Product Description: This monograph will be the first to deal with the growth of cinema-going in Scotland in an extended scholarly manner, integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers...read more

Product Description: This monograph will be the first to deal with the growth of cinema-going in Scotland in an extended scholarly manner, integrating the study of cinema into wider debates in social and economic history. The author draws extensively on archival resources concerning the cinema as a business, on documentation kept by cinema managers, and on the diaries and recollections of cinema-goers...read more

This volume explores the experience of everyday life in Scotland over two centuries characterised by political, religious and intellectual change and ferment. It shows how the extraordinary impinged on the ordinary and reveals people's anxieties, joys, comforts, passions, hopes and fears. It also aims to provide a measure of how the impact of change varied from place to place.The authors draw on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, including the material survivals of daily life in town and country, and on the history of government, religion, ideas, painting, literature, and architecture. As B. S. Gregory has put it, everyday history is 'an endeavour that seeks to identify and integrate everything - all relevant material, social, political, and cultural data - that permits the fullest possible reconstruction of ordinary life experiences in all their varied complexity, as they are formed and transformed.'

Product Description: Plays in Two: Oi for England | Real Dreams | Piano | The Gulf between Us | Thatcher's Children | Who shall be Happy ... ? | Camel Station Trevor Griffiths was born and educated in Manchester and has been writing for theatre, television and cinema since the late 1960s...read more

Product Description: Plays in Two: Oi for England | Real Dreams | Piano | The Gulf between Us | Thatcher's Children | Who shall be Happy ... ? | Camel Station Trevor Griffiths was born and educated in Manchester and has been writing for theatre, television and cinema since the late 1960s...read more

Product Description: Announcing a new series of Drama Classic Collections.

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Product Description: Book by Griffiths, Trevor

Product Description: Book by Griffiths, Trevor

Product Description: These plays are set at turning points in history. The first play is set at the height of the Great Terror in 1794, on the eve of the execution of Danton while the second follows the lives of seven young people from their primary school days in the 1970s to the turn of the 21st century...read more

Provides historical background and detailed cultivation information for six hundred varieties of old roses

Uses the turn of the century Russian countryside portrayed by Chekhov to offer indirect observations on modern life and times

Shows and describes popular varieties of roses including Gallicas, Damasks, Mosses, Portlands, Chinas, teas, climbers, rambles, and English roses

Product Description: Book by Griffiths, Trevor, Pikser, Jeremy

Product Description: 'The setting is a schoolroom near Manchester where an evening class of budding comics congregate for a final briefing from their tutor before facing an agent's man from London. Telling jokes for money offers an escape from the building site or the milk round...read more

Dramatizes the fatal differences between Captain Scott's poorly planned expedition to the South Pole and Roald Amundsen's successful Norwegian expedition

Identifies hundreds of damask, tea, and hybrid roses and provides information on rose propagation, cultivation, and planting