Download or read book HARBOROUGH HISTORIAN written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oh Happy Day written by Carmen Callil and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold 'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times 'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Review In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great grandmother Sary Lacey, born in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced - for a minor theft - to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the extraordinary brutality of convict life. But for George, as for so many disenfranchised British people like him, Australia turned out to be his Happy Day. He survived, prospered and eventually returned to England, where he met Sary again, after nearly thirty years. He brought her out to Australia, and they were never parted again. A miracle of research and fuelled by righteous anger, Oh Happy Day is a story of Empire, migration and the inequality and injustice of nineteenth-century England. 'A remarkable tale...drawing chilling parallels to the inequalities of our times' Observer
Download or read book The History of Market Harborough in Leicestershire and It s Vicinity written by William Harrod and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writing local history written by John Beckett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of 'professional' history in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. Concentrating on the past sixty years, it looks at the opening of archive offices, the invigorating influence of family history, the impact of adult education and other forms of lifelong learning. The author considers the debates generated by academics, including the divergence of views over local and regional issues, and the importance of standards set by the Victoria County History (VCH). Also discussed is the fragmentation of the subject. The antiquarian tradition included various subject areas that are now separate disciplines, among them industrial archaeology, name studies, family, landscape and urban history. This is an authoritative account of how local history has come to be one of the most popular and productive intellectual pastimes in our modern society. Written by a practitioner who has spent more than twenty years teaching local history to undergraduates and M.A. students, as well as lecturing to local history societies, John Beckett is currently Director of the VCH. A remarkable book that will be of great interest to students and scholars of local history as well as amateur and professional genealogists.
Download or read book The First English Explorer written by Kit Mayers and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first real explorer, for the English, was Anthony Jenkinson. He sailed to Russia and set out into the unknown to discover an overland route, right across Asia. His detailed reports and his map were a revelation for the Tudors. In 1557 Anthony Jenkinson was sent by the merchants of London to try to find an overland route right across Asia to Cathay and the riches of the Orient, setting off a year before Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne. His expedition to the east took place some twenty nine years earlier than the first English expedition to the west. As well as surviving storms, Jenkinson was faced with thieving, illness and several attacks by bandits, before eventually, by sheer persistence, reaching Bokhara, which is now in Uzbekistan. He had completed two thirds of the journey and had reached the ‘Silk Road’ that led to Cambaluc (Beijing), before finding that he could go no further because the route ahead was closed by continuous wars. In later expeditions, he travelled to Persia where he nearly had his head cut off and he also went to Moscow where he managed some extremely tense negotiations with Tsar Ivan the Terrible on behalf of the Muscovy Company. His reports back to the Company in London give us a great insight into what Russia was like at the time, and Tartary and Persia. ‘This book is a lively and carefully researched study of Anthony Jenkinson,’ – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE ‘This important book fills an undoubted gap in the history of English travellers in the sixteenth century,’ – Professor David Loades, FSA, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales The First English Explorer will appeal to fans of history, particularly those with a strong interest in explorers and eastern travel.
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester pt 1 Framland Hundred 1795 pt 2 Gartree Hundred 1798 written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Victoria History of the County of Worcester written by John William Willis Bund and published by Folkestone : Published for the University of London, Institute of Historical Research by Dawsons of Pall Mall. This book was released on 1913 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published by Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Download or read book History Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire and the County of Rutland written by William White (Publisher in Sheffield.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History Gazetteer and Directory of Northamptonshire Comprising a General Survey of the County and a History of the Diocese of Peterborough written by William Whellan & Co and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 970 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Peerage of Ireland Or a Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom with Their Paternal Coats of Arms written by John LODGE (Deputy Keeper of the Records in Birmingham Tower.) and published by . This book was released on 1754 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History gazetteer and directory of Leicestershire and Rutland together with the adjacent towns of Grantham Stamford written by William White and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank but uninvested with heritable honours written by John Burke (Genealogist.) and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of the Mail Routes to Ireland until 1850 written by George Ayres and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mail communication between London and Ireland was very important for both official and trade purposes from the 15th Century. From the mid 16th Century a number of designated ports were used to ship the mail to Ireland and posts were laid to those ports along defined routes, however, these routes were subject to change. This book identifies the ports, when they were used and presents the history of the changes to those routes from that early time until 1850. Detailed descriptions of the routes are given in text, tables and figures showing how they changed over these years, together with a discussion of those changes and a commentary on the improvements that were made to the roads over the years, particularly in the difficult areas of North Wales, South Wales and South West Scotland. Also included is the history of the Edinburgh to Portpatrick route. Finally the effect of the introduction of the railways on the carriage of mail to Ireland is described.
Download or read book The Reign of King Stephen written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At last: an authoritative, up to date account of the troubled reign of King Stephen, by a leading scholar of the Anglo-Norman world. David Crouch covers every aspect of the period - the king and the empress, the aristocracy, the Church, government and the nation at large. He also looks at the wider dimensions of the story, in Scotland, Wales, Normandy and elsewhere. The result (weaving its discussions around a vigorous narrative core) is a a work of major scholarship. A must for specialist and amateur medievalists alike.
Download or read book A Genealogical History of the Dormant Abeyant Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire written by Bernard Burke and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: