In Search Of London

Author: H.v. Morton
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0786749849
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 454

Book Description
H. V. Morton turns his traveler's intuition and his reporter's eye for detail to the city that has fascinated him since childhood—London past, present, and timeless. He explores the City and the Temple, Covent Garden, SoHo, and all the "submerged villages beneath the flood of bricks and mortar," uncovering layer upon layer of London's history. Morton follows the thread of imagination back and forth across the city, tracing unforgettable scenes: the Emperor Claudius leading his war elephants across the Thames. . .the grisly executions at the Tower. . .the world of Shakespeare, Dickens, and Queen Victoria. . .and the shattered yet defiant city of the Blitz as well as the postwar London of "ruins and hatless crowds." Morton's quest for London’s heart reveals how its daily life is rooted in a past that is closer and more familiar than we might think, making the book as informative, entertaining, and rich in human color today as when it was written fifty years ago.

Icons of England

Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1409095665
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
This celebration of the English countryside does not only focus on the rolling green landscapes and magnificent monuments that set England apart from the rest of the world. Many of the contributors bring their own special touch, presenting a refreshingly eclectic variety of personal icons, from pub signs to seaside piers, from cattle grids to canal boats, and from village cricket to nimbies. First published as a lavish colour coffeetable book, this new expanded paperback edition has double the original number of contributions from many celebrities including Bill Bryson, Michael Palin, Eric Clapton, Bryan Ferry, Sebastian Faulks, Kate Adie, Kevin Spacey, Gavin Pretor-Pinney, Richard Mabey , Simon Jenkins, John Sergeant, Benjamin Zephaniah, Joan Bakewell, Antony Beevor, Libby Purves, Jonathan Dimbleby, and many more: and a new preface by HRH Prince Charles.

The Story of England

Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141961155
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417

Book Description
A VILLAGE AND ITS PEOPLE THROUGH THE WHOLE OF ENGLISH HISTORY The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. Bought in the thirteenth century by William de Merton, who founded Merton College, Oxford, it also lodges 750 years of village history. Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries - from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. He builds on this unique archive, enlisting the help of Kibworth's inhabitants in a village-wide archaeological dig and the first complete DNA profile of an English village. The story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a Who Do You Think You Are? for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS

Mustn't Grumble

Author: Joe Bennett
Publisher: Ulverscroft
ISBN: 9781846176661
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 422

Book Description
Eighteen years ago, Joe Bennett left England. Now, he's back. But how is the England of his memory different from the England of the motorway? Identikit High Streets, New Labour, poker-machine pubs - things aren't what they used to be. But Joe begins to wonder if things were ever what they used to be. Even a century ago, H.V Morton, the nation's most celebrated eulogiser, was In Search of England... Joe Bennett delivers a dazzlingly funny and poignant portrait of his homeland, which is part love letter, part eulogy and part diatribe.

The Production of Books in England 1350-1500

Author: Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.

Our Hearts Are in England

Author: Jordan Marxer
Publisher: 83 Press
ISBN: 9781940772707
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Our Hearts Are in England offers an impassioned salute to our most cherished destinations.

Used Books

Author: William Howard Sherman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812220846
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 283

Book Description
Based on a survey of early printed books, Used Books describes what readers wrote in and around their books and what we can learn from these marks by using the tools of archaeologists as well as historians and literary critics.

Gentlemen from England

Author: Maud Hart Lovelace
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 378

Book Description
English gentry go in for bean farming in Minnesota after the Civil War.

A People's History of England

Author: Arthur Leslie Morton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789350022559
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Edmund

Author: Francis Young
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781350165250
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
What buried secret lies beneath the stones of one of England's greatest former churches and shrines, the Benedictine Abbey of Bury St Edmunds? As Edmund: In Search of England's Lost King suggests, present obscurity may conceal a find as significant as the emergence from beneath a Leicester car-park of the remains of Richard III. For Bury, Francis Young now reveals, is the probable site of the body - placed in an `iron chest' but lost during the Dissolution of the Monasteries - of Edmund: martyred monarch of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia and, well before St George, England's first patron saint. After the king was slain by marauding Vikings in the 9th century, the legend which grew up around his murder led to the foundation in Bury of one of the pre-eminent shrines of Christendom. In showing how Edmund became the pivotal figure around whom Saxons, Danes and Normans all rallied, this fascinating book points to the imminent rediscovery of the ruler who created England.