Download or read book Kentish Archaeology II Cooling Castle Cobham Hall and Its Owners written by William Archibald Scott Robertson and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unknown Kent written by Donald Maxwell and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jottings of Kent written by William Miller (of the Indian Office.) and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Archaeologia Cantiana written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behind the Castle Gate written by Matthew Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both. By encouraging the reader to view castles in relation to their inhabitants, Matthew Johnson uncovers a whole new vantage point. He shows how castles functioned as stage-settings against which people played out roles of lord and servant, husband and wife, father and son. Building, rebuilding and living in a castle was as complex an experience as a piece of medieval art. Behind the Castle Gate brings castles and their inhabitants alive. Combining ground-breaking scholarship with fascinating narratives it will be read avidly by all with an interest in castles.
Download or read book The Great Explosion written by Brian Dillon and published by Penguin Ireland. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kent marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a remarkable piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity the interaction of human imperatives and the natural world in one of Britain's strangest and most distinctive landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry form one of our most brilliant writers." --Jacket flap.
Download or read book The history of Maidstone written by J. M. Russell and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of Strood written by Henry Smetham and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historical Ecology of the British Flora written by M. Ingrouille and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The native British flora is today relatively ant species on the continent, such as Picea impoverished. Today the British Isles has a abies (Norway spruce), did not get into Britain flora of only about 1500 species of native in time. However, we must not over flowering plants. France and Spain, each emphasize the importance of Britain being an geographically only about twice the area, island. A comparison of floras on either side have 3-4 times as many species each. The of the English Channel shows that there are comparison is more marked when consider species present in England and not in ing the endemic species, those specialities of northern France as well as vice versa. Many each geographical region which grow of the species present in northern France but nowhere else. If only normal sexual species absent from England are weeds adapted to are considered, then there are only about 13 French agriculture. Others may be limited endemic species in the British Isles while 1000 not by the sea but by the climate. species are endemic to Spain. Nevertheless, the example of Ireland, However, the poverty of the British flora is which was isolated much earlier than the rest not a unique phenomenon. The whole of of the British Isles, does show the effect of north-western Europe, an area including isolation because it does have a much poorer northern France and much of Germany and flora and fauna.
Download or read book Rockingham Castle and the Watsons written by Charles Wise and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Watson of Lyddington, Rutland County, a member of an ancient family, was a justice of the peace and a "surveyor general." He and his wife, Emma Smith, are said to have been the parents of fifteen children; seven are listed in his will. When he died in 1530, he held leases on a half a dozen parsonages and several "lordships, lands, and tenements" and was lord of some fourteen manors. The Watsons of Rockingham Castle were his descendants.
Download or read book Transactions of the Cumberland Westmorland Antiquarian Archeological Society written by Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members included in each volume except v. 1.
Download or read book In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious written by William Thomas Vincent and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1896 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ...] Gravestone plagiarism of this sort is very common, and there is to be found at West Ham, Essex, the same symbolical flight of the angel and child repeated as many as five times. The pilfering is not so weak and lamentable when the copyist appropriates merely the idea and works it out in a new fashion. The term new can hardly be attributed to the notion of a plucked flower as a type of death, but it occurs in so many varieties as almost to redeem its conventionality. ...]."
Download or read book A Perambulation of Kent written by William Lambarde and published by . This book was released on 1596 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Historic Floors written by Jane Fawcett and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2007-06-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book in the UK to be devoted to historic floors. It introduces an important and largely neglected subject and considers conservation methods in a European context. It traces the history of some of the great floors of Europe from the fourth century B.C. and outlines the development of mosaic, tiles, marble and parquetry floors in secular buildings. The early Christian pavements in basilicas, temples and cathedrals, the creation of medieval tiles, ledger stones and monumental brasses, their destruction by iconoclasts and re-creation during the Gothic Revival, are also discussed. Leading authorities, archaeologists, architects and archivists consider the latest methods of recording and repairing cathedral floors, including those of cathedrals, country houses, the monumental tiled pavements of the Palace of Westminster and other public buildings. Management policies to protect outstanding floors in over-visited sites are considered and historic features particularly at risk, are identified. Urgent action is recommended to contain the damage caused by the dramatic increase in tourism throughout Europe.
Download or read book In League with the Powerful written by Eugenia D. Bigham and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cuxton a Kentish Village written by Derek Church and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Licensed to Sell written by Geoffrey K. Brandwood and published by Historic England. This book was released on 2004 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional pub is a thing of the past. Such has been the orgy of change since the 1960's that less than 4 per cent have interiors of any historic value. This appealing new book focuses especially on what can still be seen of our once-rich pub heritage. It describes how the long and interesting history of the pub, and changing attitudes towards it are reflected in its design and planning, and how it was organised to serve and entertain the customer. It also deals with the often magnificent embellishment of pubs with ornamental glass, tilework and carved wood in the golden age of pub building around 1900. The book contains over 150 photographs of pub interiors as well as plans illustrating and explaining the development of the public house through the ages.
