Download or read book Secret Peterborough written by June and Vernon Bull and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Peterborough explores the little-known and often colourful history of the Cambridgeshire cathedral city of Peterborough through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Download or read book Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough written by Abigail Hamilton-Thompson and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-12-31 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Votes for Women. Handle with Care' was the message left on a hoax bomb found under the Oundle railway bridge in 1913, just two years after the leading suffrage campaigner Mrs Pankhurst visited the city. Notable women of Peterborough include Florence Saunders, a selfless dedicated nurse who regularly visited the poorer areas of Peterborough and set up the District Nursing Health Service at the Soke. Another well known nurse, Edith Cavell, spent some time at the Laurel Court School, which was run by a leading female character. The Women's United Total Abstinence Council (WUTAC) set up a coffee wagon to encourage male workers to avoid drinking, thus helping families in the war against alcoholism. The WUTAC also set up a tea room at the railway station during the First World War to discourage sailors and soldiers from the public houses. This book explores the lives of women in Peterborough between 1850 and 1950 by looking at home life, the taking on of men's roles during the First World War, the land army, nursing, the accommodating of evacuees during the Second World war, the eccentric first Freewoman of the city and the first female mayor. Struggle and Suffrage in Peterborough uncovers the stories of the leading women in the city who helped change women's lives forever.
Download or read book Sensational Deviance written by Heidi Logan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sensational Deviance: Disability in Nineteenth-Century Sensation Fiction investigates the representation of disability in fictional works by the leading Victorian sensation novelists Wilkie Collins and Mary Elizabeth Braddon, exploring how disability acts as a major element in the shaping of the sensation novel genre and how various sensation novels respond to traditional viewpoints of disability and to new developments in physiological and psychiatric knowledge. The depictions of disabled characters in sensation fiction frequently deviate strongly from typical depictions of disability in mainstream Victorian literature, undermining its stigmatized positioning as tragic deficit, severe limitation, or pathology. Close readings of nine individual novels situate their investigations of physical, sensory, and cognitive disabilities against the period’s disability discourses and interest in senses, perception, stimuli, the nervous system, and the hereditability of impairments. The importance of moral insanity and degeneration theory within sensation fiction connect the genre with criminal anthropology, suggesting the genre’s further significance in the light of the later emergence of eugenics, psychoanalysis, and genetics.
Download or read book Secret Britain written by Tom Quinn and published by Fox Chapel Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This alternative tour of Britain offers more than 150 fascinating and beautiful, yet obscure and less-visited places that receive little coverage in more conventional guides.
Download or read book Secret Spaces Sacred Treasuries in England 1066 1320 written by Lesley Milner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval treasure house, consisting of sacristy, vestry and treasure rooms was the depository for the ecclesiastical treasure belonging to a church, holy vessels, vestments, altar hangings, candlesticks and priceless liturgical books and reliquaries. It was carefully designed to convey the message of its status and function. A book devoted to these medieval museums which housed such precious materials is long overdue. Ironically, the interest in the objects that they conserved has often resulted in ecclesiastical treasure being removed to new museums, leaving their former places of protection in need of protection themselves.
Download or read book Witchcraft and Secret Societies of Rural England written by Nigel Pennick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-04-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive account of the rich folk culture preserved in the rural secret societies of the British Isles • Describes the secret rites, ceremonies, and initiation rituals of guilds and rural fraternities such as the Shoemakers, Horsemen, Toadmen, Mummers, and Bonesmen • Explains their use of masks, black face, and other disguises to avoid persecution • Draws not only on scholarly research but also the author’s personal contacts within these still living traditions Centuries ago the remote, marshy plains of eastern England--the Fens--were drained to create agricultural land. The Fens remained isolated up until the nineteenth century, and it was this very isolation that helped preserve the ancient traditions of this area, traditions ruthlessly eradicated elsewhere in the British Isles. These magical folk traditions also owe their survival to secret rural societies, from craft guilds and trade unions to Morris dancers and village bands. Exploring the folk customs and magical traditions of guilds and rural fraternities such as the Shoemakers and Horsemen and the secrets guarded by the Free Gardeners, Witches, Toadmen, and Bonesmen, Nigel Pennick shows how the common working people of the Fens belonged to secret societies based on their specific trade. He details the hidden aspects of rural life that most historians ignore--the magical current that flowed through the lives of working people--and describes the secret rites, ceremonies, oaths, and initiation rituals of the guilds and fraternities to which the folk belonged. Drawing not only on scholarly research but also his personal contacts within these still living traditions, Pennick explains their use of masks, black face, and other disguises to avoid persecution and describes how wise woman healers and witches in rural villages were sought-after for their remedies. He shares the secrets of the toad-bone rite, which gave the Toadman control over animals and members of the opposite sex, and explores the guardian spirits thought to inhabit the Fens, including those of the Wild Hunt. Providing insight into a world that has largely disappeared, one whose magic still echoes in lore and legend, Pennick shows that the rites, customs, and ceremonies of guilds and rural fraternities connect individuals to a wider community and, through collective action, to the power of Nature and the Cosmos.
Download or read book The Closed Book Concerning the Secret of the Borgias written by William Le Queux and published by Litres. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brotherhood of Barristers written by Ren Pepitone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-04-18 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ideas of masculinity shape the British legal profession and the wider expectations of the white-collar professional? Brotherhood of Barristers examines the cultural history of the Inns of Court – four legal societies whose rituals of symbolic brotherhood took place in their supposedly ancient halls. These societies invented traditions to create a sense of belonging among members – or, conversely, to marginalize those who did not fit the profession's ideals. Ren Pepitone examines the legal profession's efforts to maintain an exclusive, masculine culture in the face of sweeping social changes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Utilizing established sources such as institutional records alongside diaries, guidebooks, and newspapers, this book looks afresh at the gendered operations of Victorian professional life. Brotherhood of Barristers incorporates a diverse array of historical actors, from the bar's most high-flying to struggling law students, disbarred barristers, political radicals, and women's rights campaigners.
Download or read book The Secret of Secrets written by Steven J. Williams and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling study of a "best-seller" from the Middle Ages
Download or read book Protestant Exiles From France written by David C.A. Agnew and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MYSTERY ESPIONAGE William Le Queux Edition 100 Spy Classics Action Thrillers Crime Novels War Stories Adventure Tales Illustrated written by William Le Queux and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2017-05-27 with total page 14100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a famous and incredibly visionary writer who wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage - in the years leading up to World War I. His best-known works are the invasion thrillers "The Great War in England in 1897” and the anti-German invasion fantasy "The Invasion of 1910.” – all written before the war… Novels The Great War in England in 1897 The Invasion of 1910 Guilty Bonds Zoraida The Temptress The Great White Queen Devil's Dice Whoso Findeth a Wife The Eye of Istar If Sinners Entice Thee The Bond of Black The Day of Temptation The Veiled Man The Wiles of the Wicked An Eye for an Eye In White Raiment Of Royal Blood Her Majesty's Minister The Under-Secretary The Seven Secrets As We Forgive Them The Sign of the Stranger The Hunchback of Westminster The Closed Book The Czar's Spy Behind the Throne The Pauper of Park Lane The Mysterious Mr. Miller Whatsoever a Man Soweth The Great Court Scandal The Lady in the Car The House of Whispers The Red Room Spies of the Kaiser The Great God Gold (Treasure of Israel) Hushed Up! A Mystery of London The Death-Doctor The Lost Million The Price of Power Her Royal Highness The White Lie The Four Faces The Sign of Silence The Mysterious Three At the Sign of the Sword The Mystery of the Green Ray Number 70, Berlin The Way to Win The Broken Thread The Place of Dragons The Zeppelin Destroyer Sant of the Secret Service The Stolen Statesman The Doctor of Pimlico Whither Thou Goest The Intriguers The Red Widow (The Death-Dealers of London) Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo This House to Let The Golden Face The Stretton Street Affair The Voice from the Void Short Story Collections Stolen Souls The Count's Chauffeur The Bomb-Makers The Gay Triangle
Download or read book Women Writers and the Artifacts of Celebrity in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Maura Ives and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1788, the Catalogue of Five Hundred Celebrated Authors of Great Britain, Now Living forecast a form of authorship that rested on biographical revelation and media saturation as well as literary achievement. This collection traces the unique experiences of women writers within a celebrity culture that was intimately connected to the expansion of print technology and of visual and material culture in the nineteenth century. The contributors examine a wide range of artifacts, including prefaces, portraits, frontispieces, birthday books, calendars and gossip columns, to consider the nature of women's celebrity and the forces that created it. How did authors like Jane Austen, the Countess of Blessington, Louisa May Alcott, Alice Meynell, and Marie Corelli negotiate the increasing demands for public revelation of the private self? How did gender shape the posthumous participation of women writers such as Jane Austen, Ellen Wood, Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Christina Rossetti in celebrity culture? These and other important questions related to the treatment of women in celebrity genres and media, and the strategies women writers used to control their public images, are taken up in this suggestive exploration of how nineteenth and early twentieth century women writers achieved popular, critical, and commercial success.
Download or read book A Companion to Sensation Fiction written by Pamela K. Gilbert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-06-20 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection offers a complete introduction to one of the most popular literary forms of the Victorian period, its key authors and works, its major themes, and its lasting legacy. Places key authors and novels in their cultural and historical context Includes studies of major topics such as race, gender, melodrama, theatre, poetry, realism in fiction, and connections to other art forms Contributions from top international scholars approach an important literary genre from a range of perspectives Offers both a pre and post-history of the genre to situate it in the larger tradition of Victorian publishing and literature Incorporates coverage of traditional research and cutting-edge contemporary scholarship
Download or read book Espionage Mystery Novels written by William Le Queux and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 16744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Le Queux (1864-1927) was a famous and incredibly visionary writer who wrote in the genres of mystery, thriller, and espionage - in the years leading up to World War I. His best-known works are the invasion thrillers "The Great War in England in 1897" and the anti-German invasion fantasy "The Invasion of 1910." – all written before the war..._x000D_ This edition includes: Novels_x000D_ The Great War in England in 1897_x000D_ The Invasion of 1910_x000D_ Guilty Bonds_x000D_ Zoraida_x000D_ The Temptress_x000D_ The Great White Queen_x000D_ Devil's Dice_x000D_ Whoso Findeth a Wife_x000D_ The Eye of Istar_x000D_ If Sinners Entice Thee_x000D_ The Bond of Black_x000D_ The Day of Temptation_x000D_ The Veiled Man_x000D_ The Wiles of the Wicked_x000D_ An Eye for an Eye_x000D_ In White Raiment_x000D_ Of Royal Blood_x000D_ Her Majesty's Minister_x000D_ The Under-Secretary_x000D_ The Seven Secrets_x000D_ As We Forgive Them_x000D_ The Sign of the Stranger_x000D_ The Hunchback of Westminster_x000D_ The Closed Book_x000D_ The Czar's Spy_x000D_ Behind the Throne_x000D_ The Pauper of Park Lane_x000D_ The Mysterious Mr. Miller_x000D_ Whatsoever a Man Soweth_x000D_ The Great Court Scandal_x000D_ The Lady in the Car_x000D_ The House of Whispers_x000D_ The Red Room_x000D_ Spies of the Kaiser_x000D_ The Great God Gold (Treasure of Israel)_x000D_ Hushed Up! A Mystery of London_x000D_ The Death-Doctor_x000D_ The Lost Million_x000D_ The Price of Power_x000D_ Her Royal Highness_x000D_ The White Lie_x000D_ The Four Faces_x000D_ The Sign of Silence_x000D_ The Mysterious Three_x000D_ At the Sign of the Sword_x000D_ The Mystery of the Green Ray_x000D_ Number 70, Berlin_x000D_ The Way to Win_x000D_ The Broken Thread_x000D_ The Place of Dragons_x000D_ The Zeppelin Destroyer_x000D_ Sant of the Secret Service_x000D_ The Stolen Statesman_x000D_ The Doctor of Pimlico_x000D_ Whither Thou Goest_x000D_ The Intriguers_x000D_ The Red Widow (The Death-Dealers of London)_x000D_ Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo_x000D_ This House to Let_x000D_ The Golden Face_x000D_ The Stretton Street Affair_x000D_ The Voice from the Void_x000D_ Short Story Collections_x000D_ Stolen Souls_x000D_ The Count's Chauffeur_x000D_ The Bomb-Makers_x000D_ The Gay Triangle
Download or read book Sant of the Secret Service Some Revelations of Spies and Spying written by William Le Queux and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Scottish Queens 1034 1714 written by Rosalind K. Marshall and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “enlightening and fascinating” exploration of Scotland’s royal women, from Lady Macbeth to Mary Queen of Scots and beyond (Booklist). The lives of the Scottish queens, both those who ruled in their own right and the consorts, have largely been neglected in conventional history books. One of the earliest known Scottish queens was none other than the notorious Lady Macbeth. Was she really the wicked woman depicted in Shakespeare’s famous play? Was St Margaret a demure and obedient wife? Why did Margaret Logie exercise such an influence over her husband, David II, and have we underestimated James VI’s consort, Anne of Denmark, frequently written off as a stupid and willful woman? Rosalind K. Marshall delves into these questions and more in this entertaining, impeccably researched book. “A broad, impressive historical work and solid introduction to Scottish history from an oft-ignored perspective: that of the queens who exercised power whenever and wherever they could find it.” —Foreword Reviews Includes illustrations and genealogical tables
