London Was Ours

Author : Amy Helen Bell
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781848858497
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Was Ours written by Amy Helen Bell and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2011-05-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the nine months of the Blitz, London was subjected to a brutal and indiscriminate bombing campaign, aimed for the first time in history at shattering the resolve of a nation. The Nazi raids on night-time London provide some of the defining narratives of World War II: the 'blitz spirit', air raid shelters in Underground stations and all the horrifying reality of one of the world's most powerful and historic cities under violent attack. This book tells the epic story of a London under siege through the voices of those that lived it. Amy Helen Bell here uncovers the personal stories of hundreds of Londoners from all walks of life, who scribbled in diaries and notebooks from inside air raid shelters and bombed-out houses to record their experiences of the Blitz. Expertly weaving these together, drawing out themes of loss, courage and love, what emerges is a thoughtfully argued and beautifully composed commentary on Britain's collective memory of one of the great conflicts of modern times. By letting the warmth, despair and hope of these personal recollections speak, 'London Was Ours' becomes a collective testament to the resilience of a people and a meditation on the nature of a nation's history.

Author : Amy Helen Bell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857714465
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London Was Ours written by Amy Helen Bell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "London was ours from the hour the blacked-out night hid its beauty until the morning siren signalled the coming day." - Joan Bright Astley. The German bombing raids on London from September 1940 to May 1941 - the London Blitz - supply us with some of the most dramatic and mythologised stories from the Home Front of the Second World War. But often overlooked in historical studies of the Blitz are the narratives supplied by Londoners themselves. In shelters, in kitchens and in offices, they wrote about their daily lives under duress, scribbling into diaries, notebooks and on the backs of envelopes. "London was Ours" analyses over two hundred letters, diaries and memoirs written by those citizens who endured the Blitz, restoring the forgotten voices of ordinary individuals to the collective memory of the Blitz and World War II. Their writings reveal widely varying points of view, often at odds with official wartime narratives and subsequent histories, making this a vital contribution to the social history of wartime Britain.

Author : Jesse Oak Taylor
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937949
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sky of Our Manufacture written by Jesse Oak Taylor and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The smoke-laden fog of London is one of the most vivid elements in English literature, richly suggestive and blurring boundaries between nature and society in compelling ways. In The Sky of Our Manufacture, Jesse Oak Taylor uses the many depictions of the London fog in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century novel to explore the emergence of anthropogenic climate change. In the process, Taylor argues for the importance of fiction in understanding climatic shifts, environmental pollution, and ecological collapse. The London fog earned the portmanteau "smog" in 1905, a significant recognition of what was arguably the first instance of a climatic phenomenon manufactured by modern industry. Tracing the path to this awareness opens a critical vantage point on the Anthropocene, a new geologic age in which the transformation of humanity into a climate-changing force has not only altered our physical atmosphere but imbued it with new meanings. The book examines enduringly popular works--from the novels of Charles Dickens and George Eliot to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and the Sherlock Holmes mysteries to works by Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf--alongside newspaper cartoons, scientific writings, and meteorological technologies to reveal a fascinating relationship between our cultural climate and the sky overhead. Under the Sign of Nature: Studies in Ecocriticism

Author : Amy Helen Bell
Publisher : National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book London was Ours written by Amy Helen Bell and published by National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada. This book was released on 2002 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Grumbridge
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912618753
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Today South London, Tomorrow South London written by Andrew Grumbridge and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South London-based blog, Deserter, is an alt guide to living and loafing in the wonky wonderland south of the river. Its authors, under their noms de plume Dulwich Raider and Dirty South, record off-beat days out and urban adventures featuring pubs, cemeteries, galleries, hospitals and pubs again, often in the company of their volatile dealer, Half-life, and the much nicer Roxy. Part guide, part travelogue, this book is a collection of these tales with the addition of lots of new material that their publisher absolutely insisted upon. South London, that maligned wasteland where cabbies once feared to drive, can no longer be ignored. The South is risen!

Author : Ben Aaronovitch
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0756414830
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Amongst Our Weapons written by Ben Aaronovitch and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The London Silver Vaults--for well over a century, the largest collection of silver for sale in the world. It has more locks than the Bank of England and more cameras than a paparazzi convention. Not somewhere you can murder someone and vanish without a trace--only that's what happened. The disappearing act, the reports of a blinding flash of light, and memory loss amongst the witnesses all make this a case for Detective Constable Peter Grant and the Special Assessment Unit. Alongside their boss DCI Thomas Nightingale, the SAU find themselves embroiled in a mystery that encompasses London's tangled history, foreign lands and, most terrifying of all, the North! And Peter must solve this case soon, because back home his partner Beverley is expecting twins any day now. But what he doesn't know is that he's about to encounter something--and somebody--that nobody ever expects..."--

Author : London C Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578746418
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Our 1st Protest written by London C Williams and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, an 11 year old black girl attends her 1st protest with her little sister Brooklyn and their mom. In this book, London will take you on a step by step journey, through their life changing experiences marching for equal rights.

Author : Guy Gunaratne
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374720363
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Our Mad and Furious City written by Guy Gunaratne and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-listed for the 2018 Man Booker Prize Short-listed for the 2018 Gordon Burn Prize Short-listed for the 2018 Goldsmiths Prize Inspired by the real-life murder of a British army soldier by religious fanatics, Guy Gunaratne’s In Our Mad and Furious City is a snapshot of the diverse, frenzied edges of modern-day London. A crackling debut from a vital new voice, it pulses with the frantic energy of the city’s homegrown grime music and is animated by the youthful rage of a dispossessed, overlooked, and often misrepresented generation. While Selvon, Ardan, and Yusuf organize their lives around soccer, girls, and grime, Caroline and Nelson struggle to overcome pasts that haunt them. Each voice is uniquely insightful, impassioned, and unforgettable, and when stitched together, they trace a brutal and vibrant tapestry of today’s London. In a forty-eight-hour surge of extremism and violence, their lives are inexorably drawn together in the lead-up to an explosive, tragic climax. In Our Mad and Furious City documents the stark disparities and bubbling fury coursing beneath the prosperous surface of a city uniquely on the brink. Written in the distinctive vernaculars of contemporary London, the novel challenges the ways in which we coexist now—and, more important, the ways in which we often fail to do so.

Author : Harriet Salisbury
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0091941504
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The War on Our Doorstep written by Harriet Salisbury and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London's East Enders are known for being a tough, humorous and lively lot but the Second World War changed everything. During the Blitz, men set off for work never to return and rows of houses were reduced to rubble overnight. Told by the residents themselves, this book is a moving depiction of what it means to be an East Ender.

Author : Frederick Meyrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outcast and the Poor of London: Or, Our Present Duties Towards the Poor: a Course of Sermons Preached at the Chapel Royal, Whitehall written by Frederick Meyrick and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: