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Winterstoke
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Author : L.T.C. Rolt
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2015-06-25
Winterstoke written by L.T.C. Rolt and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-25 with Fiction categories.
'It had always struck me that, despite its overwhelming importance in the story of mankind, far too little attention had been paid to the Industrial Revolution in literature and art . . . I conceived the idea of concentrating a number of actual historical happenings in the English Midlands upon one imaginary industrial town . . . from the days of the first monastic mill on the river to the present day when an atomic research establishment on the outskirts of a huge blackened town struck a new apocalyptic note . . . I called my imaginary town Winterstoke.' Tom Rolt, writing in 1972 L. T. C. ('Tom') Rolt (1919-74) was a famed pioneer in the preservation of Britain's canal networks and railways, a biographer of the great civil engineers, and a forerunner of our current green movement. Winterstoke (1952), arguably his most visionary work, is reissued here with a new introduction featuring his widow Sonia and son Tim.
Winterstoke
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Author : L. T. C. Rolt
language : en
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Release Date : 1954
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Report Of The Museum And Art Gallery Committee
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1905
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The Life Of Ltc Rolt
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Author : Victoria Owens
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2024-07-30
The Life Of Ltc Rolt written by Victoria Owens 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 2024-07-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In 1926, Tom Rolt who was then sixteen years old, abandoned his public school education. Having taken a job with a small firm of agricultural engineers, he realized that he had found his life’s calling. But the way ahead was neither smooth nor easy. Having secured a premium apprenticeship, the firm which took him on foundered and although he eventually qualified as a mechanical engineer, the 1930s depression made it almost impossible to find regular employment. Nothing daunted, with the encouragement of his mysterious companion ‘Cara’, he turned to writing. His literary career flourished alongside his association with the Vintage Sports Car Club, the Inland Waterways Association and the Talyllyn Railway. Between his Inland Waterways Association and Talyllyn phases, Angela, his first wife, left him to join Billy Smart’s Circus, and Sonia –an actress-turned-boatwoman – would become his second wife. Over the course of his life, he produced over thirty books, their subject matters ranging from canals and railways to engineering biography; company histories; a collection of accomplished ghost stories and a topographical survey of Worcestershire. He also wrote polemics about the plight of the craftsman in a world which relied increasingly upon mass production. In this book, the first full-length biography of Tom Rolt and a complement to his auto-biographical Landscape trilogy, Victoria Owens draws upon his surviving letters and unpublished manuscripts to tell the story of the engineer-turned-writer who made Britain’s industrial past the stuff of enduring literature.
Talking About O Dwyer
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Author : C. K. Stead
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-09-30
Talking About O Dwyer written by C. K. Stead and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-30 with Fiction categories.
In his new bachelor flat, too close to comfort to his former family home, Mike Newall, Oxford don and Wittgenstein scholar seeks to rebuild his life, but feels increasingly weighed down by the past. When Donovan O'Dwyer, his colleague and fellow expatriate New Zealander dies, Newall attends the funeral. Afterwards, Newall reveals to his old friend Bertie Winterstoke the secret that O'Dwyer carried with him to his grave. During the battle for Crete in the Second World War, a soldier in New Zealand's Maori battalion died in harrowing circumstances. Believing his commanding officer, O'Dwyer, was responsible for the death, the soldier's family placed a makutu, a Maori curse, on him. Winterstoke demands to be told all, and in the days that follow Newall obliges. But Newall's life and O'Dwyer's are curiously interconnected and Newall finds that he must interweave O'Dwyer's tale with his own - his childhood in New Zealand, his self imposed exile in Oxford, his marriage and divorce, the pilgrimage recently made to Croatia and the promise of a new beginning that this may hold. Gradually, through a series of entwined stories, beautifully told, reflecting on decades of war and of peace, on memory and its failures, and on language and its limitations, Mike Newall comes to see a way of laying the ghosts of O'Dwyer's - and his own - past to rest.
Domesday Studies Tables
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Author : Robert William Eyton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
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Tables
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Author : Robert William Eyton
language : en
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Release Date : 1880
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A Guide To The Practice Of The Court Of Quarter Sessions For The County Of Somerset
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Author : John JESSE (Clerk of the Peace for the County of Somerset.)
language : en
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Release Date : 1815
A Guide To The Practice Of The Court Of Quarter Sessions For The County Of Somerset written by John JESSE (Clerk of the Peace for the County of Somerset.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1815 with categories.
Domesday Studies
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Author : Robert William Eyton
language : en
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Release Date : 1880
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Phoenix Assurance And The Development Of British Insurance Volume 2 The Era Of The Insurance Giants 1870 1984
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Author : Clive Trebilcock
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1985
Phoenix Assurance And The Development Of British Insurance Volume 2 The Era Of The Insurance Giants 1870 1984 written by Clive Trebilcock 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 1985 with Business & Economics categories.
This is the second and final volume of the business history of one of the UK's oldest and largest insurance offices, based upon probably the best archive in the business. This volume covers the period from 1870 to the absorption of the Phoenix by Sun Alliance (now Royal and Sun Alliance) in 1984. The Phoenix papers are used to analyse the triumphs and trials, not only of a single insurance venture, but of an entire financial sector in a notably turbulent century. Insurance is concerned with the way people drive, the way they retire, or buy their houses, or invest, or educate their children, or go to war. It follows that a major insurance history also throws light on many aspects of modern British social history. As the great composite offices expanded to offer fire, accident, marine, and life insurance across a single 'counter', so they caught within their dealings an increasingly representative slice of British commercial and social life.