Tag: Britain

Free Download Catherine Bannister, "Scouting and Guiding in Britain: The Ritual Socialisation of Young People (Studies in Childhood and Youth)"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031103580, 3031103610 | PDF | pages: 207 | 4.5 mb
This book explores the prevailing role of rites of passage, ritual, and ceremony in contemporary children’s lives through the lens of modern-day incarnations of uniformed youth movements. It focuses on the socialising ritual and customary practices of present-day grass-roots Scout and Guide groups, asking how Britain’s largest and best-known uniformed youth organisations employ ritualised activities to express their values to their young members through language and gesture, story and song, dress, and physical artifacts. The author shows that these practices exist against a backdrop of culturally-constructed beliefs about what constitutes the ‘good child’ and ‘good childhood’ in twenty-first century Britain, with in-movement practices intended to help children develop positively and prepare for social life. The book draws on case study accounts of group performances, incorporating the voices of children and adults reflecting on their practices and experiences.

Free Download Farid Raymond Anthony, "Questions and Answers on Immigration in Britain"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 071464272X, 0714647810 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 1.0 mb
This guide to immigration to Britain uses a question and answer format to provide information in simple English. It ranges over: visitors; professional workers; students; business people; working in the UK; settlement; asylum; offences and deportation; appeals and British nationality.

Free Download Lewis Charles Bernard Seaman, "Post Victorian Britain, 1902-1951"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 0416697607, 0415039940, 113843244X | EPUB | pages: 576 | 2.9 mb
This comprehensive survey of English history during the first half of the twentieth century has three main themes: the political and social consequences of the replacement of the Liberal Party by the Labour Party; the continuous development of the welfare state; and the changes in Englandâ s imperial and international position caused by the ambitions of Germany and Japan and by the emergence of the U.S.A and the U.S.S.R as world powers. The leading personalities of the period are brilliantly portrayed and the issues challengingly presently.

Free Download Melanie Tebbutt, "Making Youth: A History of Youth in Modern Britain"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 023024310X, 0230243118 | PDF | pages: 287 | 2.0 mb
This new study explores how British youth was made, and how it made itself, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Urbanisation and industrialisation brought challenges that altered how young people were both perceived and understood. As adults found it difficult to comprehend the rapidity of societal change, focus on the young intensified, and they became a symbol of uncertainty about the future.

Free Download John R. Harris, "Industrial Espionage and Technology Transfer: Britain and France in the 18th Century"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0754603679, 1138418323 | EPUB | pages: 674 | 3.7 mb
Britain and France were the leading industrial nations in 18th-century Europe. This book examines the rivalry which existed between the two nations and the methods used by France to obtain the skilled manpower and technology which had given Britain the edge – particularly in the new coal-based technologies. Despite the British Act of 1719 which outlawed industrial espionage and technology transfer, France continued to bring key industrial workers from Britain and to acquire British machinery and production methods. Drawing on a mass of unpublished archival material, this book investigates the nature and application of British laws and the involvement of some major British industrialists in these issues, and discusses the extent to which French espionage had any real success. In the process it presents an in-depth understanding of 18th-century economies, and the cultures and bureaucracies which were so important in shaping economic life. Above all, the late John Harris saw the history of industrial espionage as ‘one means of restoring the thoughts and activities of human beings to the centre stage of industrial history’. These are the stories of individuals – Holkers, Trudaines, Wilkinsons, or Milnes – and their impact on the world.

Free Download Evelleen Richards, "Ideology and Evolution in Nineteenth Century Britain: Embryos, Monsters, and Racial and Gendered Others in the Making of"
English | ISBN: 0367501821 | 2022 | 356 pages | EPUB, PDF | 5 MB + 10 MB
Written over several decades and collected together for the first time, these richly detailed contextual studies by a leading historian of science examine the diverse ways in which cultural values and political and professional considerations impinged upon the construction, acceptance and applications of nineteenth century evolutionary theory. They include a number of interrelated analyses of the highly politicised roles of embryos and monsters in pre- and post- Darwinian evolutionary theorizing, including Darwin’s; several studies of the intersection of Darwinian science and its practitioners with issues of gender, race and sexuality, featuring a pioneering contextual analysis of Darwin’s theory of sexual selection; and explorations of responses to Darwinian science by notable Victorian women intellectuals, including the crusading anti-feminist and ardent Darwinian, Eliza Lynn Linton, the feminist and leading anti-vivisectionist Frances Power Cobbe, and Annie Besant, the bible-bashing, birth-control advocate who confronted Darwin’s opposition to contraception at the notorious Knowlton Trial.

Free Download Stanislas Wroza, "Identifying Migratory Birds by Sound in Britain and Europe"
English | ISBN: 1399410067 | 2024 | 240 pages | PDF | 138 MB
Identify migratory birds with this book, containing detailed text on flight and contact calls, annotated sonograms and QR codes to the calls themselves.

Free Download Stanislas Wroza, "Identifying Migratory Birds by Sound in Britain and Europe"
English | ISBN: 1399410067 | 2024 | 240 pages | PDF | 138 MB
Identify migratory birds with this book, containing detailed text on flight and contact calls, annotated sonograms and QR codes to the calls themselves.

Free Download History of Britain and Ireland: The Definitive Visual Guide (DK Definitive Visual Histories), New Edition by DK
English | July 2nd, 2024 | ISBN: 0593842316 | 410 pages | True EPUB | 154.01 MB
Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history – from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

Free Download Patrick Diamond, "Governing Britain: Power, Politics and the Prime Minister"
English | 2014 | ISBN: 1780765819 | PDF | pages: 394 | 7.5 mb
Number Ten Downing Street and the Cabinet Office are at the apex of power in British government, but relatively little is known about the day to day functioning of these great institutions of state. With an unprecedented level of access, and wide-ranging interviews from former ministers, senior civil servants and political advisers, Patrick Diamond examines the administrative and political machinery serving the Prime Minister, and considers how it evolved from the early years of New Labour to the election of the Coalition Government in 2010.