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Book Somerset England to Ripon Victoria

Download or read book Somerset England to Ripon Victoria written by Pat Gillingham and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Somerset  Eng   to Ripon  Vic

Download or read book Somerset Eng to Ripon Vic written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers

Download or read book Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers written by Anne Somerset and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting portrait of Queen Victoria and the ten prime ministers who headed British government during her sixty-three-year reign It is generally accepted that Queen Victoria reigned but did not rule. This couldn’t be more wrong. A passionate and opinionated leader, Victoria was born to govern with no room for doubt about her historic destiny or the might of the empire that was built in her name. When it came to her involvement in state affairs, Victoria herself acknowledged that she had held strong “likes and dislikes” for the various prime ministers who served throughout her political evolution from headstrong teenager to seasoned leader. Anne Somerset’s Queen Victoria and Her Prime Ministers charts the feuds and affectionate interactions Victoria had with her ten premiers in often hilarious detail, from her adoration of Benjamin Disraeli, her favorite prime minister who filled her life with “poetry, romance, and chivalry,” to her detestation for William Gladstone, a man she deemed a “dangerous old fanatic.” Drawing extensively on unpublished sources such as material from the Royal Archives and never-before-seen prime ministerial papers, Somerset casts a fresh and highly illuminating perspective not just on Victoria, but on the exceptional politicians who served her in a time of massive global change.

Book The Story of Africa and Its Explorers

Download or read book The Story of Africa and Its Explorers written by Robert Brown and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1022 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Church of England Magazine

Download or read book The Church of England Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report and speeches at the [third] annual meeting of the Church Pastoral-aid Society, May 8, 1838.

Book A General Dictionary of Geography  Descriptive  Physical  Statistical  Historical  Forming a Complete Gazetteer of the World

Download or read book A General Dictionary of Geography Descriptive Physical Statistical Historical Forming a Complete Gazetteer of the World written by Alexander Keith Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Late Victorian Folksong Revival

Download or read book The Late Victorian Folksong Revival written by E. David Gregory and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-04-13 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, left off, Gregory systematically explores what the Late Victorian folksong collectors discovered in the field and what they published for posterity, identifying differences between the songs noted from oral tradition and those published in print. In doing so, he determines the extent to which the collectors distorted what they found when publishing the results of their research in an era when some folksong texts were deemed unsuitable for "polite ears." The book provides a reliable overall survey of the birth of a movement, tracing the genesis and development of the first English folksong revival. It discusses the work of more than a dozen song-collectors, focusing in particular on three key figures: the pioneer folklorist in the English west country, Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould; Frank Kidson, who greatly increased the known corpus of Yorkshire song; and Lucy Broadwood, who collected mainly in the counties of Sussex and Surrey, and with Kidson and others, was instrumental in founding the Folk Song Society in the late 1890s. The book includes copious examples of the song tunes and texts collected, including transcriptions of nearly 300 traditional ballads, broadside ballads, folk lyrics, occupational songs, carols, shanties, and "national songs," demonstrating the abundance and high quality of the songs recovered by these early collectors.

Book A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer

Download or read book A New and Comprehensive Gazetteer written by George Newenham Wright and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Masonic records  1717 1894  being lists of all the lodges at home and abroad warranted by the four grand lodges and the  United Grand Lodge  of England  with their dates of constitution  places of meeting  alterations in numbers   amp c    amp c      also particulars of all lodges having special privileges  centenary warrants

Download or read book Masonic records 1717 1894 being lists of all the lodges at home and abroad warranted by the four grand lodges and the United Grand Lodge of England with their dates of constitution places of meeting alterations in numbers amp c amp c also particulars of all lodges having special privileges centenary warrants written by John Lane and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1895-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crusade against Drink in Victorian England

Download or read book Crusade against Drink in Victorian England written by Lilian Lewis Shiman and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-01-07 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drink, 'the curse of Britain', was sweeping the land, or so it seemed to many Englishmen in the early decades of the nineteenth century. They held it responsible for crime, poverty and many other ills of the rapidly industrializing towns. A 'moderation' temperance reform organized in 1829 largely under middle class auspices soon gave way to a radical commitment to total abstinence in a great variety of worker self-help groups. When these too failed to change the drinking habits of most Englishmen the temperance movement sought new alliances. In the 1870s and 1880s Gospel Temperance married temperance to revivalist religion. It received the support of both established and non-conformist churches, and millions 'took the pledge'. But many did not; and as religious enthusiasm faded the anti-drink forces shifted their attention to the political arena. After successfully pressuring the Liberal Party to adopt limited prohibition, they mounted a great but unsuccessful campaign in the 1895 election. With this defeat the anti-drink crusade disintegrated, leaving the dedicated teetotallers socially isolated in the safe haven of their drink-free subculture.

Book The Post office directory of the brewers and maltsters  afterw   Kelly s directory of the wine and spirit trades  with which are included brewers and maltsters  1st 10th  12th 16th ed

Download or read book The Post office directory of the brewers and maltsters afterw Kelly s directory of the wine and spirit trades with which are included brewers and maltsters 1st 10th 12th 16th ed written by Kelly's directories, ltd and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Encyclopaedia Britannica

Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Wells Cathedral

    Book Details:
  • Author : Warwick Rodwell
  • Publisher : Liverpool University Press
  • Release : 2014-07-15
  • ISBN : 1848022204
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book Wells Cathedral written by Warwick Rodwell and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeological excavation, architectural survey and historical research carried out between 1978 and 1993 have elucidated the origins and early development of Wells Cathedral. Study concentrated primarily on the cloister and its adjuncts, and excavation took place in the adjoining ‘Camery’ garden. Here lay an ancient cemetery and the foundations of a succession of demolished buildings, ranging in date from Roman to post-medieval. Collectively, these enshrined a continuous development of religious and sepulchral activity, probably from the fourth to the mid-sixteenth century; secular uses followed. Adjacent to the Camery are the springs from which Wells takes its name. The first mention of the ‘holy well’ and minster church of St Andrew is in A.D. 766. Excavation yielded a complex stratigraphic sequence, demonstrating how an anonymous late Roman mausoleum burial probably provided the raison d’être for the development of a Middle Saxon cemetery and chapel, and hence for the origins of Wells Cathedral itself in 909. The establishment of this sequence is uniquely important in the history of English cathedral archaeology and sets Wells alongside developments in continental Europe.