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ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Author: Winifred F. Bergess
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Author: Donald MaxwellThe Hoo Peninsula Landscape
Author: Sarah NewsomePublisher: English Heritage
ISBN: 1848023391
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 99
Book Description
The Hoo Peninsula is located on the north Kent coast 30 miles east of Central London. This book raises awareness of the positive contribution that the historic environment makes to the Hoo Peninsula by describing how changing patterns of land use and maritime activity over time have given this landscape and seascape its distinctive character. It uses new information, which involved historic landscape, seascape and farmstead characterisation, aerial photographic mapping and analysis, area assessment of the buildings, detailed survey of key sites and other desk-based research. It takes a thematic view of the major influences on the history and development of the Hoo Peninsula and demonstrates the role that the Peninsula plays in the national story. The book is an important step towards changing the perception that the Hoo Peninsula is an out-of-the-way area, scarred by past development, where the landscape has no heritage value and major infrastructure can be developed with minimum objection.
Author: The Earlier Iron Age in Britain and the Near Continent
Author: Colin HaselgrovePublisher: Oxbow Books Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Seeks to establish what we now know (and do not know) about Earlier Iron Age communities in Britain and their neighbours on the Continent. The authors look at how communities of the Late Bronze Age transform into those of the Earlier Iron Age, and how we understand the social changes of the later first millennium BC.
The Great Explosion
Author: Brian DillonPublisher: Penguin Ireland
ISBN: 9780241956762
Category : Explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kent marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a remarkable piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity the interaction of human imperatives and the natural world in one of Britain's strangest and most distinctive landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry form one of our most brilliant writers." --Jacket flap.
Author: Carol DonaldsonPlace Names in Kent
Author: J. W. HorsleyPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3387089333
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
