Author : Hazel Wheeler
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 10,92 MB
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 144562513X
Huddersfield at War is a new edition of a classic text from a well-known author.
Author : J. Margaret Stansfield
Publisher :
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 2014
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : 9781862181267
Huddersfields Roll of Honour 1914-1922 is a detailed account of 3,439 service personnel from Huddersfield who lost their lives during the First World War. In the Preface, HRH The Duke of York KG writes: This publication represents the lifetime work of Margaret Stansfield who sadly passed away in 2012. Margaret spent 30 years compiling the 3,439 biographical entries giving a poignant insight into the background, working lives and families of those who selflessly left Huddersfield to fight for their country never to return. Along with the biographical accounts there are many moving letters to the families of soldiers who lost their lives reflecting an attempt to bring comfort amid the darkness that their loss brought to both families and comrades alike.
Author : Vivien Teasdale Teasdale
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 11,96 MB
Release : 2015-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1783463562
When war was declared in August 1914, it not only changed the lives of the soldiers who fought, but also the lives of their families, their neighbourhood and, ultimately, the whole of society. Women came out of their homes to take up work in industry, to drive the trams, to police the streets as well as nurse the wounded. Government, local and national, imposed extensive controls on all aspects of social life - who could remain in work, who had to fight, what could be grown as crops, what clothes were appropriate and how to feed a family. ??This study looks at how these changes affected Huddersfield and its inhabitants, showing how employment changed, how the town contributed to financing the war and how the local tribunals dealt with those who did not want to fight. Local families, from the highest to the lowest walks of life, find their stories illustrated here.
Author : Brian Heywood
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,10 MB
Release : 2016-08
Category : Huddersfield (England)
ISBN : 9780954714673
Author : James Brearley
Publisher : Mereo Books, mereobook, mereobooks
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1861511299
From Huddersfield to war-torn Holland, this is the true story of one English boy serving with the Black Watch during World War II. When he was only seventeen, James Watson signed up to serve the nation in the fight against Nazi invasion. Knowing the legacy of their bravery and honour, he expressed a desire to serve in the Black Watch Highland Regiment, and it would only be a few months later when he began his training and the road to war. Written from the perspective of a close comrade, the true-story of James ?Jim? Watson?s wartime exploits follow him from his first day of training to the very last battle he would ever fight. Poignantly and emotionally-written, it is a story that conveys the day-to-day suffering of young soldiers as they fought for the liberation of Europe and for the safety of their friends and family back home. Alongside the stalwart men of the 5th Black Watch, James Watson?s actions from his role in the storming of the beaches on D-Day to being amongst the first to cross the border into Germany in 1945 are recollected in vivid detail. Friends dead and innocence shattered, the true cost of war on the young souls forced into violence is powerfully preserved in this account of James? war. However the question still remains as to whether he will make it home at all. Written by James Watson?s nephew, A Teenager?s War is an inspiring but down-to-earth record of the lives of young soldiers and the war that defined their generation.
Author : Anne Christine Brook
Publisher :
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Cyril Pearce
Publisher :
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 27,13 MB
Release : 1988
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Adrian Gregory
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1107650860
What was it that the British people believed they were fighting for in 1914–18? This compelling history of the British home front during the First World War offers an entirely new account of how British society understood and endured the war. Drawing on official archives, memoirs, diaries and letters, Adrian Gregory sheds new light on the public reaction to the war, examining the role of propaganda and rumour in fostering patriotism and hatred of the enemy. He shows the importance of the ethic of volunteerism and the rhetoric of sacrifice in debates over where the burdens of war should fall as well as the influence of religious ideas on wartime culture. As the war drew to a climax and tensions about the distribution of sacrifices threatened to tear society apart, he shows how victory and the processes of commemoration helped create a fiction of a society united in grief.
Author : David Cowan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2024-04-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1009340298
The inter-war period (1918–1939) is still remembered as a period of mass deprivation – the 'hungry thirties'. But how did this impression emerge? Thousands of conversations about life in the inter-war period – between parents and children around the dinner table; among workmates at the pub – shaped these understandings. In turn, these fed into popular politics. Stories about the embryonic welfare system in the early-twentieth century informed how people felt towards the National Health Service; memories of the Great Depression shaped arguments about state intervention in the economy. Challenging accounts of widespread political disengagement in the twentieth century, Politics of the Past shows how re-telling family stories about the inter-war period offered ordinary people an accessible way of engaging in politics. Drawing on six local case studies across Scotland and England, this book explains how stories about the inter-war working-class experience in industrial areas came to appear commonplace nationwide.
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher :
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 14,33 MB
Release : 1918
Category : Bills, Legislative
ISBN :
