The Useful Knowledge Of William Hutton
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The Useful Knowledge Of William Hutton
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Author : Susan E. Whyman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2018
The Useful Knowledge Of William Hutton written by Susan E. Whyman and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Business & Economics categories.
Susan Whyman's latest book tells the story of William Hutton, a self-taught workman who rose to prominence during the Industrial Revolution in the rapidly-expanding city of Birmingham. This book brings to life a cast of 'rough diamonds', people of worth and character, but lacking in manners and education, who improved their towns and themselves.
Second City
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Author : Richard Vinen
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2022-09-01
Second City written by Richard Vinen and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-01 with History categories.
A DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'There is unlikely to be a fuller or more informative history of Birmingham than Vinen's' Jonathan Coe, Financial Times 'Vinen has written a history of Birmingham, but it is also a theory of Birmingham. And also, perhaps, a theory of England. I buy it' Daily Telegraph For over a century, Birmingham has been the second largest town in England. In his richly enjoyable new book Richard Vinen captures the drama of a small village that grew to become the quintessential city of the twentieth century: a place of mass production and full employment that began in the 1930s, but which came to a cataclysmic halt in the 1980s. Birmingham has also been a magnet for migration, drawing in people from Wales, Ireland, India, Pakistan and the Caribbean. Indeed, much of British history can be explained, in large measure, with reference to Birmingham. Vinen roots his sweeping story in the experience of individuals. This is a book about figures everyone has heard of, from J. R. R. Tolkien to Duran Duran, and also about those that everyone ought to have heard of. It captures the ways in which hundreds of thousands of people - from the Welsh miners who poured into the car factories in the 1930s to the young women who danced to reggae in the basement of Rebecca's nightclub in the 1980s - were caught up in the convulsions of social change. Birmingham is not a pretty place, and its history does not always make for comfortable reading. But modern Britain does not make sense without it.
Voices Of The Georgian Age
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Author : James Hobson
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2023-02-16
Voices Of The Georgian Age written by James Hobson and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-16 with History categories.
Voices of the Georgian Age is the story of seventeen witnesses to the remarkably diverse Georgian century after 1720. While being very different in many ways, the voices have two things in common: they have an outstanding story to tell, and that story is available to all for free on the internet. Despite the obvious constraints of surviving evidence, men and woman, rich and poor and respectable and criminal are all covered. Some wrote out their life story with deliberation, knowing that it would be read in future, while others simply put their private thoughts to paper for their own benefit. All are witnesses to their age. This book guides you through their diaries, memoirs and travelogues, providing an entertaining insight in their lives, and a personal history of the period. It is also a preparatory guide for those wishing to read the original documents themselves.
Pen Print And Communication In The Eighteenth Century
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Author : Caroline Archer-Parré
language : en
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
Release Date : 2020-08-04
Pen Print And Communication In The Eighteenth Century written by Caroline Archer-Parré and has been published by Liverpool University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-04 with History categories.
During the eighteenth century there was a growing interest in recording, listing and documenting the world, whether for personal interest and private consumption, or general record and the greater good. Such documentation was done through both the written and printed word. Each genre had its own material conventions and spawned industries which supported these practices. This volume considers writing and printing in parallel: it highlights the intersections between the two methods of communication; discusses the medium and materiality of the message; considers how writing and printing were deployed in the construction of personal and cultural identities; and explores the different dimensions surrounding the production, distribution and consumption of private and public letters, words and texts during the eighteenth-century. In combination the chapters in this volume consider how the processes of both writing and printing contributed to the creation of cultural identity and taste, assisted in the spread of knowledge and furthered personal, political, economic, social and cultural change in Britain and the wider-world. This volume provides an original narrative on the nature of communication and brings a fresh perspective on printing history, print culture and the literate society of the Enlightenment.
Celts Romans Britons
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Author : Francesca Kaminski-Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
Celts Romans Britons written by Francesca Kaminski-Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with History categories.
This book investigates the ways in which ideas associated with the Celtic and the Classical have been used to construct identities (national/ethnic/regional etc.) in Britain, from the period of the Roman conquest to the present day.
The Social Topography Of A Rural Community
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Author : Steve Hindle
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-11
The Social Topography Of A Rural Community written by Steve Hindle 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 2023-05-11 with History categories.
The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village: Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to visualize members of an English rural community as they responded to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity, making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of people who have been marginalized from conventional historical discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving 'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and economic history more generally, this study represents a highly original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in the history of English rural communities.
Why The Industrial Revolution Happened In Britain
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Author : Jeremy Black
language : en
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Release Date : 2023-08-15
Why The Industrial Revolution Happened In Britain written by Jeremy Black and has been published by Amberley Publishing Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Esteemed historian Jeremy Black examines the technological, social, political and economic reasons for the industrial revolution taking place in Britain.
Gambling In Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century
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Author : Bob Harris
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-17
Gambling In Britain In The Long Eighteenth Century written by Bob Harris and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-17 with History categories.
This new account of gambling in Britain in the long eighteenth century investigates who gambled, on what, and why.
The Life Of William Hutton Written By Himself Published By Catherine Hutton The Second Edition With Additions With A Portrait
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Author : William HUTTON (F.S.A. Sco.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1841
The Life Of William Hutton Written By Himself Published By Catherine Hutton The Second Edition With Additions With A Portrait written by William HUTTON (F.S.A. Sco.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1841 with categories.
Credit And Debt In Eighteenth Century England
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Author : Alexander Wakelam
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-06-15
Credit And Debt In Eighteenth Century England written by Alexander Wakelam and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-15 with Business & Economics categories.
Throughout the eighteenth century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain witnessed industrialisation, market growth, and the increasing sophistication of commerce, as the debtors’ prisons proved surprisingly effective. Due to insufficient early modern currency, almost every exchange was reliant upon the use of credit based upon personal reputation rather than defined collateral, making the lives of traders inherently precarious as they struggled to extract payments based on little more than promises. This book shows how traders turned to debtors’ prisons to give those promises defined consequences, the system functioning as a tool of coercive contract enforcement rather than oppression of the poor. Credit and Debt demonstrates for the first time the fundamental contribution of debt imprisonment to the early modern economy and reveals how traders made use of existing institutions to alleviate the instabilities of commerce in the context of unprecedented market growth. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers in economic history and early modern British history.