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Brierley Hill at Work - Ned Williams - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brierley Hill at Work - Ned Williams - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brierley Hill was one of those Black Country towns which was identified by the work that went on within its boundaries. Everyone knows that Brierley Hill made steel and sausages and fine pieces of glassware. These activities are now in the past but the memory of such work lingers on while the town wrestles with the problems of regeneration. This book pays plenty of attention to steel, pork products and glass, but also provides a glimpse of the many other aspects of work that have made Brierley Hill such a busy place. People worked in local government and in public sector work which maintained the life of the town, while others worked in retailing and in the provision of transport. While looking at the world of work in Brierley Hill we have taken account of the many types of employment that were to be found in its satellites: the hollow-ware industry of Quarry Bank, the brick-making that went on in The Delph, Silver End and Pensnett, the iron trades in Brockmoor and Harts Hill, and the work on the infrastructure that served all these places. The arrival of the Merry Hill Shopping Centre on Brierley Hill’s doorstep has given retailing a new dominance in terms of providing local employment, but the picture of work in the twenty-first century is still emerging. Who knows what will bring Brierley Hill fame and fortune in the future?

DKK 155.00
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Dangerous Work - - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Dangerous Work - - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

British military labour during the First World War developed from an ad hoc arrangement in 1914 into a corps some 400,000 strong, supported by as many as a million dominion and foreign workers by 1918. Records of this contribution to victory are extremely rare. George Weeks wrote down his experience on squares of wallpaper – always a practical man. And what a record it is. The Somme, Passchendaele and the Messines Ridge all feature in George’s calm description of his extraordinary experiences. He camped in ‘the vast graveyard of Cambrai’, he cut down an entire forest for duckboards, and he mended the aircraft of Captain Ball VC with dope and linen! With the corps working on the front lines and often under fire, this truly was ‘dangerous work’.

DKK 127.00
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Women's Factory Work in World War One - G. R. Griffiths - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Women's Factory Work in World War One - G. R. Griffiths - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

During World War One, as the casualties mounted and with the introduction of conscription, over a million women were employed for the first time in industry, replacing the men recruited for the armed services. Many of these women worked in industries which had previously been regarded as the preserve of men, often involving heavy or skilled labour. This illustrated history chronicles the increasing participation of women in the war effort, as well as the untold story of a small group of remarkable Women Factory Inspectors, who grasped the opportunity to record the conditions and work of women in all forms of industry, as a means of providing a record for future campaigns to improve the working conditions and health of women. The work of this group of Women Factory Inspectors created the foundations for the Home Office Industrial Museum, which later displayed modern health and safety equipment for industry, as well as providing the organisational drive to create an archive to record the contribution of women to the Home Front, which became part of the founding archive of the Imperial War Museum.

DKK 161.00
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Live, Work and Play - Mark Clapson - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Live, Work and Play - Mark Clapson - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Books about history using real life memories recorded specifically for the purpose are rare, Live, Work & Play is just such a book. Created from the hundreds of reminiscences of the residents of the town gathered by the WGC Heritage Trust and put into historical context by Prof Mark Clapson , one of the UK’s leading social historians, the book offers a unique insight into the creation of the UK’s second garden city. Timed to appear at the start of 2020, when Welwyn Garden City achieves its 100th year, the history of Sir Ebenezer Howard’s final masterpiece, with all its imperfections, is laid out for all to read. Now thriving and at ease with itself WGC is an example of how to create homes for its community. Created as a Garden City in 1920, developed as a New Town from 1948 the lessons it offers are invaluable to both developers and governments alike.

DKK 192.00
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Father of the Blind - Dr Andrew Norman - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Father of the Blind - Dr Andrew Norman - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In August 1914, Arthur Pearson, a former newspaper magnate, learned of a Belgian soldier who was languishing in a London hospital. The man had been blinded by a rifle bullet during the siege of Liege, and Pearson felt sympathy for the man, having himself been blinded by glaucoma. He resolved to work to prevent blinded Allied servicemen from returning home, only to slip into ''hopeless and useless lives''. He therefore opened St Dunstan''s in 1915, a hostel where returning soldiers could ''learn to be blind'', where they were taught Braille and a trade, equipping them to re-enter the world as useful and self-respecting citizens. When Pearson died in 1921, no less than 1,800 St Dunstaners attended his funeral. Father of the Blind is the biography of an extraordinary man who refused to consider blindness an affliction, but rather a handicap which could be overcome. His charitable work has continued long after his passing.

DKK 176.00
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Fife at Work - Carol Mcneill - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Fife at Work - Carol Mcneill - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This fascinating pictorial history takes a look back at the days when Fife was home to a wide variety of traditional industries, including mining, farming, fishing, pottery and textile factories, shipping and shipbuilding. Featuring over 160 archive images, each accompanied by an informative caption, this volume recalls the people who lived and worked here – the linen workers at their looms, the farmers feeding lambs, the miners heading to their collieries, and the fishermen with their nets – all of which paint a vivid picture of a way of life now largely disappeared. While a number of Fife businesses have been handed down through several generations, adapting and modernising as necessary over the years, many have finally closed after decades of trade, but are nevertheless fondly remembered.

DKK 155.00
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Sigmund Freud: pocket GIANTS - Alastair Ross - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Sigmund Freud: pocket GIANTS - Alastair Ross - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

‘This is a very, very smart book. It makes Freud accessible, interesting and relevant.’ - Ruby Wax Sigmund Freud is rightly called the godfather of psychoanalysis. He forever changed the way we view ourselves and developed our understanding of human nature. His concepts have become part of our psychological vocabulary: unconscious thoughts and feelings, conflict, the meaning of dreams, the sensuality of childhood. He dared to try new methods and treatments. Everyone knows the term Freudian slip and has a basic understanding of his theories, however, Freud gave us a great deal more. From education to critical theory he changed the way we think. His ideas and clinical practices offer psychological insights that bring help and healing. Freud''s work has suffused contemporary Western thought and popular culture. He is the epitome of a pocket GIANT.

DKK 100.00
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Boy Republic - Dr Brendan Walsh - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Boy Republic - Dr Brendan Walsh - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Patrick Pearse, teacher, poet, and one of the executed leaders of the 1916 Rising has long been a central figure in Irish history. The book provides a radically new interpretation of Patrick Pearse’s work in education, and examines how his work as a teacher became a potent political device in pre-independent Ireland. The book provides a complete account of Pearse’s educational work at St. Enda’s school, Dublin where a number of insurgents such as William Pearse, Thomas McDonagh and Con Colbert taught. The author draws upon the recollections of past-pupils, employees, descendants of those who worked with Pearse, founders of schools inspired by his work - including the descendants of Thomas McSweeny and Louis Gavan Duffy – and a vast array or primary source material to provide a comprehensive account of life at St. Enda’s and the place of education within the ‘Irish-Ireland’ movement and the struggle for independence.

DKK 198.00
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Universal Basic Income - Paul O'brien - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Universal Basic Income - Paul O'brien - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book is about a radical idea: the idea that each of us deserves enough money on which to live - and that it should be paid independently of our personal means, and independently of whether we work, or even want to work. The concept of ‘basic income’ has been discussed internationally and has the potential to revolutionise the way that society functions. It would provide greater security for the young, for the self-employed and entrepreneurs as well as reshaping the social welfare system in its entirety. In this book, author and academic Dr Paul O’Brien explores the arguments for and against the idea and explains how this very real proposal might work in practise.

DKK 183.00
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Charles Darwin - Stephen Webster - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Charles Darwin - Stephen Webster - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology. Before his great work, humans were comfortably different from other life, a special creation. By showing how life on Earth evolved, Darwin told us that humans too are part of nature. His decisive experience – a five-year round-the-world voyage on the Beagle – set him thinking about the diversity of life, ideas that would challenge the scientific establishment and Victorian society. Darwin for years built his evidence for evolution, even as he realised that such ideas were leading him straight into controversy and dispute. This book gives a concise account of Darwin’s life and work, and makes vividly clear why his work continues to influence us all.

DKK 119.00
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Brunel in South Wales Volume III - Stephen K Jones - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Brunel in South Wales Volume III - Stephen K Jones - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Isambard Kingdom Brunel had strong associations with South Wales; chief engineer of the GWR at just 27, he was the same for the South Wales Railway Co., taking the railways across South Wales. This illustrated history focuses on Brunel''s contribution to the maritime world, from his work on dry docks and shipping facilities to his steamships, including his ''great leviathan''. For PSS Great Eastern, Brunel chose Milford Haven as a home port where she would spend many years, still the largest ship in the world but sadly without work after her pioneering role laying telegraph cables under the world''s oceans. The Great Britain steamship sailed from Penarth, a dock associated with the later work of Brunel''s son, Henry Marc Brunel who would be responsible for the largest dock system built in Wales, at Barry. Other dock works include Briton Ferry which Brunel designed to handle the output of the VNR and the SWMR. One of his last engineering projects was a steam railway ferry across the river Severn, a unique work that was superseded with the opening of the Severn Tunnel. This illustrated history delves deep into Brunel''s legacy.

DKK 289.00
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Breaking Titanic - Eugene Nesmeyanov - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Breaking Titanic - Eugene Nesmeyanov - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

At 11.40 p.m. on 14 April 1912, RMS Titanic struck an iceberg. She sank less than three hours later, taking around 1,500 people down with her. Devastated survivors provided conflicting information about her final hours – did she slip gracefully below the waves in one piece, or did she violently break apart? The answer would not be confirmed for seventy-three years. Breaking Titanic is the first comprehensive study of the break-up of Titanic’s hull. Using eyewitness accounts, underwater archaeology reports and data from computer simulations, Eugene Nesmeyanov presents a critical analysis of the most significant theories and models of the break-up, drawing his own conclusions based on the available body of evidence.

DKK 291.00
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British Canals - Charles Hadfield - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

British Canals - Charles Hadfield - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The first edition of British Canals was published in 1950 and was much admired as a pioneering work in transport history. Joseph Boughey, with the advice of Charles Hadfield, has previously revised and updated the perennially popular material to reflect more recent changes. For this ninth edition, Joseph Boughey discusses the many new discoveries and advances in the world of canals around Britain, inevitably focussing on the twentieth century to a far greater extent than in any previous edition of this book, while still within the context of Hadfield''s original work.

DKK 173.00
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Voices from History: East London Suffragettes - Rosemary Taylor - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Voices from History: East London Suffragettes - Rosemary Taylor - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In 1914, the East London Federation of Suffragettes, led by Sylvia Pankhurst, split from the WSPU. Sylvia’s mother and sister, Emmeline and Christabel, had encouraged her to give up her work with the poor women of East London – but Sylvia refused. Besides campaigning for women to have an equal right to vote from their headquarters in Bow, the ELFS worked on a range of equality issues which mattered to local women: they built a toy factory, providing work and a living wage for local women; they opened a subsidized canteen where women and children could get cheap, nutritious food; and they launched a nursery school, a crèche, and a mother-and-baby clinic. The work of the Federation (and ‘our Sylvia’, as she was fondly known by locals) deserves to be remembered, and this book, filled with astonishing first-hand accounts, aims to bring this amazing story to life.

DKK 119.00
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Evader - Derek Shuff - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Evader - Derek Shuff - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In 1941 air gunner Sergeant Jack Newton’s Wellington is hit by flak on his first bombing raid over Germany. Miraculously, the skipper makes an emergency landing on a German-occupied Belgian airfield, narrowly avoiding Antwerp Cathedral. Having torched the plane, the crew give the unsuspecting Germans the slip and are hidden by the Resistance. Hoping to make it to the coast and back across the Channel, the airmen are surprised when the 23-year-old female leader of the Comete Escape Line, Andree de Jongh – codenamed Dedee – has other plans for them. Full of terrifying and humorous moments, this is the story of the epic journey of the first British airman to escape occupied Europe during the Second World War.

DKK 147.00
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A Landscape Revealed - Martin Green - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

A Landscape Revealed - Martin Green - Bog - The History Press Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Down Farm Landscape (where the author''s family has farmed for generations) is one of the most carefully studied areas in Western Europe. Much of this work has been carried out by the author himself - who in 1992 won the Pitt Rivers award for independent archaeology. His work has involved five universities and one of the major field units were recently featured in a BBC 2 ''Meet the Ancestors'' programme. The farm is part of Cranborne Chase, just south of Salisbury (where, coincidentally, the famous General Pitt Rivers began his pioneering work in the 1880s). It not only contains the Neolithic Dorset Cursus, numerous long barrows and Hambledon Hill, but over the last 30 years henges, shafts, plastered houses, land divisions, enclosures and cemeteries have been identified and excavated. The farm has its own museum and for the book the author provided a unique range of illustrations (including full colour reconstructions).

DKK 192.00
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