Download or read book The Dunbar Martyrs written by Simon Webb and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-31 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2013 the bones of as many as twenty-nine young men and boys were discovered under a disused courtyard in Durham City. A team of experts later determined that these were the remains of some of the hundreds of Scottish prisoners of war who died in Durham Cathedral over three hundred and sixty years ago. Simon Webb's highly accessible new book offers an up-to-date account of the Dunbar Martyrs - so called because they were taken prisoner after the Battle of Dunbar in 1650. The book also follows the later history of some of the survivors, who were dispatched from Durham to new lives in the New World.

Download or read book Martyrs Monsters written by Robert Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of dangerously dark fiction by the author of WILLY, THE PINES and THE SHORE“Completely and utterly engrossing.” LAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION“A masterpiece.”DARK SCRIBE MAGAZINE

Download or read book The Martyr and the Traitor written by Virginia DeJohn Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prologue: lives, interrupted -- Fathers and sons -- Moses and Phoebe -- Son of Linonia -- The unhappy misunderstanding -- More extensive public service -- A very genteel looking fellow -- The terrible crisis of my earthly fate -- Post mortem

Download or read book The Martyr and the Traitor written by Virginia DeJohn Anderson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1776, two men from Connecticut each embarked on a dangerous mission. One of the men, a soldier disguised as a schoolmaster, made his way to British-controlled Manhattan and began furtively making notes and sketches to bring back to the beleaguered Continental Army general, George Washington. The other man traveled to New York to accept a captain's commission in a loyalist regiment before returning home to recruit others to join British forces. Neither man completed his mission. Both met their deaths at the end of a hangman's rope, one executed as a spy for the American cause and the other as a traitor to it. Neither Nathan Hale nor Moses Dunbar deliberately set out to be a revolutionary or a loyalist, yet both suffered the same fate. They died when there was every indication that Britain would win the American Revolution. Had that been the outcome, Dunbar, convicted of treason and since forgotten, might well be celebrated as a martyr. And Hale, caught spying on the British, would likely be remembered as a traitor, rather than a Revolutionary hero. In The Martyr and the Traitor, Virginia DeJohn Anderson offers an intertwined narrative of men from very similar backgrounds and reveals how their relationships within their families and communities became politicized as the imperial crisis with Britain erupted. She explores how these men forged their loyalties in perilous times and believed the causes for which they died to be honorable. Through their experiences, The Martyr and the Traitor illuminates the impact of the Revolution on ordinary lives and how the stories of patriots and loyalists were remembered and forgotten after independence.

Download or read book Lost Lives New Voices written by Christopher M. Gerrard and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sinclairs of Scotland written by Robert Sinclair and published by Authorhouse UK. This book was released on 2013 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides us with an accurate historical view of the Sinclair family alongside Scottish history It explores the journey of the Sinclairs from their Normandy routes to Scotland. Sinclair is one of the oldest surnames in Europe and its ancestry goes back to William the Conqueror. The book identifies the origin and formation of the Sinclair Clan, shows the crest and tartans and their Earldoms and Castles. From these it guides us to places of interest today. The Sinclairs were well respected and throughout the centuries, won or were awarded property and lands. They were greatly involved in the battles of the Wars of Independence and are first mentioned in the invasion of England with William the Conqueror. This book goes on to describe in detail, all the battles looking at the first Battle of Dunbar in 1296 effectively ending in an English victory to the first battle for Independence, the Battle of Roslin. It goes on encountering the Sinclairs in the likes of the Battles of Bannochburn and Culloden to the ill fated Invasion of England in 1648 with King Charles II. It then takes us on, ending the journey at the Union of Parliaments of Scotland and England in 1707.

Download or read book The Poems of William Dunbar written by William Dunbar and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Britons and their Battlefields written by Ian Atherton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-08-19 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much attention has been paid to the commemoration of conflict in the twentieth century, this book is the first to consider conflict memory in the long term, arguing that modern practices were not created out of the mud of the trenches, but evolved from much longer practices. From the fourteenth century to the present day, this work analyses the changing commemoration and memories of British battlefields at home and overseas, from Bannockburn (1314) to Bosworth (1485) to Basra (1914-1921). Across these seven centuries, there have been a series of recurring post-battle rituals that have shaped and continue to shape memories of conflict. Three distinct but overlapping periods of memory can be delineated: In the later Middle Ages battlefields were consecrated by the burial of the fallen and often by the erection of a battlefield cross, or chapel or chantry to pray for the dead. The second phase began with the Protestant Reformation in the 1530s, when pilgrimage and prayers for the dead was abolished, and battlefield chantries were dissolved and many battlefield crosses were demolished. Memories shifted from the dead to the living, especially the bodies of surviving veterans who commemorated the conflict by their wounds, and from soil and stone to print and ink. The third phase began in the eighteenth century when antiquaries and others established new monuments on past battlefields. Monuments to survivors and the dead were established on contemporary battlefields such as Waterloo, once again hailed as sacred ground hallowed by bloodshed, fit destinations for a pilgrimage. Not just officers but ordinary soldiers began to be memorialized by name on the battlefield, culminating in the cult of the names of the dead enshrined by the creation of the War Graves Commission in 1917, and the idea that battlefields should be preserved unchanged as seen in modern heritage management. Drawing on a wide variety of literary and historical sources and taking a uniquely longue durée approach, the book explores and links memory-making practices from across the period to reconsider the ways in which battlefields are commemorated and re-commemorated. In so doing, it makes a unique contribution to a wide range of historiographical fields: British history since the fourteenth century, memory studies, heritage studies, landscape history, conflict archaeology, and military history.

Download or read book Twenty Two Turbulent Years 1639 1661 written by David C. Wallace and published by Fast-Print Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chronological History of the British Civil Wars, in England, Scotland and Ireland, covering all of the battles and other events. An easy to use interactive ready reference covering the turbulent period between 1639 -1661. .

Download or read book The Dunbar Speaker and Entertainer written by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first speaker produced for black children made up of recitations by mostly black authors and speakers.

Download or read book Last Days of the Martyrs written by Andrew Redman BONAR and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Foxe s Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Fox s Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 1214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Martyrs Who for Our Country Gave Up Their Lives in the Prison Pens in Andersonville Ga written by United States. Army. Quartermaster's Department and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book William Dunbar 1460 1520 written by Mackay and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Roll of Honor The martyrs in the prison pens in Andersonville Ga written by United States. Quartermaster's Department and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Foxe s Book of Martyrs written by John Foxe and published by Ambassador International. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christian classic tells the stories of brave men and women who were martyred for their faith in the fourteenth through sixteenth centuries.