Author: Paul K LyonsPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750954086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
A history of Brighton in diaries
Brighton in Diaries
Author: Paul K LyonsPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750954086
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This fascinating collection of extracts contains diarists famous and ordinary, young and old, serious and cynical, but with Brighton always setting the scene. Many legendary writers - including Walter Scott, Arnold Bennett and Virginia Woolf (who described Brighton as 'a love corner for slugs') – inhabit these pages, often appearing in their most unguarded guises. Here also are less well-known characters, such William Tayler (a footman), Gideon Mantell (a surgeon and dinosaur bone collector), and Xue Fucheng (an early Chinese diplomat). There are also several diarists whose writing has never appeared in print before - Olive Stammer, for example, who kept a diary during the Second World War; and Ross Reeves, a young gay musician whose diary extracts are from 2005-2006. By turn insightful, hilarious and profound, Brighton in Diaries will delight residents and visitors alike.
Brighton in Diaries
Author: Paul K LyonsPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750954086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
A history of Brighton in diaries
Brighton Diaries
Author: Ken ChambersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780954429959
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Brighton Diaries is a tale of ordinary people in the extraordinary times of WW2, related in detail from Ken's daily diaries of life in Brighton, England, as a boy before the war, and a young man in the RAF during the war. It is profusely illustrated with over 70 photographs and other illustrations made at the time.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum ...
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1082
Book Description
British Diaries
Author: William MatthewsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520320719
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
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 1950.
Brighton at War 1939–45
Author: Douglas d’EnnoPublisher: Pen and Sword Military
ISBN: 1473885957
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Long before war was declared on 3 September 1939, Brighton had steadily and carefully prepared for the coming conflict by building shelters, organising defence and rescue services, and providing the population with advice of its own or from government sources. These precautions stood the town in good stead when the first bombs fell on it in mid-1940 and during the many subsequent attacks. The resort did not, admittedly, suffer as grievously as some others on the South Coast, yet civilian casualties totalled nearly 1,000, of whom over 200 were killed, 357 were seriously injured and 433 slightly injured. This is not the first book to reveal the toll of the bombs locally, but it is the first to describe, in parallel, day-to-day events and societal responses during the nearly six years of conflict. As elsewhere, restrictions often made life arduous for residents. Yet despite the hardship, the town’s citizens even marshalled sufficient resources to ‘adopt’ two battleships and generously saved towards assisting with other wartime causes, such as help to our ally, Russia. The hospitality trade and resort-related services suffered greatly during the periods when the defence ban on entering the town was enforced. In many respects, however, life went on largely as before, particularly in the spheres of entertainment, leisure and some sports. Douglas d’Enno, an authority on the history of Brighton and environs, shows in meticulous detail, in absorbing text and numerous pictures, how life in wartime Brighton was a struggle for many, but never dull.
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