Walks in the Black Country and Its Green Border-land
Author : Elihu Burritt
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 29,44 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Birmingham (England)
ISBN :
Black History Walks
Author : WARNER
Publisher : Jacaranda
Page : pages
File Size : 36,18 MB
Release : 2022-10-27
Category :
ISBN : 9781913090265
Book Description
A collection of guided tours throughout London Black History Walks invites the reader to see their surroundings with new eyes.
The Living Age
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 894 pages
File Size : 48,32 MB
Release : 1887
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Walks in the Midlands Countryside
Author : Brian Conduit
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Birmingham (England)
ISBN : 9781850589716
Book Description
In 1865 Elihu Burritt, a notable American peace and anti-slavery activist, was appointed the United States consul in Birmingham, at the time a rapidly growing manufacturing city and centre of a major industrial area. He travelling extensively throughout the Midlands, not just in Birmingham and the heavily industrialised Black Country but also in the rural areas that lay beyond the industrial belt in Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Staffordshire and Shropshire. Burritt was full of enthusiasm for everything he saw and his obvious love for the area shines through in the book that he subsequently wrote about his journeys. That book, published in 1868, was entitled Walks in the Black Country and its Green Borderland. These 20 walks take you through areas of the Midlands which, 150 years since Burritt walked this way, still contain some of the most varied, beautiful and interesting landscapes and some of the finest old towns and villages in the country.
Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country
Author : George Thomas Noszlopy
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 26,57 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0853239894
Book Description
The "Black Country" is an area historically known as the cradle of the Industrial Revolution—a thriving regioin built around deep coal seams, conjuring up images of fiery red furnaces by night and black, sooty citadels by day. Yet today the resource-rich region also features many striking public sculptures. This volume provides a comprehensive catalog to all of the historic sculptures and public monuments in Staffordshire and the Black Country. George Noszlopy and Fiona Waterhouse catalog each individual sculpture in detail, including information about the sculptor, the sculpture's historical and artistic significance, the commissioning agent, and the date of installation. The volume also features 350 black-and-white photographs that document the diverse and rich beauty of the region's public monuments. The ninth volume in the widely acclaimed, award-winning Public Sculpture of Britain series, Public Sculpture of Staffordshire and the Black Country is an invaluable resource for British historians, art scholars, and travelers alike.
Discovery Walks in Worcestershire
Author : Brian Conduit
Publisher : Sigma Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781850587064
Book Description
Features 30 circular walks that are evenly spaced across the varied terrain of the county. This book gives an introduction to Worcestershire's landscape. Each route visits a heritage site, market town or village which enables you to learn about the area's cultural life.
1001 Walks in Britain
Author : Automobile Association (Great Britain)
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 24,29 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780393058819
Book Description
Walks of 2 to 10 miles in every corner of Britain.
Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone
Author : Joseph S. Meisel
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 37,3 MB
Release : 2001-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0231505825
Book Description
By the last decades of the nineteenth century, more people were making more speeches to greater numbers in a wider variety of venues than at any previous time. This book argues that a recognizably modern public life was created in Victorian Britain largely through the instrumentality of public speech. Shedding new light on the careers of many of the most important figures of the Victorian era and beyond, including Gladstone, Disraeli, Sir Robert Peel, John Bright, Joseph Chamberlain, Winston Churchill, Lloyd George, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, and Canon Liddon, the book traces the ways in which oratory came to occupy a central position in the conception and practice of Victorian public life. Not a study of rhetoric or a celebration of great oratory, the book stresses the social developments that led to the production and consumption of these speeches.
Woman: in All Ages and in All Countries ...: Oriental women, by E.B. Pollard
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Page : 416 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Women
ISBN :
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Walking in the Shadow of a Political Agitator - Book 1 Apprentice
Author : Richard Etheridge
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1326840126
Book Description
This is the story of a father seen through the eyes of a son who grew up in his shadow. A father who in late 1940 was quite suddenly thrust into notoriety consequent upon the vagaries of a congenital heart condition and a Luftwaffe bomb; this shunted him from Nuevo Riche café owner's. son to shop floor worker at the Austin Motor Company. Ironically fate interceded once again when shortly after completing National Service the son joined him there in 1957 working on the other side of the fence, after motor magnate Sir Leonard Lord sponsored him as an undergraduate trainee at the Austin.
