Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Robert Norman William Blake Blake and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography 1971 1980 written by George Smith and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Former Provost of the Queen's College Oxford and Pro-Vice Chancellor Lord Blake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dictionary of National Biography: 1971-1980 A category small in number but not unimportant consists of those who have been engaged in secret intelligence of one sort or another. They are difficult to identify except through private information because their obituary notices and entries in Who's Who are usually enigmatic and uninformative. Nor is it easy to find authors who both know about them and are prepared to sign an article. Happily there has been no need for any anonymous entries in this volume. If Secret Service figures of sufficient eminence deserve inclusion, so do members of the sometimes overlapping circle of enemy agents. None of the latter, as far as current public knowledge goes, expired in this period, but it is to be hoped that the names of Philby, Maclean, Blake, Blunt, and others will not be forgotten when the time comes. The choice of both entries and authors lies with the editors. Some entrants choose themselves for inclusion, indeed most do; but there is a borderline where Opinions may well differ. The editors hope that they have not omitted anyone who obviously ought to be in, but they cannot expect that the 'fringe will be other than controversial. They recognize too that fame may surface later than the date of the publication of the volume. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfrid Owen omitted from earlier volumes are famous examples, but it would be hard to blame the editors of the day. As far as possible we have tried to choose as authors people who knew the entrant personally, though such knowledge need not be very intimate. We have tried in particular to choose those who seem not only knowledgeable but also impartial. In a few cases there are several refusals before one can find an author but these are rare and most of those invited accept on the first round. The editors have done all they can to verify facts. Any errors are their responsibility. Opinions are another matter, and the contributors must be responsible for these. The roll of authors is almost as distinguished as that of entrants; three prime ministers have contributed to this volume. With a few very rare exceptions we have avoided inviting close relations of the entrant. Whatever they thought of the person at the time there is a tendency to set up a memorial shrine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Christine Stephanie Nicholls and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography 1971 1980 written by Robert Blake and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A place in The Dictionary of National Biography has sometimes been described as the final accolade. The 748 men and women, whose lives are recorded in this supplement, died between the years 1971 and 1980, and their collective experience spans almost the whole of the twentieth century to date.
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Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sir Leslie Stephen and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
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Download or read book The Ecumenical Movement the Making of the European Community written by Lucian Leustean and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The European Community has largely been considered a predominantly secular project, bringing together the economic and political realms, while failing to mobilise the public voice and imagination of churchmen and the faithful. Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, this is the first study to assess the political history of religious dialogue in the European Community. It challenges the widespread perception that churches started to engage with European institutions only after the 1979 elections to the European Parliament, by detailing close relations between churchmen and high-ranking officials in European institutions, immediately after the 1950 Schuman Declaration. Lucian N. Leustean demonstrates that Cold War divisions between East and West, and the very nature of the ecumenical movement, had a direct impact on the ways in which churches approached the European Community. He brings to light events and issues which have not previously been examined, such as the response of churches to the Schuman Plan, and the political mobilisation of church representations in Brussels, Strasbourg and Luxembourg. Leustean argues that the concept of a 'united Europe' has been impeded by competing national differences between religious and political institutions, having a long-standing legacy on the making of a fragmented European Community.
Download or read book Life After Death written by Nigel Starck and published by Melbourne Univ. Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The obituary pages of our quality newspapers have been described as 'oases of calm in a world gone mad', 'a lovely part of the paper to linger in', and 'writing that matters'. Entertaining, inspiring and informative, they serve as a legitimate instrument of history, and have enjoyed an extraordinary revival in popularity over the past twenty years. Life After Death investigates-and celebrates-the development of the obituary form in the British, American, and Australian press. Author Nigel Starck tracks down the earliest exercise in obituary publication (in 1622), then traces the evolution of the form over four centuries, from times when the obituary was the reserve of royalty and privilege to its contemporary egalitarian mode. Along the way Dr Starck delves into a multitude of lives, from the heroic to the comic, the saintly to the downright villainous, the exemplary to the eccentric. Meet, in the posthumous cast list, Major Digby Tatham-Warter, of Britain's Parachute Regiment, who carried an umbrella into battle just in case it rained; the absent-minded Australian barrister Pat Lanigan, who drove from Canberra to Sydney and then flew back, leaving his car behind; and the eccentric American publisher Eddie Clontz, whose newspaper reported (exclusively, of course) that 'tiny terrorists' were disguising themselves as garden gnomes. Life After Death also incorporates a connoisseur's collection of ten obituaries reprinted in full: the subjects include Helen Keller, Diana Mosley, Quentin Crisp, George Wallace, and Rosa Parks. Without doubt, Life After Death is a book that will outlive its author-as an enduring celebration of journalism's dying art. 'Canon Smith expired after suffering an unfortunate disagreement with his bishop.'-The Sydney Morning Herald, 1882 'Minnesota Fats died at his home in Nashville. He was eighty-two, or perhaps ninety-five.'-The New York Times, 1996
Download or read book The Life and World of Francis Rodd Lord Rennell 1895 1978 written by Philip Boobbyer and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2021-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biographical study of the geographer/explorer and banker Francis Rodd, the second Lord Rennell of Rodd (1895-1978). Rodd’s life is interesting for the way it connected the worlds of geography, international finance, politics, espionage, and wartime military administration. He was famous in the 1920s for his journeys to the Sahara and his study of the Tuareg, People of the Veil (1926). A career in banking included a stint at the Bank of England, before he became a Partner in the merchant bank Morgan Grenfell—where remained for most of his working life (1933-1961). During the war he worked for the Ministry of Economic Warfare (1939=40), before getting closely involved in the sphere of military government (civil affairs). In 1942, he was War Office’s Chief Political Officer in East Africa. He was then appointed head of the first Allied Military Government in occupied Europe (Chief Civil Affairs Officer of AMGOT). In civil affairs, he was drawn to the principles of indirect rule. A generalist in an age of growing specialisation, he was also a mixture of traditionalist and moderniser. A product of Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and elevated to the peerage in 1941, he was well-connected socially, and his life is a window onto British society at a time of great change.
Download or read book Medieval State written by John Maddicott and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Campbell's work has established the impressive powers of the Anglo-Saxon state, with its ability to impose laws, raise revenue, undertake major works and consult the interests and wishes of its subjects. This collection of essays looks at the state and its successors from a number of angles.
