Author: Henry Elliot Malden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Surrey: Hundred of: Brixton, Wallington, Tandridge; Romano-British remains, social & economic history
Author: Henry Elliot Malden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Marks and Marking of Weights and Measures of the British Isles
Author: Carl Ricketts
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952853305
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952853305
Category : Standardization
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The Battle of Dorking
Author: George Tomkyns Chesney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Imaginary wars and battles
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Surrey Musters
Author: Surrey (England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Rural Rides
Author: William Cobbett
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596055774
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Upon beholding the masses of buildings, at Oxford, devoted to what they call "learning," I could not help reflecting on the drones that they contain and the wasps they send forth! -from "Burghclere (Hants), Sunday, 18 Nov." Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Volume 1 covers the years 1821 to 1825 and features cutting observations on the smokelike fogs of London, the price of lodgings in Oxford, the meanness of landlords, and the pleasures of watching "very pretty girls" in their Sunday best going to church. This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time. British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) is also the author of The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830).
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN: 1596055774
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Upon beholding the masses of buildings, at Oxford, devoted to what they call "learning," I could not help reflecting on the drones that they contain and the wasps they send forth! -from "Burghclere (Hants), Sunday, 18 Nov." Son of an innkeeper, former soldier, champion of the working class, early anticorporate activist, and future Member of Parliament-Will Cobbett's unique eye offers us a perspective on 19th-century England we won't find anywhere else. Cobbett roamed Southern England on horseback in the years between 1821 and 1832, gathering his "economical and political observations relative to matters applicable to, and illustrated by, the state of" that charming part of the world, one in the throes of massive change in the wake of the Industrial Revolution. Volume 1 covers the years 1821 to 1825 and features cutting observations on the smokelike fogs of London, the price of lodgings in Oxford, the meanness of landlords, and the pleasures of watching "very pretty girls" in their Sunday best going to church. This is an extraordinary record of a world long gone, one very little documented when it existed, by a voice who was far ahead of his time. British journalist and radical WILLIAM COBBETT (1762-1835) is also the author of The Progress of a Ploughboy to a Seat in Parliament (1830).
Kydd
Author: Julian Stockwin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743216679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From internationally bestselling author Julian Stockwell comes a dramatic story closely based on real events following one man’s journey as he becomes a true sailor and defender of Britain. Europe is ablaze with war. The British prime minister is under pressure to intimidate the French and dispatches a Navy squadron to appear off the French coast. To man the ships, ordinary citizens must be press-ganged. Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized and taken across the country to be part of the crew of the ninety-eight-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all he goes through, amid dangers of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow seamen, taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor and defender of Britain at war. Kydd launches a masterly writing talent and is the first installment of a thrilling new series. Based on dramatic real events, it is classic storytelling at its best, rich with action, exceptional characters, and a page-turning narrative.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743216679
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
From internationally bestselling author Julian Stockwell comes a dramatic story closely based on real events following one man’s journey as he becomes a true sailor and defender of Britain. Europe is ablaze with war. The British prime minister is under pressure to intimidate the French and dispatches a Navy squadron to appear off the French coast. To man the ships, ordinary citizens must be press-ganged. Thomas Paine Kydd, a young wig-maker from Guildford, is seized and taken across the country to be part of the crew of the ninety-eight-gun line-of-battle ship Duke William. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the harsh realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all he goes through, amid dangers of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of his fellow seamen, taking up the challenge himself to become a true sailor and defender of Britain at war. Kydd launches a masterly writing talent and is the first installment of a thrilling new series. Based on dramatic real events, it is classic storytelling at its best, rich with action, exceptional characters, and a page-turning narrative.
Post Office Telegraphs
Author: Great Britain. Post Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Postal service
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The War of the Worlds: Large Print
Author: H. G. Wells
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091588417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..." So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age. Includes the original Warwick Goble illustrations.
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781091588417
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
"No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..." So begins H. G. Wells' classic novel in which Martian lifeforms take over planet Earth. As the Martians emerge, they construct giant killing machines - armed with heatrays - that are impervious to attack. Advancing upon London they destroy everything in their path. Everything, except the few humans they collect in metal traps. Victorian England is a place in which the steam engine is state-of-the-art technology and powered flight is just a dream. Mankind is helpless against the killing machines from Mars, and soon the survivors are left living in a new stone age. Includes the original Warwick Goble illustrations.
Fresh from the Farm 6pk
Author: Rigby
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418914219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781418914219
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Infantry Scout
Author: Francis Stewart Montague-Bates
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scouts and scouting
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scouts and scouting
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description