Download or read book The History and Antiquities of Chipping Campden in the County of Glouster written by Percy Charles Rushen and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of Chipping Camden in the County of Gloucester written by Percy Charles Rushen and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County of Rutland written by James Wright and published by . This book was released on 1684 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England written by Peter Sherlock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Funeral monuments are fascinating and diverse cultural relics that continue to captivate visitors to English churches, yet we still know relatively little about the messages they attempt to convey across the centuries. This book is a study of the material culture of memory in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England. By interpreting the images and inscriptions on monuments to the dead, it explores how early modern people wanted to be remembered - their social vision, cultural ideals, religious beliefs and political values. Arguing that early modern English monuments were not simply formulaic statements about death and memory, Dr Sherlock instead reveals them to be deliberately crafted messages to future generations. Through careful reading of monuments he shows that much can be learned about how men and women conceived of the world around them and shifting concepts of gender, social order and the place of humans within the universe. In post-Reformation England, the dead became superior to the living, as monuments trumpeted their fame and their confidence in the resurrection. This study aims to stimulate historians to attempt to reconstruct and engage with the world view of past generations through the unique and under-utilised medium of funeral monuments. In so doing it is hoped that more light may be shed on how memory was created, controlled and contested in pre-modern society, and encourage the on-going debate about the ways in which understandings of the past shape the present and future.
Download or read book The Manor and Manorial Records written by Nathaniel J. Hone and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gloucestershire Murders written by Linda Stratmann and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contained within the pages of this book are the stories behind some of the most notorious murders in Gloucestershire's history. The cases covered here record the county's most fascinating but least known crimes, as well as famous murders that gripped not just Gloucestershire but the whole nation. From the Cheltenham torso murder to the Campden Wonder, when William Harrison returned to Chipping Campden after three people were executed for killing him; from a fatal battle between poachers and gamekeepers near Berkeley to poisoning in the Forest of Dean, this is a collection of the country's most dramatic and interesting criminal cases.
Download or read book Sheep in the Cotswolds written by Derek Hurst and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconstructing the medieval wool trade economy through contempory documents aswell as architectural and archaelogical evidence.
Download or read book A Bibliography of British Municipal History written by Charles Gross and published by New York, London [etc.] : Longmans, Green & Company. This book was released on 1897 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Bibliography of British Municipal History Including Gilds and Parliamentary Representation written by Charles Gross and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Topographical Dictionary of England with Historical and Statistical Descriptions written by Samuel Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Topographical Dictionary of England written by Samuel Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam Ships The Story of Their Development to the Present Day written by R. A. Fletcher and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred years ago it was impossible to forecast with any accuracy how long a journey might take to accomplish, and the traveller by land or sea was liable to “moving accidents by flood and field”; but side by side with the growth of the steam-ship, and the accompanying increase of certainty in the times of departure and arrival, came the introduction of the railway system inland. Between the two, however, there is the fundamental difference that the sea is a highway open to all, while the land must be bought or hired of its owners; and the result of this was that inland transportation, implying a huge initial outlay on railroad construction, became the business of wealthy companies, whereas any man was free to build a steamboat and ply it where he would. The shipowner, moreover, has a further advantage in his freedom to choose his route, because he is at liberty to “follow trade”; but if, as has happened before now, the traffic of a town decreases, owing to a change in, or the disappearance of, its manufactures, the railway that serves it becomes proportionately useless. In another essential, the development of steam-transport on land and sea provides a more striking contrast. The main features of George Stephenson’s “Rocket” showed in 1830, in however crude a form as regards detail and design, the leading principles of the modern locomotive engine and boiler; but the history of the marine engine, as of the steam-ship which it propels, has been one of radical change. The earliest attempts were made, naturally enough, in the face of great opposition. Every one will remember Stephenson’s famous retort, when it was suggested to him that it would be awkward for his engine if a cow got across the rails, that “it would be very awkward—for the cow”;—and at sea it was the rule for a long while to regard steam merely as auxiliary to sails, to be used in calms. While ships were still built of wood, and while the early engines consumed a great deal of fuel in proportion to the distance covered, it was impossible to carry enough coal for long voyages, and a large sail-area had still to be provided. Progress was thus retarded until, in 1843, the great engineer Brunel proved by the Great Britain that the day of the wooden ship had passed; and the next ten years were marked by the substitution of iron for wood in shipbuilding. Thenceforward the story of the steam-ship progressed decade by decade. Between 1855 and 1865 paddle-wheels gave place to screw propellers, and the need for engines of a higher speed, which the adoption of the screw brought about, distinguished the following decade as that in which the “compound engine” was evolved. Put shortly, “compounding” means the using of the waste steam from one cylinder to do further work in a second cylinder. The extension of this system to “triple expansion,” whereby the exhaust steam is utilised in a third cylinder, the introduction of twin screws, and the substitution of steel for iron in hull-construction, were the chief innovations between 1875 and 1885. The last fifteen years of the century saw the tonnage of the world’s shipping doubled, and the main features of mechanical progress during that period were another step to “quadruple expansion” and the application of “forced draught,” which gives a greater steam-pressure without a corresponding increase in the size of the boilers. The first decade of the present century has been already devoted to the development of the “turbine” engine.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Books and MSS written by Ellis & Elvey and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Steam ships written by R. A. Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Bulletin of Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston written by Boston Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by Herbert Arthur Evans and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
