Author: Richard Saul Ferguson
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Category : Cumberland
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Cumberland and Westmorland M. P.'s from the Restoration to the Reform Bill of 1867, (1660-1867.)
Author: Richard Saul Ferguson
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Category : Cumberland
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Publisher:
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Category : Cumberland
Languages : en
Pages : 510
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Solway Country
Author: Allen J. Scott
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443871400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Solway Country – the lands surrounding the inner Solway Firth – constitutes one of the many small regional worlds of the British Isles that are remarkable for the ways in which their landscapes evoke a powerful sense of territorial identity rooted not only in their physical appeal, but also in the richness and distinctiveness of their human history and geography. The Solway Country is an archetypical but hitherto little known exemplar of places like these. This book captures the spirit and substance of the Solway Country’s allure by means of a series of layered narratives dealing with its natural milieu, its past social and political turmoil, its changing forms of rural and agrarian life, and its responses to the industrial and urban forces that were unleashed in Britain after the eighteenth century. The Solway Country has the added charm of being partly in England and partly in Scotland, so that its personality partakes of elements of both. At the same time, the region exhibits a composite geographic unity derived from the central physical feature of the Solway Firth itself and from the many common aspects of local life and livelihood that have left deep imprints on the landscape. This unity is expressed symbolically in the peculiar hybrid culture of ballads and songs that emerged alongside the theft, murder, and mayhem that raged in the Anglo-Scottish marchlands in the days of the border reivers.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443871400
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The Solway Country – the lands surrounding the inner Solway Firth – constitutes one of the many small regional worlds of the British Isles that are remarkable for the ways in which their landscapes evoke a powerful sense of territorial identity rooted not only in their physical appeal, but also in the richness and distinctiveness of their human history and geography. The Solway Country is an archetypical but hitherto little known exemplar of places like these. This book captures the spirit and substance of the Solway Country’s allure by means of a series of layered narratives dealing with its natural milieu, its past social and political turmoil, its changing forms of rural and agrarian life, and its responses to the industrial and urban forces that were unleashed in Britain after the eighteenth century. The Solway Country has the added charm of being partly in England and partly in Scotland, so that its personality partakes of elements of both. At the same time, the region exhibits a composite geographic unity derived from the central physical feature of the Solway Firth itself and from the many common aspects of local life and livelihood that have left deep imprints on the landscape. This unity is expressed symbolically in the peculiar hybrid culture of ballads and songs that emerged alongside the theft, murder, and mayhem that raged in the Anglo-Scottish marchlands in the days of the border reivers.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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A History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Élie Halévy
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
A History of the English People in the Nineteenth Century: The age of Peel and Cobden, from 1841-1852. pt.2. From 1852-1895, by R. B. McCallum.- v.5. Imperialism and the rise of labour.- v.6. The rule of democracy, 1905-1914. 2v
Author: Élie Halévy
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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The Building of Castle Howard
Author: Charles Saumarez Smith
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226764030
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book is the first complete study of the circumstances which led to the building of Castle Howard, one of the greatest and best-known English country houses. It describes how and why Charles Howard, third earl of Carlisle, decided to build it; how the architect Sir John Vanbrugh received his first commission; how the building was paid for and where the money came from; what the original interiors looked like; how the gardens and park were laid out; and the decision taken to build the first classical mausoleum in England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. It relates the physical appearance of the architecture to the hopes, desires and personalities of those involved in the building and makes it possible to look at the house in the way that it was intended to be seen by visitors in the eighteenth century. The Building of Castle Howard should appeal to anyone who is interested in eighteenth-century architecture, in the history of gardens, in country houses, and in a historical detective story of a house which Sir John Vanbrugh was determined should be 'the top seat and garden of England.'
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226764030
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
This book is the first complete study of the circumstances which led to the building of Castle Howard, one of the greatest and best-known English country houses. It describes how and why Charles Howard, third earl of Carlisle, decided to build it; how the architect Sir John Vanbrugh received his first commission; how the building was paid for and where the money came from; what the original interiors looked like; how the gardens and park were laid out; and the decision taken to build the first classical mausoleum in England, designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. It relates the physical appearance of the architecture to the hopes, desires and personalities of those involved in the building and makes it possible to look at the house in the way that it was intended to be seen by visitors in the eighteenth century. The Building of Castle Howard should appeal to anyone who is interested in eighteenth-century architecture, in the history of gardens, in country houses, and in a historical detective story of a house which Sir John Vanbrugh was determined should be 'the top seat and garden of England.'
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of London
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
English Constituency Histories 1265-1832
Author: Janet Seaton
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
The Athenaeum
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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Publisher:
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 820
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