Download or read book Market Harborough and the Local Villages written by Trevor Hickman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and charming look at the history of Market Harborough and its neighbouring villages through a fascinating collection of beautiful photographs.
Download or read book Towns and Local Communities in Medieval and Early Modern England written by David M. Palliser and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Palliser focuses here on towns in England in the centuries between the Norman Conquest and the Tudor period, on which he is an acknowledged authority. Urban topography, archaeology, economy, society and politics are all brought under review, and particular attention is given to relationships between towns and the Crown, to the evidence for migration into towns, and to the vexed question of urban fortunes in the 15th and 16th centuries. Two essays set urban history in a broader framework by considering recent work on town and village formation and on the development of parishes. The collection includes two hitherto unpublished studies and is introduced and put in context by a new survey of English towns from the 7th to the 16th centuries.
Download or read book Oakham the Villages Through Time written by Trevor Hickman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Oakham & the surrounding Villages have changed and developed over the last century.
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 Bowden to Harborough written by John Christopher Davies and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Market Harborough written by Len Holden and published by Cottage Publications (UK). This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sit back and relax as local historian and author Len Holden and artist Linda Chambers take you on a unique tour of Market Harborough, around the town and beyond. Along the way you'll pause to look around the historic streets of Market Harborough to hear stories of the town's own Dick Whittington and the grammar school built on stilts which he founded, before striking out to the picturesque countryside and villages to explore such delights as bottle kicking at Hallaton and the last remaining post mill in Leicestershire.
Download or read book History Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire and the Small County of Rutland written by William White and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Londinensis Or Universal Dictionary of Arts Sciences and Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story of England written by Michael Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-05-29 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Story of England Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of one English community over fifteen centuries, from the moment that the Roman Emperor Honorius sent his famous letter in 410 advising the English to look to their own defences to the village as it is today. The village of Kibworth in Leicestershire lies at the very centre of England. It has a church, some pubs, the Grand Union Canal, a First World War Memorial - and many centuries of recorded history. In the thirteenth century the village was bought by William de Merton, who later founded Merton College, Oxford, with the result that documents covering 750 years of village history are lodged at the college. Building on this unique archive, and enlisting the help of the current inhabitants of Kibworth, with a village-wide archeological dig, with the first complete DNA profile of an English village and with use of local materials like family memorabilia, the story of Kibworth is the story of England itself, a 'Who Do You Think You Are?' for the entire nation. 'Better than any historian for decades, [in In Search of England] Wood brings home not just the ways in which buildings, landscapes and written texts may be read, but the sensual beauty of encounters with them' TLS Michael Wood was born and educated in Manchester. He was an open scholar in Modern History at Oriel College, Oxford, where he held a Bishop Fraser scholarship in Medieval History as a postgraduate. He has made a number of internationally successful tv series, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, and four of his books have been UK non-fiction number one bestsellers. His highly acclaimed book of essays on early English history, In Search of England, was published by Penguin in 1999.
Download or read book The Country Towns Mission Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cambridge Urban History of Britain written by Peter Clark and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of urbanisation and suburbanisation in Britain from the Victorian period to the twentieth century.
Download or read book Encyclopaedia Londinensis written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Family and Inheritance in Transition written by Cicely Howell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Howell examines Kibworth Harcourt between the later Middle Ages and the early modern period where English rural society changes.
Download or read book Medicine in the Middle Ages written by Juliana Cummings and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-12-08 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Middle Ages covers a span of roughly one thousand years, and through that time people were subject to an array of not only deadly diseases but deplorable living conditions. It was a time when cures for sickness were often worse than the illness itself mixed with a population of people who lacked any real understanding of sanitation and cleanliness. Dive in to the history of medieval medicine, and learn how the foundations of healing were built on the knowledge of ancient Greek and Roman philosophers. Understand how your social status would have affected medical care, and how the domination of the Catholic Church was the basis of an abundant amount of fear regarding life and death. We are given an intimate look into the devastating time of the Black Death, along with other horrific ailments that would have easily claimed a life in the Middle Ages. Delve inside the minds of the physicians and barbersurgeons for a better understanding of how they approached healing. As well as diving into the treacherous waters of medieval childbirth, Cummings looks into the birth of hospitals and the care for the insane. We are also taken directly to the battlefield and given the gruesome details of medieval warfare and its repercussions. Examine the horrors of the torture chamber and execution as a means of justice. Medicine in the Middle Ages is a fascinating walk through time to give us a better understanding of such a perilous part of history.
Download or read book Leicestershire written by William George Hoskins and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1970 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leicestershire written by G. N. Pingriff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-22 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to Leicestershire by G. N. Pingriff was first published in 1920 as part of the Cambridge County Geographies.
Download or read book Municipal Engineering and the Sanitary Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
