On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. This book examines the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, and how the murd…
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. This book examines the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, and how the murd…
On November 29, 1781, Captain Collingwood of the British ship Zong commanded his crew to throw overboard one-third of his cargo: a shipment of Africans bound for slavery in America. This book examines the deplorable killings on the Zong, the lawsuit that ensued, and how the murd…
"This book explores the concept of 'home' in Liverpool over phases of 'regeneration' following World War II. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as 'forward facing' regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and n…
"This book explores the concept of 'home' in Liverpool over phases of 'regeneration' following World War II. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as 'forward facing' regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and n…
"This book explores the concept of 'home' in Liverpool over phases of 'regeneration' following World War II. Using qualitative research in the oral history tradition, it explores what the author conceptualises as 'forward facing' regeneration in the period up to the 1980s, and n…
When Helen Forrester's father went bankrupt in the 1930's, she and her six siblings fell from a comfortable middle-class existence into wretched poverty. Later in life, Helen wrote a ground-breaking series of memoirs which told the harrowing account of her family's struggles in …
"Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars"-- "Faced with economic decline, unprecedented levels of unemployment and new forms of politi…
"Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars" ...
Introduction: Urban Transformation in Liverpool and Manchester, 1918-1939 -- "Soaring Skyward" : Urban Regeneration -- Civic Week Celebrations -- "For Profit or Pleasure" : New Cultures of Retail, Shopping and Consumer Culture -- Performing Fashionable Selfhoods in the Transform…
"Uses Liverpool and Manchester as case studies to uncover the programmes of urban regeneration that transformed cityscapes and revitalised local economies and cultures between the wars"-- "Faced with economic decline, unprecedented levels of unemployment and new forms of politi…