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A succinct, uncompromising study of what it means to help other
people, this book, first published in 1978, examines the helping
process in the light of the principles of Zen Buddhism. Emphasizing
the Zen precepts of true compassion, newness and Taoistic change,
it explains how a helper can break down the artificial barriers
that serve to separate people and hinder the helping process. As
the teachings of Zen demonstrate, real compassion involves a
selflessness and respect that can bring helper and helped together.
The Making of London explores the rich history of the Metropolis
from the Roman settlement established 2,000 years ago in the area
that came to be known as the 'Square Mile' and traces the process
whereby it eventually emerged as the world's greatest city. London
became the capital and seat of government of Britain, a centre of
culture, entertainment and retailing, a major port and industrial
centre and world leader in international trade, commerce and
finance. The focus is largely on central London but necessarily
brings in other nearby districts when events involved interaction
with these. While examining a selection of major historical events,
consideration is also given to some of the more unusual and quirky
aspects that have contributed to making London the diverse and
fascinating place it remains today. A largely chronological
approach is taken which emphasises how the lives of the ordinary
people were shaped by the events they witnessed such as invasions,
riots and rebellions, fires, smogs, wars, epidemics and pandemics.
The story embraces the apparent glamour of areas such as Mayfair
and the West End but does not neglect districts stalked by crime,
poverty and despair. London has always been a place of paradoxes
where flaunted wealth has existed alongside appalling social
deprivation. The juxtaposition of extravagance and poverty, of high
culture with the lowest of low life is a recurrent theme in
London's history. The Making of London will interest newcomers
wishing to know about London's past but even those familiar with
its history are likely to find something new in its pages.
A succinct, uncompromising study of what it means to help other
people, this book, first published in 1978, examines the helping
process in the light of the principles of Zen Buddhism. Emphasizing
the Zen precepts of true compassion, newness and Taoistic change,
it explains how a helper can break down the artificial barriers
that serve to separate people and hinder the helping process. As
the teachings of Zen demonstrate, real compassion involves a
selflessness and respect that can bring helper and helped together.
Ernest Marples revolutionised three UK government departments. At
Transport (1959-1964) he appointed Dr Beeching chairman of British
Railways and commissioned him to produce his infamous report,
inaugurated motorways and introduced significant regulations for
motorists. At Housing (1951-1954) he delivered 300,000 new houses
annually and as Postmaster General (1957-1959), he reformed Post
Office accounting systems and launched postcodes and Subscriber
Trunk Dialling. This first biography of Marples uses
newly-available archives to examine public and private transport
policy, the growing power of the pro-road lobby and the
identification of personal freedom with driving. Railway
sentimentalism was no match for these. Marples was lucky not to be
implicated in the Profumo Affair which rocked the Conservative
Party but his political career was over soon afterwards.
Questionable business practices caused his 1975 flight to Monaco
hotly pursued by the Inland Revenue. Beeching, unhappy under a
Labour government, returned to private industry although he later
chaired a Royal Commission. Labour, despite promises, proved little
friendlier to the railways but a more positive approach to
loss-making passenger services eventually emerged under Barbara
Castle. This book should appeal to those interested in Britain's
railways and in mid-Twentieth Century British politics.
Ghosts traditionally make their presence felt in many ways, from
unexplained footfalls and chills to odours and apparitions. This
fascinating volume takes a look at some of the strange and
unexplained hauntings across the length and breadth of Britain's
railway network: signals and messages sent from empty boxes; trains
that went into tunnels and never left; ghostly passengers and
spectral crew; the wires whizzing to signal the arrival of trains
on lines that have been closed for years... Based on hundreds of
first-person and historical accounts, Shadows in the Steam is a
unique collection of mysterious happenings, inexplicable events and
spine-chilling tales, all related to the railways. Compiled by
David Brandon and Alan Brooke, acknowledged experts on railways and
the supernatural, and including sections on the London Underground
and railway ghosts in literature and film, this book will delight
lovers of railways and spooky stories alike.
Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but
London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the
places where executions could and did occur. "London: The
Executioner's City" reveals the capital as a place where the bodies
of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles
greeted patrons on London Bridge. The ubiquity of crime and
punishment was taken for granted by countless generations of the
capital's inhabitants, though it seems to have done little to stem
the tide of criminality that has always threatened to engulf the
city. The book is a powerful evocation of the dark side of London's
history, where the great and not so good, the poor and helpless,
the cruel and the idealistic crowd together to be punished in
public. A king and more than one queen, heretics, archbishops,
pirates, poisoners, plotters, murderers, and a cook executed for
selling putrid fish met death by hanging, beheading, burning, or
boiling in London, and on most occasions the crowd roared its
approval.
The General Strike was one of the most significant events in
twentieth century Britain. The miners were locked out and the mass
of rank-and-file trade unionists then came out on strike in their
support. With their families and some middle-class sympathisers,
the miners and the labour and trade union movement found itself
pitched against the political establishment, the apparatus of the
state, the powerful mineowners backed by the Conservative
Government and most of the media of the time in what was the
sharpest form of class conflict short of political revolution. It
had always said that the British didn't do general strikes. In 1926
they certainly did! 2026 will mark the one-hundredth anniversary of
the General Strike and, under the very different economic, social
and political conditions of post-industrial, post-Brexit Britain,
it is worth revisiting and examining the complicated coming
together of factors which were eventually to lead to those
extraordinary days in May 1926 when the fate of the nation lay in
the balance. The author examines the economic, social and political
processes taking places from the mid-nineteenth century and argues
that this major confrontation between labour and capital was
probably inevitable. He examines particularly the symbiotic
relationship between the coal miners and the railway workers and
the troubled industrial relations in those industries. His informed
and lucid account should interest students of modern British
history, labour history and the fortunes of the railways in this
period.
Between 1835 and the 1850s, railway mania blossomed around Britain.
Crime emerged as the railways developed, at first opportunistic
crimes such as fare evasion and robberies, but gradually more
inventive forms evolved, notably the minor clerk Redpath in the
1850s, whose shameless cooking of the books to live the high life
exposed the lack of any kind of accountancy across the railway
industry. The first train murder was not until the 1840s, and
sparked great fear of foreigners as a German was charged and hanged
for the crime. The outcry resulted in the communication cord being
introduced to the railway carriages, so that no longer would they
exist as completely separate spaces and passengers could alert the
driver to any assault within. This fascinating history covers all
varieties of crime on the railways and how it has changed over the
years, from assaults and robberies, to theft of goods, murder,
vandalism, football and other crowd activity, suicide on the line,
fraud and white collar crime, and also looks at the use of railway
crime in film and literature.
An epic tale of battles and avenging the loss of great friends.
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Neverlake (DVD)
Joy Tanner, Lisa Ruth Andreozzi, David Brandon, Anna Dalton, Martin Kashirokov, …
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Eerie horror mystery. During a summer vacation visiting her father
(David Brandon) in Italy, Jenny (Daisy Keeping) unearths the
mystery of an ancient local legend known as the Neverlake, famous
for its supposed healing powers. Ignored by her academic father,
Jenny stumbles upon a group of neglected children living in an
orphanage that has the appearance of a run-down asylum. But as she
tries to help the abandoned children, Jenny uncovers horrible
secrets involving concealed medical experiments conducted on
numerous unknowing victims. As she learns more about the mysteries
hidden in the lake from her new friends, Jenny is tasked with
recovering ancient stolen artefacts, setting her on a direct
collision course with whoever is behind the experiments.
Even after her death, Margaret Thatcher has continued to excite
bitter controversy. Her supporters felt that she could do no wrong.
Many others condemned her policies as divisive and destructive.
Here it is argued that she was a pragmatic rather than a principled
politician, that she in fact performed innumerable u-turns, and
that she had more luck than she merited. Despite how some choose to
portray her now, opinion polls during her time indicated she was
one of the twentieth-century's most unpopular Prime Ministers and
in each election she fought as leader, more people voted against
the Tories, than for them. Eventually she was ditched by her own
Conservative Party, when they realised she had become an electoral
liability. Much that was wrong with the "broken Britain" that the
Con-Dem coalition talked about can be traced back to policies that
were initiated during the time that Margaret Thatcher was Prime
Minister. This book is an attempt to put the record straight.
Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that
secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single,
narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16.
From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in
education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as
a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of
English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should
extend only to the age of 14 and that there should be four distinct
pathways from 14-18 to take account of young people's emerging
interests talents and ambitions: Liberal Arts; Technical; Sports
and Creative Arts; and Career. All pathways will provide a broad
education, but each will have a distinctive character matched to
the talents and ambitions of individual students. In 14-18 - A New
Vision for Secondary Education, Kenneth Baker builds a compelling
case for reform, with contributions from a range of educationalists
who draw on the history of English education, practice elsewhere in
the world, and their experiences. An essential read for anyone
interested in the future of secondary education.
This book is a unique record of a journey along the beautiful and
often dramatic Yorkshire coastline, tracing the region's diverse
industry, the history of its settlements, seaside resorts and
fishing quays, and reflecting upon the different uses to which man
has put the resources where sea and land meet. The area's rich
variety of towns and landscape, its ancient fortifications and
modern harbours are all featured, but it is above all the unusual,
the hidden and the bizarre that this book reveals. Whether the
scene be dramatic or everyday, whether the site be well known or
unfrequented, Along the Yorkshire Coast offers a new perspective
that will surprise and delight both those familiar with the area
and the tourist or traveller just passing through. With a blend of
photographs, fact, folklore and social history, David Brandon
offers a fascinating and evocative look the county's local history,
and should capture the imagination of anyone who knows the places
that are featured.
Former Secretary of State for Education Kenneth Baker claims that
secondary education has become a five-year programme with a single,
narrow aim: to prepare pupils for high-stakes GCSE exams at 16.
From 2015, all young people will be legally required to stay in
education or training until they are 18. Kenneth Baker sees this as
a historic opportunity to re-think the aims and structure of
English education. He argues that the National Curriculum should
extend only to the age of 14 and that there should be four distinct
pathways from 14-18 to take account of young people's emerging
interests talents and ambitions: Liberal Arts; Technical; Sports
and Creative Arts; and Career. All pathways will provide a broad
education, but each will have a distinctive character matched to
the talents and ambitions of individual students. In 14-18 - A New
Vision for Secondary Education, Kenneth Baker builds a compelling
case for reform, with contributions from a range of educationalists
who draw on the history of English education, practice elsewhere in
the world, and their experiences. An essential read for anyone
interested in the future of secondary education.
The half-timbered buildings that cling to the steep streets and
narrow lanes of the city of Lincoln groan under the weight of
thousands of years of history. Atop this maze of courtyards and
alleyways, nooks and crannies stands the imposing Gothic outline of
the cathedral. Not surprisingly, this ancient city is rife with
tales of spectral spirits and ghastly ghouls. Even the more
workaday areas can boast haunted pubs, residences and mysterious
goings-on in the theatre. In this book the area immediately around
Lincoln itself is explored, with reports of dancing stones,
roadside apparitions and omens of death in deserted churchyards. An
in-depth introduction and a glossary of spooky terms is included to
guide the reader on their spine-tingling journey around Lincoln.
David Brandon is an expert on paranormal reports, and is the author
of numerous collections of ghost stories for the History Press.
This creepy collection of true-life tales takes the reader on a
tour of the streets, alehouses, cemeteries and city walls of
Chester the ancient city many claim is the most haunted in the
North. Drawing on contemporary and historical sources, it contains
many chilling accounts of spirits, spectres and poltergeists
including 'Sarah', who has been known to throw people who mock her
down the stairs, the strange tale of dreadful curse that struck the
Great Eastern in 1859 and the ghost who booked himself a room at
The Coachhouse. Containing more than sixty photographs by local
photographer Ed Brandon, this book will delight anyone with an
interest in the paranormal history of the area.
The relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Prime
Minister Harold Macmillan was a complex factor in the creation of
Anglo-American foreign policies in the early 1960's. Kennedy and
Macmillan offers a systematic account of this personal friendship
and questions the impact of the relationship, in and of itself, on
Cold War policymaking. Assessing the nature of this relationship
contributes to a greater understanding of Anglo-American relations,
and also provides a tool for understanding the complex nature of
international diplomacy during the Cold War. This behind-the-scenes
look at the decision-making process reveals the reality of the
statecraft and personal diplomacy during the Cold War.
This book contains all manner of grim and ancient punishments from
London's long and bloody history. Over the centuries, many hundreds
have expired inside the capital's dank, rat-infested cells, or
whilst 'dancing the Tyburn jig' at the end of a swinging rope, and
many of the sites in this book have become bywords for infamy. From
the Tower and Newgate prison to the Clink and the Fleet, this book
explores London's criminal heritage; also including the stocks and
pillories that lie, almost forgotten, in churchyards and squares
across the City, and the many shocking punishments exacted inside
the region's churches, workhouses and schools, it is a
heart-breaking survey of our nation's penal history. Richly
illustrated, and filled with victims and villains, nobles,
executioners and torturers, it will delight historians, residents
and visitors alike.
London's Underground is associated with a multitude of ghostly
stories and sightings. Particular stations and abandoned lines,
many of which are in close proximity to burial sites from centuries
ago, have given rise to unexplained events. This chilling book
reveals well-known and hitherto unpublished tales of spirits,
specters, and other spooky occurrences on one of the oldest railway
networks in the world. The stories of sightings include the ghost
of an actress regularly witnessed on Aldywch Station and the "Black
Nun" at Bank Station. Eerie noises, such as the cries of 13
year-old Anne Naylor, who was murdered in 1758 at Farringdon
Station, and the screams of children who were in an accident at
Bethnal Green Station during World War II, are still heard echoing
down the stations. These and many more ghostly accounts are
recorded in fascinating detail in this book, which is a must-read
for anyone interested in the mysterious and murky history of
London's Underground.
A pub with a deceased barmaid who simply refuses to leave, a Grey
Lady in the Theatre Royal; a poltergeist in the Garrick's Head pub;
a man in a black hat at the Assembly Rooms. Bath is one of the few
British cities which may justifiably be called beautiful. It is
also one of the most haunted of British cities. Bath is an ancient
place and, at the height of its fashionable popularity in the
eighteenth century, it was almost the country's alternative capital
and the scene of social intrigues and skulduggery of the sort that
its ghosts seem to reflect. Even the Circus, regarded as the
epitome of the classical in domestic architecture, has a ghostly
young lady who sings. This book combines a love and appreciation of
Bath with the recounting of tales about its best-known ghosts.
David has also researched local archives to find less familiar
phantoms, spooks and spectres.
London: City of the Dead is a groundbreaking account of London's
dealing with death, covering the afterlife, execution,
bodysnatching, murder, fatal disease, spiritualism, bizarre deaths
and cemeteries. Taking the reader from Roman London to the
'glorious dead' of the First World War, this is the first
systematic look at London's culture of death, with analysis of its
customs and superstitions, rituals and representations. The authors
of the celebrated London: The Executioner's City (Sutton, 2006)
weave their way through the streets of London once again, this time
combining some of the capital's most curious features, such as
London's Necropolis Railway and Brookwood Cemetery, with the
culture of death exposed in the works of great writers such as
Dickens. The book captures for the first time a side of the city
that has always been every bit as fascinating and colourful as
other better known aspects of the metropolis. It shows London in
all its moods - serious, comic, tragic and heroic-and celebrates
its robust acceptance of the only certainty in life.
Tyburn Fields is the best known site of execution in London, but
London may be aptly named the executioner's city, so many were the
places where executions could and did occur. "London - The
Executioner's City" reveals the capital as a place where the bodies
of criminals defined the boundaries of the city and heads on poles
greeted patrons on London Bridge. The ubiquity of crime and
punishment was taken for granted by countless generations of the
capital's inhabitants, though it seems to have done little to stem
the tide of criminality that has always threatened to engulf the
city. The book is a powerful evocation of the dark side of London's
history, where the great and not so good, the poor and helpless,
the cruel and the idealistic crowd together to be punished in
public. A King and more than one Queen, heretics, archbishops,
pirates, poisoners, plotters, murderers and a cook executed for
selling putrid fish met death by hanging, beheading, burning or
boiling in London, and on most occasions the crowd roared its
approval. David Brandon and Alan Brooke's book is a vivid picture
of capital punishment in a capital that seems to have thrived on
executions.
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