Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715326923
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.
Castles
Author: Plantagenet Somerset Fry
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715326923
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.
Publisher: David & Charles Publishers
ISBN: 9780715326923
Category : Castles
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Presents original maps, plans and archive illustrations alongside hundreds of photographs, showing ruins and surviving castles in their glory. This work includes descriptions of hundreds of special buildings, from remote ruins in isolated settings to imposing piles in towns and cities.
A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland
Author: Mary Platt Parmele
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This history book is concise but very detailed and the author has succeeded in covering major events and figures in just enough detail to give understanding and knowledge, but not so much that the reader feels swamped by information. It covers the period from earliest times to 1900.
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
This history book is concise but very detailed and the author has succeeded in covering major events and figures in just enough detail to give understanding and knowledge, but not so much that the reader feels swamped by information. It covers the period from earliest times to 1900.
Classic Golf Links of England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland
Author: Donald Steel
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9780882899657
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Seaside links courses offer golfers unmatched challenges and enchanting scenery. And while they can be found in many parts of the world, the links of the British Isles are the most famous in their class. Donald Steel takes readers on a tour of seventy-five spectacular greens along windswept beaches and sheer cliffs of Britain and Ireland. These links prove true the old belief that courses are for expanding a player's abilities, rather than defining and confining them as in so many other sports. Steel offers up destinations like St. Andrews, Royal St. George's, and Formby, Ballybunion, and Muirfield among the seaside playing fields that have been the home to championship tournaments and amateur aspirations. With scorecards, maps, color photos, and helpful hints for most holes, this guide is an essential reference tool for the traveling golfer. It tells the history of the courses it covers and provides information on the designers who built them and the pros who have set their records. Brian Morgan's stunning photography handsomely captures the majestic layout of the courses. From the deceptive lengths to the treacherous traps, his visual log of the courses prepares golfers for the beauty and challenges that await them. His award-winning and world-renowned pictures have appeared in golf journals on both sides of the Atlantic and in several exhibitions.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9780882899657
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Seaside links courses offer golfers unmatched challenges and enchanting scenery. And while they can be found in many parts of the world, the links of the British Isles are the most famous in their class. Donald Steel takes readers on a tour of seventy-five spectacular greens along windswept beaches and sheer cliffs of Britain and Ireland. These links prove true the old belief that courses are for expanding a player's abilities, rather than defining and confining them as in so many other sports. Steel offers up destinations like St. Andrews, Royal St. George's, and Formby, Ballybunion, and Muirfield among the seaside playing fields that have been the home to championship tournaments and amateur aspirations. With scorecards, maps, color photos, and helpful hints for most holes, this guide is an essential reference tool for the traveling golfer. It tells the history of the courses it covers and provides information on the designers who built them and the pros who have set their records. Brian Morgan's stunning photography handsomely captures the majestic layout of the courses. From the deceptive lengths to the treacherous traps, his visual log of the courses prepares golfers for the beauty and challenges that await them. His award-winning and world-renowned pictures have appeared in golf journals on both sides of the Atlantic and in several exhibitions.
Ireland, Scotland, and England
Author: Johann Georg Kohl
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
Britannia's Children
Author: Eric Richards
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852854416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852854416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times
Scots and the Union
Author: Christopher A Whatley
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748680292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748680292
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This book traces the background to the Treaty of Union of 1707, explains why it happened and assesses its impact on Scottish society, including the bitter struggle with the Jacobites for acceptance of the union in the two decades that followed its inaugur
Domination and Conquest
Author: R. R. Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521380693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It analyses the mentalities of domination and subjection - how the English explained and justified their pretensions and how native rulers and societies in Ireland and Wales responded to the challenge. It also explains how the English monarchy came to claim and exercise a measure of 'imperial' control over the whole of the British Isles by the end of the thirteenth century, converting a loose domination into sustained political and governmental control. This is a study of the story of the Anglo-Norman and English domination of the British Isles in the round. Hitherto historians have tended to concentrate on the story in each country - Ireland, Scotland and Wales - individually. This book looks at the issue comparatively, in order to highlight the comparisons and contrasts in the strategies of domination and in the responses of native societies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521380693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This book, a revised and extended version of Professor Davies's 1988 Wiles Lectures, explores the ways in which the kings and aristocracy of England sought to extend their domination over Ireland, Scotland and Wales in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. It analyses the mentalities of domination and subjection - how the English explained and justified their pretensions and how native rulers and societies in Ireland and Wales responded to the challenge. It also explains how the English monarchy came to claim and exercise a measure of 'imperial' control over the whole of the British Isles by the end of the thirteenth century, converting a loose domination into sustained political and governmental control. This is a study of the story of the Anglo-Norman and English domination of the British Isles in the round. Hitherto historians have tended to concentrate on the story in each country - Ireland, Scotland and Wales - individually. This book looks at the issue comparatively, in order to highlight the comparisons and contrasts in the strategies of domination and in the responses of native societies.
Henry II
Author: Wilfred Lewis Warren
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgements ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and impressive achievement.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520022829
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Henry II was an enigma to contemporaries, and has excited widely divergent judgements ever since. Dramatic incidents of his reign, such as his quarrel with Archbishop Becket and his troubled relations with his wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine, and his sons, have attracted the attention of historical novelists, playwrights and filmmakers, but with no unanimity of interpretation. That he was a great king there can be no doubt. Yet his motives and intentions are not easy to divine, and it is Professor Warren's contention that concentration on the great crises of the reign can lead to distortion. This book is therefore a comprehensive reappraisal of the reign based, with rare understanding, on contemporary sources; it provides a coherent and persuasive revaluation of the man and the king, and is, in itself, an eloquent and impressive achievement.
How to Trace Your Family Tree in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales
Author: Kathy Chater
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843099741
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fully comprehensive guide to discovering your roots, how to access the relevant archives, searching the internet, to draw up a family tree of your British ancestors.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781843099741
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A fully comprehensive guide to discovering your roots, how to access the relevant archives, searching the internet, to draw up a family tree of your British ancestors.
The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales
Author: Bernard Burke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armories
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the about 1961.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Armories
Languages : en
Pages : 1346
Book Description
The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the about 1961.