Why did charity become the outlet for global compassion? Charity After Empire traces the history of humanitarian agencies such as Oxfam, Save the Children and Christian Aid. It shows how they obtained a permanent presence in the alleviation of global poverty, why they were supported by the public and how they were embraced by governments in Britain and across Africa. Through several fascinating life stories and illuminating case studies across the UK and in countries such as Botswana, Zimb...

Heavy Waters was born out of a desire to throw myself back into the dark time out of which people of my generation were born to half-crazed survivors of armed conflict. It calls up the sea the liquid that surrounds us and the Bomb, the weapon that still threatens us. My method? To sink thru layers of archive, literature of all sorts, memoirs, chronologies, boy's action stories, flash comics, technical manuals and land as lightly on the page as possible

Tap once if Human is a speculative fiction set in a near European future. CereBrose, a data company, has a project to manipulate criminal enterprise in order to re-channel its profits back into tax susceptible channels. Raj, a young security screen monitor has just broken up with Helen, a professional ice-dancer, when he joins the project thanks to Penny a scientist with CereBrose. I wrote this ebook from my interest in exploring that funny frontier in the mind where you reach for somethin...

As a young man with a family to keep I did time in the Fire Service. I'm glad I did. Reaching one hundred per cent physical limits and seeing the things I did has given me a level to measure later happenings in my life. At the end of the Muslim religious fast of Ramadan during the night of 13/14 June 2017, a blaze took hold of a twenty three storey block called Grenfell Tower in Notting Dale, West London. The block was social housing, home for people from many troubled countries. Grenfell ...

My father Roger Hilton was an English gentleman ranker in 6 Troop 3 Commando and was captured during the exploit at the Berneval gun site, part of the Dieppe Raid in 1942. He later became a leading British exponent of modern art, representing his country at the Venice Biennale and being made CBE. A collection of the letters he wrote as a POW came into my hands. Beneath the cheeriness the letters show how an out of the common man wrestles with the common misfortune of being a prisoner of wa...

What colour was the smoke is an ebook - a text documentary - about a fire in a public housing block, Grenfell Tower, that killed seventy two people in June 2017 in West London.As a young man with a family to keep I did time in the Fire Service. I'm glad I did. Finding out 100% effort limits, seeing some of the things I did has given me a standard to set things against.Grenfell Tower was built in the neighbourhood I grew up in. Seeing those streets, those people, I was trans...

If you are lucky enough to have been alive on November 22 1963 you will remember what you were doing when you heard the news that the President of the United States, John F. Kennedy, had been assassinated. Johny Lightfoot was picking glass out of a ballerina's foot.Using scientifico politico moments from the story of the British Independent Nuclear Deterrent and the opposition to it, Johny uncovers his life. He crosses other players: Edward Heath - a Prime Minister, Tommy Cooper - a comedi...

"What colour was the smoke?" is a text documentary about the fire in a public housing block, Grenfell Tower, that killed seventy two people in June 2017 in West London. The Government ordered an Inquiry under a Judge. The author followed the Inquiry for six months and uses the actual language of the firefighters, scientists and other professionals at the scene that night and above all the words of the bereaved, survivors and residents to present a condensation of the tragedy.

This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, encouraged a lively dialogue between these different disciplines. The book offers innovative views and perspectives on key debates and emphasises the connections between economic environments and wider social and cultural elements. It al...

Hiltons is located in the southwest corner of Virginia and was named for the Reverend Samuel Hilton, who moved to the region from North Carolina in 1795. In the 1880s, Hiltons became a vital link for goods being transported both to and from the region when the railroad was constructed from Bristol to Appalachia. U.S. Highway 58 winds through Hiltons to Virginia Beach, providing many miles of scenic travel on what was, for many years, an important transportation route. The Hiltons area is b...

Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other sustainability crises—is being driven by local, people’s, women’s, and grassroots movements around th...

The environment that we construct affects both humans and our natural world in myriad ways. There is a pressing need to create healthy places and to reduce the health threats inherent in places already built. However, there has been little awareness of the adverse effects of what we have constructed-or the positive benefits of well designed built environments.This book provides a far-reaching follow-up to the pathbreaking Urban Sprawl and Public Health, published in 2004. That book...