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The illustrated story of Eric and Ernie's early years as variety
entertainers, and the first ever biography to reveal how they
became Britain's best loved comedy double act. Eric Morecambe &
Ernie Wise were Britain's greatest ever double act, but there's
never been a book which really revealed the era that made them such
a special part of our national culture. Until now. Although they
ended up on TV, they started out in variety, and their
record-breaking Christmas shows were a secret homage to that
forgotten world. For a quarter of a century, from the early Forties
until the late Sixties, they were a live act first and foremost,
playing pantomime and summer season, variety theatres and seaside
piers. 'You're making us look like a cheap music hall act,' Ernie
used to complain, in mock protest. 'Well, we are a cheap music hall
act,' Eric would reply. Morecambe and Wise Untold is a book about
Eric and Ernie's live years. What was it really like, that lost
world which they came from? How did it shape them? What were the
other acts like? And the theatres? And the shows? Why did they
survive, while so many other variety acts vanished? This is the
story of the spit and sawdust places where they served their
showbiz apprenticeship, told through the reminiscences of the
people they met along the way. Morecambe and Wise Untold contains
brand new interviews with Ken Dodd and Bruce Forsyth (who worked
with Eric and Ernie in Variety) plus Michael Grade, Ernest Maxin
and John Ammonds, who got to know them as a live act, and went on
to mastermind their phenomenally successful TV shows. There are
interviews with Gail and Gary Morecambe (Eric's children), Joan
Morecambe (Eric's widow) and a rare and revealing interview with
Doreen Wise - the first time that Ernie's widow has ever been
interviewed for a book about Morecambe & Wise. The text is
accompanied by a wealth of rare and previously unseen photos by
Gary Morecambe from his father's family archive and from the
collections of friends, fellow performers and fans who captured the
emerging story of a legendary showbiz partnership in the making.
The Enthusiast tells the story of a character type that was
developed in early modern Britain to discredit radical prophets
during an era that witnessed the dismantling of the Church of
England's traditional means for punishing heresy. As William Cook
Miller shows, the caricature of fanaticism here called the
Enthusiast began as propaganda against religious dissenters,
especially working-class upstarts, but was adopted by a range of
writers as a literary vehicle for exploring profound problems of
spirit, soul, and body and as a persona for the ironic expression
of their own prophetic illuminations. Taking shape through the
public and private writings of some of the most insightful authors
of seventeenth-century Britain—Henry More, John Locke, the Third
Earl of Shaftesbury, Mary Astell, and Jonathan Swift, among
others—the Enthusiast appeared in various guises and literary
modes. By attending to this literary being and its animators, The
Enthusiast establishes the figure of the fanatic as a bridge
between the Reformation and the Enlightenment, showing how an
incipient secular modernity was informed by not the rejection of
religion but the transformation of the prophet into something
sparkling, witty, ironic, and new.
This title offers professional techniques to bring your furniture
back to life. It features clear step-by-step instructions for
everyday restoration tasks, such as polishing, staining, waxing,
graining, gilding, veneering, and marquetry and parquetry repairs.
It contains expert advice on essential tools, equipment and
materials, from saws, hammers, screwdrivers, clamps and chisels to
veneers, polishes, gilts, leather and locks. Projects include
removing a blister, raising a dent, disguising a scratch, cleaning
marble, reviving leather, laying veneer sheets, and restoring a
damaged edge. This book is an essential guide to basic and advanced
restoration techniques for antique surfaces. A section on tools and
equipment includes directories of all the materials you need for
successful home furniture repair. Projects include removing a
watermark, releathering a top, reviving a polished surface,
cleaning metal, French polishing, waxing a carved surface,
replacing bandings, and repairing rosewood pole screens. With its
detailed overview and professional guidance illustrated by more
than 400 photographs, this book will enable any budding restorer to
develop a true understanding of a range of furniture surfaces and
how to repair them.
How to repair loose joints, broken chair legs and damaged finishes:
this comprehensive book is an essential guide to repairing and
conserving your furniture. There is expert information on
specialist skills such as turning, carving, upholstery, graining,
gilding, marquetry and parquetry, as well as a directory of tools,
materials and equipment. Clear step-by-step techniques show how to
deal with common problems such as scratches, dents, warps, splits
and watermarks, and the main types of furniture are considered in
turn, such as tables, chests, cabinets and chairs. Seven in-depth
projects put the individual techniques into context, including
repairing an 18th-century carved chair and restoring a badly
fire-damaged Regency table.
This is a completely original and beautifully designed book on Eric
Morecambe, one of the UK's best-loved entertainers. Containing
diary entries, unseen photographs and personal letters, this is the
most revealing book yet on Morecambe. Posthumously voted 'Comedian
of the Century' in 1999 and reaching number 4 in the recent
'Comedian's Comedian Top 50' on Channel 4, Eric Morecambe remains
one of Britain's greatest and best-loved comedians. But even at the
height of his success, Eric Morecambe feared his days were numbered
as one half of Britain's best-loved comedy duo. It was a dread that
had afflicted his whole career, according to his taped diaries,
which emerged for the first time at the end of 2004 on the Channel
4 documentary, 'The Unseen Eric Morecambe'. The programme was
praised both by critics and the general public and it served to
renew interest in Morecambe's career and in the man himself.
Containing 15,000 words of unseen diary entries, 200 unseen
pictures, jokes and sketches, and letters to both Ernie and Eric
himself, everything in this book is 100% personal and original,
offering an exclusive insight into a comedic genius who was plagued
with self-doubt. Even through his fear and uncertainty, Eric's
inimitable humour shines through his diaries, joke books and
personal archives. 'The Unseen Eric Morecambe' radiates with the
gentle comedy genius that permeates his on-screen appearances,
allowing an insight into Eric Morecambe that is both comfortingly
familiar and revelatory. For the many fans of Eric Morecambe this
book offers new insights while the stylish, integrated design makes
this handsome book an ideal gift purchase.
This title presents professional techniques to bring your furniture
back to life. It offers complete instructions for dismantling and
rebuilding chests, polishing, waxing and staining, how to repair
tops and feet, and how to rebuild drawers and doors. It includes a
fascinating history describing how chests and cabinets have evolved
over time, as well as advice on buying and using tools, equipment
and materials. Projects include repairing a split top, replacing a
bracket foot, repairing a glazed door, correcting a minor twist,
restoring desk drawers, and repairing a grandfather clock. Chests
and cabinets often endure a hard life, and over the years the
working parts can be damaged through wear and tear. This book
provides complete instructions for repairing chests, drawers, doors
and desks, all photographed at a leading antique restoration
workshop. Projects include replacing drawer runners, cutting a
dovetail joint, repairing a sliding tambour, refitting a door, and
polishing a 19th-century desk. Detailed information is given on how
each piece of furniture is constructed, and how it can be
dismantled and reassembled. Illustrated with over 400 beautiful
photographs, the book will enable any restorer to learn how to mend
antique furniture.
This book includes professional techniques to bring your furniture
back to life. It is an essential guide to basic and advanced
restoration techniques for antique tables. It features step-by-step
instructions for everyday restoration tasks, including repairing a
damaged table leg, mending the base and frame, and dismantling and
reassembling tables. It explains how tables from different periods
are made, and how to take them apart and put them back together. It
includes expert advice on buying, using and caring for tools,
equipment and materials. It covers projects that include correcting
a warped card table, restoring a drop-leaf table, repairing a badly
fire-damaged sofa table, and mending a split pedestal table. It
contains more than 400 photographs, with close-ups of techniques
and tools, and before-and-after shots. Tables come in a variety of
styles, and although they are usually fairly robust, they will
eventually need repairing. This book is a practical guide to
restoration techniques for antique tables. It describes how tables
from different periods were made, and includes a comprehensive
section on the tools and equipment needed for home repair jobs.
Projects include waxing a table, carving a damaged bracket, and
repairing fretwork. With its historical overview and professional
guidance, and illustrated by more than 400 photographs, the book
will enable novice restorers to develop a better understanding of
antique tables, and how to repair and restore them.
Soon after Daniel O'Connell's death, Taylor published (as 'A
Munster Farmer') this short account of the Liberator's life,
drawing on his personal memories and on articles he had written for
the Athenaeum in the 1840s. It includes eyewitness accounts of
O'Connell's appearance as he walked through the streets of Dublin.
Taylor shows personal sympathy for O'Connell as the leader of
oppressed people, but he also sees his talents as distorted by the
experience of oppression and by a conservative upbringing, and
claims that his abusive and truculent oratory did as much to retard
Catholic Emancipation as his tactical leadership did to advance it.
This edition also includes a review article by Taylor in the
Athenaeum of books including Carleton's Famine novel, The Black
Prophet, and a long article on 'Repeal Songs of Munster',
considering O'Connellite street-ballads as a study in human folly.
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Essays; (Hardcover)
Francis 1561-1626 Bacon; Created by W C (William Cooke) 1800-1 Taylor
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Essays; (Paperback)
Francis 1561-1626 Bacon; Created by W C (William Cooke) 1800-1 Taylor
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