Download or read book A History of Modern Leeds written by Derek Fraser and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of Modern Leeds written by Derek Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History for Modern Leeds written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Derek Fraer ed A history of modern Leeds written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Modernian A History of the Leeds Modern School 1845 1931 Etc written by Leeds Modern School (Leeds) and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leeds and its Jewish community written by Derek Fraser and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book provides a comprehensive history of the third-largest Jewish community in Britain and fills an acknowledged gap in both Jewish and urban historiography. Bringing together the latest research and building on earlier local studies, the book provides an analysis of the special features which shaped the community in Leeds. Organised in three sections, Context, Chronology and Contours, the book demonstrates how Jews have influenced the city and how the city has influenced the community. A small community was transformed by the late Victorian influx of poor migrants from the Russian Empire and within two generations had become successfully integrated into the city’s social and economic structure. More than a dozen authors contribute to this definitive history and the editor provides both an introductory and concluding overview which brings the story up to the present day. The book will be of interest to both historians and general readers.
Download or read book The Illustrated History of Leeds written by Steven Burt and published by Breedon Books Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Book of Leeds written by Tony Harrison and published by Comma Press. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Millgarth Police Station reverberates with the early adrenalin-rush of a case they won't close for years. A teenage boy trails the city centre bars of the eighties in thrall to his hero - a Leeds United football hooligan. A single woman finds her frustrations with men confirmed speed-dating in a city re-invented as a party capital. Bringing together fiction from some of the city's most celebrated writers, The Book of Leeds traces the unique contours that fifty years of social and economic change can impress on a city. These are stories that take place at oblique angles to the larger events in the city's history, or against wider currents that have shaped the social and cultural landscape of today's Leeds: a modern city with both problems and promise.
Download or read book Guide and History of Leeds With Illustrations and Maps written by Joseph Lee (Author of "Guide and History of Leeds".) and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Struggle and Suffrage in Leeds written by Tina Jackson and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-04-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Leeds is bound up in the stories of its women workers. But what were conditions like for ordinary women, and how did their lives change in the hundred years between 1850 and 1950? Who were the women who toiled in the mills, factories and sweatshops that transformed the city’s landscape? Where and how did they live? What did they do in their leisure time? What happened to them when they needed medical care? What did the campaign for suffrage mean in real-life terms for the women who had no vote and whose voices have rarely been heard? In Leeds, the campaign for suffrage was set against a backdrop of industry that relied on women workers for whom hardship was a fact of life. As the campaign for votes for women gained traction from the 1860s, social and political reformers and activists worked to improve conditions not just in industry, but in schools, hospitals and in the opportunities available to women and girls. Some of the women, like the prominent suffragette Leonora Cohen and Leeds’ first female MP, Alice Bacon, are still talked about, but the city’s history is full of the stories of exceptional, inspirational women who in their own ways did their bit, broke the mould, and refused to fit into proscribed roles. In doing so, they opened the door for women to achieve some of the freedoms we now take for granted. This new, fully illustrated book brings them back from obscurity and lets their voices to heard.
Download or read book The Modernian written by Leeds (England). Leeds Modern School and published by . This book was released on 1931* with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Only Place for Us written by Jon Howe and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leeds United's Elland Road home is full of intrigue, character and formidable acoustics, yet it started life as a barren and featureless patch of land surrounded by coalfields. The Only Place For Us is the fascinating history of the stadium and its changing local environment, revealing the background stories behind Elland Road's most famous features and characters, and the astonishing events it has witnessed. Along the way there have been fires and gypsy curses mixed with cherished memories including the diamond floodlights, the West Stand façade and escapee pantomime horses. Using forensic research, insiders' insights, archive photographs and fans' memories, Jon Howe retraces a historical journey full of tragedy, nostalgia and improbable innovation, to show how Leeds United's home ground became one of Europe's most feared football grounds. Through triumph and adversity, neglect and redevelopment, Elland Road has emerged as a prominent, modern stadium that's still alive with history. This is its unique story.
Download or read book The Modernian A History of the Leeds Modern School 1845 1931 Edited by E E Bullus With Plates written by Sir Eric Edward BULLUS and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Man in the Monkeynut Coat written by Kersten T. Hall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-06-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'. The same might also be said of the scientists James Watson and Francis Crick. Their discovery of the structure of DNA was, without doubt, one of the biggest scientific landmarks in history and, thanks largely to the success of Watson's best-selling memoir 'The Double Helix', there might seem to be little new to say about this story. But much remains to be said about the particular 'giants' on whose shoulders Watson and Crick stood. Of these, the crystallographer Rosalind Franklin, whose famous X-ray diffraction photograph known as 'Photo 51' provided Watson and Crick with a vital clue, is now well recognised. Far less well known is the physicist William T. Astbury who, working at Leeds in the 1930s on the structure of wool for the local textile industry, pioneered the use of X-ray crystallography to study biological fibres. In so doing, he not only made the very first studies of the structure of DNA culminating in a photo almost identical to Franklin's 'Photo 51', but also founded the new science of 'molecular biology'. Yet whilst Watson and Crick won the Nobel Prize, Astbury has largely been forgotten. The Man in the Monkeynut Coat tells the story of this neglected pioneer, showing not only how it was thanks to him that Watson and Crick were not left empty-handed, but also how his ideas transformed biology leaving a legacy which is still felt today.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Leeds Library written by Leeds Library and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Catalogue of the Leeds Library: With a Short History of the Library, the Rules at Present in Force, a List of the Proprietors, and a Subject Index The Leeds Library, known at different periods in its career as the Leeds Circulating Library, the Leeds Old Subscription Library, and the Leeds Old Library, was founded in 1768. It is the oldest proprietary library in York shire, and next to the Liverpool Lyceum, the oldest proprietary library in England. The first circulating library in the English provinces was started at Birmingham in 1757 by William Hutton, a bookseller and the author of the History of Birmingham, the Trip to Coatham, and other well known books, and the first proprietary circulating library was founded at Liverpool in 1758, and is now known as the Liverpool Lyceum. In 1760 was founded the Warrington Circulating Library, now merged in the Warrington Museum, in the promotion of which Joseph Priestley, at that time a schoolmaster in Warrington, was very active. In September, 1767, Dr. Priestley left War rington and came to Leeds as minister of the Mill Hill Chapel, and to him, or to his in uence, may fairly be ascribed the foundation of the Leeds Library. Leeds was at this time rising into prominence as the headquarters of the West Riding cloth trade, and the importance of its position may be gauged by the fact that it boasted of two newspapers, the Leeds Intellzlgerzeer, founded in 1754, and the Leeds Mercmjy, revived in 1767. But the appetite of the town for literature ofa permanent value had hitherto been satisfied by the book sellers; the splendid library of Ralph Thoresby had been dispersed, and the only public collection of books in Leeds was to be found in the small but valuable library of the Leeds Grammar School. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Download or read book Learning Languages in Early Modern England written by John Gallagher and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1578, the Anglo-Italian author, translator, and teacher John Florio wrote that English was 'a language that wyl do you good in England, but passe Dover, it is woorth nothing'. Learning Languages in Early Modern England is the first major study of how English-speakers learnt a variety of continental vernacular languages in the period between 1480 and 1720. English was practically unknown outside of England, which meant that the English who wanted to travel and trade with the wider world in this period had to become language-learners. Using a wide range of printed and manuscript sources, from multilingual conversation manuals to travellers' diaries and letters where languages mix and mingle, Learning Languages explores how early modern English-speakers learned and used foreign languages, and asks what it meant to be competent in another language in the past. Beginning with language lessons in early modern England, it offers a new perspective on England's 'educational revolution'. John Gallagher looks for the first time at the whole corpus of conversation manuals written for English language-learners, and uses these texts to pose groundbreaking arguments about reading, orality, and language in the period. He also reconstructs the practices of language-learning and multilingual communication which underlay early modern travel. Learning Languages offers a new and innovative study of a set of practices and experiences which were crucial to England's encounter with the wider world, and to the fashioning of English linguistic and cultural identities at home. Interdisciplinary in its approaches and broad in its chronological and thematic scope, this volume places language-learning and multilingualism at the heart of early modern British and European history.
