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Scarborough has a rich and varied history extending from the Roman
signal station and the marauding hordes of Vikings under Tostig
Godwinson and Harald III of Norway through its revival under Henry
II who built the Angevin stone castle and granted charters in 1155
and 1163 permitting a market and rule by burgesses. The changing
fortunes of the castle and its role in the Civil War, the founding
of the spa and development of tourism and establishment of famous
hotels are detailed in the exhaustive Changing Scarborough: From
Romans to Renaissance Town. Also covered are the associations with
Anne Bronte, the Scarborough Riots and the role of the famous
Quaker family, the Rowntrees, and the town's dramatic and lethal
bombardment in the First World War, the famous lifeboat, Alan
Ayckbourn, the Sitwells and the treasures of St Martin on the Hill.
Old images are juxtaposed with modern equivalents to provide a
fascinating historical journey that will delight visitors and
residents alike.
A vibrant, accessible social history of Rome, from 753 BCE to the
fall of the Empire some 1300 years later. To support its findings
the book features hundreds of translations of inscriptions and
graffiti from original authors-Roman, Greek and Jewish-and evidence
culled from the visual arts, curse tablets, official records and
letters both private and official. Each comes with detailed
commentaries, placing them into social and historical context. The
result is a fascinating survey of how Roman men, women and children
lived their lives on a daily basis taking in marriage, slavery,
gladiators, medicine, magic, religion, superstition and the occult;
sex, work and play, education, death, housing, country life and
city life. There are also chapters on domestic violence, family
pets and FGM. In short, 'When in Rome' gives a vivid description of
what the Romans really did.
Roman Women uses numerous primary sources to explore the lives of
Rome's most influential women. It is not simply another lurid and
sensational catalogue of scandalous sexual outrages; these all
feature, but they are balanced by careful analysis of female role
models such as Lucretia, Verginia, and Cornelia. This volume
examines the effect these women had on contemporary politics and
society, and how far their actions reflected and affected other
women in the Roman world. The women here displayed a wide range of
characteristics: they could be devoted wives and mothers,
intelligent, charismatic, ambitious, obtrusive, powerful,
permissive, adulterous, manipulative, evil, cruel, dangerous, and
(often) dead before their time. Nevertheless, they had one thing in
common-they all made an indelible mark on one of the most powerful
civilisations the world has ever known.
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Old Bradford
Paul Chrystal
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R629
Discovery Miles 6 290
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Old Harrogate
Paul Chrystal
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R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The name of Rowntree will always be associated with the making of
chocolates and sweets and with its home town of York. Yet, as Paul
Chrystal shows in this book, there was much more to this remarkable
family than profitable manufacturing. Driven by their Quaker faith,
generations of the Rowntree family engaged themselves with the
welfare of their workers, improving not only the conditions they
worked under but providing a range of benefits from housing to
education. Their concerns ranged from the identification of the
causes of poverty and work on its eradication, which has been seen
as one of the beginnings of the welfare state, to supporting Quaker
concerns with the treatment of the mentally ill, the causes and
prevention of war and the education of the working classes. The
book looks at the tensions that exist between business practice and
a faith which demands absolute honesty from its adherents. The
origins of the family are traced from its first records in the
sixteenth century to the end of the twentieth century when
Rowntrees was taken over by Nestle."
Redcar, Marske & Saltburn Through Time is a wonderful
collection of old and new photographs of this historic area of
Yorkshire. The older images are printed alongside a contemporary
full colour photograph, which illustrates the same scene. The
contrasting illustrations show how the area has changed and
developed during the last 100 years. The photographs illustrate
shops, schools, garages, churches, houses and street scenes, each
photograph is captioned and the book has an introduction which
gives a brief overview of the history of the area. As you browse
through the photographs, you will notice the increase in the number
of vehicles on the roads and the number of residents, how shops and
other businesses have evolved and the changes and developments in
modes of transportation and the architecture of the area.
This is the story of the 1st Air Landing Light Regiment RA and its
role in the Italian campaign and at the Battle of Arnhem. It is
also the story of one of its soldiers: 14283058 Gunner Eric Wright
Chrystal, father of the authors. Eric joined the army in September
1942 and, after training, joined the newly formed glider-borne
regiment the following year. He first saw action in Italy in 1943,
where he was seriously wounded. On 17 September 1944, two years to
the day since he enlisted, he and the regiment were landed by
glider near to Arnhem in the Netherlands. The authors recount set
their father's experiences in context by describing the formation
of the unit and the many months of training in England. Their
involvement in the Italian campaign, where Eric served with E
Troop, 3 Battery, is then recounted, detailing their actions at
Rionero, Foggia and Campobasso, where Eric was wounded. It then
moves on to describe 1st Air Landing Light Regiment's preparation
for and involvement in Operation Market (the Airborne half of
Market Garden). This very detailed account of the fighting
highlights the regiment's pivotal (but often neglected) role near
Arnhem bridge. Here, after nine days of intense combat, Eric was
among the many captured and held until the end of the war. The
inclusion of Eric's own eyewitness testimony lends a very personal
touch to this excellent account of the regiment's experience of
combat and life in the PoW camps.
This book is different from other books on York. Contained within
its pages are hugely appealing photographic glimpses of how people
lived, worked and played in the city a century ago, images full of
human history, and so much more than the usual street scenes. All
of life is here: children, soldiers, blacksmiths, revellers,
shopkeepers, families, and some that delight in their mystery! But
all is revealed by the authors in the rich captions accompanying
each picture, allowing us to view and understand York as never
before.
The assumption is that most of what we know about the Romans and
their history comes from Roman and Greek historians. While this is
true up to a point, the reality is that there are many other
primary sources which combine to give us the composite picture we
have today of the Romans and their world. The Romans had in effect
their own brand of social media, engineered to disseminate
information, legislation, propaganda and misinformation to state
and religious officials, citizens, the military and to the enemy,
wherever they be. We know what the Romans did for us: roads,
central heating and so on. But, just as importantly, they developed
and perfected records and record-keeping and other methods of
information storage and communication. It is the Roman
preoccupation with record keeping and dissemination that informs
the picture we have today of Roman civilisation. This is the first
book to analyse what is in effect Roman social media: the keeping
of records and archive material, and ways of communicating it.
Uniquely, it assesses the impact this information had on and in
Roman history and on our appraisal of that history.
The nervous geopolitical tension between East and West, the Cold
War, emerged before the end of the Second World War and lasted
until 1991 with the collapse of the Soviet Union. The British Army
of the Rhine was born in 1945 out of the British Liberation Army at
the close of the war as the military government of the British zone
of occupied Germany. As the Soviet threat increased, so BAOR became
less of an occupational army and assumed the role of defender of
Western Europe, and as a major contributor to NATO after 1949. This
book traces and examines the changing role of BAOR from 1945 to its
demise in the 1993 Options for Change defence cuts. It looks at the
part it played in the defence of West Germany, its effectiveness as
a Cold War deterrent, the garrisons and capabilities, logistics and
infrastructure, its arms and armour, the nuclear option and the
lives of the thousands of families living on the front line.
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Old Knaresborough
Paul Chrystal
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R346
Discovery Miles 3 460
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Ships in 9 - 15 working days
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The Rowntree family, especially Henry and the younger Joseph
Rowntree are, along with the Fry's, Cadbury's, Mars and Terry's,
synonymous with the birth and growth of the chocolate industry in
Britain. Between them, they were the chocolate industry in Britain.
This book charts the fascinating story behind the birth and
development of the chocolate empire that was Rowntrees. Background
information to this astonishing business comes by way of chapters
on the early history of the Rowntrees, contemporary York, the
relationship between Quakers and chocolate, and the Tuke family -
without whom there would have been no Rowntrees, and no Kit Kats.
Henry, it is usually forgotten, was the founder of Rowntree's - he
made the momentous decision to sign the deal with the Tukes and we
join him in those very early days of the fledgling company and
watch how he helped it through some very dark, and sometimes
humorous, times in what was then a very shambolic set up - cash
strapped and making it up as the company lurched from crisis to
crisis. Joseph, his elder brother, it was, who became the driving
force to eventual global success, mixing his hectic business life
with acts of compassion and a benevolent management model, all of
which paved the way for decent wages, pensions, insurance and
mutual respect in the workplace. Charity work extended beyond the
factories to lift workers and others out of the slums of York to a
life in a healthy model village, to provide a good social life, an
extensive park, swimming pool and education for children and
adults. More context is given with chapters on Joseph's relentless
industrial espionage, the advancements in chocolate production and
20th century rivals in the domestic and export markets, and mergers
and acquisitions. Rowntree's role in the two world wars is also
covered along with the struggle Joseph Rowntree had accepting the
importance of advertising. Altogether this book gives two
fascinating biographies of two exceptional and driven brothers who
came together to form one of our greatest companies - producing
some of our best loved confectionery products.
York is one of Britain's best preserved cities. Through a
combination of sheer luck, the efforts of passionate
conservationists and the apathy of the Luftwaffe, many of York's
unique historical treasures survive to this day for visitors and
residents to enjoy. Changing York aims to record nearly one hundred
of these riches, showing how they were in the past and how they
have survived and function today. We visit the Minster and some of
the countless other churches and places of worship, workhouses,
almshouses, hospitals, prisons, bridges, walls, and the Mansion
House - a panoply of treasures which gives an exciting insight into
the history of this fine English city. A truly unique feature of
the book is the inclusion of photographs from the prestigious and
rarely seen Evelyn Collection, held by the Yorkshire Architectural
& York Archaeological Society. These stunning images give an
unrivalled snapshot of York life in the early 20th century, showing
the city in ways that will fascinate and enthral.
Huddersfield History Tour offers an insight into the fascinating
history of this town in West Yorkshire. Author Paul Chrystal guides
us around its well-known streets and buildings, showing how its
famous landmarks used to look and how they have changed over the
years, as well as exploring its lesser-known sights and hidden
corners. With the help of a handy location map, readers are invited
to follow a timeline of events and discover for themselves the
changing face of Huddersfield.
York is first and foremost a Roman city, and an extremely important
one at that. This comprehensive, fully illustrated book is a unique
and invaluable guide to York's Roman heritage, essential reading
for all those with an interest in the city. Like Rome, its mother
city, York was not built in a day. Nothing like it. The history of
Roman York entails the unravelling of centuries of new development,
refurbishment, military destruction, demolition and overbuilding,
and this unravelling is essentially what this book is all about. To
bring this story to life, The Making of Roman York has at its core
a detailed walk around the city, with easy maps leading the reader
effortlessly around the sites and sights, treading ancient Roman
routes and footsteps.
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