Download or read book Mancunians written by David Scott and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1990s, Manchester was a city in upheaval. The devastation of the IRA bomb and the closure of the infamous Haçienda nightclub were seismic events that rocked the city’s confidence at a time when identikit bands were flooding its clubs and bars, fuelled on anthemic guitar rock and swagger. Stereotypes were everywhere, while the spirit of Manchester was silently suffocating. Mancunians: Where do we start, where do I begin? is the story of those who didn’t fit the typecast: the musicians of colour, the football fans alienated by rampant commercialism, frustrated public figures, optimistic developers, and ambitious artists. Through a mixture of memoir and interviews with well-known Mancunians such as Guy Garvey, Tunde Babalola, Sylvia Tella, Badly Drawn Boy, and Stan Chow, David Scott portrays the city at the turn of the century in a way never seen before.
Download or read book The Mancunian Hero written by Catherine J.M. Hughes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about my Uncle, Mr Norman Moors who was in the Royal Navy in the second World war. He was on the M. S. Rodney Battleship the only surviving ship in the Mediterranean. He received a Malteasse medal from Sir Whinstan Churchhill and became a Hero of his time. He asked me to promise to write and have this book published in his honour after he passed away in 2015. So I promised to do as he requested and to include my testimony to share with people that our God is a loving and faithful God. This book is the result. Wishing every blessing to all who read it. Yours Truly Catherine J M Hughes
Download or read book The Mancunian Times written by Natalie McNeil and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of poetry. This book is about young people growing up in Urban Manchester between 1990's to 2016. It is about courage, determination and survival.
Download or read book The History of Manchester written by John Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Manchester The Roman and Roman British period written by John Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 1771 with total page 778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The emergence of footballing cultures written by Gary James and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Manchester football, by leading football historian Gary James, considers the sport’s emergence, development and establishment through to its position as the city’s leading team sport. The period from 1840 to 1919 saw football in Manchester develop from an inconsequential, occasionally outlawed activity, into a major business with a variety of popular football clubs and supporting industry. This book makes a distinct and original contribution to the historiography of sport. It is the first academic study into the development of association football in Manchester, and is directly linked to the current state of knowledge and debates within sports history on football’s origins. It adds regional focus to inform the wider debate, contextualising the growth of the sport in the city and identifies communities who propagated and developed football. Robust research should ensure that this becomes the benchmark study of regional football.
Download or read book Logic Thought and Language written by Anthony O'Hear and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book A Biographical Register of Old Mancunians 1888 1951 written by Manchester Grammar School and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Peterloo written by Robert Poole and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-18 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 August, 1819, at St Peter's Field, Manchester, armed cavalry attacked a peaceful rally of some 50,000 pro-democracy reformers. Under the eyes of the national press, 18 people were killed and some 700 injured, many of them by sabres, many of them women, some of them children. The 'Peterloo massacre', the subject of a recent feature film and a major commemoration in 2019, is famous as the central episode in Edward Thompsons Making of the English Working Class. It also marked the rise of a new English radical populism as the British state, recently victorious at Waterloo, was challenged by a pro-democracy movement centred on the industrial north. Why did the cavalry attack? Who ordered them in? What was the radical strategy? Why were there women on the platform, and why were they so ferociously attacked? Using an immense range of sources, and many new maps and illustrations, Robert Poole tells for the first time the full extraordinary story of Peterloo: the English Uprising.
Download or read book Objectivity and the Parochial written by Charles Travis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Travis investigates a central problem in philosophy, one of the most puzzling. Thought must be about a world independent of us. But our capacities for thought shape thought's objects. So it can seem that what is true, and what is not, cannot be independent of us. Objectivity and the Parochial suggests how we might resolve this paradox.
Download or read book A Darkling Plain written by Philip Reeve and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The shattering final instalment of Philip Reeve's Predator Cities quartet flings you back into his blasted world of predator cities, ruinous wars and terrifying Stalkers. Abandoned by Hester, Tom and Wren stumble across the wreckage of a vast traction city: London. As the Green Storm take arms and the truce with the Traction Cities splinters, the world is on a collision course - beginning and ending in London's ruined shell. As everything Tom and Hester know and love hurtles towards apocalypse, who will be left to tell the tale? Winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize 2007, this epic finale is fast-moving, thrilling, heartbreaking - and as exciting as hell!
Download or read book The Mancunian Way written by Jane Price and published by Clinamen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of photographs of Manchester, taken by the city's best photographers, which portrays its diversity and vibrancy.
Download or read book The European Ritual written by Anthony King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic networks have come into being. This fascinating and unique volume traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to the present, focusing in particular on the dramatic changes that have occurred in the last decade and linking them to the wider process of European integration. The examination of football illuminates how the growing dominance of the free market has changed European society from an international order in which the nation-state was dominant to a more complex transnational regime in which cities and regions are becoming more prominent than in the past. The study is supported by detailed ethnographic accounts emerging from the author's fieldwork at Manchester United and interview data with some of the most important figures in European football at clubs including Juventus, Milan, Bayern Munich, Schalke and Barcelona. It also includes a highly topical examination of racism in European football.
Download or read book Postcolonial Manchester written by Lynne Pearce and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-01 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postcolonial Manchester offers a radical new perspective on Britain’s devolved literary cultures by focusing on Manchester’s vibrant, multicultural literary scene. Referencing Avtar Brah’s concept of ‘diaspora space’, the authors argue that Manchester is, and always has been, a quintessentially migrant city to which workers of all nationalities and cultures have been drawn since its origins in the cotton trade and the expansion of the British Empire. This colonial legacy – and the inequalities upon which it turns – is a recurrent motif in the texts and poetry performances of the contemporary Mancunian writers featured here, many of them members of the city’s long-established African, African-Caribbean, Asian, Chinese, Irish and Jewish diasporic communities. By turning the spotlight on Manchester’s rich, yet under-represented, literary tradition in this way, Postcolonial Manchester also argues for the devolution of the canon of English Literature and, in particular, recognition for contemporary black and Asian literary culture outside of London.
Download or read book Manchester and Beyond Poems written by Stephen Sutton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchester and beyond is a compelation of poems from Manchester and all over the world, demonstrating a number of talents to be admired and praised.
Download or read book Carl Grose Plays One written by Carl Grose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together five plays exploring our notions of family, myth, death, truth and the ever-fluctuating nature of reality, Carl Grose: Plays One celebrates the possibilities of theatre and humanity's desperate need to tell stories in order to survive. This collection includes Grose's blood-splattered love letter to the theatre, Grand Guignol, plus a quartet of anarchic Cornish-set comedies: Superstition Mountain, Horse Piss For Blood, 49 Donkeys Hanged and The Kneebone Cadillac.
Download or read book Tests on a One twelfth Scale Model of the Mancunian Way written by G. Somerville and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
