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Book Story of Southampton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Neal
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2014-05-05
  • ISBN : 0750958618
  • Pages : 272 pages

Download or read book Story of Southampton written by Peter Neal and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Southampton is a long overdue and engaging general history of the city, from the earliest times to the present day, taking into account its unique architectural development and heritage. It not only looks at the local history, but also how those events had a wider significance – especially in relation to the sea and communications. Peter Neal has an eye for a telling anecdote, and this, together with his lively tone and authoritative research, will make the book appealing to anyone who is seeking to find out more about this fascinating city.

Book The Story of Southampton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Neal
  • Publisher : The History Press
  • Release : 2014-05-05
  • ISBN : 0750958618
  • Pages : 282 pages

Download or read book The Story of Southampton written by Peter Neal and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story of Southampton is a long overdue and engaging general history of the city, from the earliest times to the present day, taking into account its unique architectural development and heritage. It not only looks at the local history, but also how those events had a wider significance – especially in relation to the sea and communications. Peter Neal has an eye for a telling anecdote, and this, together with his lively tone and authoritative research, will make the book appealing to anyone who is seeking to find out more about this fascinating city.

Book Running on Empty

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  • Author : John A. Strong
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 2013-06-01
  • ISBN : 1438446977
  • Pages : 347 pages

Download or read book Running on Empty written by John A. Strong and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how Southampton College went from “the jewel in the university crown” to an “albatross around the university neck.”

Book The Life of Henry  Third Earl of Southampton  Shakespeare s Patron

Download or read book The Life of Henry Third Earl of Southampton Shakespeare s Patron written by Charlotte Carmichael Stopes and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surviving Southampton

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  • Author : Vanessa M. Holden
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2021-07-13
  • ISBN : 0252052765
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Surviving Southampton written by Vanessa M. Holden and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The local community around the Nat Turner rebellion The 1831 Southampton Rebellion led by Nat Turner involved an entire community. Vanessa M. Holden rediscovers the women and children, free and enslaved, who lived in Southampton County before, during, and after the revolt. Mapping the region's multilayered human geography, Holden draws a fuller picture of the inhabitants, revealing not only their interactions with physical locations but also their social relationships in space and time. Her analysis recasts the Southampton Rebellion as one event that reveals the continuum of practices that sustained resistance and survival among local Black people. Holden follows how African Americans continued those practices through the rebellion’s immediate aftermath and into the future, showing how Black women and communities raised children who remembered and heeded the lessons absorbed during the calamitous events of 1831. A bold challenge to traditional accounts, Surviving Southampton sheds new light on the places and people surrounding Americas most famous rebellion against slavery.

Book Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County

Download or read book Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County written by David F. Allmendinger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1831, in Southampton County, Virginia, Nat Turner led a bloody uprising that took the lives of some fifty-five white people—men, women, and children—shocking the South. Nearly as many black people, all told, perished in the rebellion and its aftermath. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County presents important new evidence about the violence and the community in which it took place, shedding light on the insurgents and victims and reinterpreting the most important account of that event, The Confessions of Nat Turner. Drawing upon largely untapped sources, David F. Allmendinger Jr. reconstructs the lives of key individuals who were drawn into the uprising and shows how the history of certain white families and their slaves—reaching back into the eighteenth century—shaped the course of the rebellion. Never before has anyone so patiently examined the extensive private and public sources relating to Southampton as does Allmendinger in this remarkable work. He argues that the plan of rebellion originated in the mind of a single individual, Nat Turner, who concluded between 1822 and 1826 that his own masters intended to continue holding slaves into the next generation. Turner specifically chose to attack households to which he and his followers had connections. The book also offers a close analysis of his Confessions and the influence of Thomas R. Gray, who wrote down the original text in November 1831. Allmendinger draws new conclusions about Turner and Gray, their different motives, the authenticity of the confession, and the introduction of terror as a tactic, both in the rebellion and in its most revealing document. Students of slavery, the Old South, and African American history will find in Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County an outstanding example of painstaking research and imaginative family and community history. "The exhaustive research Allmendinger presents greatly enriches our historical understanding of the Southampton Rebellion through the eyes of its key victims. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County reveals important dimensions of the rebellion's local history and contextualizes the event, as Nat Turner did, within the context of slavery in Southampton County."—Reviews in History "Allmendinger’s great achievement is that he made full use of ‘new’ primary sources related to the uprising of 1831—new sources hitherto hidden in plain sight. Most importantly, he understood the significance of this material and knew exactly how to mine it for valuable new insights into virtually every aspect of Nat Turner’s rebellion."—Reviews in American History "No one has done more to corroborate and sync the details, nor to illuminate Turner’s inspirations and goals. Nat Turner and the Rising in Southampton County is a model of historical methodology, and goes further than any other previous work in helping readers understand Turner’s motives and meaning."—African American Intellectual History Society "We are all in David Allmendinger's debt for the labor of research that has given The Rising in Southampton County its absent material context."—Law and History Review "Though the subject of countless histories, novels, videos, and websites, Nat Turner, the leader of the largest slave insurrection in U.S. history, remains an enigma; yet, in this new and challenging study, the life and times of the legendary revolutionary come into much better focus. A must-read for historians of slave resistance and all others interested in the history of antebellum Virginia and in particular Southampton County."—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society "Allmendinger approaches a well-trodden historical event from a distinctive perspective. [He] provides the most complete historical context surrounding the rebellion. Ultimately, Allmendinger succeeds in providing a more complete understanding of the community of Southampton, Virginia, and offers a better explanation for the motivations that led Turner and his followers down such a bloody path in 1831."—Choice David F. Allmendinger Jr. is professor emeritus of history at the University of Delaware. He is the author of Paupers and Scholars: The Transformation of Student Life in Nineteenth-Century New England and Ruffin: Family and Reform in the Old South.

Book The Ash Museum

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  • Author : Rebecca Smith
  • Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
  • Release : 2021-05-03
  • ISBN : 1789559022
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book The Ash Museum written by Rebecca Smith and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through ten decades and across three continents, The Ash Museum is an intergenerational story of loss, migration and the search for somewhere to feel at home. 1944. The Battle of Kohima. James Ash dies leaving behind two families: his ‘wife’ Josmi and two children, Jay and Molly, and his parents and sister in England who know nothing about his Indian family. 2012. Emmie is raising her own daughter, Jasmine, in a world she wants to be very different from the racist England of her childhood. Her father, Jay, doesn’t even have a photograph of the mother he lost and still refuses to discuss his life in India. Emmie finds comfort in the local museum – a treasure trove of another family’s stories and artefacts. Little does Emmie know that with each generation, her own story holds secrets and fascinations that she could only dream of. 'Extraordinary' Christie Hickman, Books Editor, S Magazine 'A beautifully written, multi-generational tale' Ella Dove, novelist and Commissioning Editor at Good Housekeeping, Prima and Red magazines 'Rebecca Smith’s book demonstrates, yet again, her gift for vivid humour and deep empathy' Philip Hoare, winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-fiction

Book Old Southampton

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  • Author : Daniel W. Crofts
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780813913858
  • Pages : 452 pages

Download or read book Old Southampton written by Daniel W. Crofts and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nat Turner's 1831 slave insurrection made Virginia's Southampton County notorious. Gradually, however, the bloody spectacle receded from national memory. Although the timeless rhythms of rural life resumed after the insurrection, Southampton could not escape the forces of change. From the Age of Jackson through to secession, wartime, and Reconstruction, it shared the fate of the Old South. Many who had witnessed the insurrection lived to see Tuner's cause triumph as war destroyed the slave system, inaugurating an intense struggle to shape the new postwar order. Old Southampton links local and national history. It explains how partian loyalties developed, how white democracy flourished in the late antebellum years, how secession sharply divded neighborhoods with few slaves from those with large plantations, and how, following emancipation, former slaves challenged the prerogatives of former slaveholders. Crofts draws on two volumnious diaries and other rich records, plus rare poll lists that show how individuals voted. He vividly re-creates the experiences of planters and plain folk, slave owners and slaves, the powerful and the obscure. This deft combination of political and social history is must reading for anyone interested in the Old South and the Civil War era.

Book Bobby Stokes

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  • Author : Mark Sanderson
  • Publisher : Pitch Publishing
  • Release : 2016-05
  • ISBN : 9781785311376
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bobby Stokes written by Mark Sanderson and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the man whose goal delivered Southampton's only major trophy in 130 years and counting. Bobby Stokes's winning goal in the 1976 FA Cup Final marked an unforgettable 11-second sequence of play for Saints fans, but just how did a Portsmouth-born Pompey supporter end up scoring a cup-winning goal for his boyhood team's hated, local rivals? Bobby Stokes: The Man from Portsmouth Who Scored Southampton's Most Famous Goal answers this question and so many others. Such as, what led him to leave Saints just a year after his glory? Why did he swap the glamor of the US League and crowds of 50,000-plus in New York for the grass roots of the Sussex County League? How did he end up waiting tables in a Portsmouth cafe? And, why, less than 20 years on from that historic May afternoon, did he end up dying in poverty in 1995 at the tender age of just 44 shortly before his testimonial match was due to take place at the Dell? This book takes a long overdue look at the life of Bobby Stokes, answers those questions and tells the story of a legendary figure in Southampton's history and the man who scored the club's most-famous goal."

Book Privet Lives

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  • Author : Perry Guillot
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781576872062
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Privet Lives written by Perry Guillot and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After nearly two years defining and designing the natural environs of Southampton, New York, landscape architect Perry Guillot has created Privet Lives, a fanciful and fascinating collection of watercolours and witty text that tell an imaginary tale of the humble privet shrub, as it evolved in a tiny hamlet in the wilderness and transformed into a mighty hedging plant that set the boundaries between property owners in the ever-expanding resort town. Both a creation myth and a cautionary tale, Guillot's cinematic story balances fun and humour.

Book Bloody British History  Southampton

Download or read book Bloody British History Southampton written by Penny Legg and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-01-31 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The people of Southampton have had a lot to put up with over the centuries. If the Danes of French weren't attacking it, pirates from further along were. Treasonous plots were hatched behind its ancient walls and mutiny hit its shipping. This book looks at such bloody events as the Black Death in the city, what happens when you cross a king, the ill-fated Titanic and the Blitz. Yes, the best bits of Southampton's history are surely the bloodiest!

Book The Illustrated History of Southampton s Suburbs

Download or read book The Illustrated History of Southampton s Suburbs written by Jim Brown and published by Breedon Books Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Local historian Jim Brown chronicles the growth of the suburbs from the earliest times to the present day and illuminates the lives of people who lived in them.

Book A Short History of Southampton

Download or read book A Short History of Southampton written by Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hollow in the Land

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  • Author : James Clarke
  • Publisher : Serpent's Tail
  • Release : 2020-04-02
  • ISBN : 1782836136
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Hollow in the Land written by James Clarke and published by Serpent's Tail. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out walking Ada Robinson's dog while his wife drinks herself into a forgetful fug, Harry Maiden discovers an intricate system of caves beneath the wind turbines. Over at the Woolpack one night, Rosco re-encounters friendships he thought he'd left behind at the Stubbins paper mill. Mad old Gos leads a mysterious treasure hunt to the Bronze Age burial site at Whitelow Cairn. This is the Hollow in the Land: a corner of England teeming with mystery and intrigue and filled with real, flesh-and-blood characters, each of them at a different point along life's journey through childhood hopefulness, faded first love and middle-aged disillusionment. Hollow in the Land uncovers the small everyday mysteries of their lives - and ours.

Book Secret Southampton

    Book Details:
  • Author : Martin Brisland
  • Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
  • Release : 2019-03-15
  • ISBN : 1445685566
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Secret Southampton written by Martin Brisland and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Southampton explores the lesser-known history of the Hampshire city of Southampton through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Book Shakespeare s Sonnet Story

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  • Author : Arthur Acheson
  • Publisher : Ardent Media
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 704 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Sonnet Story written by Arthur Acheson and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1971 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land I Have Chosen

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  • Author : Ellin Berlin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1945
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 341 pages

Download or read book Land I Have Chosen written by Ellin Berlin and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: