Download or read book Harpenden A Village in Wartime written by John Cooper and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harpenden: A Village in Wartime is a tribute to the wartime record of the people of the city of Chester in the two World Wars.
Download or read book Hertfordshire Soldiers of The Great War written by Dan Hill and published by Frontline Books. This book was released on 2020-05-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Hertfordshire Soldiers of The First World War the authors explore a series of individual case studies of Hertfordshire men who served in various theaters during the First World War, all of which had been uncovered as part of the Herts At War community project. This unique collection of largely unknown accounts includes stories from the Western Front, Gallipoli, Salonika, Mesopotamia, East Africa, Egypt and even Russia in the fight against the Bolsheviks in 1919. The Herts At War team uncovered many letters and objects in the course of their research, including men who were Victoria Cross winners to those whose courage or bravery went unrecognized, as well as stoicism on the Home Front. One of the most moving of these surrounds a photograph which was found in the hands of Sergeant Percy Buck as he lay fatally wounded in a shell hole in 1917. On the back of the photograph of his wife and young son he had written his address and asked for whoever found the image to post it to his loved ones in the event of his death. Sergeant Buck would have assumed it would be a British comrade who would find the photograph, but the person who recovered it was a German soldier who subsequently sent it on to the grieving, but grateful, family. The war memorials of Hertfordshire contain the names of over 23,000 men and women who gave their lives whilst in the service of their country during the Great War; some of their tales are uncovered here. Indeed, the poignant collection of stories, anecdotes and artifacts revealed in this book bring the First World War to life in an unusual and highly moving fashion.
Download or read book Harpenden Childhood Remembered written by John Cooper and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cooper vividly recalls the dark days of the Second World War - air raids, rationing, Home Guard manoeuvres, prisoners of war on the doorstep and the excitement of VE Day - and the long, carefree days of post-war childhood that followed, when the pace of life was much gentler than today. The author recalls local shops, now long gone, such as Harriden's grocery store and Mr Lines the blacksmith, as well as Harpenden's two cinemas, in one of which he was briefly employed as a projectionist. Memories of the glittering Festival of Britain and Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation celebrations, together with a nostalgic journey back to Harpenden, round off this trip down memory lane, which will surely appeal to anyone interested in the history of Hertfordshire within living memory
Download or read book Transfer of Undertakings written by Incomes Data Services and published by Sweet & Maxwell. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When a business is sold by one employer to another, or the responsibility for providing a service transfers from one employer to another, what happens to the dedicated workforce? Do the employees concerned have the right to work for the new employer? And if so, do they retain the contractual and other employment rights that they enjoyed prior to the transfer, or is the new employer entitled to vary their contracts in order to harmonise their terms and conditions with those of any existing employees? These are the main issues with which the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations 2006 SI 2006/246 (TUPE) - the focus of this Handbook - are concerned."--Back cover.
Download or read book The Bellman written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographical Dictionary Of The World In The Early 20th Century With Pronouncing Gazetteer in 2 Vos written by Moonis Raza and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 1232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Harpenden History Tour written by John Cooper and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of the historic town of Harpenden, showing how the areas you know and love have changed over the centuries.
Download or read book Me Me Me written by Jon Lawrence and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In today's world, many believe that everyday life has become selfish and atomised--that individuals live only to consume. Jon Lawrence argues that they are wrong, and that whilst community has changed, it is far from dead. It is time to embrace new communities, and let go of nostalgia for the past.
Download or read book British Autobiographies written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1955.
Download or read book Harpenden The Postcard Collection written by John Cooper and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful postcards capture old Harpenden in all its glory.
Download or read book Five Hide Village written by Thomas Owen Beachcroft and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth century Land Warfare written by Byron Farwell and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late Byron Farwell served as an engineer in the British forces of World War II and was an author of at least seven books on various aspects of military history. In this encyclopedia, a labor of love intended for both scholars and general readers, entries include information on wars, revolutions, battles, sieges, spies, soldiers, technical military terms, weapons, and other aspects of 19th-centruy wars and military life. The length of an entry does not necessarily correspond to its importance. Some lesser conflicts and minor personalities are given more space, because information is not readily available elsewhere; and conversely, if information on a topic is widely available, the entry is short. Small bandw images enhance the text. A selected bibliography is included at the end of the volume. Indexing, at least by country or general topic would have improved this otherwise carefully prepared reference. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Columbia Gazetteer of the World A to G written by Saul Bernard Cohen and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 4454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A geographical encyclopedia of world place names contains alphabetized entries with detailed statistics on location, name pronunciation, topography, history, and economic and cultural points of interest.
Download or read book Isle of Sheppey in the Great War written by Stephen Wynn and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2017-09-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Isle of Sheppey, although not a heavily populated area, played an extremely important part in Great Britains war effort on the home front throughout the four and a half years of the First World War. In doing so, Sheppey provided protection for the Thames Estuary, the River Medway and the naval shipyards at both Sheerness and Chatham. Its defensive emplacements largely responsible for acquiring the nickname locally of the 'Barbed Wire Island.' One of its main claims to fame in relation to the years of the First World War would have undoubtedly been in relation to aviation. The island had been a hive of activity in relation to flying since the beginning of the twentieth century, when the Royal Aero Club came to Leysdown, making it the first airfield in England. What became Eastchurch Aerodrome was where the first pilots of the Royal Naval Air Service were trained, making it the first military flying school in the country. The Short brothers also had an aircraft factory at Eastchurch where they designed and built their own aircraft, some of which would be used during the First World War. The Isle of Sheppey also boasted another aircraft factory, which was situated at Shellbeach on the east coast of the island, an emergency landing strip at Harty on the south east side of the island, and a balloon station at Sheerness. The First World War certainly saw the Isle of Sheppey rise to the occasion and add to its long and illustrious military history. The part it played went a long way in enhancing the islands reputation of having a dogged determination to do what needed to be done for the greater good in the nations time of need.
Download or read book Cinemas of Hertfordshire written by Allen Eyles and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There have been many changes since the first edition of this publication appeared in 1984. In addition to the closure of many more local cinemas, there has been the growth of the multiplexes so the picture is not entirely black. It is written by Alan Eyles, a fulltime specialist researcher and writer on the history of cinema. The new edition has twice the number of pages as the first and nearly 200 photographs including many which have been uncovered by the author in the last 20 years. It includes every cinema which has opened in Hertfordshire since 1908 (when the first opened its doors) and is arranged by town for ease of reference.
Download or read book Lost Watford written by John Cooper and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fully illustrated description of Watford’s well known, and lesser known, places that have been lost over the years.
Download or read book Village Life in England 1860 1940 written by Jonathan Brown and published by Trafalgar Square Publishing. This book was released on 1985 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
