Download or read book Forgotten Brummies written by Les Williams and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proper Brummie written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Locating Imagination in Popular Culture written by Nicky van Es and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Locating Imagination in Popular Culture offers a multi-disciplinary account of the ways in which popular culture, tourism and notions of place intertwine in an environment characterized by ongoing processes of globalization, digitization and an increasingly ubiquitous nature of multi-media. Centred around the concept of imagination, the authors demonstrate how popular culture and media are becoming increasingly important in the ways in which places and localities are imagined, and how they also subsequently stimulate a desire to visit the actual places in which people’s favourite stories are set. With examples drawn from around the globe, the book offers a unique study of the role of narratives conveyed through media in stimulating and reflecting desire in tourism. This book will have appeal in a wide variety of academic disciplines, ranging from media and cultural studies to fan- and tourism studies, cultural geography, literary studies and cultural sociology.
Download or read book The Golden Age of Speedway written by Philip Dalling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-03-09 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-war era was British speedway’s golden age. Ten million spectators passed through the turnstiles of a record number of tracks at the sport’s peak. With league gates as high as 80,000, speedway offered a colourful means of escape from the grim austerity of the times.A determinedly clean image, with no betting and rival fans mingling on the terraces, made speedway the family night out of choice. The sport thrived despite punitive taxation and Government threats to close down the speedways as a threat to industrial productivity.A three-division National League stretched from Exeter to Edinburgh and the World Championship Final attracted a capacity audience to Wembley. Test matches against Australia provided yet another international dimension.Even at the height of its popularity, speedway was a sporting edifice built on unstable foundations, which crumbled alarmingly as the 1950s dawned and Britain’s economic and social recovery brought competing attractions like television.
Download or read book The Life of William Hutton F A S S written by William Hutton and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Power on her Own written by Judith Cutler and published by Severn House Publishers Ltd. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new job and a fresh start, but can Kate Power resist breaking all the rules? Personal tragedy cut short Kate Power’s accelerated-promotion career in the Met. She’s lucky, though – Birmingham CID give her a job, and chance to make a new start in the house her great-aunt has given her. Soon Kate discovers that she’s trying to fix up the house from hell, with garden to match. Domestic equals professional pressure: though most of her new colleagues are helpful and supportive, some just think she’s fresh female meat to harass. Some seem to think Kate’s not pulling her weight in their current case of abduction and abuse of young boys. Then personal life starts overlapping with the investigation. Should Kate follow the conventional line of enquiry, or strike out on her own?
Download or read book Brutish Necessity written by Jon Berry and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-30 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oswald Augustus Grey was a Jamaican immigrant. He was 20 years old when he was executed and 19 when the crime for which he was convicted took place. To talk to people who lived in the city at the time, or to scour the nostalgia forums that proliferate online, is to discover an episode that has almost entirely disappeared in terms of public remembrance. This book unearths something of a place and a society that allowed a young life to become expendable and forgotten. The Birmingham in which this happened is both alien yet familiar.
Download or read book Headhunters written by John King and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following on from his bestselling study of violence, The Football Factory, John King considers Britain's other obsession - sex. Formed in the chemical mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees the once sacred act of procreation at its most material, as five men devise a system based on the sexual act. In this lager-soaked league, the most that women can offer a man is 4 points - unless, that is, she leaves her handbag unattended... From its base in the asset-stripped, emotionally castrated 90s, Headhunters shows the dreams of The Sex Division members breaking through the heavy media cloud of anorexic pin-ups and paedophile fashion. A missing brother, prophetic visions, a love affair, and tit-for-tat confrontation draw the characters out into the open - revealing the men behind the machismo, their need for mutual respect, and their recognition of the hidden or suppressed affinities.
Download or read book A History of Birmingham written by Christopher Upton and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Forgotten One s written by Debbie Headley and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006-08-22 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gangs of Birmingham written by Philip Gooderson and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1870s, the boomtown of Birmingham erupted in a series of vicious gang wars. Mobs of youths armed with stones, knives and belt buckles fought pitched battles in a struggle for territorial supremacy. Known as "sloggers", they drew their numbers from the workshops and factories that made guns, nails and jewellery, and lived cheek-by-jowl in overcrowded, insanitary slums. Author Philip Gooderson traces the history of these warring factions from their first appearance in the Cheapside area to the later rise of the "peaky blinders", new gangs named for their peaked caps and long fringes. He describes for the first time the brutal antics of once-infamous fighters such as the Simpson and Harper brothers and the police killer George "Cloggy" Williams, and explains the eventual demise of the gangs at the turn of the century. The Gangs of Birmingham brings to vivid life a forgotten chapter in the history of British gangland.
Download or read book Remaking Birmingham written by Liam Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume is multi-disciplinary in content, including contributions from specialists in architecture, public and community arts, photography and urban studies - their critical perspectives linked by interest in urban visual culture.
Download or read book 33 Meditations on Death written by David Jarrett and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS FEATURED ON BBC RADIO 4 'Start the Week' : 'very moving - brilliant and profound' "Brilliant - a grimly humorous yet humane account of the realities of growing old in the modern age." - Henry Marsh "A remarkably likeable guide to a grisly subject ... daunting, yet ultimately life-affirming" - Independent What is a good death? How would you choose to live your last few months? How do we best care for the rising tide of very elderly? This unusual and important book is a series of reflections on death in all its forms: the science of it, the medicine, the tragedy and the comedy. Dr David Jarrett draws on family stories and case histories from his thirty years of treating the old, demented and frail to try to find his own understanding of the end. Profound, provocative, strangely funny and astonishingly compelling, it is an impassioned plea that we start talking frankly and openly about death. He writes about all the conversations that we, our parents, our children, the medical community, our government and society as a whole should be having. And it is a call to arms for us to make radical changes to our perspective on 'the seventh age of man'. - More praise for 33 Meditations on Death: "This book will stay with you." - Derren Brown "Bursting with empathy, common sense and humour." - Professor Dame Sue Black
Download or read book Music of Black Sabbath written by Chris Wade and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Heath Sparkbrook Through Time written by Ted Rudge and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Small Heath & Sparkbrook have changed and developed over the last century.
Download or read book West Midlands English written by Urszula Clark and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-31 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on the closely allied yet differing linguistic varieties of Birmingham and its immediate neighbour to the west, the industrial heartland of the Black Country. It provides a clear description of the structure of the linguistic varieties
Download or read book Escape from the White Ghetto written by Bill Walkey and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-30 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being nine years old and walking to the market with your mother while tripping over the debris from WWII bombing. And then suddenly seeing a child’s toy lying half-covered beneath black char and rubble. This was Bill Walkey’s reality growing up. He depicts such scenes in this book of heartfelt short stories. With both sadness and rays of understanding, he explores themes such as the poverty and pride of the local people amid war-torn Birmingham during the early 1950s. Bill takes us through a period of history that was not experienced by many or has now been forgotten. However, it has not been forgotten by him. The book began as a way to clear memories that have long haunted Bill. Now, they find expression on the pages he wishes to share with his children and their children: “Personal reflections relevant today” Bill calls them. Birmingham’s bombed areas were cleared in the 1960s and the city was rebuilt and pedestrianized. Nothing of what Bill has shared in Escape from the White Ghetto remains today.
