Author: Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Wiltshire Bibliography
Author: Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A Handbook to County Bibliography
Author: Arthur Lee Humphreys
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Author:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Includes proceedings of the annual general meetings of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society.
The Little Book of Wiltshire
Author: Dee Vardera
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750951931
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Little Book of Wiltshire is a compendium of fascinating information about the county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Wiltshire’s famous – and occasionally infamous – men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry and royal visits.A reliable reference and a quirky guide, this book can be dipped in to time and again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750951931
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
The Little Book of Wiltshire is a compendium of fascinating information about the county, past and present. Contained within is a plethora of entertaining facts about Wiltshire’s famous – and occasionally infamous – men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry and royal visits.A reliable reference and a quirky guide, this book can be dipped in to time and again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the county. A remarkably engaging book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.
The Wiltshire archaeological and natural history magazine
Author: Edward Hungerford Goddard
Publisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
The Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Magazine
Author:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Fonthill Recovered
Author: Caroline Dakers
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787350452
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
A World Bibliography of Bibliographies, and of Bibliographical Catalogues, Calendars, Abstracts, Digests, Indexes, and the Like
Author: Theodore Besterman
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliographical literature
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
An Anglo-Saxon and Celtic Bibliography (450-1087).
Author: Wilfrid Bonser
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
British Sport - A Bibliography to 2000
Author: Richard Cox
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135287422
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135287422
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Volume two of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.