Author: William Page
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Victoria History of the County of Somerset: Glastonbury and Street
Author: William Page
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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The Victoria History of the County of Somerset
Author: William Page
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Victoria History of the County of Somerset: The Poldens and the Levels
Author: William Page
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Wessex: A Landscape History
Author: Hadrian Cook
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803275367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Major themes include the development of agriculture, settlements, industry and transport.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803275367
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Wessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Major themes include the development of agriculture, settlements, industry and transport.
Imperial Intimacies
Author: Hazel V. Carby
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788735129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020 Highly commended for PEN Hessell–Tiltman Prize 2020 A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby’s working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the “white Carbys” and the “black Carbys,” including Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby’s family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire’s interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788735129
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Winner of the British Academy’s Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2020 Highly commended for PEN Hessell–Tiltman Prize 2020 A haunting and evocative history of British empire, told through one woman’s family story “Where are you from?” was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-war London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby’s place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby’s working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the “white Carbys” and the “black Carbys,” including Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby’s family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire’s interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.
The Victoria History of the County of Somerset: without specific title
Author: William Page
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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The Cambridge History of Sixteenth-Century Music
Author: Iain Fenlon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108671276
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108671276
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 732
Book Description
Part of the seminal Cambridge History of Music series, this volume departs from standard histories of early modern Western music in two important ways. First, it considers music as something primarily experienced by people in their daily lives, whether as musicians or listeners, and as something that happened in particular locations, and different intellectual and ideological contexts, rather than as a story of genres, individual counties, and composers and their works. Second, by constraining discussion within the limits of a 100-year timespan, the music culture of the sixteenth century is freed from its conventional (and tenuous) absorption within the abstraction of 'the Renaissance', and is understood in terms of recent developments in the broader narrative of this turbulent period of European history. Both an original take on a well-known period in early music and a key work of reference for scholars, this volume makes an important contribution to the history of music.
The Victoria History of the County of Somerset
Author: William Page
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Somerset Archaeology and Natural History
Author: Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne
Author: International Arthurian Society
Publisher:
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
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Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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