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Book A History of Warrington

Download or read book A History of Warrington written by Alan Crosby and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A town at a crossroads, Warrington's position on one of the key north-south routes of England, where it crosses the east-west axis of the Mersey valley, has for 2,000 years helped to shape its destiny. A Roman road crossed the river here, then the medieval bridge brought much trade to its market; while the modern motorway network has given the town an almost unrivalled location for commercial and industrial development. Despite its antiquity, in the late 1960s it was designated a new town and in the next 30 years it was transformed into a major regional centre. A long overdue new look at every facet of the town's past in a richly illustrated narrative.

Book The Story of Warrington

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Cooke
  • Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
  • Release : 2020-08-11
  • ISBN : 1838594388
  • Pages : 520 pages

Download or read book The Story of Warrington written by Bill Cooke and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Bill Cooke is to be congratulated on his extensive and knowledgeable account of Warrington’s history.’ – Harry Wells, author of Medieval Warrington In 2015 Warrington was named by the Royal Society of Arts as the ‘least culturally alive town in England’. But was this a fair evaluation? In his new book, Bill Cooke offers a dramatic reexamination of the town. Looking back on its fascinating history dating back to the Romans, The Story of Warrington demonstrates an extensive and diverse cultural history. Should Warrington apologise for the person who supported Richard III against the Princes in the Tower? Why was Warrington thought of as the Athens of the North? What role did the town play in the Industrial Revolution and the slave trade? How did Warrington help win the Cold War? With insights into these questions and more, readers are presented with the other side of the argument and learn key facts about the history of this British town.

Book History Goes to the Movies

Download or read book History Goes to the Movies written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can films be used as historical evidence? Do historical films make good or bad history? Are documentaries more useful to historians than historical drama? Written from an international perspective, this book offers a lucid introduction to the ways films are made and used, cumulating with the exploration of the fundamental question, what is history and what is it for? Incorporating film analysis, advertisements, merchandise and internet forums; and ranging from late-nineteenth century short films to twenty-first century DVD 'special editions', this survey evaluates the varied ways in which filmmakers, promoters, viewers and scholars understand film as history. From Saving Private Ryan to Picnic at Hanging Rock to Pocahontas, History Goes to the Movies considers that history is not simply to be found in films, but in the perceptions and arguments of those who make and view them. This helpful introductory text blends historical and methodological issues with real examples to create a systematic guide to issues involved in using historical film in the study of history. History Goes to the Movies is a much-needed overview of an increasingly popular subject.

Book Fifty Key Thinkers on History

Download or read book Fifty Key Thinkers on History written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include: Herodotus Bede Ibn Khaldun E. H. Carr Fernand Braudel Eric Hobsbawm Michel Foucault Edward Gibbon Each clear and concise essay offers a brief biographical introduction; a summary and discussion of each thinker’s approach to history and how others have engaged with it; a list of their major works and a list of resources for further study.

Book History as Wonder

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marnie Hughes-Warrington
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-11-02
  • ISBN : 0429763158
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book History as Wonder written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History and Wonder is a refreshing new take on the idea of history that tracks the entanglement of history and philosophy over time through the key idea of wonder. From Ancient Greek histories and wonder works, to Islamic curiosities and Chinese strange histories, through to European historical cabinets of curiosity and on to histories that grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust, Marnie Hughes-Warrington unpacks the ways in which historians throughout the ages have tried to make sense of the world, and to change it. This book considers histories and historians across time and space, including the Ancient Greek historian Polybius, the medieval texts by historians such as Bede in England and Ibn Khaldun in Islamic Historiography, and the more recent works by Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray and Ranajit Guha among others. It explores the different ways in which historians have called upon wonder to cross boundaries between the past and the present, the universal and the particular, the old and the new, and the ordinary and the extraordinary. Promising to both delight and unsettle, it shows how wonder works as the beginning of historiography. Accessible, engaging and wide-ranging, History as Wonder provides an original addition to the field of historiography that is ideal for those both new to and familiar with the study of history.

Book Horticultural Reviews  Volume 48

Download or read book Horticultural Reviews Volume 48 written by Ian Warrington and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Horticultural Reviews presents state-of-the-art reviews on topics in horticultural science and technology covering both basic and applied research. Topics covered include the horticulture of fruits, vegetables, nut crops, and ornamentals. These review articles, written by world authorities, bridge the gap between the specialized researcher and the broader community of horticultural scientists and teachers.

Book Revisionist Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marnie Hughes-Warrington
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-07-18
  • ISBN : 1135037051
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book Revisionist Histories written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision and revisionism are generally seen as standard parts of historical practice, yet they are underexplored within the growing literature on historiography. In this accessibly written volume, Marnie Hughes-Warrington discusses this paucity of work on revision in history theory and raises ethical questions about linear models and spatial metaphors that have been used to explain it. Revisionist Histories emphasises the role of the authors and audiences of histories alike as the writers and rewriters of history. Through study of digital environments, graphic novels and reader annotated texts, this book shows that the ‘sides’ of history cannot be disentangled from one another, and that they are subject to flux and even destruction over time. Incorporating diverse and controversial case studies, including the French Revolution, Holocaust Denial and European settlers’ contact with Native Americans and Indigenous Australians, Revisionist Histories offers both a detailed account of the development of revisionism and a new, more spatial vision of historiography. An essential text for students of historiography.

Book The History on Film Reader

Download or read book The History on Film Reader written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers readers an introduction to just under 30 critical and representative writings on the relationship between film and history. These writings represent a combination of insights from film theory, cultural studies, historiography, the history of cinema, and, film promotion and reception.

Book The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson  with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier

Download or read book The Correspondence of Sarah Morgan and Francis Warrington Dawson with Selected Editorials Written by Sarah Morgan for the Charleston News and Courier written by Sarah Morgan Dawson and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The private and public writings in this volume reveal the early relationship between renowned Civil War diarist Sarah Morgan (1842-1909) and her future husband, Francis Warrington Dawson (1840-1889). Gathered here is a selection of their letters along with various articles that Morgan wrote anonymously for the Charleston News and Courier, which Dawson owned and edited. In January 1873 Morgan met Frank Dawson, an English expatriate, Confederate veteran, and newspaperman. By then Morgan had left her native Louisiana and was living near Columbia, South Carolina, with her younger brother, James Morris Morgan. When Sarah Morgan and Frank Dawson met, he was mourning the recent death of his first wife. She, in turn, was still grieving over her family’s many wartime losses. The couple’s relationship came to encompass both the personal and the professional. To free Morgan from an unhappy dependence on her brother, Dawson urged her to write professionally for his paper. During 1873 Morgan wrote more than seventy pieces on such topics as French and Spanish politics, race relations, the insanity plea, funerals, and fashion gossip---editorials that caused a sensation in Charleston. Only after attaining financial independence through her secret newspaper career did Morgan marry Frank Dawson, in 1874. Morgan’s commentary gives us a candid portrayal of the way one southern woman viewed her postwar world---even as she struggled to find her place in it.

Book Midsummer Night

    Book Details:
  • Author : Freda Warrington
  • Publisher : St. Martin's Press
  • Release : 2012-06-26
  • ISBN : 9780765358417
  • Pages : 596 pages

Download or read book Midsummer Night written by Freda Warrington and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What started as a joke unleashes supernatural forces that wreaks havoc on a family whose magic will need the power of the human heart to undo the terrible consequences of one fateful night's mischief.

Book The Court of the Midnight King

Download or read book The Court of the Midnight King written by Freda Warrington and published by Pocket Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most reviled monarch in English history or a man caught between the forces of light and darkness, pushed by circumstance into the vilest of crimes

Book Big and Little Histories

    Book Details:
  • Author : MARNIE. MARTIN HUGHES-WARRINGTON (ANNE.)
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2021-08-09
  • ISBN : 9780367023546
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Big and Little Histories written by MARNIE. MARTIN HUGHES-WARRINGTON (ANNE.) and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces students to ethics in historiography through an exploration of how historians in different times and places have explained how history ought to be written, and how those views relate to different understandings of ethics. No two histories are the same. The book argues that this is a good thing, because the differences between histories are largely a matter of ethics. Looking to histories made across the world and from ancient times until today, readers are introduced to a wide variety of approaches to the ethics of history, including well-known ethical approaches such as the virtue ethics of universal historians, and utilitarian approaches to collective biography writing while also discovering new and emerging ideas in the ethics of history. Through these approaches, readers are encouraged to challenge their ideas about whether humans are separate from other living and non-living things, and whether machines and animals can write histories. The book looks to the fundamental questions posed about the nature of history making by Indigenous history makers and asks whether the ethics at play in the global variety of histories might be better appreciated in professional codes of conduct and approaches to research ethics management. Opening up the topic of ethics to show how historians might have viewed ethics differently in the past, the book requires no background in ethics or in history theory and is open to all those with an interest in how we think about good histories.

Book The Message of the Holy Spirit

Download or read book The Message of the Holy Spirit written by Keith Warrington and published by Inter-Varsity Press. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the teaching of the Bible and church tradition, it seems that many Christians can still lack an appreciation of God the Holy Spirit. He has sometimes been valued more for the gifts he bestows than for who he is; or he has been viewed simply as the 'third person of the Godhead'. However, Keith Warrington's conviction is that the Holy Spirit is more important, more central, more immanently involved in his creation, the church, and individual believers, more often and more strategically, than many Christians realise. When Jesus left his disciples and went to heaven, he gave the best gift he could - the Holy Spirit - knowing that he will be our dynamic guide and partner as we seek to live as God's people. In this practical, biblically based exploration of the Spirit, Warrington encourages believers to recognize that the same Spirit seeks to encounter us and desires that we encounter him.

Book  How Good an Historian Shall I Be

Download or read book How Good an Historian Shall I Be written by Marnie Hughes-Warrington and published by Imprint Academic. This book was released on 2003 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Marnie Hughes-Warrington begins with the facet of Collingwood's work best known to teachers -- re-enactment -- and locates it in historically-informed discussions on empathy, imagination and history education.

Book Warrington History Tour

Download or read book Warrington History Tour written by Janice Hayes and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided tour of the historic town of Warrington, showing how it has changed over the past few centuries.

Book Celtic Warrington and Other Mysteries

Download or read book Celtic Warrington and Other Mysteries written by Mark Olly and published by . This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Taste of Blood Wine

    Book Details:
  • Author : Freda Warrington
  • Publisher : Titan Books
  • Release : 2013-05-03
  • ISBN : 1781167257
  • Pages : 661 pages

Download or read book A Taste of Blood Wine written by Freda Warrington and published by Titan Books. This book was released on 2013-05-03 with total page 661 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of passion, betrayal... and blood... On a First World War battlefield vampire Karl von Wultendorf struggles to free himself from his domineering maker, Kristian. The Neville sisters flourish in decadent, hedonistic London society in 1923: champagne, parties and the latest illegal substances. All except Charlotte, the middle of the three sisters who hides in a corner wishing she were back in Cambridge helping her professor father with his scientific experiments. When Charlotte meets her father's new research assistant Karl, it is the beginning of a deadly obsession that divides her from her sisters, her father and even her dearest friend. What price are they willing to pay to stay together? "Not merely one of the finest fantasy novels of recent years, but one of the finest ever. Should not be missed." Brian Stableford "A cross between Anne Rice and some of the more edgy modern paranormal romances, only with Freda Warrington 's incredible voice... This author truly has a gift for story telling." Not Your Ordinary Book Banter