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Book As it Happens  Jimmy Savile  O B E

Download or read book As it Happens Jimmy Savile O B E written by Jimmy Savile and published by Random House Business. This book was released on 1974-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book In Plain Sight

Download or read book In Plain Sight written by Dan Davies and published by Quercus Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Gordon Burn Prize and the 2015 CWA Non-Fiction Dagger Shortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the James Tait Black Prize 'An astonishing account' Observer Dan Davies has spent more than a decade on a quest to find the real Jimmy Savile, and interviewed him extensively over a period of seven years before his death. In the course of his quest, he spent days and nights at a time quizzing Savile at his homes in Leeds and Scarborough, lunched with him at venues ranging from humble transport cafes to the Athenaeum club in London and, most memorably, joined him for a short cruise aboard the QE2. Dan thought his quest had come to an end in October 2011 when Savile's golden coffin was lowered into a grave dug at a 45-degree angle in a Scarborough cemetery. He was wrong. In the last two and a half years, Dan has been interviewing scores of people, many of them unobtainable while Jimmy was alive. What he has discovered was that his instincts were right all along and behind the mask lay a hideous truth. Jimmy Savile was not only complex, damaged and controlling, but cynical, calculating and predatory. He revelled in his status as a Pied Piper of youth and used his power to abuse the vulnerable and underage, all the while covering his tracks by moving into the innermost circles of the establishment.

Book Love Is an Uphill Thing

Download or read book Love Is an Uphill Thing written by Jimmy Savile and published by Coronet. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes

Download or read book From Servants of the Empire to Everyday Heroes written by Tobias Harper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-02-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twentieth century, the British Crown appointed around a hundred thousand people - military and civilian - in Britain and the British Empire to honours and titles. For outsiders, and sometimes recipients too, these jumbles of letters are tantalizingly confusing: OM, MBE, GCVO, CH, KB, or CBE. Throughout the century, this system expanded to include different kinds of people, while also shrinking in its imperial scope with the declining empire. Through these dual processes, this profoundly hierarchical system underwent a seemingly counter-intuitive change: it democratized. Why and how did the British government change this system? And how did its various publics respond to it? This study addresses these questions directly by looking at the history of the honours system in the wider context of the major historical changes in Britain and the British Empire in the twentieth century. In particular, it looks at the evolution of this hierarchical, deferential system amidst democratization and decolonization. It focuses on the system's largest-and most important-components: the Order of the British Empire, the Knight Bachelor, and the lower ranks of other Orders. By creatively analysing the politics and administration of the system alongside popular responses to it in diaries, letters, newspapers, and memoirs, Tobias Harper shows the many different meanings that honours took on for the establishment, dissidents, and recipients. He also shows the ways in which the system succeeded and failed to order and bring together divided societies.

Book Benjamin Rabbit and the Stranger Danger

Download or read book Benjamin Rabbit and the Stranger Danger written by Irene Keller and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 1985-07 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin learns what to do when strangers pay attention to him.

Book It Was Good While It Lasted

Download or read book It Was Good While It Lasted written by Jason Mead and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the true story of a twelve-year-old boy who was groomed and abused by Jimmy Savile in the Leeds General Infirmary in 1972. This is the story of how the author was mis treated by the police, solicitors, Speaking Out inquiry team, the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman and the DOH legal department and the author is certain he was not the only victim selected for similar treatment. Despite Jeremy Hunt stating in Parliament that the victims had been ignored and must be believed, he did not mean this, as this was not what happened. It is the authors opinion that, as the vast machine employed to protect the NHS/DOH Parliament etc. from the fall out emanating from the Savile scandal rolled forward, it crushed the very people who it was supposed to listen to and learn from.

Book God ll Fix it

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jimmy Savile
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN : 9780264664576
  • Pages : 64 pages

Download or read book God ll Fix it written by Jimmy Savile and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1979 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book How to Win the Trust of a Scorpio

Download or read book How to Win the Trust of a Scorpio written by Mary English and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2012-10-26 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real life guidance on how to get along and be friends with the 8th sign of the Zodiac. Deep, Loyal, Secretive and Controlling. Does this describe the Scorpio in your life? Did you know that being able to trust is THE most important thing to a Scorpio? Would you like to know how to build that trust and why? This insider information offers real life strategies as Mary English gently guides you through the process of making a chart using free on-line resources, so you will know what type of Scorpio is in your life....and how to win their trust. ,

Book States of Denial

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stanley Cohen
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-08-29
  • ISBN : 0745656781
  • Pages : 573 pages

Download or read book States of Denial written by Stanley Cohen and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blocking out, turning a blind eye, shutting off, not wanting to know, wearing blinkers, seeing what we want to see ... these are all expressions of 'denial'. Alcoholics who refuse to recognize their condition, people who brush aside suspicions of their partner's infidelity, the wife who doesn't notice that her husband is abusing their daughter - are supposedly 'in denial'. Governments deny their responsibility for atrocities, and plan them to achieve 'maximum deniability'. Truth Commissions try to overcome the suppression and denial of past horrors. Bystander nations deny their responsibility to intervene. Do these phenomena have anything in common? When we deny, are we aware of what we are doing or is this an unconscious defence mechanism to protect us from unwelcome truths? Can there be cultures of denial? How do organizations like Amnesty and Oxfam try to overcome the public's apparent indifference to distant suffering and cruelty? Is denial always so bad - or do we need positive illusions to retain our sanity? States of Denial is the first comprehensive study of both the personal and political ways in which uncomfortable realities are avoided and evaded. It ranges from clinical studies of depression, to media images of suffering, to explanations of the 'passive bystander' and 'compassion fatigue'. The book shows how organized atrocities - the Holocaust and other genocides, torture, and political massacres - are denied by perpetrators and by bystanders, those who stand by and do nothing.

Book A Bibliography of British History  1914 1989

Download or read book A Bibliography of British History 1914 1989 written by Keith Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.

Book Little Book of Yorkshire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Howse
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2010-12-26
  • ISBN : 0752462679
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Little Book of Yorkshire written by Geoffrey Howse and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2010-12-26 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soak up the vast array of quirky tales from the regal Richmond of John of Gaunt to the sporting Barnsley of Dickie Bird. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.

Book The Listener

Download or read book The Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 904 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Smile for the Camera

Download or read book Smile for the Camera written by Simon Danczuk and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-life character in a world of dull grey men. Yet 'Big Cyril' was anything but the roly-poly gentle giant of popular imagination.In November 2012, Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk outed Smith in Parliament as a serial child abuser. Now, in this devastating exposé, he describes how Smith used his profile to groom and sexually abuse young boys, frequently in institutions he had helped to establish. His victims, often troubled boys from broken homes, had no voice against their attacker and, though rumours abounded, Smith's appalling crimes went unnoticed by the public and unpunished by the authorities.Smile for the Camera is not just about a terrible abuse of power. It's about those who knew that abuse was taking place but looked the other way, making the corridors of Westminster a safe haven for paedophiles like Cyril Smith. This updated edition of the book that sparked a criminal investigation brings shocking new material to light, asking urgent questions of those who allowed Smith to prey on young children for decades without question.

Book Secrets and Silence

Download or read book Secrets and Silence written by Beatrix Campbell and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-10-10 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The child sexual abuse scandal in the English county of Cleveland in the 1980s was a defining moment but not the scandal we were led to believe it was. Acclaimed journalist Beatrix Campbell has uncovered government documents that show how medical evidence of childhood rape identified by pioneering paediatricians was deemed credible but ‘dangerous’ – it was more important to save money than save children. This book reveals how this secret has framed policy making and public opinion and the consequences it has had for children, professionals, justice and the state. The deaths of ‘national treasures’ Sir Jimmy Savile and Sir Cyril Smith led to a torrent of evidence of childhood suffering, the discovery of widespread sexual exploitation and institutional abuse across the world – all in plain sight. The Cleveland children have remained in the shadows. Now, for the first time, a Cleveland child delves into her records and shares her story.

Book Seen and Not Seen

Download or read book Seen and Not Seen written by Jasun Horsley and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular culture mirrors the human soul and it can't lie about the state it is in—which is what makes it an essential guide on the quest for self-knowledge. Seen and Not Seen: Confessions of a Movie Autist is a series of autobiographical explorations which slowly uncover the author's secret life to himself. Revisiting his former writings on film and deconstructing old texts, he engages in a literary dialogue with his past as he struggles to bust open his fantasy life and reach the truth behind it. Moving into and through the cultural, social and political dimensions of movies, the book maps previously undiscovered psychological and spiritual realms of the movie-going experience to create an engaging, thought-provoking, utterly original narrative about the essential acts of movie-watching, writing, and self-examination.

Book Hemlock and After

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angus Wilson
  • Publisher : Faber & Faber
  • Release : 2012-08-02
  • ISBN : 0571287646
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Hemlock and After written by Angus Wilson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On its appearance in 1952 the Times Literary Supplement called Hemlock and After 'a novel of remarkable power and literary skill which deserves to be judged by the highest standards'. Angus Wilson's first novel is concerned with the hypocrisies of middle-class society. The protagonist, Bernard Sands, is a novelist and an intellectual who tries to found a centre for young writers. However, Sands is a secret homosexual and in the post-war Britain of the time his liberal ideas cause much anxiety to those in charge. Surrounded by false friends and scheming enemies Sands has to come to terms with his emotions and is forced to decide where his loyalties lie. A compassionately written novel Hemlock and After explores the conflict of duty and love in one man's life and the consequences of our choices. Written at a time when homosexuality was still an offence Hemlock and After is a brilliantly handled novel from a writer who was described by John Betjeman as 'mercilessly accurate and never dull.'

Book Phrases and Names  Their Origins and Meanings

Download or read book Phrases and Names Their Origins and Meanings written by Trench H. Johnson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Phrases and Names, Their Origins and Meanings' is a one-of-a-kind encyclopedic work that offers plain statements of facts on the origins of popular phrases and names, alphabetically organized for easy reference. Trench H. Johnson's expertise in the subject matter, acquired through years of omnivorous reading and patient inquiry, has culminated in a comprehensive and fascinating compilation of linguistic curiosities that is sure to satisfy the curiosity of any word lover. From the history of place-names to the evolution of expressions, including a plethora of slang terms and Americanisms, this book offers a wealth of knowledge that opens up the history of peoples and civilizing influences.