Author: Christopher Daniell Publisher: Interlink Books ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 312
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This compact volume . . . delivers a solid, comprehensive and entertaining overview of Englands history . . . a delightful source.--Library Journal. A Travellers History of England deals with all the major periods of English history and gives a comprehensive and enjoyable survey of Englands past from prehistoric times to the present.
Author: Ian Mortimer Publisher: Random House ISBN: 1847921140 Category : England Languages : en Pages : 436
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We think of Queen Elizabeth I as 'Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes, like Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Richard Grenville and Sir Francis Drake, and of great writers, such as Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare.
Author: Richard Tames Publisher: Chastleton Travel ISBN: 9781905214433 Category : Oxford (England) Languages : en Pages : 384
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A Traveller’s History of Oxford is a wonderful companion and useful guide and reference to this splendid city. It not only offers a complete and concise history of the town and university from its earliest settlements right up to the modern city of today, but gives a thorough introduction to all of its major sites and institutions.Oxford’s gifts to the world have been immense – from the English Bible, the Douai Bible, Anglicanism, the Royal Society, Christopher Wren, yellow ragwort, Methodism, the Pre-Raphaelites, Alice in Wonderland, Aestheticism, The Oxford English Dictionary, The Lord of the Rings, OXFAM, Inspector Morse…the list is endless. Oxford alumni include 5 kings, 25 of Britain’s Prime Ministers, 1 United States President, 36 Nobel Prize winner and 85 archbishops. Richard Tames skilfully weaves into his narrative thread glorious anecdotes and portraits of the eccentrics who have thrived in the town.For visitors there are tips on how to explore five of the great Oxford colleges, suggestions for Literary and Architectural walks, days trips by bicycle, bus,train or car, a guide to the museums and galleries, libraries, gardens and a full biographical summary of great Oxford names.
Author: Juan Lalaguna Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group ISBN: 9781566563246 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 308
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This book will unlock the secrets of Spain's vibrant and colorful past, its people and culture for the interested traveler. It takes the reader on a journey from the earliest settlements on the Iberian Peninsula, through the influences of the Romans, the Goths, and the Muslims, the traumas of expansion and the end of the Empire, right up to the present. Maps and line drawings.
Author: Robert Cole Publisher: Interlink Publishing ISBN: 1623710596 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 320
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Germany is the most heavily populated of all the countries within the European Union. A Traveller’s History of Germany offers a complete and authoritative history of a country from the earliest of time to the present. It presents the facts in a clear and literate format and also gives the reader expert analysis of the events.
Author: Ian Mortimer Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 1847924565 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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'Ian Mortimer's Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain tells you all you need to know about criminals, disease, beggars and other late Georgian delights' Daily Telegraph, History Books of the Year This is the age of Jane Austen and the Romantic poets; the paintings of John Constable and the gardens of Humphry Repton; the sartorial elegance of Beau Brummell and the poetic licence of Lord Byron; Britain's military triumphs at Trafalgar and Waterloo; the threat of revolution and the Peterloo massacre. In the latest volume of his celebrated series of Time Traveller's Guides, Ian Mortimer turns to what is arguably the most-loved period in British history - the Regency, or Georgian England. Ian Mortimer takes us on a thrilling journey to the past, revealing what people ate, drank, and wore; where they shopped and how they amused themselves; what they believed in and what they were afraid of. Conveying the sights, sounds and smells of the Regency period, this is history at its most exciting, physical, visceral - the past not as something to be studied but as lived experience.
Author: Ian Mortimer Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681774003 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 438
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Imagine you could see the smiles of the people mentioned in Samuel Pepys’s diary, hear the shouts of market traders, and touch their wares. How would you find your way around? Where would you stay? What would you wear? Where might you be suspected of witchcraft? Where would you be welcome? This is an up-close-and-personal look at Britain between the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 and the end of the century. The last witch is sentenced to death just two years before Isaac Newton’s Principia Mathematica, the bedrock of modern science, is published. Religion still has a severe grip on society and yet some—including the king—flout every moral convention they can find. There are great fires in London and Edinburgh; the plague disappears; a global trading empire develops.Over these four dynamic decades, the last vestiges of medievalism are swept away and replaced by a tremendous cultural flowering. Why are half the people you meet under the age of twenty-one? What is considered rude? And why is dueling so popular? Mortimer delves into the nuances of daily life to paint a vibrant and detailed picture of society at the dawn of the modern world as only he can.
Author: John Stoye Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300041804 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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This delightful book by John Stoye allows us to accompany the seventeenth-century traveler on his journeys into France, Italy, Spain, and the Netherlands
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