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Book Exeter in the Great War

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  • Author : Derek Tait
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2015-02-28
  • ISBN : 1473823099
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book Exeter in the Great War written by Derek Tait and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exeter played a vital role during the First World War supplying men for the Army and raising funds to help troops overseas. The Mayoress and her team played a key part collecting money to aid homeless Belgian refugees in the city while also supporting other worthy causes both home and overseas. Soldiers travelling through Exeter all received food, refreshments and cigarettes due to the money raised. The city had its own battalion, 'Exeter's Own' and thousands of servicemen passed through the city on their way to northern Europe. Players at Exeter City football club were amongst the first to join the Colours and later the Footballers' Battalion (the 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment).??The effect of the war on Exeter was great. By the end of the conflict, there wasn't a family in Exeter who hadn't lost a son, father, nephew, uncle or brother. There were tremendous celebrations in the streets as the end of the war was announced but the effects of the conflict lasted for years to come.

Book Bath in the Great War

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  • Author : Derek Tait
  • Publisher : Pen and Sword
  • Release : 2015-08-31
  • ISBN : 1473865689
  • Pages : 177 pages

Download or read book Bath in the Great War written by Derek Tait and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When news of the war broke out in 1914, nothing could prepare the citizens of Bath for the changes that would envelop their city over the next four years. The story of Bath in the Great War is both an interesting and intriguing one. This book covers this historic city's involvement from the commencement of the Great War in July 1914, to the Armistice in November 1918, describing in great detail what happened to the city and its people, including their everyday lives, entertainment, spies and the internment of aliens living within the city. Bath played a key role in the deployment of troops to Northern Europe as well as supplying vital munitions. Local men responded keenly to recruitment drives and thousands of soldiers were billeted in the city before being sent off to fight the enemy overseas. The city also played a vital role caring for the many wounded soldiers who returned home from the front. As the end of the war was announced there were tremendous celebrations in the streets, but the effects of war lasted for years to come. By the end of the conflict, there wasn't a family in Bath who hadn't lost a son, father, nephew, uncle or brother. Bath features many forgotten news stories of the day and includes a considerable collection of rare photographs last seen in newspapers nearly 70 years ago.

Book The Musical World

Download or read book The Musical World written by and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vanity Fair

Download or read book Vanity Fair written by T.G. Bowles and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A periodical in part famous for the cartoon portraits of politicians and public figures. These were mainly by "Spy" (i.e. Sir Leslie Ward) and "Ape" (i.e. Carlo Pellegrini).

Book The Athenaeum

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  • Release : 1850
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1416 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 1416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Green Room Gossip

Download or read book Green Room Gossip written by Archibald Haddon and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Catalogue of the Allen A  Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston

Download or read book A Catalogue of the Allen A Brown Collection of Books Relating to the Stage in the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Allen A. Brown Collection (Boston Public Library) and published by Boston : The Trustees. This book was released on 1919 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Illustrated sporting   dramatic news

Download or read book The Illustrated sporting dramatic news written by and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tatler

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  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1218 pages

Download or read book Tatler written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sketch

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  • Release : 1901
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 528 pages

Download or read book The Sketch written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Northern Freemason

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  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 598 pages

Download or read book Northern Freemason written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections  Theatre Collection  books on the theatre  9 v

Download or read book Catalog of the Theatre and Drama Collections Theatre Collection books on the theatre 9 v written by New York Public Library. Research Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of the Pantomime

Download or read book The Politics of the Pantomime written by Jill Sullivan and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on the variety and independence of pantomime in the provinces, especially Nottingham, Birmingham, and Manchester. Explores official and local censorship and the relationships between local theaters, managers, authors and audiences.

Book Representing China on the Historical London Stage

Download or read book Representing China on the Historical London Stage written by Dongshin Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a critical study of how China was represented on the historical London stage in selected examples from the late seventeenth century to the early twentieth century—which corresponds with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), China’s last monarchy. The examples show that during this historical period, the stage representations of the country were influenced in turn by Jesuit writings on China, Britain’s expanding material interest in China, the presence of British imperial power in Asia, and the establishment of diasporic Chinese communities abroad. While finding that many of these works may be read as gendered and feminized, Chang emphasizes that the Jesuits’ depiction of China as a country of high culture and in perennial conflict with the Tartars gradually lost prominence in dramatic imaginations to depictions of China’s material and visual attractions. Central to the book’s argument is that the stage representations of China were inherently intercultural and open to new influences, manifested by the evolving combinations of Chinese and English (British) traits. Through the dramatization of the Chinese Other, the representations questioned, satirized, and put in sharp relief the ontological and epistemological bases of the English (British) Self.

Book The Nation and Athenaeum

Download or read book The Nation and Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book China and the Victorian Imagination

Download or read book China and the Victorian Imagination written by Ross G. Forman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens to our understanding of 'orientalism' and imperialism when we consider British-Chinese relations during the nineteenth century, rather than focusing on India, Africa or the Caribbean? This book explores China's centrality to British imperial aspirations and literary production, underscoring the heterogeneous, interconnected nature of Britain's formal and informal empire. To British eyes, China promised unlimited economic possibilities, but also posed an ominous threat to global hegemony. Surveying anglophone literary production about China across high and low cultures, as well as across time, space and genres, this book demonstrates how important location was to the production, circulation and reception of received ideas about China and the Chinese. In this account, treaty ports matter more than opium. Ross G. Forman challenges our preconceptions about British imperialism, reconceptualizes anglophone literary production in the global and local contexts, and excavates the little-known Victorian history so germane to contemporary debates about China's 'rise'.