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Miss Tuxford's Modern Cookery for the Middle Classes
GoodreadsCook books for the middle classes were becoming the norm during the mid twentieth century, here is a classic of the type, full of delightful recipes designed to look, smell and taste fantastic but do all of these things on a small budget.
Traditional Fare Of England And Wales
The National Federation of Women's Institutes
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Patricia Winnington
1948
Traditional Fare of England and Wales is a collection of traditional English and Welsh recipes compiled by the National Federation of Women’s Institutes and first published in 1948. With illustrations by Patricia Winnington and a foreword by the Countess of Albemarle, the book records historic and regional dishes while adapting them for preparation in the modern kitchen. Its recipes range from everyday savoury dishes and drinks to older specialities, including chicken pie, rabbit fricassee, herb beer, blackcurrant cordial and almond posset. More than a practical cookbook, it offers a snapshot of British domestic food traditions in the mid-twentieth century and preserves recipes and culinary customs that were already regarded as part of the country’s heritage.
The Chinese in Britain
Google Books
Barclay Price
publishing house:
Amberley Publishing
2019
Today over 400,000 Chinese live in Britain, many more attend British universities, and an increasing number visit Britain on business and as tourists. But until now, there has been no comprehensive history of the Chinese who came to the country. This book tells that story, from the first recorded visitor in 1687 through to the twentieth century, drawing on accounts by visiting Chinese, newspaper articles, memoirs, royal diaries and other contemporary sources. The book encompasses, among much else, the sailors who worked on British ships and briefly lodged in the country between voyages; the emergence of Chinatowns in London and Liverpool; servants; students; links to missionaries; Chinese entertainers; exhibitions relating to China; Chinese envoys and ambassadors; and British royalty's engagement with visiting Chinese. The book also includes extended biographies of some of the most significant Chinese to settle in Britain, including the first such immigrant, who has been overlooked in the historical record. The author also deals with the suspicion and prejudice that the Chinese have historically experienced due to their different physical appearance, dress and culture. At the same time, he shows the beneficial impacts Chinese visitors have had on British cultural life over three centuries. As China becomes a pre-eminent world power again in the twenty-first century, this book uncovers our long relationship with the country and its people.
The Red Pearls Of Borneo
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Bushmonkey Games
other title:
婆罗洲的红珍珠
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The Red Pearls of Borneo - Chinese fan translation
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2026
genre:
Adventure
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Indie
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platform:
Windows
publisher:
Bushmonkey Games
A Colonial Noir Mystery The Red Pearls of Borneo is an atmospheric deduction game inspired by Return of the Obra Dinn , The Case of the Golden Idol and Type Help . You are a clairvoyant investigator in 1948 London, exploring the psychic echoes of a tragedy that occurred seven years prior on a remote plantation in Borneo.
Your tools are simple: a box of old photographs, a map of the plantation and your unique ability to step into the past.
London, 1948
Jeremiah Goodwill's tobacco plantation was supposed to be a paradise. But on the night of December 16th, 1941, as the Japanese Imperial Navy loomed on the horizon, the estate fell into chaos.
Sort through the lies. Reveal the faces of the strangers. Discover what truly happened in the Goodwill plantation that fateful night.
Key Features:
Echoes of the Past: Explore a non-linear timeline. Jump between witness perspectives and moments in time to uncover motives, secret meetings and fatal mistakes.
The "Mind's Eye": Use a unique node-based deduction system to visualise the movement of guests across the island. Connect the dots to prove who was where, and when.
Make notes of everything everywhere: You can keep notes on all aspects of the game. From characters and locations to items and snippets of text from clues.
Learn about the rarely told history of Borneo on the eve of WW2 through the interactive glossary you will unlock as you go.
Can you piece together the truth before the memories fade? Identify the guests, determine their fates and solve the mystery of the Red Pearls!
The Buddha of Suburbia
DoubanHanif Kureishi's first novel, is a tour de force of comic invention, a bizarre, often hilarious, and totally original picture of the life of a young Pakistani growing up in 1970s Britain.
Karim lives with his Mum and Dad in a suburb of south London and dreams of making his escape to the bright lights of the big city. But his father is no ordinary Dad, he is 'the buddha of suburbia', a strange and compelling figure whose powers of meditation hold a circle of would-be mystics spellbound with the fascinations of the East.
Among his disciples is the glamorous and ambitious Eva, and when 'the buddha of suburbia' runs off with her to a crumbling flat in Barons Court, Karim's life becomes changed in ways that even he had never dreamed of . . .
Cockney Rebels
本书是Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives特展相关。
From ‘The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green’ to ‘Bonkers’, the people of London’s East End have always appreciated a good tune.
Our unique history, shaped by its connection to the river as a source of inspiration, work, and migration, has produced an extraordinary musical legacy, spanning everything from folk songs and sea shanties to music hall, jazz, punk, the Asian underground and grime.
Description from Brick Lane Bookstore: https://bricklanebookshop.org/product/cockney-rebels-popular-music-in-tower-hamlets-1624-2003/
The first section takes a deep dive into the roots of popular music in the East End, from folk songs and sea shanties to the Victorian music halls and pub singalongs. The second explores the influence of migration and American popular culture in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including klezmer, jazz, swing, and calypso. Moving forward, the third focuses on the rock & roll years from the 1950s to the mid-1970s, taking in pop, mod, psychedelia, glam rock and more. The final section covers everything from punk, disco, soul, and reggae in the late-70s, through post-punk, goth, dance, Britpop, and Asian underground to the early grime scene at the turn of the millennium.
Famous names such as Lionel Bart, Helen Shapiro, Small Faces, Fleetwood Mac, Billy Ocean, and Dizzee Rascal are showcased alongside lesser-known but impactful artists like Max Bacon, Stepney Sisters, Bow Gamelan Ensemble, and Joi Bangla Banned.
Bloody Foreigners
Douban
Robert Winder
publishing house:
Abacus
2005
- 4
Immigration is one of the most important stories of modern British life, yet it has been happening since Caesar first landed in 53 BC. Ever since the first Roman, Saxon, Jute and Dane leaped off a boat we have been a mongrel nation. Our roots are a tangled web. From Huguenot weavers fleeing French Catholic persecution in the 18th century to South African dentists to Indian shopkeepers; from Jews in York in the 12th century (who had to wear a yellow star to distinguish them and who were shamefully expelled by Edward I in 1272) to the Jamaican who came on board the Windrush in 1947. The first Indian MP was elected in 1892, Walter Tull, the first black football player played (for Spurs and Northampton) before WW1 (and died heroically fighting for the allies in the last months of the war); in 1768 there were 20,000 black people in London (out of a population of 600,000 - a similar percentage to today). The 19th century brought huge numbers of Italians, Irish, Jews (from Russia and Poland mainly), Germans and Poles. This book draws all their stories together in a compelling narrative.
Northumberland, King's England
Goodreads
Arthur Mee
publishing house:
Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
1974
- 1
This hardcover book is bound in blue binding and has a blue with black and white writing jacket cover. It is in close to new condition, the only thing marking it is a sticker that is behind the jacket flap that lists the previous owners information. There are no marks on either the jacket or book itself it appears to be unread.
The Fall of Northern Rock: An Insider's Story of Britain's Biggest Banking Disaster
Goodreads
Brian Walters
publishing house:
Harriman House Pub
2008
- 5
Some of the most memorable images of 2007 - if not of the decade - are those of people queuing outside branches of Northern Rock to withdraw their money. They are images from another age, or from another country, surely this could not have happened in the UK in the twenty-first century! But this is not how Brian Walters - author of 'The Fall of Northern Rock' - remembers the bank. He, and likely many other employees, remember it as a good place to work, and is proud of its success and its role as the largest private sector employer in the north-east of England. This book is his inside story of the rise of Northern Rock, becoming one of the most respected and envied financial institutions in the UK, and its subsequent spectacular collapse. The book tells of his personal experiences at Northern Rock before, during and after the crisis, and comments on the events that unfolded around him and what impact they had on the business and the people within it. This first-hand account also explores the causes of the crisis and whether it could have been avoided. 'The Fall of Northern Rock' is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the story behind the first run on a British bank since 1866.
Broken Heartlands: A Journey Through Labour's Lost England
Goodreads
Sebastian Payne
publishing house:
Macmillan UK
2021
- 12
Broken Heartlands is a political road trip through ten constituencies that tell the story of Labour's 'red wall', from Sebastian Payne an award-winning journalist for the Financial Times.
The red wall formed the foundation of Labour's vote in the Midlands and the North of England but these places backed Brexit and then dramatically turned Conservative for the first time in living memory at the 2019 election, redrawing the electoral map in the process.
Originally from the North-East himself, Payne set out to uncover the story of the red wall and issues that turned the seats blue. While Brexit and the unpopularity of opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn are factors, there is a more nuanced story explored in Broken Heartlands of how these northern communities have fared through generational shifts, struggling public services, deindustrialisation, and the changing nature of work. Featuring interviews with people from the red wall and the viewpoints of major political figures from both parties, Payne explores the role these social and economic forces, decades in the making, have played in upheaving the political landscape.
A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs
Joseph Crawhall
publishing house:
Harold Hill
1964
A Beuk o' Newcassell Sangs is a pictorial book giving details of local songs, including the lyrics and in many cases, the music, and all beautifully illustrated with the author's own woodcuts. It was published in 1888. It was reprinted in 1965 by Harold Hill, Newcastle upon Tyne.
Generation Rent
Goodreads
Chloe Timperley
publishing house:
Canbury Press
2020
- 7
Generation Rent can study hard and win at work and still be locked out of Britain's dysfunctional housing market. In this razor-sharp account, Chloe Timperley tackles the myths and mysteries of our runaway house prices and private rental accommodation. She reveals who’s being exploited, who’s being greedy, and the practical steps we need to take to restore justice and decency.
The Shakedown feat. The 22archestra
Douban
Tenderlonious
genre:
Jazz
release date 2018-06-15
publisher:
22A
'The Shakedown' is the debut album from Tenderlonious and features a new band - the dream team of top talent he named the 22archestra, who he leads seamlessly throughout. Listeners are exposed to the full breadth of Tender's technical and compositional skills, ranging from subtly meandering jazz, to hip-hop, afrobeat, latin and exhilarating free form jazz.
'SV Disco,' a nod to the mighty Slum Village, is a chunk of sensually-contorted disco vibes that brings on full party mode instantaneously, with the slinky bass licks and pitch-bent synthesiser recalling Roy Ayres’s blissed-out funk, blended with flute flurries reminiscent of mind Max Cilla’s La Flûte des Mornes.
'Maria' showcases Ed’s roots as sample-based producer, pulling influence from around the globe to create an undulating piece of flute-led Brazilian fusion that fans of Ruby Rushton will find familiar. The eastern-inspired embellishments raise the temperature further, whilst former Yussef Kamaal member Yussef Dayes’ sizzling cymbals and shuffling snare work propel the track onwards, locking down a signature 22a groove.
Latin and African influence can be heard across many of the tracks. 'Togo' is a smokey afrobeat jam that leaves space for Tenderlonious’ flute to soar above, his playing mimicking old school styles you might catch from MF Doom or J Dilla.
'Yussef’s Groove' kicks off with driving drums, and each of the 22archestra enter steadily, fully utilising their virtuosic power, switching between low-slung bass, chic open piano solos and hazy electric piano.
'The Shakedown' exercises more restraint, with Bitches Brew style ambience providing a palpable sense of anticipation and passion, whilst still retaining that stomping, low-riding 70s swing they do so well.
The 22archestra was conceived after Tenderlonious was invited to record at Abbey Road Studios. The whole crew was rounded-up and the album was recorded during a single 8 hour session – a testament to their musicianship and ability to nail a take, which has been honed on stage.
泰恩河上的黄龙旗
Douban
张黎源
publishing house:
生活·读书·新知三联书店
2020
- 8
阿姆斯特朗公司位于英格兰北部的纽卡斯尔市的泰恩河畔，晚晴时期，它是世界著名的军舰制造商，也是清朝中国海军军舰重要的设计、制造厂家，这些战舰中包括了在甲午海战中不幸沉没的著名的“致远”号。
除了利用丰富的常见史料外，本书还大量发掘了保存于英国各机构的档案，以当年引进的各型号军舰为经，以清朝中国各级机构和官员的相关活动为纬，详细叙述了购自阿姆斯特朗公司的数十条军舰，从如何询价、设计、定型、制造到如何接引回国以及战舰的服役、战斗经过和最终结局的历史过程，对了解清朝中国海军建设及其在世界上的位置、清朝军事现代化思路和实践、清朝官僚体制的运行状况等都有非常重要的价值。本书配发的包括各种型号舰船设计图、剖面图在内的三百余幅精美插图和历史照片，极为珍贵。
To Struggle Is to Live: A Working Class Autobiography Volume Two Starve or Rebel 1927-1971
Goodreads
publishing house:
People's Publications
1980
- 1
The Trading Game: A Confession
Goodreads Skybridge
publishing house:
Crown Currency
2024
- 3
A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up—a Liar’s Poker for a new generation
“If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?”
Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. And he was good at numbers.
At the London School of Economics, Gary, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you’d ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies, yet they start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bank’s most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day . Soon you are dreaming of numbers in your sleep—and then you stop sleeping at all.
What happens when winning starts to feel like losing? It’s 2008 and now you have a front-row seat to the global financial crisis. A time when the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer—like the very people you grew up with. The economy is slipping off a precipice, and your own sanity starts slipping with it. You want to stop, but you can’t. Because nobody ever leaves .
Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?
This is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world—from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.
The Road to Wigan Pier
Douban
[英] 乔治·奥威尔
publishing house:
Penguin Classics
2001
- 4
A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire in the 1930s, "The Road to Wigan Pier" is a brilliant and bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time. His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice, cramped slum housing, dangerous mining conditions, squalor, hunger and growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty, fury and great humanity. It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works and novels, and remains a powerful portrait of poverty, injustice and class divisions in Britain.