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: 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: 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: David Cressy Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0191080527 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 523
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Gypsies, Egyptians, Romanies, and—more recently—Travellers. Who are these marginal and mysterious people who first arrived in England in early Tudor times? Are claims of their distant origins on the Indian subcontinent true, or just another of the many myths and stories that have accreted around them over time? Can they even be regarded as a single people or ethnicity at all? Gypsies have frequently been vilified, and not much less frequently romanticized, by the settled population over the centuries. Social historian David Cressy now attempts to disentangle the myth from the reality of Gypsy life over more than half a millennium of English history. In this, the first comprehensive historical study of the doings and dealings of Gypsies in England, he draws on original archival research, and a wide range of reading, to trace the many moments when Gypsy lives became entangled with those of villagers and townsfolk, religious and secular authorities, and social and moral reformers. Crucially, it is a story not just of the Gypsy community and its peculiarities, but also of England's treatment of that community, from draconian Elizabethan statutes, through various degrees of toleration and fascination, right up to the tabloid newspaper campaigns against Gypsy and Traveller encampments of more recent years.
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: 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.
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