Download or read book Maerdy Rhondda Valley written by and published by Images of Wales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is part of the Images of Wales series, which uses old photographs and archived images to show the history of various local areas in Wales, through their streets, shops, pubs, and people.
Download or read book Land and Society in Edwardian Britain written by Brian Short and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-04-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1997 book is a standard reference to the 1910 'New Domesday' data; essential for historians of Edwardian Britain.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals The Enemy Within 1986 written by Raphael Samuel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986, this book challenges the notion that the miners’ strike of 1984-5 was ‘Scargill’s Strike’. It shows some of the ways in which the strike, though nominally directed from above, was determined from below by multitudinous and often contradictory pressures — the lodge, the village and the home. The focus is essentially logical and gives particular attention to family economy, kin networks and intergenerational solidarity. At the same time it is concerned with the mentality of the strike — its ruling fears and passions. The first-hand testimonies that comprise the book attest to the attachment to ‘traditional ways’ as well as the potency of the influences corroding them.
Download or read book Up the Rhondda written by John Geraint and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this kaleidoscopic portrait, John Geraint captures with a filmmaker's eye the exuberant life of this former mining community in changing times. Comic and evocative, the book shows how the values the valley has lived by could guide the Rhondda - and the wider world - towards a better future.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals History Workshop Series written by Various Authors and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-30 with total page 4146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published between 1975 and 1991, this set reissues 13 volumes that originally appeared as part of the History Workshop Series. This series of books, which grew out of the journal of the same name, advocated ‘history from below’ and examined numerous, often social, issues from the perspectives of ordinary people. In the words of founder Raphael Samuel, the aim was to turn historical research and writing into ‘a collaborative enterprise’, via public gatherings outside of a traditional academic setting, that could be used to support activism and social justice as well as informing politics. Some of the topics examined in the set include: mineral workers, rural radicalism, and the lives and occupations of villagers in the nineteenth century; working class association; the development of left-wing workers theatre and the changing attitudes to mass culture across the twentieth century; the changing fortunes of the East End at the turn of the century; the position of women from the nineteenth century to the present; the miners’ strike of 1984-5; the social and political images of late-twentieth century London; and a three volume analysis of the myriad facets of English patriotism. This set will be of interest to students of history, sociology, gender and politics.
Download or read book Despite the Knock backs The Autobiography of Lynn Howells written by Lynn Howells and published by Y Lolfa. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lynn Howells, formerly coach of the Celtic Warriors and one of Graham Henry's assistant coaches during the 1999 World Cup, has had more than his fair share of betrayals during rugby union's transition from amateur to professional status. This is his story.
Download or read book People Places and Themes written by Mike Ridout and published by Heinemann. This book was released on 2002 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook follows the structure of the Bristol Project (OCR Syllabus C). It can be used as a stand-alone resource or alongside the core book as the pagination is identical. The text has been simplified to make it suitable for low-ability students, and covers skills, techniques and coursework.
Download or read book Railways in South Wales and the Central Wales Line in the Late 20th Century written by Peter J. Green and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2022-12-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1980s, I began to visit South Wales on a regular basis to photograph the railway scene. At that time, the collieries and steelworks were generating a lot of rail traffic with Class 37 diesels being the usual motive power. Passenger trains were in the hands of Class 47s and 37s, while 'Peaks' and Class 50s would also appear on occasion. HSTs, DMUs, Sprinters and Pacers were, of course, also common. As time went on, collieries closed and the coal traffic reduced, but there always something new and interesting. Rugby Internationals at Cardiff regularly produced a number of special trains which arrived from various parts of the country, often bringing interesting motive power to the Welsh capital. The Class 37s were slowly replaced by Class 56s, and later Class 60s, on many duties in South Wales, but the Rhymney Valley saw Class 37 diesels working passenger trains into the twenty-first century, and on Rugby International days, privately-owned Class 50s were also used on occasion. I also visited the Central Wales line a number of times and particularly enjoyed the time I spent at the small country stations, before the semaphore signals were replaced. This book contains a selection of photographs taken in the latter part of the 20th and in the very early 21st Century, covering the railways of South Wales and the Welsh section of the Central Wales line. A few photographs of the principal heritage railways in more recent times are also included.
Download or read book The Geology of the South Wales Coal field The country around Pontypridd and Maes T g Sheet 248 of the map by Aubrey Strahan R H Tiddeman and Walcot Gibson 1903 2d ed rev by Walcot Gibson and T C Cantrill 1917 3rd ed 1964 written by Geological Survey of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rhondda Valleys written by Evan David Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Melancholic Avenue written by Aneurin Gareth Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-09-23 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Funny how a simple drunken kiss can change your life...' Melancholic Avenue, a contemporary love story based in a European capital, presents us with the day-to-day-life of a carefree but appealing 26-year-old womanizer who's been teaching English as a foreign language for over a year. It introduces us to the various women he knows or chases after, and the changes he goes through until all suddenly turns upside down and he becomes a person transformed, later perhaps able to finally redeem himself. Melancholic Avenue is a tale of passion, intimacy and death and how the parameters of the meaning of life shift over time.
Download or read book Futures for the Heads of the Valleys written by John Osmond and published by Institute of Welsh Affairs. This book was released on 2008 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies arising out of a highly successful IWA conference on the Heads of the Valleys held in 2008, followed by an expert seminar organised by the IWA in association with the Regeneration Institute at Cardiff University.
Download or read book The Enemy Within written by Seumas Milne and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Thatcher branded the leaders of the 1984-85 miners strike “the enemy within.” In this classic account, Seumas Milne reveals the astonishing lengths to which her government and its intelligence machine were prepared to go to destroy the power of Britain’s miners union. In this 30th anniversary edition new material brings the story up to date with further revelations about the secret war against organized labour and political dissent, and the devastating price paid for the Thatcher administrations onslaught by communities across Britain.
Download or read book Backbone of the Nation written by Robert Gildea and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful new history of the Great Strike in the miners' own voices, based on more than 140 interviews with former miners and their families Forty years ago, Arthur Scargill led the National Union of Mineworkers on one of the largest strikes in British history. A deep sense of pride existed within Britain's mining communities who thought of themselves as the backbone of the nation's economy. But they were vilified by Margaret Thatcher's government and eventually broken: deprived of their jobs, their livelihoods, and in some cases, their lives. In this groundbreaking new history, Robert Gildea interviews those miners and their families who fought to defend themselves. Exploring mining communities from South Wales to the Midlands, Yorkshire, County Durham, and Fife, Gildea shows how the miners and their families organized to protect themselves, and how a network of activists mobilized to support them. Amid the recent wave of industrial action in the United Kingdom, Backbone of the Nation highlights anew the importance of labor organization--and intimately records the triumphs, losses, and resilience of these mining communities.
Download or read book Dead Men Risen written by Toby Harnden and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-17 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dead Men Risen, winner of the prestigious Orwell Prize for Books, is the epic story of a beleaguered British battle group fighting desperately to prevent the Taliban from seizing Afghanistan's Helmand province just as the U.S. Marines arrive to take over. Bestselling author Toby Harnden describes how men from the coal mining valleys and slate quarry villages of Wales found themselves in the most intense combat faced by British troops for a generation. Underequipped and overstretched, the fighting prowess of the Welsh Guards in the killing fields of Sangin and Nawa awed the U.S. Marines. NATO commander General Stanley McChrystal, who was awaiting a response to his urgent request to President Barack Obama for more troops, hailed their "burn-in-your-gut passion." Harnden was on the ground with the Welsh Guards in Helmand in 2009. He gained access to a trove of secret military documents and conducted nearly three hundred interviews in Afghanistan, England, Wales, and the United States to produce this timeless and profound account of men at war. Commanding the Welsh Guards was Lieutenant Colonel Rupert Thorneloe, a passionate believer in the justness of the war who was dismayed by the military and political incompetence surrounding it. In chilling detail, Harnden reveals how and why Thorneloe—the first British battalion commander to die in action since the 1982 Falklands War—was killed by an IED during Operation Panther’s Claw. By the time the fighting was over, almost no rank had been spared. From the searing heat of the poppy fields and the mud compounds of Helmand to the dreaded knock on the door back home, the reader is transported there. Harnden weaves the experiences of the soldiers, their historical forbears and the flawed NATO strategy into a masterly narrative. No other book about modern conflict succeeds on so many levels. Dead Men Risen is essential for anyone who wants to understand the reality of the Afghan war for the U.S and its allies.
Download or read book Border Crossings written by Richard Dobson and published by Grosvenor House Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Richard Dobson toured the border county of Herefordshire in 2005, following in the footsteps of Victorian artist Henry Thornhill Timmins, he recorded the experience in his subsequent book In My Own Time. Join him in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, even before the word 'tourism' was first used.
Download or read book Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
