimpse Of The 1870s In Two Victorian Books The Silvertown Explosion Etc
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Author : Newham History Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
A Glimpse Of The 1870s In Two Victorian Books The Silvertown Explosion Etc written by Newham History Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with categories.
The Great Explosion
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Author : Lewis Blake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Great Explosion written by Lewis Blake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Explosions categories.
Explosion Of T N T At Silvertown
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Author : Great Britain. Home Office. Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Explosion at Silvertown
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1917
Explosion Of T N T At Silvertown written by Great Britain. Home Office. Committee Appointed to Inquire into the Explosion at Silvertown and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1917 with Explosions categories.
Silvertown
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Author : John Tully
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2014-01-03
Silvertown written by John Tully and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-03 with Business & Economics categories.
In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver’s rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt that upended the London industrial district which bore his name: Silvertown. Once referred to as the “Abyss” by Jack London, Silvertown was notorious for oppressive working conditions and the relentless grind of production suffered by its largely unorganized, unskilled workers. These workers, fed-up with their lot and long ignored by traditional craft unions, aligned themselves with the socialist-led “New Unionism” movement. Their ensuing strike paralyzed Silvertown for three months. The strike leaders— including Tom Mann, Ben Tillett, Eleanor Marx, and Will Thorne—and many workers viewed the trade union struggle as part of a bigger fight for a “co-operative commonwealth.” With this goal in mind, they shut down Silvertown and, in the process, helped to launch a more radical, modern labor movement. Historian and novelist John Tully, author of the monumental social history of the rubber industry The Devil’s Milk, tells the story of the Silvertown strike in vivid prose. He rescues the uprising— overshadowed by other strikes during this period—from relative obscurity and argues for its significance to both the labor and socialist movements. And, perhaps most importantly, Tully presents the Silvertown Strike as a source of inspiration for today’s workers, in London and around the world, who continue to struggle for better workplaces and the vision of a “co-operative commonwealth.”
The Great Explosion
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Author : Brian Dillon
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2015-05-07
The Great Explosion written by Brian Dillon and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-07 with History categories.
The Great Explosion by Brian Dillon: a masterful account of a terrible disaster in a remarkable place In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kentish marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a brilliant piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity one of Britain's strangest and most remarkable landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry from one of our most brilliant writers. 'The Great Explosion is exhilarating and moving and lyrical. It is a quiet evisceration of a landscape through the discovery of a lost history of destructiveness, a meditation on Englishness, an autobiography, a mapping of absences. I loved it.' Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes ''What a fascinating, unclassifiable, brilliant book, confirming Brian Dillon's reputation as one of our most innovative and elegant non-fictioneers. No one else could have written it.' Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways 'Forensic, fascinating, endlessly interesting' Philip Hoare, Samuel Johnson Prize-winning author of Leviathan andThe Sea Inside 'A subtle, human history of the early twentieth century ... Explosions are a fruitful subject in Dillon's hands, one that enables him to reflect movingly on the instant between life and death, on the frailty of human endeavour, and on the readiness of nations to tear one another apart. The Great Explosion deftly covers a tumultuous period of history while centring on the tiniest moments - just punctuation marks in time' Financial Times '[Dillon's] account of the Faversham explosion is as bold as it is dramatic, while his descriptive passages about the marshlands of Kent are so evocative that you can practically feel the mud sticking at your feet' Evening Standard 'A brilliant evocation of place grasped in its modernity' Guardian 'Dillon ... has a WG Sebald-like gift for interrogating the landscape ... a work of real elegiac seriousness that goes to the heart of a case of human loss and destruction in England's sinister pastures green' Ian Thomson, Irish Times 'Exhilarating ... utterly beguiling' Literary Review
Design And Heritage
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Author : Grace Lees-Maffei
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-12-29
Design And Heritage written by Grace Lees-Maffei and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-29 with Art categories.
Design and Heritage provides the first extended study of heritage from the point of view of design history. Exploring the material objects and spaces that contribute to our experience of heritage, the volume also examines the processes and practices that shape them. Bringing together 18 case studies, written by authors from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Brazil, Norway, India, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand, the book questions how design functions to produce heritage. Including provocative case studies of objects that reinterpret visual symbols of cultural identity and buildings and monuments that evoke feelings of national pride and historical memory, as well as landscapes embedded with trauma, contributors consider how we can work to develop adequate shared conceptual models of heritage and apply them to design and its histories. Exploring the distinction between tangible and intangible heritages, the chapters consider what these categories mean for design history and heritage. Finally, the book questions whether it might be possible to promote a truly equitable understanding of heritage that illuminates the social, cultural and economic roles of design. Design and Heritage demonstrates that design historical methods of inquiry contribute significantly to critical heritage studies. Academics, researchers and students engaged in the study of heritage, design history, material culture, folklore, art history, architectural history and social and cultural history will find much to interest them within the pages of the book.
London S Turning
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Author : Michael J. Rustin
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-14
London S Turning written by Michael J. Rustin and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-14 with Political Science categories.
The Thames Gateway plan is the largest and most complex project of urban regeneration ever undertaken in the United Kingdom. This book provides a comprehensive overview and critique of the Thames Gateway plan, but at the same time it uses the plan as a lens through which to look at a series of important questions of social theory, urban policy and governmental practice. It examines the impact of urban planning and demographic change on East London's material and social environment, including new forms of ethnic gentrification, the development of the eastern hinterlands, shifting patterns of migration between city and country, the role of new policies in regulating housing provision and the attempt to create new cultural hubs downriver. It also looks at issues of governance and accountability, the tension between public and private interests, and the immediate and longer term prospects for the Thames Gateway project both in relation to the 'Olympics effect' and the growth of new forms of regionalism.