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Hope and Glory

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Paperback, 208 pages
Published
UK, 15 January 2004

This book is supported by a six-part HTV television series, beginning 29th January 2004, and an accompanying exhibition - 'Crossing Continents' - now showing at Bristol's British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. It was written with the full cooperation of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum and local community groups. Hope and Glory and the television series it accompanies provide a unique record of the strong links between the West of England and the Empire and Commonwealth in the twentieth century. It features the epic stories of men and women whose lives were shaped by emigration and immigration on an unimaginable scale. we hear the voices of those who were inspired to undertake a life-changing journey across the sea to England, to Australia, to India, Africa and the Far East. What was it like to grow up in India at the height of British Empire? What happened to the thousands of orphans forcibly transported to places like Australia and Canada? How did it feel to struggle for civil rights in 1960s Bristol? What was it like to be an eighteen-year-old National Serviceman fighting a war in the jungles of Malaya? .


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This book is supported by a six-part HTV television series, beginning 29th January 2004, and an accompanying exhibition - 'Crossing Continents' - now showing at Bristol's British Empire and Commonwealth Museum. It was written with the full cooperation of the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum and local community groups. Hope and Glory and the television series it accompanies provide a unique record of the strong links between the West of England and the Empire and Commonwealth in the twentieth century. It features the epic stories of men and women whose lives were shaped by emigration and immigration on an unimaginable scale. we hear the voices of those who were inspired to undertake a life-changing journey across the sea to England, to Australia, to India, Africa and the Far East. What was it like to grow up in India at the height of British Empire? What happened to the thousands of orphans forcibly transported to places like Australia and Canada? How did it feel to struggle for civil rights in 1960s Bristol? What was it like to be an eighteen-year-old National Serviceman fighting a war in the jungles of Malaya? .

Product Details
EAN
9780750935401
ISBN
0750935405
Other Information
70 b&w illustrations
Dimensions
24.4 x 17.2 x 1 centimeters (0.52 kg)

About the Author

Steve Humphries is director of Testimony, one of Britain;s leading independent producers of life story, biography and social history programmes.His books written to complement Testimony programmes include, Secret World of Sex, Some Like it Hot, Green and Pleasant Land and All Quiet on the Home Front.

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