Download or read book Blackpool The Postcard Collection written by Allan W. Wood and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2015-08-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capturing old Blackpool in all its glory.

Download or read book Lytham St Annes the Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old Lytham St Annes in all its glory.

Download or read book British Piers The Postcard Collection written by Nigel Sadler and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century.

Download or read book The Architecture of Pleasure written by Josephine Kane and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The amusement parks which first appeared in England at the turn of the twentieth century represent a startlingly novel and complex phenomenon, combining fantasy architecture, new technology, ersatz danger, spectacle and consumption in a new mass experience. Though drawing on a diverse range of existing leisure practices, the particular entertainment formula they offered marked a radical departure in terms of visual, experiential and cultural meanings. The huge, socially mixed crowds that flocked to the new parks did so purely in the pursuit of pleasure, which the amusement parks commodified in exhilarating new guises. Between 1906 and 1939, nearly 40 major amusement parks operated across Britain. By the outbreak of the Second World War, millions of people visited these sites each year. The amusement park had become a defining element in the architectural psychological pleasurescape of Britain. This book considers the relationship between popular modernity, pleasure and the amusement park landscape in Britain from 1900-1939. It argues that the amusement parks were understood as a new and distinct expression of modern times which redefined the concept of public pleasure for mass audiences. Focusing on three sites - Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Dreamland in Margate and Southend's Kursaal - the book contextualises their development with references to the wider amusement park world. The meanings of these sites are explored through a detailed examination of the spatial and architectural form taken by rides and other buildings. The rollercoaster - a defining symbol of the amusement park - is given particular focus, as is the extent to which discourses of class, gender and national identity were expressed through the design of these parks.

Download or read book Preston The Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-09-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating portrait of Preston presented through a remarkable collection of historical postcards.

Download or read book Saucy Postcards The Bamforth Collection written by Marcus Hearn and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yorkshire-based publisher Bamforth & Co started producing 'saucy' postcards in 1910. These cheeky designs became synonymous with the English seaside resorts where they were sold, but were exported all over the world. After WW2, Bamforth artists began to satirise the classic comic archetypes that still resonate today - henpecked husbands, naughty nurses and randy milkmen. Contemporary concerns ranging from the contraceptive pill to the Space Race also received the irreverent Bamforth treatment. Saucy Postcards: The Bamforth Collection celebrates the golden age of these comic gems, with a selection of more than 250 cards originally published from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The book's introduction reveals the story behind the company, and the battles with the postcard censorship committees that resulted in almost 150 prosecutions.

Download or read book The Battle for Christian Britain written by Callum G. Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exposes the mechanisms by which conservative Christianity dominated British culture during 1945-65 and their subsequent collapse.

Download or read book Lytham St Annes The Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old Lytham St Annes in all its glory.

Download or read book Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland written by Karen Attar and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.

Download or read book Blackpool in Old Picture Postcards written by Allan W. Wood and published by . This book was released on 1997-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Chester The Postcard Collection written by Peter Byrom and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader on an evocative journey into Chester’s past through a selection of beautiful old postcards.

Download or read book Trade and Collect Ephemera written by and published by Hartley Publications. This book was released on 2006 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British use of Postage Due and To Pay labels a postal history exhibit written by Jack A. Gunn and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-12-21 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is concerned with an undervalued area of British postal history, namely the postal use of 'Postage Due' and 'To Pay' labels / stamps. It is also concerned with encouraging people to exhibit. Both these areas are increasingly being appreciated.

Download or read book Sefton The Postcard Collection written by Hugh Hollinghurst and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old Sefton in all its glory. Offers a fascinating window into the history of the Merseyside metropolitan borough.

Download or read book Worktowners at Blackpool written by Gary Cross and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-12 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gary Cross publishes the findings of this largely forgotten study by the Mass-Observers who followed the annual pilgrimage of labourers to Blackpool, hoping to discover what attracted workers to this centre of Victorian culture.

Download or read book Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of 19th Century Britain written by Rebecca Wade and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born near the Tuscan province of Lucca in 1815, Domenico Brucciani became the most important and prolific maker of plaster casts in nineteenth-century Britain. This first substantive study shows how he and his business used public exhibitions, emerging museum culture and the nationalisation of art education to monopolise the market for reproductions of classical and contemporary sculpture. Based in Covent Garden in London, Brucciani built a network of fellow Italian émigré formatori and collaborated with other makers of facsimiles-including Elkington the electrotype manufacturers, Copeland the makers of Parian ware and Benjamin Cheverton with his sculpture reducing machine-to bring sculpture into the spaces of learning and leisure for as broad a public as possible. Brucciani's plaster casts survive in collections from North America to New Zealand, but the extraordinary breadth of his practice-making death masks of the famous and infamous, producing pioneering casts of anatomical, botanical and fossil specimens and decorating dance halls and theatres across Britain-is revealed here for the first time. By making unprecedented use of the nineteenth-century periodical press and dispersed archival sources, Domenico Brucciani and the Formatori of Nineteenth-Century Britain establishes the significance of Brucciani's sculptural practice to the visual and material cultures of Victorian Britain and beyond.