British Biography
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Author |
: Paul Hayward |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2022-10-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781471184369 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1471184366 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis England Football: The Biography by : Paul Hayward
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE ‘The greatest story in English sport told beautifully by one of its greatest writers’ Gary Lineker 'A spellbinding piece of work' Oliver Holt; 'Absolute tour de force' Henry Winter Award-winning writer Paul Hayward delivers a compelling and unmissable account of the story of the England men's football team, published as they prepare for the World Cup in Qatar. On 30 November 1872, England took on Scotland at Hamilton Crescent in Glasgow, a match that is regarded as the first international fixture. More than 5,000 fans watched the two sides play out a 0-0 draw. It was the first of more than a thousand games played by the side, and the beginning of a national love affair that unites the country in a way that few other events can match. In Hayward's brilliant new biography of the team, based on interviews with dozens of past and present players and coaches, including Viv Anderson, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and current coach Gareth Southgate, we get a vivid portrait of all aspects of the team's story, reliving highlights such as the World Cup victory in 1966 and the time when football came home in Euro 96, as well as the low points when the players were obliged to give the Nazi salute in 1938 and the era when England's hooligan fans brought shame on the nation. From Stanley Matthews and Bobby Moore through to more modern heroes such as Paul Gascoigne, David Beckham, Wayne Rooney and Harry Kane, Hayward brings a large cast of characters to life. For anyone who wants to understand England football, and why it means so much to so many, England Football: The Biography is an essential and vital read.
Author |
: Joseph Towers |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 566 |
Release |
: 1766 |
ISBN-10 |
: NYPL:33433067285449 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis British Biography by : Joseph Towers
Author |
: Peter France |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2004-09-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0197263186 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780197263181 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mapping Lives by : Peter France
These essays on the problems and functions of biography - particularly those of writers, thinkers and artists - investigate a subject of enduring importance for those interested in culture.
Author |
: Edmund Lodge |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 466 |
Release |
: 1791 |
ISBN-10 |
: BSB:BSB10225241 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Illustrations Of British History, Biography, And Manners by : Edmund Lodge
Author |
: David Sinclair |
Publisher |
: Vintage |
Total Pages |
: 312 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105025120747 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Pound by : David Sinclair
Partial table of contents: Pounds, shillings and pence; Coins of the realm; Danegeld to Domesday; Taxing times; Toil and trouble; The good, the bad and the ugly; Money makes the world go round; Bankers' hours; The people's pound; Sterling work; The last days of the Pound?
Author |
: Carl Rollyson |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2005-07-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781469721484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1469721481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis British Biography by : Carl Rollyson
Biography as a literary genre is largely the product of the eighteenth century and of one seminal work, James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson (1791). Boswell's innovations revolutionized the genre and made it the target of suppression and censorship. He sought not only to memorialize a great man but also to reveal his flaws. Boswell reported long stretches of Johnson's conversation, noted his mannerisms, and in general gave an intimate picture such as no biography had ever before dared to attempt. After Boswell, there was a retreat from his bolder innovations, which amounted to self-censorship on the biographer's part. When Thomas Carlyle's biographer, James Anthony Froude, braved this trend against truth and allowed his subject's dark side to show, he was vilified in the press. The tensions between discretion and candor have endured in British biography since Froude, a point Carl Rollyson makes in the reviews of contemporary British biographers he includes in British Biography, which also contains Johnson's full-length biography of Richard Savage, excerpts from Boswell's Life of Johnson as well selections from and commentaries on Southey's biography of Nelson, Mrs. Gaskell's biography of Charlotte Bront, and the revolutionary work of Froude and Strachey.
Author |
: Richmal Mangnall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 188 |
Release |
: 1858 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V000633383 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Historical and Miscellaneous Questions ... With a Selection of British and General Biography by : Richmal Mangnall
Author |
: Edmund Lodge |
Publisher |
: BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages |
: 474 |
Release |
: 2024-09-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783385572645 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3385572649 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Illustrations of British History, Biography, and Manners, in the Reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary, Elizabeth, & James I, Exhibited in a Series of Original Papers by : Edmund Lodge
Reprint of the original, first published in 1838.
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: |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1773 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:30369299 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis British Biography; Or, An Accurate and Impartial Account of the Lives and Writings of Eminent Persons by :
Author |
: Charles Frederick Partington |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 1046 |
Release |
: 1838 |
ISBN-10 |
: WISC:89097340475 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The British Cyclopedia of Biography: Containing the Lives of Distinguished Men of All Ages and Countries, with Portraits, Residences, Autographs, and Monuments by : Charles Frederick Partington