Paul Almond

Mike Esbester

This book analyses the perceived legitimacy of health and safety in post-1960 British public life. Since 2010 health and safety has appeared to be in crisis, being attacked by press, politicians and public alike, but are these claims of crisis accurate? How have understandings of health and safety changed over the past 60 years? By exploring the history, culture, and operation of health and safety in contemporary Britain, this book provides a new assessment of an understudied, but surprisingly far-reaching, part of the British political and social landscape. Combining archival research with focus group, social survey and oral history testimony, the book examines the historical background to health and safety, how health and safety has been enacted in public and in the workplace, the impact of changing economic, occupational and social structures on the operation of health and safety, and the conflicts and interests that have shaped the area.

Society, Legitimacy, and Change since 1960

Health and Safety in Contemporary Britain

Imagine you're in a swaying hammock on a British man-o'war around 1800, riding out a harsh spring storm in a deserted estuary. Behind those high red cliffs lie a hundred miles of uncharted wilderness, populated only by ferocious indigenous peoples. If you jump ship and are caught, you will be branded a deserter - subject to death by one thousand lashes. What can you bring to help you survive? Within minutes, the ice-strewn waters will freeze your body and claim your soul. Even if this were your one chance for a life in the New World, would you jump?Thomas Manning did, and his leap into uncertainty begins the epic tale of a pioneer family, one of the many who built our great nation. Through his and his descendants' eyes, we watch one small community's impact on the great events which swirl about them and bring conflicts they must face in their struggles to create homes and families.After Thomas Manning's leap to freedom, he is captured by the Mi'kmaq, has life threatening encounters with wild animals, lives through a barren winter in the highlands of the caribou with a tribe who befriends him and falls for a Mi'kmaq maiden.Absorbing, touching and full of adventure, THE DESERTER is Book One of the Alford saga, a series chronicling two hundred years of Canadian history, as seen through the eyes of a settler's family.

The Deserter

Richard Hobson

"Oddball"

Thomas Manning, déserteur de la marine britannique, n’existe plus. Sous le nom de James Alford, il est devenu un homme libre. Auprès de ses amis mi’gmaqs, le jeune colon a appris à survivre dans la nature sauvage de la côte gaspésienne, mais il n’est pas tiré d’affaire pour autant. Désormais seul dans sa cabane rudimentaire, sans le sou et gravement éprouvé par la perte de son premier amour, James est encore bien loin de voir s’accomplir les rêves qui l’ont poussé à gagner le Nouveau Monde. Son seul espoir semble se trouver du côté de New Carlisle, parmi les Loyalistes : là-bas, il y a la famille Garrett, qui pourrait peut-être l’aider à se faire engager dans un moulin à scie. Ce serait aussi l’occasion de revoir leur fille, la belle et fougueuse Catherine… Se souviendra-t-elle de leur baiser volé, deux ans plus tôt ? Le Défricheur est le deuxième tome de la Saga Alford, épopée se déroulant sur plus de deux siècles. S’inspirant de l’histoire de sa propre famille, l’auteur y retrace le parcours des différentes générations d’Alford, de leur arrivée sur le continent américain jusqu’à aujourd’hui, brossant au passage un portrait vivant de notre société et des grands événements qui l’ont marquée.

Le Défricheur

Saga Alford Tome 2

Michael Ballantyne

As the 20th century reached mid-point, two undergraduates with “high hopes” and a dash of hero worship for things literary dream of setting the post-war world on fire. One hops into an MG roadster and drives expectantly across North America to meet his idol Christopher Isherwood; soon after, he crosses the Atlantic to attend Balliol College, Oxford. The other fights his way up McGill's student ladder to edit their literary magazines, helping to earn his tuition by bruising labour in BC's Forestry Service. In this collection of their letters (including unpublished correspondence from Christopher Isherwood, Sean O'Casey, Patrick Anderson, and other contemporary writers) Paul Almond and Michael Ballantyne have woven journal entries, photographs and other memorabilia together with their present-day reflections to open a bright window on our collective past.

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