Download or read book Hull General Cemetery 1847 1972 a Short Introduction written by Bill Longbone and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-09 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a short introduction to the general reader who has an interest towards the more neglected parts of history. The story of Hull General Cemetery, the first and only private cemetery that existed in Hull will be fascinating to those interested in the Victorian period. The cemetery was opened in the 1840s and continued to function as a cemetery up to the 1970s. It is the story of how some far-sighted entrepreneurs in Victorian Hull struggled to solve one of the worst problems of the period, namely, how to dispose of the town's dead in a decent and dignified way. However, those entrepreneurs, in tune with those times, still looked upon this venture with the decided aim to make a profit from providing this public service and saw no problem with this dual purpose. The book outlines this dichotomy and records how the Hull General Cemetery Company strived to square this circle ultimately failing.The book also provides a number of pen pictures of some of the notables who are buried in the cemetery. Notables who were instrumental in the development of Hull during this period when it went from a town to a city, from a port whose trade was centred upon whaling and trading with its old Hanseatic links in Northern Europe to the third largest port in the United Kingdom with trade links throughout the world. Names such as John Gravill, master of the ill-fated Diana, one of the last whalers to sail from Hull. Thomas Earle, the noted sculptor, who's statues of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert still grace Pearson Park. And of course, Zachariah Pearson's own humble headstone that stands amongst the much grander monuments and obelisks of his contemporaries.Complete with many rare images of historical importance, the book also contains a large number of original images taken by the authors. It provides a welcome addition to a much-neglected part of the story of Victorian Hull. The book offers, to both the local historian and to someone who's just intrigued by this area of woodland within the city, a chance to learn more about the Hull General Cemetery Company before they visit this haunting yet magical site themselves.
Download or read book The Deed of Settlement of the Hull General Cemetery Company written by and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life of Hull General Cemetery Lodge and Other Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth book in the Hull General Cemetery series. It contains four articles on a number of subjects related to the Hull General Cemetery. We follow in the footsteps of John Symons, a local antiquarian of the 19th century, who wrote of a walk in there in 1889. The article regarding the Hull General Cemetery Lodge has never been published anywhere before. The story of why and how the cemetery was created is bookended by why and how it suffered a great deal of destruction in the 1970s in the name of redevelopment. It's hoped that this assemblage of articles will give the reader some pleasure and answer some questions they didn't know they had about Hull General Cemetery.
Download or read book Public Graves Workhouse Graves Catacombs and Crosses written by Bill Longbone and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-23 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the third in a series that will examine the development and life of Hull General Cemetery. The series will look at the many facets of this intriguing site; its history, management, social aspects, finances and much more. It will also explore the lives and history of some of the more important inhabitants of the site. Utilising documents and archive material that has never been seen in public before it is hoped that the series will be a useful tool for both the student and local historian not only of this site but for the Victorian Cemetery in general. It is hoped that it will be of use to the family historian too.This volume examines the concept of the public grave and how it was not simply the preserve of the pauper but offered a decent burial to a much wider proportion of the town's population than is generally thought. The relationships that the Cemetery enjoyed with the two local Workhouses during its life, the strains within these relationships, and how the economy of the Cemetery relied upon these relationships is explored. The extent of the burials from the Workhouses are quantified. Finally, two aspects of the Cemetery are explored. The catacombs of the Cemetery are examined. Their design, purpose, occupants and eventual fate are discussed. The Eleanor crosses that adorn three of the graves in the Cemetery are discussed and their inception, makers and which graves they stand upon is outlined along with the personal stories that prompted their erection.
Download or read book Hull General Cemetery Spring Bank Cemetery written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Researching Yorkshire Quaker History written by Helen E. Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The War Dead of Hull General Cemetery written by Bill Longbone and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-27 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great War changed the world but at what cost in human lives. The loss of life during the conflict was tremendous and unprecedented. This book focuses on how the Allies dealt with the problem of disposing of the dead, both nationally,and locally in Hull, during this period. It examines the problem of war time burial at the front, the formation of the Imperial War Graves Commission and the problems that it faced in applying the principle of equality to the fallen. It also discusses the mass outpouring of public grief that culminated in the creation of the Tomb of the Unknown Warrior and the Cenotaph. It explains the creation of the typical war grave headstone and why it was designed in this way.The burial of the war dead in Hull General Cemetery, and the later removal of the war grave headstones, is fully explained and the story behind all the servicemen who lost their lives in the Great War and who have a link with Hull General Cemetery is recounted in detail with a number of rare images and personal documents of the fallen soldiers and sailors that brings their, often short, lives back into the light.
Download or read book The Doolittle Family in America written by William Frederick Doolittle and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book American Military History Volume 1 written by Army Center of Military History and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American Military History provides the United States Army-in particular, its young officers, NCOs, and cadets-with a comprehensive but brief account of its past. The Center of Military History first published this work in 1956 as a textbook for senior ROTC courses. Since then it has gone through a number of updates and revisions, but the primary intent has remained the same. Support for military history education has always been a principal mission of the Center, and this new edition of an invaluable history furthers that purpose. The history of an active organization tends to expand rapidly as the organization grows larger and more complex. The period since the Vietnam War, at which point the most recent edition ended, has been a significant one for the Army, a busy period of expanding roles and missions and of fundamental organizational changes. In particular, the explosion of missions and deployments since 11 September 2001 has necessitated the creation of additional, open-ended chapters in the story of the U.S. Army in action. This first volume covers the Army's history from its birth in 1775 to the eve of World War I. By 1917, the United States was already a world power. The Army had sent large expeditionary forces beyond the American hemisphere, and at the beginning of the new century Secretary of War Elihu Root had proposed changes and reforms that within a generation would shape the Army of the future. But world war-global war-was still to come. The second volume of this new edition will take up that story and extend it into the twenty-first century and the early years of the war on terrorism and includes an analysis of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq up to January 2009.
Download or read book Copper and Bronze in Art written by David A. Scott and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2002 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a review of 190 years of literature on copper and its alloys. It integrates information on pigments, corrosion and minerals, and discusses environmental conditions, conservation methods, ancient and historical technologies.
Download or read book Geology of the San Francisco Bay Region written by Doris Sloan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You can't really know the place where you live until you know the shapes and origins of the land around you. To feel truly at home in the Bay Area, read Doris Sloan's intriguing stories of this region's spectacular, quirky landscapes."—Hal Gilliam, author of Weather of the San Francisco Bay Region "This is a fascinating look at some of the world's most complex and engaging geology. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in an understanding of the beautiful landscape and dynamic geology of the Bay Area."—Mel Erskine, geological consultant "This accessible summary of San Francisco Bay Area geology is particularly timely. We are living in an age where we must deal with our impact on our environment and the impact of the environment on us. Earthquake hazards, and to a lesser extent landslide hazards, are well known, but the public also needs to be aware of other important engineering and environmental impacts and geologic resources. This book will allow Bay Area residents to make more intelligent decisions about the geological issues affecting their lives."—John Wakabayashi, geological consultant
Download or read book Death Ritual and Bereavement written by Ralph Houlbrooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1989, Death, Ritual and Bereavement examines the social history of death and dying from 1500 to the 1930s. This edited collection focuses on the death-bed, funerals, burials, mourning customs, and the expression of grief. The essays throw fresh light on developments which lie at the roots of present-day tendencies to minimize or conceal the most unpleasant aspects of death, among them the growing participation of doctors in the management of death-beds in the eighteenth century and the creation of extra-mural cemeteries, followed by the introduction of cremation in the nineteenth century. The volume also underlines the importance of religious belief, in helping the bereaved in past times. The book will appeal to students and academics of family and social history as well as history of medicine, religion and anthropology.
Download or read book Manifesto written by Ernesto Che Guevara and published by Ocean Press. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to ‘do something,’ you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.” — Adrienne Rich With a preface by Adrienne Rich, Manifesto presents the radical vision of four famous young rebels: Marx and Engels’ Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Humanity.
Download or read book Man and His Symbols written by Carl G. Jung and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landmark text about the inner workings of the unconscious mind—from the symbolism that unlocks the meaning of our dreams to their effect on our waking lives and artistic impulses—featuring more than a hundred images that break down Carl Jung’s revolutionary ideas “What emerges with great clarity from the book is that Jung has done immense service both to psychology as a science and to our general understanding of man in society.”—The Guardian “Our psyche is part of nature, and its enigma is limitless.” Since our inception, humanity has looked to dreams for guidance. But what are they? How can we understand them? And how can we use them to shape our lives? There is perhaps no one more equipped to answer these questions than the legendary psychologist Carl G. Jung. It is in his life’s work that the unconscious mind comes to be understood as an expansive, rich world just as vital and true a part of the mind as the conscious, and it is in our dreams—those personal, integral expressions of our deepest selves—that it communicates itself to us. A seminal text written explicitly for the general reader, Man and His Symbolsis a guide to understanding the symbols in our dreams and using that knowledge to build fuller, more receptive lives. Full of fascinating case studies and examples pulled from philosophy, history, myth, fairy tales, and more, this groundbreaking work—profusely illustrated with hundreds of visual examples—offers invaluable insight into the symbols we dream that demand understanding, why we seek meaning at all, and how these very symbols affect our lives. By illuminating the means to examine our prejudices, interpret psychological meanings, break free of our influences, and recenter our individuality, Man and His Symbols proves to be—decades after its conception—a revelatory, absorbing, and relevant experience.
Download or read book Prices of Clothing written by John M. Curran and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corcoran Gallery of Art written by Corcoran Gallery of Art and published by Lucia Marquand. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative catalogue of the Corcoran Gallery of Art's renowned collection of pre-1945 American paintings will greatly enhance scholarly and public understanding of one of the finest and most important collections of historic American art in the world. Composed of more than 600 objects dating from 1740 to 1945.
Download or read book Tennessee Records written by and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exhaustive cemetery-by-cemetery listing of Tennessee mortuary inscriptions, with a separate section of over 100 pages devoted to biographical and historical sketches.
