Kirjailija
Stephen Millar
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 18 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2019–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu Tribes of Edinburgh and Leith. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
18 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 2019–2025.
Let Secret Glasgow guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with the second edition of this fascinating Glasgow guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 170 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Glasgow guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Inside Secret Glasgow : Discover a beautiful garden inside a hospitalSee a staircase once celebrated by EinsteinView the remains of a workhouse and a Roman wallFind a lost burnSee a stranded column in the Clyde and a Celtic gravestoneUncover a derelict railway platformFind the burial place of a Scot who became an American heroPuzzle over mysterious etchings on a cathedral wall Glasgow is full of hidden treasures that many residents go past without realising their significance. This is an indispensable Secret Glasgow guide is for anyone who thought they knew the city well but would like to discover its hidden face.
**Not Your Typical Guidebook.** New York Offbeat Walks 2 takes you beyond the usual landmarks to uncover the quirky, hidden side of New York City. Walk in the footsteps of a young Frank Sinatra, who sang at a school to ease racial tensions, or visit the office once used by the German Nazi party. Discover the oldest African American Masonic lodge, the workplace of Leon Trotsky, and the college apartment of a student named Barack Obama. As you explore, you'll encounter locations immortalized in iconic films-- from where Harry and Sally bought their Christmas tree to the site of *Taxi Driver*'s bloody climax. Along the way, you'll uncover tales of anarchists and automats, poets and billionaires, immigrants and dreamers-- all woven into the city's vibrant history. Each walk reveals lesser-known architectural, historical, and cultural gems that offer a fresh perspective on the city we thought we knew.
Glasgow is a fascinating city with a history that extends from humble medieval origins to become the ‘Second City of Empire’ in the Victorian era. This book explores beyond the city centre, venturing into areas like the Gorbals and Govanhill that rarely make it onto the radar of visitors or indeed many Glaswegians. Along the way you will visit abandoned railway stations, vibrant community gardens, a stretch of the mythical Molendinar Burn, and learn about old shipbuilding yards, infamous murders, and how local activists saved many tenement streets. Glasgow has long been a place that has attracted immigrants and you will discover how they have shaped the character of the city as it is today. The city is also famed for its architecture and there is a walk dedicated to some of the great Glaswegian architects from the world renowned Charles Rennie Mackintosh to lesser-know names such as James Miller and ‘Greek’ Thompson. Along the way you will discover pubs that are at the heart of their community, and also find out about Miss Cranston and her famous tea rooms. This unique guide to Glasgow is sure to surprise and delight in equal measure.• 12 illustrated walks• details on the best cafés & pubs• information on local attractions, museums and galleries• maps – to help you navigate
London's Hidden Walks: Volumes 1-4
Stephen Millar
Metro Publications Ltd
2024
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Halvin toimitettuna 47,20 €
People love walking the streets of London, but there are always more questions than answers after a stroll through the capital. These books are packed with interesting details about London's history with both personal tales of those who wandered the same streets in former years and a more general history of the different areas covered. The London's Hidden Walks series has become a bestseller since first published. Thousands of readers have followed the walks, allowing them to walk in the footsteps of authors and statesmen, murderers and revolutionaries. This new London's Hidden Walks Volumes 1/2/3/4 Box Set combines the entire series into one neat package, offering 49 original and fully updated walks, making it the perfect gift for intrepid explorers of the city.
People love walking the streets of London, but there are always more questions than answers after a stroll through the capital. These books are packed with interesting details about London's history with both personal tales of those who wandered the same streets in former years and a more general history of the different areas covered. London's Hidden Walks Box Set has become a bestseller since it was first published. Thousands of readers have followed the 36 walks featured, allowing them to walk in the footsteps of authors and statesmen, murderers and revolutionaries. London never stands still and this fully revised new edition of the box set has kept the series up to date for the years to come.
The best-selling London’s Hidden Walks Volume 2 is back, in a new and updated second edition! Packed with interesting details about London’s history, from personal tales of those who wandered the same streets to the social and economic history of the many areas covered. Following any of the 12 walks featured in the book will allow the reader to walk in the footsteps of authors and statesmen, murderers and revolutionaries. It has proved a great success with all those who enjoy strolling London’s streets and discovering little known stories to see the Capital in a new light. It is part of our ‘Hidden Walks’ series that has established a niche for Metro over the years. • 12 illustrated walks • details on the best cafés & pubs • information on local attractions, museums and galleries • maps – to help you navigate
Following any of the 12 walks featured in the book will allow the user to walk in the footsteps of authors and statesmen, murderers and revolutionaries. It has proved a great success with all those who enjoy strolling London's streets and have an interest in its history and what remains of the city's fascinating past.
New York Offbeat Walks is a pocket-size guide containing 13 walks covering Manhattan. It is not a guide to the mainstream, but the quirkier side of Manhattan, for jaded residents who want to rediscover their city and explore areas they often overlook. Each walk will cover lesser-known architectural, historical, and cultural highlights and everything in between: from movie locations to hidden rivers; where Warhol and the Beats hung out to where Billie Holliday lived, and Mafia hits carried out. It explores the relics of Dutch and British rule, where Sid killed Nancy and Bowie made his home. You will be led to community gardens, learn why parks got their name, and the curious stories behind obscure statutes. Accompanied by full-color photographs and maps, the walks will take readers in the footsteps of celebrities, pioneering women, poets, rock stars, murders, anarchists, and the people who helped shape this great city.
The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public overwhelmingly rejected a return to the violence of the Troubles, loyalist and republican groups sought other outlets to continue their struggle. Music, which has long been used to celebrate cultural identity in the North of Ireland, became a key means of facilitating the continuation of pre-Agreement identity narratives in a “post-conflict” era. Sounding Dissent draws on three years of sustained fieldwork within Belfast's rebel music scene, in-depth interviews with republican musicians, contemporary audiences, and former paramilitaries, as well as diverse historical and archival material, including songbooks, prison records, and newspaper articles, to understand the history of political violence in Ireland. The book examines the potential of rebel songs to memorialize a pantheon of republican martyrs, and demonstrates how musical performance and political song not only articulate experiences and memories of oppression and violence, but also play a central role in the reproduction of conflict and exclusion in times of peace.
Let Secret Glasgow guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating Glasgow guide book. Let our local experts show you the well-hidden treasures and hidden places of this amazing city. Featuring over 150 unusual and unfamiliar places, this Secret Glasgow guide is ideal for local inhabitants, curious visitors and armchair travellers alike. Inside Secret Glasgow : A beautiful garden inside a hospital, a staircase once celebrated by Einstein, the remains of a workhouse and a Roman wall, a lost burn and a reminder of the Spanish Civil War, a stranded column in the Clyde and a Celtic gravestone, a derelict railway platform, a stone that flew over the Irish Sea, the burial place of a Scot who became an American hero and mysterious etchings on a cathedral wall ... Glasgow is full of hidden treasures that many residents go past without realising their significance. This is an indispensable guide for anyone who thought they knew the city well but would like to discover its hidden face. Don't miss - Each chapter of this Secret Glasgow travel guide book corresponds to a different part of the city so that one can always find a hidden or secret place to discoverPerfectly planned walks - Make sure that you do not miss any Secret location, by discovering each one featured in this guide by planning a walking tour of each part of the city
London's Hidden Walks Volume 4
Stephen Millar
Metro Publications Ltd
2022
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Halvin toimitettuna 21,90 €
The streets of London are inexhaustible in their tales they have to tell. Following the success of Stephen Millar’s first three volumes, London’s Hidden Walks Vol.4 introduces twelve new walks that will surprise and entertain the intrepid explorer. With this book in hand, readers can find the ruins of a church that Shakespeare would have visited, the hotel where the assassin of Martin Luther King Jnr. laid low, a pipe containing a lost London river and the venues Taylor Swift used in a video shoot. With fascinating stories, detailed maps, 400 full-colour photographs, cafés, pubs and places of interest, London’s Hidden Walks Vol.4 brings London’s streets to life. The book can be enjoyed in its own right or in conjunction with the first three volumes, which are now established bestsellers. • 12 illustrated walks • details on the best cafés & pubs • information on local attractions, museums and galleries • maps – to help you navigate
Edinburgh's Hidden Walks
Stephen Millar
Metro Publications Ltd
2021
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Halvin toimitettuna 21,90 €
People love walking the streets and every street tells a story. With 14 illustrated walks and over 400 full-colour photographs Edinburgh's Hidden Walks is packed with interesting details about the Scottish capital's history. Detailed maps illustrate each walk and there is a useful list of local attractions (museums, galleries, historical houses) and details of the best cafes and pubs. * 14 illustrated walks * details on the best cafes & pubs * information on local attractions, museums and galleries * maps - to help you navigate
People have long been fascinated by the stories behind royal portraits. This volume takes readers inside royal families by way of great paintings, like Holbein's Henry VIII, van Dyck's Charles I, Millais' The Princes in the Tower, Freud's Elizabeth II, and more. Featuring incredible, little known stories of the royals and illustrates, this beautiful collection is illustrated with color paintings, photos, family trees and Royal London walking tours with maps.
The signing of the Good Friday Agreement on April 10, 1998, marked the beginning of a new era of peace and stability in Northern Ireland. As the public overwhelmingly rejected a return to the violence of the Troubles, loyalist and republican groups sought other outlets to continue their struggle. Music, which has long been used to celebrate cultural identity in the North of Ireland, became a key means of facilitating the continuation of pre-Agreement identity narratives in a “post-conflict” era. Sounding Dissent draws on three years of sustained fieldwork within Belfast's rebel music scene, in-depth interviews with republican musicians, contemporary audiences, and former paramilitaries, as well as diverse historical and archival material, including songbooks, prison records, and newspaper articles, to understand the history of political violence in Ireland. The book examines the potential of rebel songs to memorialize a pantheon of republican martyrs, and demonstrates how musical performance and political song not only articulate experiences and memories of oppression and violence, but also play a central role in the reproduction of conflict and exclusion in times of peace.
Pieces of My Soul: A Collection of Poetry
Stephen Millar; Seaside Steve
Independently Published
2019
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A collection of poetry that are pieces of my soul. I write from a place of empathy, a place deep within my heart. These poems are about what is closest to my heart. What is closest to your heart? Read them and dare to find out Blessings to your soul, Seaside Steve
Finding himself faced with a feeling of disconnect from his city of birth, Stephen Millar sets out on a mission to capture the heart and essence of Glasgow, engaging with the patchwork of 'tribes' which make up the fabric of the city. Meeting with members of a remarkable variety of clubs and sub-cultures – from pagans, to cosplayers, to traditional musicians – this collection moves beyond stereotypes and delves deeper into the origins of these tribes. Scottish photographer Alan McCredie brings their stories to life through a blend of portraits and candid snaps.
London's City Churches
Stephen Millar
Metro Publications, N1
2019
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Halvin toimitettuna 20,90 €
London’s City Churches include some of the Capital’s finest architecture. The sanctity of the church has prevented London’s churches from being redeveloped or altered in any significant way and so they remain historical islands while the environment around them has changed beyond recognition.