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Book The Home Counties Magazine

Download or read book The Home Counties Magazine written by William John Hardy and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book By Sex Divided

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jonathan Petre
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book By Sex Divided written by Jonathan Petre and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years two fault lines have appeared in the Church of England. One is between liberals and conservatives, the other between supporters and opponents of the ordination of women. It has been thrust to the top of the Church's agenda by the success of the women's movement. Now that the Church's Synod has voted in favour, the Archbishop of Canterbury has become involved in a crucial damage-limitation exercise, seeking to avoid a schism.

Book Cultural Politics in Fifteenth Century England  The Case of Humphrey  Duke of Gloucester

Download or read book Cultural Politics in Fifteenth Century England The Case of Humphrey Duke of Gloucester written by Alessandra Petrina and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an analysis of the development of cultural politics in Lancastrian England. It focusses on Duke Humphrey of Gloucester, brother of Henry V and Protector of England during Henry VI's minority. Humphrey's intellectual activity conformed itself to the Duke's own position in the kingdom: the book explores Humphrey's commission of biographies, translations of Latin texts, political pamphlets and poems, as well as his collection of manuscripts acquired both in England and from Italian humanists. Particular attention is dedicated to Humphrey's donations to the University of Oxford and to his relations with English poets and translators, such as John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve, highlighting his contribution towards the making of the nation's cultural autonomy.

Book Cat s Meat Square

Download or read book Cat s Meat Square written by Stephen W. Job and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Memoirs of William Forster  ed  by B  Seebohm

Download or read book Memoirs of William Forster ed by B Seebohm written by William Forster and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Life  Death and Statistics

Download or read book Life Death and Statistics written by Edward Higgs and published by University of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of statistical information and historical background, this sourcebook is the complete history of the General Register Office--the key institution in the production of demographic data in England and Wales in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Details are provided on how the office became responsible for the British and Welsh civil registration system and the taking of censuses every ten years--from which it produced statistics on population, birth rates, mortality, and causes of death. This resource places the office's work in an intellectual, institutional, and political framework.

Book People Count

Download or read book People Count written by Muriel Nissel and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chronicles of Matthew Paris

Download or read book Chronicles of Matthew Paris written by Matthew Paris and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Early English Censuses

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  • Author : E. A. Wrigley
  • Publisher : OUP/British Academy
  • Release : 2011-09-15
  • ISBN : 9780197264799
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The Early English Censuses written by E. A. Wrigley and published by OUP/British Academy. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The censuses from the first half of the nineteenth century provided invaluable information about English economy and society. This new edition corrects earlier errors and omissions, in particular to make good the failure to record men in the armed forces and at sea. An accompanying CD contains the largest data tables.

Book Chain of Friendship

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Fothergill
  • Publisher : Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 594 pages

Download or read book Chain of Friendship written by John Fothergill and published by Cambridge : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Of his friend of many years, Dr. John Fothergill, Benjamin Franklin wrote: ' I can hardly conceive that a better man has ever existed.' Fothergill's letter provide a fascinating perspective of his time- a totally different view from that given by his contemporaries Horace Walpole and Dr. Johnson. The 'Quaker internationalist' (as his editors aptly call him) was during the middle decades of the eighteenth century one of the half dozen leading physicians of London, a horticulturist of great distinction, an educational reformer, a patron of many philanthropic causes, and a tireless friend of Americans and the cause of American rights. He was exceedingly generous as a patron of scientific undertakings and of young Americans abroad. He founded a famous Quaker school for boys and girls which is still flourishing; he helped found various benevolent and educational institutions in America and he continually subsidized worthy books and gave them to worthy recipients. All these activities and others are recorded in the some two hundred letters here selected for publication. They throw light on Quaker history on both sides of the Atlantic, on advances in medical science and institutional care of the sick, on discoveries in natural history, and on political developments from the Jacobite Rebellion through the American Revolution. From the beginnings of the rift between colonies and mother country, Fothergill served as a vigorous advocate of conciliatory measures and commonwealth status for America, speaking with equal frankness and impartiality to leaders on both sides until well after hostilities began. A few weeks before he died (at the end of 1780), he wrote Franklin in France to say that with all Europe leagued against England nothing could be hoped for her from this war, but that the world might hope for the establishment of a tribunal to settle disputes among nations and preclude war as an instrument of policy. Mrs. Corner and Dr. Booth have furnished a substantial introduction, and they have annotated the letters with great skill and authority. Lyman Butterfield, well known editor of the Adams Papers, says, 'I have never encountered annotation on bibliographical, biographical, medical, botanical, and topographical matters that is more unfailingly readable per se. The transatlantic combination of editors was obviously just right. Toward understanding one prominent strand in the cultural history of the 18th century, this book is a uniquely valuable contribution.'"- Publisher.

Book The Information State in England

Download or read book The Information State in England written by Edward Higgs and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been an enormous rise in the central state's collection of information on individuals since the sixteenth century. Historians have mined this rich seam for their own ends, but--until now--analysis of the significance of this information gathering has been mainly left to sociologists. Raising questions with immense contemporary relevance, Edward Higgs examines how and why the central state has become ever more involved in the collection and manipulation of personal information for both benign and repressive ends.

Book Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade

Download or read book Capital and Credit in British Overseas Trade written by Jacob M. Price and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Custom  Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain

Download or read book Custom Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain written by Richard W. Hoyle and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses how concepts of improvement, custom and resistance impacted on the local landscape - which includes manorial estates, enclosures, fens, forests and urban commons - in the early modern period. It is essential reading for scholars of landscape studies, rural and agrarian history, and for those studying the historical legacy of mankind's exploitation of the environment and its social, economic, legal and political consequences.

Book Britons and Anglo Saxons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas Green
  • Publisher : History of Lincolnshire Com
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0902668250
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Britons and Anglo Saxons written by Thomas Green and published by History of Lincolnshire Com. This book was released on 2012 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britons and Anglo-Saxons offers an interdisciplinary approach to the history of the Lincoln region in the post-Roman period, drawing together a wide range of sources. In particular, it indicates that a British polity named *Lindēs was based at Lincoln into the sixth century, and that the seventh-century Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Lindsey (Lindissi) had an intimate connection to this British political unit. The picture that emerges is also of importance nationally, helping to answer key questions regarding the nature and extent of Anglian-British interaction and the origins of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

Book And Sweet Singing in the Choir

Download or read book And Sweet Singing in the Choir written by and published by . This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas Wagner's rhythmically driven treatment of the beloved carol "The Holly and the Ivy" offers a fantastic opener or closer for your holiday concert. Persistent eighth notes in the piano maintain excitement throughout, and a dynamic choral pyramid ending adds to the festive atmosphere.

Book The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham  1376 1422

Download or read book The Chronica Maiora of Thomas Walsingham 1376 1422 written by Thomas Walsingham and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translated by David Preest with introduction and notes by James G. Clark Thomas Walsingham's Chronica maiora is one of the most comprehensive and colourful chronicles to survive from medieval England. Walsingham was a monk at St Albans Abbey, a royal monastery and the premier repository of public records, and therefore well placed to observe the political machinations of this period at close hand. Moreover, he knew the monarchs and many of the nobles personally and is able to offer insights into their actions unmatched by any other authority. It is this narrative, transmitted through the popular Tudor histories of Hall, Stow and Holinshed, which provides the principle source for Shakespeare's sequence of history plays. Covering almost fifty years, the narrative provides the most authoritative account of one of the most turbulent periods in English history, from the last years of Edward III (1376-77) to the premature death of Henry V (1422). Walsingham describes the many dramas of this period in vivid detail, including the Peasants' Revolt (1381), the deposition and murder of Richard II (1399-1400), The Welsh revolt of Owain Glyn Dwr (1403) and Henry V's victory at Agincourt (1415); they are brought to life here in this new translation.

Book Slavery in Yorkshire

Download or read book Slavery in Yorkshire written by John Andrew Hargreaves and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of essays based upon a conference at the University of Huddersfield, generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, explores the links between Richard Oastlers extraordinarily influential campaign against child labour in Yorkshire after 1830 and the remarkably successful campaign to abolish the transatlantic slave trade led by Yorkshire MP William Wilberforce before 1807. With contributions from D. Colin Dews, Dr John Halstead, Dr John A. Hargreaves, Dr Janette Martin, Professor Edward Royle and Professor James Walvin, it evaluates the distinctively Yorkshire context of both movements and offers a re-assessment of Oastlers contribution to their success. It reveals how Oastlers associations with both evangelical Anglicanism and Nonconformity, especially Methodism, stimulated and sustained his involvement in the ten-hour factory movement and examines the role of the regional press, local grass-roots organisation and Oastlers powerful oratory in helping to secure a successful outcome to the campaign. In a foreword, the Revd Dr Inderjit Bhogal, a leading figure in both the regional and national commemoration of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade in 2007, commends this wide-ranging historical study with its broad perspective as an important contribution to making us all more informed on the whole theme of slavery today.