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The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
Newcomers' Lives
The Story of Immigrants as Told in Obituaries from The Times
Description
To mention the names Ernst Gombrich, Nikolaus Pevsner, Joseph Conrad, Nancy Astor, C.L.R. James and Lucian Freud is to give but a brief glimpse of the impact immigrants to this country have made on our national culture and character.
Indeed, these people have been crucial to the development of recent British history and have been indispensable for the way we live now. By reproducing the Times obituaries of over one hundred of the most important of these, the reader is given a unique view of their contribution and it is clear how their contribution has been a determinant factor in British history.
The book covers politics, business, art, architecture, music and sport as well as philosophy and religion. The breadth and depth of the influence of immigrants is thus reinforced.
The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, contributes a fascinating introduction surveying our historial and cultural landscape.
Table of Contents
List of Plates
Acknowledgements
Prince Albert
Karl Marx
Moses Montefiore
Jenny Lind
Baron Paul de Reuter
Carl Rosa
James Abbot McNeill Whistler
Lady Randolph Churchill
Joseph Conrad
John Singer Sargent
Lord Sinha
Sir Henry Wellcome
Lord Rutherford
Walter Richard Sickert
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Lord Cherwell
Melanie Klein
Lady Nancy Astor
Marina Duchess of Kent
Learie Constantine
Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park
Lydia Lopokova
Nikolaus Pevsner
Professor Peter Medawar
Alec Issigonis
C. L. R. James
Berthold Lubetkin
Freddie Mercury
Friedrich von Hayek
Sam Wanamaker
Ralph Miliband
Karl Popper
Hugo Gryn
Georg Solti
Isaiah Berlin
Yehudi Menuhin
Maria Hollan
Eva Neurath
Bernie Grant
Paul Hamlyn
Ernst Gombrich
W.G. Sebald
Martin Esslin
Stewart Steven
Lady Mary Henderson
Maurice Wilkins
Joseph Rotblat
Zaki Badawi
Charles Forte
Michael Hamburger
Clement Freud
Ralf Dahrendorf
Squadron Leader Mahinder Singh Pujji
Lucian Freud
Basil D'Oliveira
Product details
| Published | Dec 20 2012 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781408186220 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Continuum |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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