Author: Stephen Ellcock
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 1786784289
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This is a book about English art like no other. Forget the tired rogues’ gallery of lords and ladies, forget the tall ships and haywains. These images cut to the heart of England’s psychic landscapes to portray an Albion unhinged, where magic and rebellion and destruction are the horses to which the country is hitched. On these fabled shores we are all castaways, whether our family has lived here for four thousand years or for four. Here you will find depictions of ancient trackways, chalk carvings and standing stones, of animal-masked community rituals, of streets set ablaze in protest, of occult dreams and psychedelic prophecies. There are over 200 images by artists ranging from William Blake, J.M.W. Turner and Samuel Palmer to Paul Nash, Louis Wain, Bill Brandt, Derek Jarman and Ithell Colquhoun to present-day visionaries such as Paula Rego, Cathy de Monchaux, George Shaw, Jamie Reid, Matt Collishaw, Tacita Dean, Lina Iris Viktor, Yinka Shonibare, Nick Waplington, Dan Hillier, Nicola Tyson, Sutapa Biswas and Chila Kumari Burman. The mind-blowing selection of images is accompanied by short texts by Mat Osman, exploring magic and mazes, ghosts and gardens, shipwrecks and cities. These poetic renderings of a spectral isle, together with Stephen Ellcock’s hallucinatory visual journey, reclaim Albion as an eternally inspiring and anarchic domain – an England on fire.
Fire Over England
Author: Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Fire Over England
Author: A. E. W. Mason
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Pages : 316
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God's Fury, England's Fire
Author: Michael Braddick
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141926511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: God’s Fury, England’s Fire. The name of a pamphlet written after the king’s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God – that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished. As with all civil wars, however, ‘God’s fury’ could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick’s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides. The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic – events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding – were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country’s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. God’s Fury, England’s Fire allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141926511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were killed in the civil wars than in the First World War. This sense of overwhelming trauma gives this major new history its title: God’s Fury, England’s Fire. The name of a pamphlet written after the king’s surrender, it sums up the widespread feeling within England that the seemingly endless nightmare that had destroyed families, towns and livelihoods was ordained by a vengeful God – that the people of England had sinned and were now being punished. As with all civil wars, however, ‘God’s fury’ could support or destroy either side in the conflict. Was God angry at Charles I for failing to support the true, protestant, religion and refusing to work with Parliament? Or was God angry with those who had dared challenge His anointed Sovereign? Michael Braddick’s remarkable book gives the reader a vivid and enduring sense both of what it was like to live through events of uncontrollable violence and what really animated the different sides. The killing of Charles I and the declaration of a republic – events which even now seem in an English context utterly astounding – were by no means the only outcomes, and Braddick brilliantly describes the twists and turns that led to the most radical solutions of all to the country’s political implosion. He also describes very effectively the influence of events in Scotland, Ireland and the European mainland on the conflict in England. God’s Fury, England’s Fire allows readers to understand once more the events that have so fundamentally marked this country and which still resonate centuries after their bloody ending.
Fire Over England
Author: A. E. W. son
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Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Pages : 316
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Fire Over England
Author: Alfred Edward Woodley Mason
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Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Languages : en
Pages : 255
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Fire Over England
Author: Alfred Edward Wooley Mason
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Annual Cyclopedia of Insurance in the United States
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Record of Business in Each of the States and Territories of the United States
Author: F. B. Simpson
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Fire insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Annual Report of the Insurance Commissioner
Author: Maine. Insurance Department
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Documents Accompanying the Journal of the House
Author: Michigan. Legislature
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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Category : Michigan
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
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