David Butcher Livres

Politics play a central role in all organizations but to this point they have largely been seen as a negative force. David Butcher and Martin Clarke expose this as a misunderstanding and show how political behavior is entirely endemic to managerial activity and how understanding and managing it can have extremely powerful positive effects. They provide an approach to managing politics by balancing personal and organizational interests and show how the centrality of politics to organizational life make it the ideal place from which to change existing patterns of power and influence. Essential reading for directors and senior managers.

We might also be familiar with the photography of professionals in the 1880s through postcards or collections, but it is rare to come across the work of an amateur photographer whose plate photography captured both everyday and family life in the period. It might be for this reason alone that William Rayson Smith's albums are unique, however, his photographs, nearly all of which have never been seen before, provide us with a special glimpse into the past.William Rayson Smith hardly left East Anglia being baptised in Dickleburgh Church in 1841 and dying only five miles away in Harleston in October 1932. Apart from a decade in Belleville, Canada, where he acquired a taste for the new technology of photography. Purchasing a camera he was to spend much of the late 1880s photographing what he saw around him. The result is a special collection of distinctive photographs covering Norfolk and beyond.This second volume provides around 60 photographs taken while visiting his retired father in Lowestoft. David Butcher brings methodical research into these photographs to bring this unique collection to life.

Norfolk and Suffolk have far more places of Christian worship than any other English county with the exception of Lincolnshire. Their pre-conquest origin and location can often be revealed by careful examination of William I's great survey. However, when confronted with the mass of data presented, the Domesday text can appear ambiguous or contradictory to the historian. In this book the author has painstakingly arranged the data into tables to provide a unique research tool for those interested in the existence of a place of worship during the Anglo-Saxon period. It is meant as a handbook to assist investigation into the location and distribution of the churches recorded within the document.In addition to presenting data for each church, the author further encourages the reader to engage in his/her own research into a locality by providing a model study of one particular area of Suffolk: the half-hundreds of Lothingland and Mutford. He also investigates the valuation of church land-endowments, parishes with round-tower buildings and the presence of freewomen as land-holders, examining their potential role as founders of churches or as encouragers of other people to establish them. He proposes that, in contrast with Norfolk, Suffolk had certain high-born women who were influential in the communities they controlled and a greater number of lower-status ones who were nevertheless a significant social feature.

This book is the last one, in a series of five, recording the oral history of commercial fishing in East Anglia during the first half of the twentieth century. The previous four, The Driftermen, The Trawlermen, Living from the Sea and Following The Fishing, were all published between 1979 and 1987 by Tops’l Books.Much has changed in the British fishing industry since those books were produced and, in general terms, the story has been one of consistent and continued decline. In the case of Lowestoft, that decline has been drastic.Given all that has happened in recent years regarding fishing activity in the town of Lowestoft, much of what is contained within the covers of this book will seem to reflect not only another age, but perhaps even another world! And, in a sense, the experiences recorded and presented do indeed belong to an era very different from our own. The earlier books dealt with drift-netting and the herring industry, with trawling, with the social life of shore-side communities and with land-based industries associated with fishing. This particular volume considers various types of fishing not previously covered, interesting and dangerous experiences connected with a life at sea, fisheries research, life on board Trinity House lightships and (strangest of all) a treasure-hunting expedition to the Cocos Island on a converted Lowestoft herring drifter.

The book explores the evolution of Lowestoft, tracing its journey from humble beginnings to a prosperous medieval town. It delves into the key historical events, social changes, and economic developments that shaped the community over the centuries, offering insights into the lives of its inhabitants and the factors that contributed to its growth and significance in the region.

A detailed history of the town of Lowestoft, its society, economy, and topography.