The Strange Case of Victor Grayson
Author : Reginald Groves
Publisher : London : Pluto Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Politicians Great Britain Biography
ISBN : 9780902818774
The Mystery of Victor Grayson. [With a Portrait.].
Author : Reginald Groves
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 1946
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Victor Grayson
Author : David Clark
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Victor Grayson, M.P.
Author : Spencella Maljean
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 19??
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Renegades and Rats
Author : Jacqueline Dickenson
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 14,19 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0522853099
Book Description
Accusations of betrayal played a significant role in the shaping and maintenance of solidarity in socialist and other modern radical political organisations in Australia and Britain. This fascinating study of trust and betrayal focuses on case studies of 6 'rats' or renegades: H.H. Champion; William Trenwith; John Burns; Albert Victor Grayson; Adela Pankhurst Walsh; and Ada Holman. Renegades and Rats will appeal to scholars of history and sociology alike, and to anyone intersted in the subject of trust: what it is, and how it is lost.
For Class and Country
Author : David Swift
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 1786940027
Book Description
For the Left, the Second World War can be seen as a time of triumph: a united stand against fascism followed by a landslide election win and a radical, reforming Labour government. The First World War is more complex. Given the gratuitous cost in lives, the failure of a 'fit country for heroes to live in' to materialise, the deep recessions and unemployment of the inter-war years, and the botched peace settlements which served only to precipitate another war, the Left has tended to view the conflict as an unmitigated disaster and unpardonable waste. This book hopes to move away from a concentration on machinations at the elite levels of the labour movement, on events inside Parliament and intellectual developments; there is a focus on less well-visited material.
The Portsmouth Book of Days
Author : John Sadden
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 24,82 MB
Release : 2012-02-29
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0752485873
Book Description
Taking you through the year day by day, The Portsmouth Book of Days contains a quirky, eccentric, amusing or important event or fact from different periods of history, many of which had a major impact on, or reflect, the social and political history of England as a whole. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information gleaned from the vaults of Portsmouth's archives, it will delight residents and visitors alike.
Making socialists
Author : Jane Martin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1526130467
Book Description
Making Socialists combines a biographical study of a (nowadays) virtually unknown woman with an original exploration of several major themes in late nineteenth and early twentieth century political and educational history. More than a local politician, Mary Bridges Adams was among the dynamic late nineteenth-century women activists who sought to transform government policy through socialist initiatives, with the ultimate (utopian) aim of creating a social nation. The author has assembled a thorough range of sources, including new materials that will bring fresh insights to this biography and more generally to Labour Party and socialist historiography, well-studied topics. The people Adams knew and the circles in which she travelled are particularly attractive features of this book. Foes thought her an awful woman: friends like George Bernard Shaw remembered the power of her oratory. Placed against the circumstances in which she lived and presented as part of a militant and anti-capitalist tradition within labour history, her life story contributes to new ways of seeing both socialist and feminist politics.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in London's West End
Author : Geoffrey Howse
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2006-04-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 1781596611
Book Description
London's West End is associated with fashion and glamour but for centuries it has had a far darker side. Geoffrey Howse has uncovered an astonishing catalogue of sinister deeds, some of them famous but others long forgotten. Read about spying, treason, embezzlement, regicide, robbery, forgery, religious persecution, suicide, murder and mutilation; and 'witness' horrendous punishments such as drawing, hanging, disemboweling, quartering, castration, beheading and burning. Earlier cases include the execution of Scottish patriots (1305/6) and three monks who dared to question the supremacy of Henry VIII in 1535. Such events attracted great public attention, as did the extraordinary execution of Charles I in 1649 and, in 1820, the hanging and mutilation of the Cato Street Conspiritors. The foul murder of the famous actor William Terriss, by a madman, in 1897, is featured as are several notable cases from the twentieth century including the horrific wartime murders of Gordon Cummins, the strange disappearances of the socialist MP Victor Grayson and Lord Lucan, the Charing Cross Trunk Murder as well as the mysterious death of boxer Freddie Mills.
The Origins of British Bolshevism
Author : Raymond Challinor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 14,13 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000706680
Book Description
First published in 1977. This book describes the growth of revolutionary organisations in Britain from 1900 onwards. It shows that there was an indigenous movement that developed quite independently from the left in other countries, although its basic outlook was remarkably similar to that of the Bolsheviks in Russia. The study concentrates the activities of the Socialist Labour Party, a small group of dedicated revolutionaries, whose impact on working-class politics had not been fully recognised. The most controversial section of the book deals with the Russian influence on the machinations that led to the formation of the British Communist Party. It is critical of Lenin, who sometimes gave advice on the basis of insufficient knowledge, and of Comitern agents, like Theodore Rothstein, with dubious political backgrounds. This title will be of great interest to students of politics, philosophy, and history.
