Edwardian Devon 1900-1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Edwardian Devon 1900-1914 write by Dr David Parker. This book was released on 2016-08-04. Edwardian Devon 1900-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A century ago, Britain was locked in a devastating worldwide conflict that would change every aspect of society. This book explores life in Devon between 1900 and 1914, offering a revealing glimpse of a world now long-vanished before war broke out. Devon was no backwater; its railways and shipping were busy bringing tourists in and sending vast quantities of produce out. It was, though, a county of contrasts and change. Farming had reinvented itself after the late Victorian depression, but villages were in decline; churches and chapels were full but religion bitterly divided communities; the wealthy enjoyed extravagant lifestyles on great estates but their authority was under attack. Devon's upper-, middle- and lower-class schools perfectly reflected the Edwardian social hierarchy, but as the county's elections revealed, society was being torn asunder by bitter controversies over exactly who should have the vote, rule the country, and control the Empire. It was a worrying time overseas too: Great Britain's supremacy was increasingly challenged, and the warships in Devon's harbours and army manoeuvres on the moors drew many comments as the storm clouds began to gather over Europe. Using mainly contemporary sources, this engaging book examines the attitudes and experiences of people across all social classes in this tumultuous era.
Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell
Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell write by Moniez Baptiste. This book was released on 2017-08-21. Late-Victorian Heroic Lives in the Writings of Frank Mundell available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study explores the work of Frank Mundell, a late-Victorian author for the Sunday School Union. Mundell focused on heroism and represented various kinds of heroic deeds and figures, regardless of gender, in his books. Writing for educative, as well as entertaining, purposes, he avoided the use of didacticism and he endeavoured to combine the traditional and the modern in the stories he chose to tell. Mundell’s favourite format was that of the prosopography, putting together several heroic lives or incidents. He was careful to dedicate each of his volumes to one topic in particular, thus distinguishing the different types of heroic deeds from one another. His writings belong to four series, or collections, each highlighting a specific version of heroism, from instances of the mundane performed in a familial context to extraordinary deeds. He wrote about such bold acts as those featuring in the stories of brave firemen fighting devouring flames, fearless sailors in tempestuous seas, determined miners risking their lives to save their comrades, or intrepid explorers facing perils in the wide world. This book analyses each of his publications, highlighting the elements belonging to his representation of heroism as a whole.
Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900
Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900 write by Catherine Cox. This book was released on 2018-04-30. Negotiating insanity in the southeast of Ireland, 1820–1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores local medical, lay and legal negotiations with the asylum system in nineteenth-century Ireland. It deepens our understanding of attitudes towards the mentally ill and institutional provision for the care and containment of people diagnosed as insane. Uniquely, it expands the analytical focus beyond asylums incorporating the impact that the Irish poor law, petty session courts and medical dispensaries had on the provision of services. It provides insights into life in asylums for patients and staff. The study uses Carlow asylum district – comprised of counties Wexford, Kildare, Kilkenny and Carlow in the southeast of Ireland – to explore the ‘place of the asylum’ in the period. This book will be useful for scholars of nineteenth-century Ireland, the history of psychiatry and medicine in Britain and Ireland, Irish studies and gender studies.
The Edwardian Song Book
The Edwardian Song Book - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Edwardian Song Book write by . This book was released on 1982. The Edwardian Song Book available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907
Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907 write by Steven Taylor. This book was released on 2016-11-09. Child Insanity in England, 1845-1907 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the treatment, administration, and experience of children and young people certified as insane in England during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It uses a range of sources from Victorian institutions to explore regional differences, rural and urban comparisons, and categories of mental illness and mental disability. The discussion of diverse pathways in and out of the asylum offers an opportunity to reassess nineteenth-century child mental impairment in a broad social-cultural context, and its conclusions widen the parameters of a ‘mixed economy of care’ by introducing multiple sites of treatment and confinement. Through its expansive scope the analysis intersects with topics such as the history of childhood, institutional culture, urbanisation, regional economic development, welfare history, and philanthropy.
