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A facsimile edition of Bradshaw's Handbook of 1863, the book that
inspired the BBC television series 'Great British Railway
Journeys'. When Michael Portillo began the series 'Great British
Railway Journeys', a well-thumbed 150-year-old book shot back to
fame. The original Bradshaw's guides had been well known to
Victorian travellers and were produced when the British railway
network was at its peak and as tourism by rail became essential. It
was the first national tourist guide specifically organized around
railway journeys, and this beautifully illustrated facsimile
edition offers a glimpse through the carriage window at a Britain
long past.
There is little doubt that the '45 rebellion was the greatest
challenge to the eighteenth-century British state. The battle of
Culloden in which it culminated was certainly one of the most
dramatic of the century. This study, based on extensive archival
research, examines the political and military context of the
uprising and highlights the seriousness of the challenge posed by
the Jacobites. The result is an illuminating account of an episode
often obscured by the perspectives of Stuart romance.
This is the fully-illustrated edition of LONDON IN FRAGMENTS. A new
paperback edition is also available, published under the title A
MUDLARK'S TREASURES: London in Fragments 'A beautiful book.' Daily
Mail 'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard 'Gripping.'
Spectator 'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively 'Indefatigably researched.'
Country Life 'Beautifully illustrated.' Monocle Mudlarking, the act
of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long
tradition in England's capital. In the late 18th and 19th
centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap.
Today's mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the
Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history. From
Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery, presented here are
modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling's most evocative finds, gorgeously
photographed. Together they create a mosaic of everyday London life
through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices,
industries, adornments and comforts of a world city. This unique
and stunning book celebrates the beauty of small things, and makes
sense of the intangible connection that found objects give us to
the individuals who lost them.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER & THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF 2021
'Astonishing and compelling' Bernard Cornwell 'This superb book is
like a classical symphony, perfectly composed and exquisitely
performed' THE TIMES Books of the Year Follow bioarchaeologist Cat
Jarman - and the cutting-edge forensic techniques central to her
research - as she uncovers epic stories of the Viking age and
follows a small 'Carnelian' bead found in a Viking grave in
Derbyshire to its origins thousands of miles to the east in
Gujarat. 'This superb book is like a classical symphony, perfectly
composed and exquisitely performed' THE TIMES Books of the Year Dr
Cat Jarman is a bioarchaeologist, specialising in forensic
techniques to research the paths of Vikings who came to rest in
British soil. By examining teeth that are now over one thousand
years old, she can determine childhood diet, and thereby where a
person was likely born. With radiocarbon dating, she can ascertain
a death date down to the range of a few years. And her research
offers new visions of the likely roles of women and children in
Viking culture. In 2017, a carnelian bead came into her temporary
possession. River Kings sees her trace its path back to
eighth-century Baghdad and India, discovering along the way that
the Vikings' route was far more varied than we might think, that
with them came people from the Middle East, not just Scandinavia,
and that the reason for this unexpected integration between the
Eastern and Western worlds may well have been a slave trade running
through the Silk Road, and all the way to Britain. Told as a
riveting story of the Vikings and the methods we use to understand
them, this is a major reassessment of the fierce,
often-mythologised voyagers of the north, and of the global
medieval world as we know it.
The OS Historical Map series comprises of Ancient Britain and Roman
Britain. Each archaeological period is identified using different
symbols and colours to show sites from the Stone Age through to the
early Middle Ages against a modern map base, double-sided to cover
the whole country. The Ancient Britain map and guide is
complemented by a timeline that shows British events in relation to
wider history. Key sites of significant historical interest are
highlighted using photographs, text and thumbnail mapping from the
OS Landranger map series. Additional information, such as a list of
archaeological terms, suggested reading and museums to visit, is
also included.
'Coffin roads' along which bodies were carried for burial are a
marked feature of the landscape of the Scottish Highlands and
islands - many are now popular walking and cycling routes. This
book journeys along eight coffin roads to discover and explore the
distinctive traditions, beliefs and practices around dying, death
and mourning in the communities which created and used them. The
result is a fascinating snapshot into place and culture. After more
than a century when death was very much a taboo subject, this book
argues that aspects of the distinctive West Highland and Hebridean
way of death and approach to dying and mourning may have something
helpful and important to offer to us today. Routes covered in this
book are: The Kilmartin Valley - the archetypal coffin road in this
ritual landscape of the dead. The Street of the Dead on Iona -
perhaps the best known coffin road in Scotland. Kilearnadil
Graveyard, Jura - a perfect example of a Hebridean graveyard. The
coffin road through Morvern to Keil Church, Lochaline - among the
best defined and most evocative coffin roads today. The Green Isle,
Loch Shiel, Ardnamurchan - the oldest continuously used burial
place anywhere in Europe. The coffin road on Eigg - with its
distinctive 'piper's cairn' where the coffin of Donald MacQuarrie,
the 'Great Piper of Eigg', was rested. The coffin road from Traigh
Losgaintir to Loch Stocinis on Harris - popular with walkers and
taken as the title for a best-selling thriller by Peter May. The
coffin road on Barra - A detailed study of burial practices on
Barra in the early 1950s provides a fascinating record of Hebridean
attitudes to dying, death and mourning.
In 451 CE the Council of Chalcedon was called to assert the his
translation of the main Irish annalistic text up to 911 is designed
to make early Irish history more accessible to students of Irish
history. The contents of the text constitutes the principal
narrative source for carly Irish history, providing a fascinating
insight into the religious, social and political evolution of
Ireland and its people during this period. From 431 to 740 this
vital source of early Irish history was written on the small island
of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. From then it was contained
at monastery in the Irish midlands (most probably in Brega). This
new two-volume translation is accompanied by a thorough
introduction that places the annals of Ireland within a larger
historical context. The Chronicle of Ireland is an informative and
accessible introduction to the history of ancient Ireland for both
students and scholars of Irish history. Built up from various
individual writings, The Chronicle of Ireland is a truly unique
book and is as important to the history of Ireland as the
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles is to the history of Britain.
Building on the success of previous editions, Politics in the
Republic of Ireland continues to provide an authoritative
introduction to all aspects of government and politics in this
seventh edition. Written by some of the foremost experts on Irish
politics, it explains, analyses and interprets the background to
Irish government and contemporary political processes. It devotes
chapters to every aspect of contemporary Irish government and
politics, including the political parties and elections, the
constitution, deliberative democracy, referendums, the Taoiseach
and the governmental system, women and politics, the position of
the Dáil, and Ireland’s place within the European Union.
Bringing readers up to date with the very latest developments,
especially with the upheaval in the Irish party system and the
implications of recent liberalising referendums, PRI7 combines
substance with a highly readable style, providing an accessible
book that meets the needs of all those who are interested in
knowing how politics and government operate in Ireland.
This book: covers the essential content in the new specifications
in a rigorous and engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources,
timelines, key words, helpful activities and extension material
helps develop conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence,
interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
provides assessment support for A level with sample answers,
sources, practice questions and guidance to help you tackle the
new-style exam questions. It also comes with three years' access to
ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your textbook to help you
personalise your learning as you go through the course - perfect
for revision.
Stephen Bungay' s magisterial history is acclaimed as the account
of the Battle of Britain. Unrivalled for its synthesis of all
previous historical accounts, for the quality of its strategic
analysis and its truly compulsive narrative, this is a book
ultimately distinguished by its conclusions - that it was the
British in the Battle who displayed all the virtues of efficiency,
organisation and even ruthlessness we habitually attribute to the
Germans, and they who fell short in their amateurism,
ill-preparedness, poor engineering and even in their old-fashioned
notions of gallantry. An engrossing read for the military scholar
and the general reader alike, this is a classic of military history
that looks beyond the mythology, to explore all the tragedy and
comedy; the brutality and compassion of war.
Much writing on men in the field of gender studies tends to focus
unduly, almost exclusively, on portraying men as villains and women
as victims in a moral bi-polar paradigm. Re-Thinking Men reverses
the proclivity which ignores not only the positive contributions of
men to society, but also the male victims of life including the
homeless, the incarcerated, the victims of homicide, suicide,
accidents, war and the draft, and sexism, as well as those affected
by the failures of the health, education, political and justice
systems. Proceeding from a radically different perspective in
seeking a more positive, balanced and inclusive view of men (and
women), this book presents three contrasting paradigms of men as
Heroes, Villains and Victims. With the development of a comparative
and revised gender perspective drawing on US, Canadian and UK
sources, this book will be of interest to scholars across a range
of social sciences.
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Amazing & Extraordinary Facts: Shakespeare is a fascinating
collection of surprising revelations, quirky characters and other
fascinating pieces of trivia from the world of the great English
bard. From the stories behind his well-known plays and poems,
through the actors and theatres that have entertained his works, to
his legacy in popular culture and beyond, an intriguing and unusual
history of his life and times is revealed. Drawing back the
curtains on this iconic English character, there is something here
for every enthusiast to relish. This authoritative and absorbing
book is published to coincide with the 400th Anniversary of
Shakespeare's death on 23rd April 2016.
It was famously the scene of Charles and Diana's nightmare marriage
and Charles's serial adulteries. But then Kensington Palace has a
long history of royal philandering. George II installed his wife
and mistress in the palace, for example, and made his mistress
sleep in a room so damp there were said to be mushrooms growing on
the walls. And then there were the eccentrics. George III's sixth
son, Augustus, Duke of Sussex, became a virtual recluse at the
palace. He collected hundreds of clocks and mechanical toys,
thousands of early Bibles and dozens of songbirds that were allowed
to fly freely through the royal apartments. Today, the palace is
home to the future King William and his wife Catherine, and until
recently home to the newly married Duke and Duchess of Sussex,
Harry and Meghan. Tom Quinn takes the reader behind the official
version of palace history to discover intriguing, sometimes wild,
often scandalous, but frequently heart-warming stories.
This collection gathers together 31 previously out-of-print titles
focusing on revolution - the political, economic, military and
social aspects of the overthrow of state power. Ranging from
nineteenth-century France to late-twentieth-century Caribbean,
these books analyse the forms of revolt and the aftermaths of
revolution, examining the types of government that result and the
reactions of international opinion.
Marking the third centenary of the office of Prime Minister, this
book tells its extraordinary story, explaining how and why it has
endured longer than any other democratic political office in world
history. Sir Anthony Seldon, historian of Number 10 Downing Street,
explores the lives and careers, loves and scandals, successes and
failures, of all our great Prime Ministers. From Robert Walpole and
William Pitt the Younger, to Clement Attlee and Margaret Thatcher,
Seldon discusses which of our Prime Ministers have been most
effective and why. He reveals the changing relationship between the
Monarchy and the office of the Prime Minister in intimate detail,
describing how the increasing power of the Prime Minister in
becoming leader of Britain coincided with the steadily falling
influence of the Monarchy. This book celebrates the humanity and
frailty, work and achievement, of these 55 remarkable individuals,
who averted revolution and civil war, leading the country through
times of peace, crisis and war.
This is the extraordinary story of how salt fish from Shetland
became one of the staple foods of Europe, powered an economic boom
and inspired artists, writers and musicians. It ranges from the
wild waters of the North Atlantic, the ice-filled fjords of
Greenland and the remote islands of Faroe to the dining tables of
London's middle classes, the bacalao restaurants of Spain and the
Jewish shtetls of Eastern Europe. As well as following the
historical thread and exploring how very different cultures were
drawn together by the salt fish trade, John Goodlad meets those
whose lives revolve around the industry in the twenty-first century
and addresses today's pressing themes of sustainability, climate
change and food choices.
This book tells a true detective story set mainly in Elizabethan
London during the years of cold war just before the Armada of 1588.
The mystery is the identity of a spy working in a foreign embassy
to frustrate Catholic conspiracy and propaganda aimed at the
overthrow of Queen Elizabeth and her government. The suspects in
the case are the inmates of the house, an old building in the
warren of streets and gardens between Fleet Street and the Thames.
These include the ambassador, a civilized Frenchman, his wife, his
daughter, his secretary, his clerk and his priest, the tutor, the
chef, the butler, and the concierge. They also include a runaway
friar, the Neapolitan philosopher, poet, and comedian Giordano
Bruno, who wrote masterpieces of Italian literature, who was later
burned in Rome for his anti-papal opinions, and who has been
revered in Italy for his honorable and heroic resistance to papal
authority. Others in the cast are Queen Elizabeth, her formidable
secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham, and King Henry III of
France; poets, courtiers, and scholars; statesmen, conspirators,
go-betweens, and stool-pigeons. When not in London, the action
takes place in Paris and Oxford; a good deal of it happens on the
river Thames. The hero or villain, who calls himself Fagot, does
his work most effectively, is not found out, and disappears. In the
first part of the book these events are narrated. In the second the
spy is identified and his story put together. John Bossy's
brilliant research, backed by his forensic and literary skills,
solves a centuries-old mystery. His book makes a major contribution
to the political and intellectual history of the wars of religion
in Europe and to the domestic history of Elizabethan England. Not
least, it is compelling reading.
Shortlisted for the The Great Outdoors Awards - Outdoor Book of the
Year 2020 Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain
Literature 2020 There are strange relics hidden across Scotland's
landscape: forgotten places that are touchstones to incredible
stories and past lives which still resonate today. Yet why are so
many of these 'wild histories' unnoticed and overlooked? And what
can they tell us about our own modern identity? From the high
mountain passes of an ancient droving route to a desolate moorland
graveyard, from uninhabited post-industrial islands and Clearance
villages to caves explored by early climbers and the mysterious
strongholds of Christian missionaries, Patrick Baker makes a series
of journeys on foot and by paddle. Along the way, he encounters
Neolithic settlements, bizarre World War Two structures, evidence
of illicit whisky production, sacred wells and Viking burial
grounds. Combining a rich fusion of travelogue and historical
narrative, he threads themes of geology, natural and social
history, literature, and industry from the places he visits,
discovering connections between people and place more powerful than
can be imagined.
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