Featuring Images of Sheffield Photographer, Martin Jenkinson
by Mark Metcalf
Other Justine Jenkinson
Illustrated by Martin Jenkinson
Price: $14.99
ISBN: 9781526761378
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2020-02-19
Format: Digital download
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
160 Pages
The social, industrial and economic changes imposed on the Sheffield area during the 1980s are captured with remarkable clarity in this second Images of the Past book featuring the work of freelance photographer Martin Jenkinson (1947-2012).
This book is a catalogue of disaster – literally. Within its pages are the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.
It’s a scandal! How often we use that phrase and what a catalogue of sins it covers. That’s what this book is all about. It is literally a catalogue of sins – committed by some of the most celebrated names on the planet.
For 150 years, up and down the country, from large cities to rural areas and the remotest islands and highlands, district nurses have been visiting the sick in their own homes. Here they have provided healthcare, and given moral support and advice to people of all ages the length and breadth of Britain.
Drawing on the archives of Mary Evans Picture Library, ‘Images of the Past – The British Seaside’ is a nostalgic promenade through the history of Britain’s seaside resorts from their early genesis...
The History of the Iconic Twin Towers and the Events They Witnessed
by Nigel Blundell and Maurice Crow
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781526702074
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Pub Date: 2018-05-18
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Pen and Sword History
136 Pages
It was the field of dreams, the birthplace of legends, the hallowed home of our sporting gods. Historic Wembley Stadium, with its iconic Twin Towers, was truly the most revered of venues.Until...
* Many previously unpublished photos * First book of its kind; detailing mining disasters from the 1900s to the 1980s * Foreword by Ceri Thompson, curator of the Big Pit, the Welsh national mining museum. * Published at a particularly poignant time, after the recent closure of Britain's last deep coal mine.
* An insight into social history during the reign of Edward VII and the fabulous hat fashions which emerged during his reign. * Fabulous images of amazing English and American Edwardian hatpins and glorious fashion postcards of the early 20th century. * Goes 'behind the scenes' at the ostrich farms in South Africa and the millinery 'sweat shops'
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