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Book Bexleyheath A History

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Mercer
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2012-04-15
  • ISBN : 1445624788
  • Pages : 163 pages

Download or read book Bexleyheath A History written by John Mercer and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2012-04-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Bexleyheath has changed and developed over the last century.

Book London s Local History

Download or read book London s Local History written by Peter Marcan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tasa s Song

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  • Author : Linda Kass
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2016-05-03
  • ISBN : 1631520652
  • Pages : 289 pages

Download or read book Tasa s Song written by Linda Kass and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary novel inspired by true events. 1943. Tasa Rosinski and five relatives, all Jewish, escape their rural village in eastern Poland—avoiding certain death—and find refuge in a bunker beneath a barn built by their longtime employee. A decade earlier, ten-year-old Tasa dreams of someday playing her violin like Paganini. To continue her schooling, she leaves her family for a nearby town, joining older cousin Danik at a private Catholic academy where her musical talent flourishes despite escalating political tension. But when the war breaks out and the eastern swath of Poland falls under Soviet control, Tasa’s relatives become Communist targets, her tender new relationship is imperiled, and the family’s secure world unravels. From a peaceful village in eastern Poland to a partitioned post-war Vienna, from a promising childhood to a year living underground, Tasa’s Song celebrates the bonds of love, the power of memory, the solace of music, and the enduring strength of the human spirit. 2016 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY): Bronze Medal, Historical Fiction 2016 Foreword INDIES Book Awards: Finalist - Historical Fiction

Book Bexley

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bexley Historical Society
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2014-08-18
  • ISBN : 1439646848
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Bexley written by Bexley Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1908, Bexley is one of the earliest suburbs of Columbus, but it was settled by Native Americans long before Ohio became a state and Columbus its capital. Bexley packs a wealth of history and culture into less than two and a half square miles. It has been home to governors, award-winning authors, artists, movie stars, business leaders, and a famed aviatrix. Bexley has a long history of diversity and inclusion, welcoming people of all faiths and ethnicities. Hemmed in on all sides by the city of Columbus, Bexley has still been able to maintain a unique economic vitality characterized by businesses of all types for over 100 years. Just as notable is the citys wide array of churches and synagogues, as well as high-quality public and private educational institutions, including Capital University, that educate students from grammar school through graduate studies.

Book British Sport  Local histories

Download or read book British Sport Local histories written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

Book Church History of Kent

Download or read book Church History of Kent written by Thomas Timpson and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Letters from Normandy

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  • Author : John Mercer
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2010-10-15
  • ISBN : 144561250X
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book Letters from Normandy written by John Mercer and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2010-10-15 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man's story from the last year of the Second World War, based on his memory, letters sent to his mother, and the Official War Diaries.

Book Religious Seminaries in America  1989

Download or read book Religious Seminaries in America 1989 written by Thomas C. Hunt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1989, this bibliography considers religious seminaries that are affiliated with the various denominations of the theological institutions established in the United States by the Protestants in the early 1800s, it also considers non-denominational and independent settings. Divided into two sections, the first short section considers the relationship between the civil governments and the seminaries, the second, organized by denomination into 15 chapters provides an extensive bibliography with annotations. The work pulls together a wealth of reference material and identifies salient works, whether book, article, dissertation or essay, to provide a much-needed resource for those interested in seminary education in the United States, whether scholar, student, policy maker, or interested citizen.

Book William Morris and his Palace of Art

Download or read book William Morris and his Palace of Art written by Tessa Wild and published by Philip Wilson Publishers. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Morris and his Palace of Art is a comprehensive new study of Red House, Bexleyheath; the only house commissioned by William Morris and the first independent architectural work of his close friend, Philip Webb. Morris moved in to Red House as an ebullient young man of 26, with an independent income and a head brimming with ideas and the persistent question of ‘how best to live? Red House, together with its Pre-Raphaelite garden, stands as the physical embodiment of his exuberant spirit, youthful ambition, passionate medievalism, creativity and great sense of possibility. For five intense years from 1860–5, it was a place of halcyon days – happy family life, loyal friendship, good humoured competition, and the jovial campaign of decorating; furnishing the house and designing the garden. Drawing on a wealth of new physical evidence, this book argues that Red House constitutes an ambitious and critical chapter in his design history. It will re-consider the inspiration it provided for the founding of ‘the Firm’ of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (later Morris & Co.), in 1861, and the vital collaboration of Webb, Burne-Jones, Rossetti and their intimate circle in realising Morris’s dream for his house.

Book Columbus Pizza  A Slice of History

Download or read book Columbus Pizza A Slice of History written by Jim Ellison and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly a century Columbus, Ohio pizza parlors have served up delicious meals by the tray and by the slice. This history goes back to the 1930s, when TAT Ristorante began serving pizza. Today, it is the oldest family-owned restaurant in the city. Over the years, a specific style evolved guided by the experiences and culinary interpretations of local pizza pioneers like Jimmy Massey, Romeo Sirij, Tommy Iacono, Joe Gatto, Cosmo Leonardo, Pat Orecchio, Reuben Cohen, Guido Casa and Richie DiPaolo. The years of experimentation and refinement culminated in Columbus being crowned the pizza capital of the USA in the 1990s. Author and founder of the city's first pizza tour Jim Ellison chronicles one of the city's favorite foods.

Book An Epitome of County History

Download or read book An Epitome of County History written by Christopher Greenwood and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red House

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  • Author : Edward Hollamby
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 72 pages

Download or read book Red House written by Edward Hollamby and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The house documented here was designed for William Morris, the founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement by his architect friend Philip Webb in 1858. Its design was heavily influenced by Morris and it is one of the earliest architectural expressions of the Arts and Crafts ideal.

Book A History of London Boroughs Through Beer Goggles  South East Edition

Download or read book A History of London Boroughs Through Beer Goggles South East Edition written by Cyril O'Brien and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover facts, fiction, trivia and history of some of London’s boroughs that you may not have known before. All of this done whilst visiting some very interesting pubs and getting some exercise to boot! Why not read and discover about a reputed spy for Russia, who lived in a quiet suburb unbeknownst to her neighbours for decades after WWII? Or learn about Her Majesty the Queen’s beasts and what they mean? Find out about the Fighting Temeraire and the part it played in the Battle of Trafalgar. And finally, uncover the Great Fires of London, but not the one everyone talks about. A wealth of factoids which will astound your friends and family and could very well prepare you for some quiz nights!

Book Bexley Tracts     By the Vicar of that Parish  i e  Charles Goddard

Download or read book Bexley Tracts By the Vicar of that Parish i e Charles Goddard written by BEXLEY TRACTS. and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of London County Lunatic Asylums   Mental Hospitals

Download or read book A History of London County Lunatic Asylums Mental Hospitals written by Ed Brandon and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-09-21 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Middle-Ages onwards, London’s notorious Bedlam lunatic hospital saw the city’s ‘mad’ locked away in dank cells, neglected and abused and without any real cure and little comfort. The unprecedented growth of the metropolis after the Industrial Revolution saw a perceived ‘epidemic’ of madness take hold, with ‘county asylums’ seen by those in power as the most humane or cost-effective way to offer the mass confinement and treatment believed necessary. The county of Middlesex – to which London once belonged – would build and open three huge county asylums from 1831, and when London became its own county in 1889 it would adopt all three and go on to build or run another eight such immense institutions. Each operated much like a self-contained town; home to thousands and often incorporating its own railway, laundries, farms, gardens, kitchens, ballroom, sports pitches, surgeries, wards, cells, chapel, mortuary, and more, in order to ensure the patients never needed to leave the asylum’s grounds. Between them, at their peak London’s eleven county asylums were home to around 25,000 patients and thousands more staff, and dominated the physical landscape as well as the public imagination from the 1830s right up to the 1990s. Several gained a legacy which lasted even beyond their closure, as their hulking, abandoned forms sat in overgrown sites around London, refusing to be forgotten and continuing to attract the attention of those with both curious and nefarious motives. Hanwell (St Bernard’s), Colney Hatch (Friern), Banstead, Cane Hill, Claybury, Bexley, Manor, Horton, St Ebba’s, Long Grove, and West Park went from being known as ‘county lunatic asylums’ to ‘mental hospitals’ and beyond. Reflecting on both the positive and negative aspects of their long and storied histories from their planning and construction to the treatments and regimes adopted at each, the lives of patients and staff through to their use during wartime, and the modernisation and changes of the 20th century, this book documents their stories from their opening up to their eventual closure, abandonment, redevelopment, or destruction.

Book 1666

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rebecca Rideal
  • Publisher : John Murray
  • Release : 2016-08-25
  • ISBN : 1473623553
  • Pages : 408 pages

Download or read book 1666 written by Rebecca Rideal and published by John Murray. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1666 was a watershed year for England. The outbreak of the Great Plague, the eruption of the second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London all struck the country in rapid succession and with devastating repercussions. Shedding light on these dramatic events, historian Rebecca Rideal reveals an unprecedented period of terror and triumph. Based on original archival research and drawing on little-known sources, 1666: Plague, War and Hellfire takes readers on a thrilling journey through a crucial turning point in English history, as seen through the eyes of an extraordinary cast of historical characters. While the central events of this significant year were ones of devastation and defeat, 1666 also offers a glimpse of the incredible scientific and artistic progress being made at that time, from Isaac Newton's discovery of gravity to Robert Hooke's microscopic wonders. It was in this year that John Milton completed Paradise Lost, Frances Stewart posed for the now-iconic image of Britannia, and a young architect named Christopher Wren proposed a plan for a new London - a stone phoenix to rise from the charred ashes of the old city. With flair and style, 1666 shows a city and a country on the cusp of modernity, and a series of events that forever altered the course of history.

Book Martini Afternoons

    Book Details:
  • Author : Beverly Fortenberry
  • Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
  • Release : 2017-08-18
  • ISBN : 1543446116
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Martini Afternoons written by Beverly Fortenberry and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-08-18 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Bexley, Indiana. You might have seen Bexley on Fox News or the PBS Sunday Morning Program. If you missed these, no matter. Martini Afternoons takes you back to the events that turned this small Indiana town into a national treasure. Why? Because it is the only town in America that created a museum honoring what the home folks did to support the fighting men and women during World War II. The patriotism shown by the townspeople is on display in the home front museum that our heroines Edi and Elli built. Whether you experienced the war years yourself or were told about it by your parents or grandparents, take a walk through the Bexley museumyou will be glad you did!