Download or read book Up at the Sky Edge 1917 written by Mark J. Foster and published by . This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Garvin and George Mooney were both notorious individual's, and much revered by local folklore with regard to the history of Sheffield, during the early part of the 20th century. Both were leaders of the opposing fractions of the Mooney Gang and the Park Brigade, which soon transcended into the brutal episode of the 'Sheffield Gang Wars,' escalating in the aftermath of World War One. Their prize being, for control of the lucrative 'Sky Edge Gambling Ring,' at a site located high above the city, and providing an ideal vantage point, to which the many willing punters could participate, in all forms of illegal gambling activity. Sheffield being such a major industrial city, concentrating on the manufacture of steel and associated engineering products, had grown rapidly during the earlier 'Industrial Revolution.' For many of the city inhabitants having to endure such hardship, poverty, and squalor of this time, gambling like alcohol, was often seen as an outlet of escapism for the many working men of the city, and with the added possibility to supplementing their meagre earnings. This was much frowned upon by the authorities, and like other such moral and social dilemmas of the time, the illegal gambling was soon driven 'underground,' and into the control of many unscrupulous, and questionable individuals.Activity on 'Sky Edge' began during the turn of the 20th century, where many working men would congregate after their work shift, in an attempt to further boost their income. Gambling activity at 'Sky Edge' increased significantly after 1914, by the new emergence of readily available money, the result being in the upturn of Sheffield's economy, during the 'boom years' of the First World War.The book 'Up at the Sky Edge- 1917' highlights the fortunes of two men, heavily involved in the early years of the gang struggle in Sheffield. Both determined to escape from the horrors of World War One, and of their return to Sheffield, with a view to controlling the lucrative 'Sky Edge' operation.Samuel Garvin was a petty criminal before the time of his Army service, and was soon to take a leading role in the emergence of the Park Brigade, along with his associate William Francis, who would be instrumental as a 'trusted and valued' aid to Garvin, in his struggle to oust the Mooney Gang from 'Sky Edge.'Sheffield could be a violent place at the time, with both groups emerging from the working class areas of the Park district located in the shadow of Sky Edge, and the notorious West Bar area, home to much of the Irish community in Sheffield at that time. As the conflict between the two groups escalated following the immediate years after World War One, it would not be until the mid-1920s that the gangs were eventually brought under control, by the questionable Policing tactics, of Chief Inspector Percy Stiletto, of the Sheffield City Police, and his notorious 'Flying Squad.'
Download or read book From Bapaume to Passchendaele 1917 The writing of British journalist Philip Gibbs is eloquent and magnificently descriptive written by Philip Gibbs and published by Namaskar Books. This book was released on with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Television Series Pilots and Specials written by Vincent Terrace and published by VNR AG. This book was released on 1986 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New dimensions in ethnohistory written by Barry Gough and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The papers in this volume represent ethnohistorical research by fifteen scholars on North American Native peoples. They were presented at the Second Laurier Conference on Ethnohistory and Ethnology, held at Huron College, University of Western Ontario, May 11-13, 1983.
Download or read book The Amateur Photographer and Photographic News written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Trial by Ice written by John King Davis and published by Erskine Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cosmology written by Edward Harrison and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-16 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cosmology: The Science of the Universe is an introduction to past and present cosmological theory. For much of the world's history, cosmological thought was formulated in religious or philosophical language and was thus theological or metaphysical in nature. However, cosmological speculation and theory has now become a science in which the empirical discoveries of the astronomer, theoretical physicist, and biologist are woven into intricate models that attempt to account for the universe as a whole. Professor Harrison draws on the discoveries and speculations of these scientists to provide a comprehensive survey of man's current understanding of the universe and its history. Tracing the rise of the scientific method, the major aim of this book is to provide an elementary understanding of the physical universe of modern times. Thoroughly revised and updated, this second edition extends the much acclaimed first edition taking into account the many developments that have occurred.
Download or read book Small Stories of War written by Barbara Lorenzkowski and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict. Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people. Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities.
Download or read book Land Magnetic Observations 1914 1920 written by L. A. Bauer and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Faraway One written by Sarah Greenough and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 1242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects the private correspondence between Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz, revealing the ups and downs of their marriage, their thoughts on their work, and their friendships with other artists.
Download or read book Land Magnetic Observations 1914 1920 written by Carnegie Institution of Washington. Department of Terrestrial Magnetism and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hero of the Angry Sky written by David S. Ingalls and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-16 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hero of the Angry Sky draws on the unpublished diaries, correspondence, informal memoir, and other personal documents of the U.S. Navy’s only flying “ace” of World War I to tell his unique story. David S. Ingalls was a prolific writer, and virtually all of his World War I aviation career is covered, from the teenager’s early, informal training in Palm Beach, Florida, to his exhilarating and terrifying missions over the Western Front. This edited collection of Ingalls’s writing details the career of the U.S. Navy’s most successful combat flyer from that conflict. While Ingalls’s wartime experiences are compelling at a personal level, they also illuminate the larger, but still relatively unexplored, realm of early U.S. naval aviation. Ingalls’s engaging correspondence offers a rare personal view of the evolution of naval aviation during the war, both at home and abroad. There are no published biographies of navy combat flyers from this period, and just a handful of diaries and letters in print, the last appearing more than twenty years ago. Ingalls’s extensive letters and diaries add significantly to historians’ store of available material.
Download or read book Within Our Gates written by Alan Gevinson and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These volumes] are endlessly absorbing as an excursion into cultural history and national memory."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
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Download or read book The Collected Papers of Lewis Fry Richardson Volume 1 written by Lewis F. Richardson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1993-06-10 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life Lewis Fry Richardson made many inspirational contributions to various disciplines by building mathematical models to solve problems where others had found mathematical models difficult to find. Collected in this first volume are many of Richardson's papers covering the mathematical and physical sciences.
Download or read book Edge of Extinction 1 The Ark Plan written by Laura Martin and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jurassic World meets Dawn of the Planet of the Apes in this epic new middle grade series full of heart-pounding action and breathtaking chills! "Amazing adventures!" raves Brightly.com as they recommend Edge of Extinction as a 2016 Holiday Gift for Tween Readers. One hundred and fifty years ago, the first dinosaurs were cloned. Soon after, they replaced humans at the top of the food chain. The only way to survive was to move into underground compounds. . . . Five years ago, Sky Mundy’s father vanished from North Compound without a trace. Now she has just stumbled on a clue that not only suggests his disappearance is just the tip of an even larger mystery, but also points directly to the surface. To find her dad—and possibly even save the world—Sky and her best friend, Shawn, must break out of their underground home and venture topside to a land reclaimed by nature and ruled by dinosaurs. Perfect for fans of Brandon Mull, Lisa McMann, and Rick Riordan, this exhilarating debut novel follows two courageous friends who must survive in a lost world that’s as dangerous as they’ve always feared but also unlike anything they could ever have imagined.
