Local history Books
The History Press Ltd Discovering the Smallest Churches in Scotland
Book SynopsisA small church nestling deep in the countryside is instantly evocative. Why is it there at all? Whom does it serve? This companion volume to the author''s successful titles on the smallest churches of Wales and England is a county-by-county guide to the smallest gems of Scottish ecclesiastical architecture. John Kinross provides the reader with descriptions of over 50 of the country''s loveliest and most interesting churches and chapels, many of which have a fascinating history and their own unique features. These buildings deserve our attention and further study, and the book offers maps and directions on how to find these churches for those inspired to seek them out.
£17.09
The History Press Ltd Wolverhampton
Book SynopsisThis fascinating collection of over 200 archive images traces some of the changes and developments that have taken place in Wolverhampton during the last century, as many old agricultural communities were swallowed up by the development of modern industry.
£999.99
The History Press Ltd Crewe The Twentieth Century
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating collection of many unpublished photographs showing Crewe's development during the twentieth century. Illustrated with well over 200 old photographs and images, it traces changes and development, and highlights the architectural wealth of the town from a number of different periods. The book features many different aspects, from the building of the magnificent Municipal Buildings to the changes on the Market Square. The effects of two world wars upon Crewe and its revival afterwards is also documented. Crewe has for many years created the industrial wealth for this part of South Cheshire. That affluence is shown admirably during the twentieth century by its constant endeavour to improve its residents' lifestyle. The book will show to great effect how their living standards improved during this period.
£13.49
The History Press Ltd Cheshire Folk Tales
Book SynopsisCheshire is a county that associates with the giants of English literature, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wierdstone of Brisingamen, but how did these fabulous tales develop from a supposedly flat county of boggy, cheese-making plains? This book uncovers some of the surprise and charm hidden in the folds of this unassuming landscape. For hundreds of years, Cheshire folk have been quietly telling their own tales about some of Britain's great heroes, as well as wrestling with their own demons, dragons and boggarts. Let the Journey Man guide you along the canals, through the forests and safely past the sniddlebogs to some surprisingly spectacular heights where you can experience Cheshire's own heroes alongside its eccentric traditions and fast-disappearing dialect. It's not all salt and cheese The Journey Man is an internationally travelled storyteller who has settled in Cheshire. He has been telling stories for some twenty years, and has been given the opportunity to gather and retell the folk tales and history of Cheshire. He now visits schools throughout the North West of England, as well as leading storytelling walks for all ages.
£9.99
The History Press Ltd Essex Folk Tales
Book SynopsisThe Essex coastline has endured invasion by plundering and bloodthirsty Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings, and this mysterious landscape is still haunted by their presence. Indeed, it is the women of Essex who have stirred the imagination most – from brave Boudicca and beautiful Edith Swan-neck to the adulteress Kitty Canham.
£11.69
The History Press Ltd Channel Island Murders
Book SynopsisIn Guernsey, elderly widow Elizabeth Saujon was murdered during the course of a robbery in 1853, Edward Hooper drunkenly beat his wife to death in 1890, and housekeeper Elizabeth de la Mare murdered her elderly employer in 1935, wanting to hasten his demise on the understanding that she was the sole beneficiary of his will.
£14.24
The History Press Ltd Ceredigion Folk Tales
Book SynopsisThis is a captivating collection of traditional and modern stories, including the submerged city of Cantre’r Gwaelod, or the ‘Welsh Atlantis’, how the Devil came to build a bridge over the Rheidol, the elephant that died in Tregaron, and how the Holy Grail came to Nanteos.
£9.99
The History Press Ltd Irish Manchester Revisited
Book SynopsisThe Irish have always been proud of their contribution to Manchester. Alan Keegan and Danny Claffey's Irish Manchester: A Third Selection combines many previously unpublished photographs with well-researched captions to create a fascinating picture of the Irish community in the city.
£13.49
The History Press Ltd Luton Past and Present
Book SynopsisLuton Past & Present gives a fascinating insight into the dramatic changes that have taken place in the city during the 20th century.
£13.49
The History Press Ltd Northumberland Folk Tales
Book SynopsisThese folk tales reflect the wild and secret character of between two countries and two worlds. saints seek refuge, ancient kings fight for land and salvation, and border folk pit themselves against one another with both wit and sword.
£11.69
The History Press Ltd The River Welland Shipping and Mariners of
Book SynopsisIn its heyday Spalding was a busy commercial port, with a shipping industry that affected a large majority of the local population.
£15.29
The History Press Ltd The Story of Leeds
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated history that explores every aspect of life in Leeds.This new history of Leeds covers all the main political, social and economic developments of the city: The Harrying of the North devastated the surrounding area in 1069; and Richard Oastler, the Factory King, launched the campaign for the Ten Hour Bill in the Leeds Mercury.
£16.19
Heritage Books First Records of Baltimore Town and Jones Town
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£14.00
Heritage Books Handbook History of the Town of York Maine From
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£18.00
University of Oklahoma Press Creating the American West Boundaries and
Book SynopsisBoundaries - lines imposed on the landscape - shape our lives, dictating everything from which candidates we vote for to what schools our children attend to the communities with which we identify. Historian Derek Everett examines the function of these internal lines in American history generally and in the West in particular.Trade ReviewWith Derek Everett as our guide, what might seem one of the simplest acts of creating the West-defining its states by drawing lines on the map-becomes a revelation into the many crosscurrents-political, social, ethnic, economic, and, let's face it, idiosyncratic-that shaped the emergence of a distinctive American region. Creating the American West is also a reminder of how the lines we draw have always both divided and united us."" - Elliott West author of The Essential West: Collected Essays
£999.99
Louisiana State University Press Our Minds on Freedom
Book SynopsisExplores the organisational and leadership roles female civil rights activists in Louisiana played from the 1920s to the 1960s. Shannon Frystak highlights a diverse group of courageous women who fought alongside their brothers and fathers, uncles and cousins, to achieve a more racially just Louisiana.
£28.50
Louisiana State University Press French Cajun Creole Houma
Book SynopsisMore than a dozen French-speaking immigrant groups have been identified in south Louisiana, Cajuns and white Creoles being the most famous. In this guide to the social, cultural, and linguistic variation within Louisiana's French-speaking region, Carl Brasseaux presents an overview of the origins and evolution of all the Francophone communities.
£999.99
University of Pennsylvania Press The Roots of Educational Inequality
Book SynopsisThe Roots of Educational Inequality chronicles the transformation of one American high school over the course of the twentieth century to explore the larger political, economic, and social factors that have contributed to the escalation of educational inequality in modern America. In 1914, when Germantown High School officially opened, Martin G. Brumbaugh, the superintendent of the School District of Philadelphia, told residents that they had one of the finest high schools in the nation. Located in a suburban neighborhood in Philadelphia's northwest corner, the school provided Germantown youth with a first-rate education and the necessary credentials to secure a prosperous future. In 2013, almost a century later, William Hite, the city's superintendent, announced that Germantown High was one of thirty-seven schools slated for closure due to low academic achievement. How is it that the school, like so many others that serve low-income students of color, transformed in this way?Erika MTrade ReviewThe Roots of Educational Inequality is a compelling account of how public policy, segregation, and racial attitudes have intersected historically to produce profoundly unequal educational outcomes for American children. Highlighting the inherent injustice resulting from overreliance on the beneficence of private philanthropy to support public institutions, Kitzmiller’s deep examination of the historical experience of one school and one district serves as an impassioned reminder of the importance of prioritizing equity in educational policy and funding decisions. Historians, social scientists, educators, and activists interested in understanding and remedying the structural inequalities that persist across the nation’s urban schools will find in this book a useful resource that will inform research and progressive practice for years to come. * Journal of Urban Affairs *Kitzmiller deftly weaves ethnography, history, and geographical analyses...This book is excellent. It is especially essential reading for those who ask the question of public schools and their reforms, 'How is that racist?' While many who ask that question seek to disprove the possibility of racism, for those who can be convinced with data, this book provides multiple types of evidence to support racism, classism, and governmental neglect of the very schools that should typify American democracy. * Teachers College Record *In The Roots of Educational Inequality, Erika M. Kitzmiller provides a clear and meticulously researched inquiry into the racial and economic inequality which has plagued America’s public high schools for over a hundred years. In her groundbreaking study, Kitzmiller brilliantly utilizes both ethnographic and quantitative methods to expose ‘how these institutions were founded to provide different opportunities and resources to Black and white children.’ Readable and thought-provoking, this volume is of interest not only to educational specialists but to everyone who cares about equality in public education. * Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University *Table of ContentsContents Prologue Introduction Chapter 1. The Campaign for an Elite Public High School in Philadelphia's Suburban Sanctuary, 1907-1914 Chapter 2. Philanthropy Sustains Philadelphia's Expanding Public School System, 1914-1920 Chapter 3. Philadelphia's Reliance on Philanthropy Begins to Crack, 1929-1940 Chapter 4. Philadelphia Mobilizes for War, Inequality on the Homefront Escalates, 1941-1957 Chapter 5. Urban Renewal, Urban Unrest, and the Threat of a "Poverty-Stricken Negro Ghetto," 1958-1967 Chapter 6. The Emergence of an "Urban" School System: Fiscal Shortages, Labor Strikes, and Stalled Desegregation, 1968-1981 Chapter 7. Philadelphia School Leaders Fight to Restore and Control Philadelphia's Public Schools, 1982-2000 Chapter 8. Philadelphia Implements the "Largest and Boldest Experiment" in Urban Public Education, 2002-2011 Chapter 9. School Officials Close Schools to "Save" Philadelphia's Public School System Appendix Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
£26.25
The University of Alabama Press Beside the Troubled Waters A Black Doctor Remembers Life Medicine and Civil Rights in an Alabama Town
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£15.26
Duke University Press Challenging U.S. Apartheid
Book SynopsisA history of Black struggles for human dignity, equality, and opportunity in Atlanta from the early 1960s through the end of the initial term of Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, in 1977. It highlights the work of grassroots activists, who take centre stage alongside well-known figures.Trade Review“Challenging U.S. Apartheid is a brilliant and provocative contribution to our understanding of the Black freedom movement in Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s. While Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy has long dominated our understanding of the movement in Atlanta, Winston A. Grady-Willis forces us to look again with a wider lens and a new set of sensibilities. With insight and eloquence he demonstrates the pivotal role of women and Atlanta’s Black working class in the fight for racial and economic justice and self-determination. He does not simply give a polite nod to issues of gender and class. Rather, these modes of analysis take center stage in his thinking and in his work. Grady-Willis has done for Atlanta what Charles Payne and John Dittmer did for Mississippi. This book is a must-read for anyone serious about understanding the landmark social justice struggles of the 1960s and 1970s.”—Barbara Ransby, author of Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision“By deploying the frames of apartheid and human rights to analyze social struggle in the Black U.S. urban context, Winston A. Grady-Willis’s work asks scholars to rethink the way we characterize Black demands and, therefore, their relationship to a broader activist cadre and global politics.”—Rhonda Y. Williams, author of The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women's Struggles Against Urban Inequality“This book is an important addition to the literary examination of the Civil Rights Movement. Atlanta nurtured the intellectual, intuitive, and creative spirits of Movement leaders because it was a crossroads of progressive thought, merging a morally conscious academic, religious, and business community into a galvanizing force in American history. Winston A. Grady-Willis takes a serious, researched approach to his analysis of a city often called the ‘Little New York’ or the ‘Gateway to the South.’ He helps us understand its contemporary role in modern history as a Gateway to the New America.”—U.S. Representative John Lewis“Challenging U.S. Apartheid is a fascinating read not only of the frontline struggles that brought down Jim Crow, but for its account of how political consciousness took shape and broadened over the course of a generation.” -- Lee Wengraf * International Socialist Review *“[A] comprehensive, penetrating history of black activism in Atlanta. . . . A thoughtful interpretation of vital themes in the black experience that should encourage further discussion and debate. Summing Up: Highly recommended.” -- H. Shapiro * Choice *“Grady-Willis’s analysis of Atlanta movements and their interaction with ‘national’ organizations and personalities makes a major contribution to the study of modern American civil and human rights movements. . . . Grady-Willis’s narrative writing style is accessible enough to sustain the attention of undergraduates . . . . [The book] is among the very best examples of this new generation of civil rights scholarship. It not only adds to what scholars have already written about movements in Atlanta and other communities but also problematizes and reframes the questions scholars should be asking about the civil rights movement in all of its manifestations.” -- J. Todd Moye * American Historical Review *“Winston A. Grady-Willis has made and important contribution to the historiography of the black freedom movement. . . . Challenging U.S. Apartheid is an important read for anyone interested in Black Power, Atlanta history, and the internationalization of the African American human rights struggle.” -- John Matthew Smith * Journal of Social History *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements ix Prologue xiii Abbreviations xxiii PART I: NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION 1. The Committee on Appeal for Human Rights and Phase One of the Direct Action Campaign 3 2. Phase Two of the Direct Action Campaign and the Fall of Petty Apartheid in Atlanta 33 PART II: DEMANDING BLACK POWER 3. Bridges 59 4. The Atlanta Project of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee 79 5. Neighborhood Protest and the Voices of the Black Working Poor 114 PART III: THE QUEST FOR SELF-DETERMINATION 6. Black Studies and the Birth of the Institute of the Black World 143 7. The Multi-front Black Struggle for Human Rights 169 Epilogue 206 Notes 213 Bibliography 265 Indez 281
£20.99
University of Pittsburgh Press Fields of Play
£20.00
Alan Godfrey Maps East Dulwich and Peckham Rye 1868 London Sheet
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£6.11
Alan Godfrey Maps Manchester City Centre 1849 Manchester Sheet 28
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£6.11
Alan Godfrey Maps Manchester New Cross 1849 Manchester Sheet 24 Old
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£6.11
Alan Godfrey Maps Wavertree and Broadgreen 1905 Lancashire Sheet
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£6.11
Alan Godfrey Maps StocktononTees and Thornaby 1897 Durham Sheet
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£6.11
Alan Godfrey Maps Old Ordnance Survey Maps Bradford North 1906
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£6.11
Alan Godfrey Maps Nottingham South 1899 Nottinghamshire Sheet 4206
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£6.11
Halsgrove Hidden Landscapes of the South West Coast Path
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£15.29
Halsgrove Glamorgan Cricketers 18891920
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£16.14
Museum of New Mexico Press Valles Caldera
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£37.95
David McDowall Bute A Guide
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£14.86
Northern Heritage Services Cuthbert and the Northumbrian Saints
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£14.24
Photoprint Scotland A Guide to the Stone Circles of the Lake District
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£999.99
Carn Publishing ltd The History of Auchinleck Village and Parish
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£18.00
Houbara House A Walk Through Fuerteventura
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£13.49
American History Press A Spirited War George Washington and the Ghosts
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£14.20
Folly Books Ltd The Last Years of Coal Mining in Yorkshire
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£23.75
Unity Print and Publishing Ltd Wild About Shepherds Bush Askew Road From Market
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DOS Gatos Press ShallowRooted Heart
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£11.88
LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Standard History of Essex County Massachusetts
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£26.96
Legare Street Press The Civil War in Chowan County North Carolina
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£21.80
LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD Sketches of a Tour to the Western Country Through
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£28.76
Legare Street Press History of Humboldt County California With
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£25.60
Legare Street Press An Answer to the Question
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£10.95
Creative Media Partners, LLC Merion in the Welsh Tract. With Sketches of the
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£28.76
LIGHTNING SOURCE UK LTD History of the Rockaways From the Year 1685 to
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£22.75
