Author: George Tomkyns Chesney
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Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The Battle of Dorking
Author: George Tomkyns Chesney
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Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Publisher:
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Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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The exhibition Dorking
Author: Thomas Coke Burnell
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Dorking in the Great War
Author: Kathryn Atherton
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473854407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From Zeppelin raids to housing refugees and evacuees or from men volunteering to fight or women working in the local Gunpowder factory, Dorking in the Great War looks at how the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Dorking were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Meanwhile, men serving in the armed forces were scattered far and wide. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.
Publisher: Pen and Sword
ISBN: 1473854407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From Zeppelin raids to housing refugees and evacuees or from men volunteering to fight or women working in the local Gunpowder factory, Dorking in the Great War looks at how the experience of war impacted on the town, from the initial enthusiasm for sorting out the German Kaiser in time for Christmas 1914, to the gradual realization of the enormity of human sacrifice the families of Dorking were committed to as the war stretched out over the next four years. The Great War affected everyone. At home there were wounded soldiers in military hospitals, refugees from Belgium and later on German prisoners of war. There were food and fuel shortages and disruption to schooling. The role of women changed dramatically and they undertook a variety of work undreamed of in peacetime. Meanwhile, men serving in the armed forces were scattered far and wide. Extracts from contemporary letters reveal their heroism and give insights into what it was like under battle conditions.
The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
Author: Janet Vorwald Dohner
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013813X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030013813X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
"The need to preserve farm animal diversity is increasingly urgent, says the author of this definitive book on endangered breeds of livestock and poultry. Farmyard animals may hold critical keys for our survival, Jan Dohner warns, and with each extinction, genetic traits of potentially vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress are forever lost."--BOOK JACKET.
Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada
Author: Wendy Cameron
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"In each of the years from 1832 to 1837, emigrants from Sussex and neighbouring counties in southeast England were sent off to Upper Canada (Ontario) on ships by the Petworth Emigration Committee. . . . [This project is an example of] parish-aided emigration."--Pref.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773520349
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
"In each of the years from 1832 to 1837, emigrants from Sussex and neighbouring counties in southeast England were sent off to Upper Canada (Ontario) on ships by the Petworth Emigration Committee. . . . [This project is an example of] parish-aided emigration."--Pref.
The Poultry Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Languages : en
Pages : 648
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Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Penning Poison
Author: Emily Cockayne
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019879505X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing. 'er at number 14 is dirty Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison letter campaigns. This book puts the letters back into their local and psychology context, extending the work of detectives, to discover who may have written them and why. Emily Cockayne explores the reasons and motivations for the creation and delivery of these missives and the effect on recipients - with some blasé, others driven to madness. Small communities hit by letter campaigns became places of suspicion and paranoia. By examining the ways in which these letters spread anxiety in the past Penning Poison grapples with the question of how nasty messages can turn into an epidemic. The book recovers many lost stories about how we used to write to one another, finding that perhaps the anxieties of our internet age are not as new as we think.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019879505X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Accusatory, libellous, or just bizarre, Penning Poison unveils the history of anonymous letter-writing. 'er at number 14 is dirty Receiving an unexpected and unsigned note is a disconcerting experience. In Penning Poison, Emily Cockayne traces the stories of such letters to all corners of English society over the period 1760-1939. She uncovers scandal, deception, class enmity, personal tragedy, and great loneliness. Some messages were accusatory, some libellous, others bizarre. Technology, new postal networks, forensic techniques, and the emergence of professional police all influence the phenomenon of poison letter campaigns. This book puts the letters back into their local and psychology context, extending the work of detectives, to discover who may have written them and why. Emily Cockayne explores the reasons and motivations for the creation and delivery of these missives and the effect on recipients - with some blasé, others driven to madness. Small communities hit by letter campaigns became places of suspicion and paranoia. By examining the ways in which these letters spread anxiety in the past Penning Poison grapples with the question of how nasty messages can turn into an epidemic. The book recovers many lost stories about how we used to write to one another, finding that perhaps the anxieties of our internet age are not as new as we think.
Report
Author: Commonwealth Shipping Committee
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Publisher:
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Category : Shipping
Languages : en
Pages : 974
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Surrey Record Society
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Publisher:
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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