Author : David Beddall
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 43,70 MB
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1398106496
A wonderful collection of 180 photographs, some previously unpublished, celebrating the London's Low-floor Buses in Exile.
Author : Jody Allen Randolph
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 14,77 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611485371
In this powerful and authoritative study Jody Allen Randolph providesthe fullest account yet of the work of a major figure in twentieth-century Irish literature as well as in contemporary women’s writing. Eavan Boland’s achievement in changing the map of Irish poetry is tracked and analyzed from her first poems to the present. The book traces the evolution of that achievement, guiding the reader through Boland’s early attachment to Yeats, her growing unease with the absence of women’s writing, her encounter with pioneering American poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and Adrienne Rich, and her eventual, challenging amendments in poetry and prose to Ireland’s poetic tradition. Using research from private papers the book also traces a time of upheaval and change in Ireland, exploring Boland's connection to Mary Robinson, in a chapter that details the nexus of a woman president and a woman poet in a country that was resistant to both. Finally, this book invites the reader to share a compelling perspective on the growth of a poet described by one critic as Ireland’s “first great woman poet.”
Author : Daria Santini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 18,26 MB
Release : 2019-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1786736284
London, 1934. Austrian actress Elisabeth Bergner dominated the British theatre scene, poet and director Berthold Viertel shot two successful films for Gaumont British; two great actors from the Weimar era, Conrad Veidt and Fritz Kortner, became well-known faces in English-speaking cinema and the Hungarian journalist Stefan Lorant launched the first ever continental-style illustrated magazine for the British newspaper market. Exploring a phase in the history of Anglo-German relations during which the émigrés from Hitler's Germany were making their influence felt in Britain, Daria Santini traces their presence in London from around 1933 to 1935 when these characters made their presence truly felt, all while the Nazi threat loomed on the horizon.
Author : Kader Asmal
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 34,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1770099034
Prologue: The first day -- Formative years -- Exile and England -- Ireland -- Law in the service of humanity -- Constitution writing -- Three great South Africans -- Truth and reconciliation -- In Cabinet -- Water and trees -- Education -- Conclusion -- Afterword.
Author : Valerie McBurney
Publisher :
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,76 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Guide to all major public, academic & special libraries In London which are open to researchers. Contact details, access policies and directions are provided for all libraries. A wide variety of subject areas are covered from accounting to zoology.
Author : Christopher Hibbert
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 34,68 MB
Release : 2011-09-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0230738788
‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London News The London Encyclopaedia is the most comprehensive book on London ever published. In its first new edition in over ten years, completely revised and updated, it comprises some 6,000 entries, organised alphabetically, cross-referenced and supported by two large indexes – one for the 10,000 people mentioned in the text and one general – and is illustrated with over 500 drawings, prints and photographs. Everything of relevance to the history, culture, commerce and government of the capital is documented in this phenomenal book. From the very first settlements through to the skyline of today, The London Encyclopaedia comprehends all that is London. ‘Written in very accessible prose with a range of memorable quotations and affectionate jokes...a monumental achievement written with real love’ Financial Times
Author : George Orwell
Publisher : A G Printing & Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,22 MB
Release : 2024-07-07
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
There were eccentric characters in the hotel. The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people—people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work. Some of the lodgers in our hotel lived lives that were curious beyond words. There were the Rougiers, for instance, an old, ragged, dwarfish couple who plied an extraordinary trade. They used to sell postcards on the Boulevard St Michel. The curious thing was that the postcards were sold in sealed packets as pornographic ones, but were actually photographs of chateaux on the Loire; the buyers did not discover this till too late, and of course never complained. The Rougiers earned about a hundred francs a week, and by strict economy managed to be always half starved and half drunk. The filth of their room was such that one could smell it on the floor below. According to Madame F., neither of the Rougiers had taken off their clothes for four years.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 41,63 MB
Release : 1803
Category : Hudson (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Richard Clogg
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2017-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1786732629
The 1960s was a tumultuous period in the history of Greece, as its democracy fell under the forced establishment of a military dictatorship. The regime of the colonels was the culmination of national division and hostility between communist forces and right wing militants. It was in these extraordinary times that British historian Richard Clogg witnessed the 1967 coup, while living in Athens and researching modern Greek history. Following his abrupt immersion in Greek politics and political activism, Clogg went on to a joint appointment at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES) and King's College, London. At SSEES, he uncovered the contested history of nationalist funding in academia and postings. After publishing his controversial book Politics and the Academy, Clogg moved to St Antony's College, Oxford. Greek to Me: A Memoir of Academic Life is an engrossing tale of academic and political intrigue, spanning Clogg's time in Greece and in the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at King's College London. Through extensive personal archives of his fascinating adventures, Clogg exposes the secretive fields of academia and university politics as well as providing unique eyewitness accounts of modern Greek history.
Author : David Howarth
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 10,73 MB
Release : 2008-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 076276631X
From the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue refugees—all under constant threat by German U-boats and winter storms.
