Author: John Bateman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landowners
Languages : en
Pages : 572

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Author: John Bateman
Publisher:
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Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 562

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Author: John Bateman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108075959
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 519

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Reissued in its 1878 edition, this digest of the 'Modern Domesday Book' catalogues the landholdings of Britain's wealthiest families.

Author: John Bateman
Publisher:
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Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: John Bateman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781107706217
Category : Land tenure
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: Kevin Cahill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 472

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A startling expose of Britain's most valuable asset - its land. Kevin Cahill's investigations reveal how the 6000 or so landowners -mostly aristocrats, but also large institutions and the Crown - own about 40 million acres, more than half the country, and have maintained their grip on the land right throughout the 20th century.

Author: Great Britain. Local Government Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Real property
Languages : en
Pages : 958

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Author: Edward Beasley
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714656106
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A key addition to our understanding of the Victorian-era British Empire, this book looks at the founders of the Colonial Society and the ideas that led them down the path to imperialism.

Author: Donald Harman Akenson
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773598502
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 553

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Apocalyptic millennialism is embraced by the most powerful strands of evangelical Christianity. The followers of these groups believe in the physical return of Jesus to Earth in the Second Coming, the affirmation of a Rapture, a millennium of peace under the rule of Jesus and his saints, and, at last, final judgment and deep eternity. In Discovering the End of Time, Donald Akenson traces the primary vector of apocalyptic millennialism to southern Ireland in the 1820s and ’30s. Surprisingly, these apocalyptic concepts – which many scholars associate with the poor, the ill-educated, and the desperate – were articulated most forcefully by a rich, well-educated coterie of Irish Protestants. Drawing a striking portrait of John Nelson Darby, the major figure in the evolution of evangelical dispensationalism, Akenson demonstrates Darby’s formative influence on ideas that later came to have a foundational impact on American evangelicalism in general and on Christian fundamentalism in particular. Careful to emphasize that recognizing the origins of apocalyptic millennialism in no way implies a judgment on the validity of its constructs, Akenson draws on a deep knowledge of early nineteenth-century history and theology to deliver a powerful history of an Irish religious elite and a major intersection in the evolution of modern Christianity. Opening the door into an Ireland that was hiding in plain sight, Discovering the End of Time tells a remarkable story, at once erudite, conversational, and humorous, and characterized by an impressive range and depth of research.

Author: Nigel Daly
Publisher: Bitter Lemon Press
ISBN: 1908524391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408

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When the author bought a falling down fortified house on the Staffordshire moorlands, he had no reason to anticipate the astonishing tale that would unfold as it was restored. A mysterious set of relationships emerged amongst its former owners, revolving round the almost forgotten artist, Robert Bateman, a prominent Pre-Raphaelite and friend of Burne Jones. He was to marry the granddaughter of the Earl of Carlisle, and to be associated with Benjamin Disraeli, William Gladstone, and other prominent political and artistic figures. But he had abandoned his life as an artist in mid-career to live as a recluse, and his rich and glamorous wife-to-be had married the local vicar, already in his sixties and shortly to die. The discovery of two clearly autobiographical paintings led to an utterly absorbing forensic investigation into Bateman's life. The story moves from Staffordshire to Lahore, to Canada, Wyoming, and then, via Buffalo Bill, to Peru and back to England. It leads to the improbable respectability of Imperial Tobacco in Bristol, and then, less respectably, to a car park in Stoke-on-Trent. En route the author pieces together an astonishing and deeply moving story of love and loss, of art and politics, of morality and hypocrisy, of family secrets concealed but never quite completely obscured. The result is a page-turning combination of detective story and tale of human frailty, endeavor, and love. It is also a portrait of a significant artist, a reassessment of whose work is long overdue. Nigel Daly is an antique dealer and house restorer.