Author: Barclay Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
""Robert Barclay Fox", who lived 1817 to 1855, and was also known as Barclay Fox, one of the influential local Quaker family of Fox, of Falmouth, Cornwall."--Wikipedia.
Barclay Fox's Journal
Author: Barclay Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
""Robert Barclay Fox", who lived 1817 to 1855, and was also known as Barclay Fox, one of the influential local Quaker family of Fox, of Falmouth, Cornwall."--Wikipedia.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
""Robert Barclay Fox", who lived 1817 to 1855, and was also known as Barclay Fox, one of the influential local Quaker family of Fox, of Falmouth, Cornwall."--Wikipedia.
Barclay Fox's Journal
Author: Barclay Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904880318
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Offers an account of the early Victorian Fox family members, their business and home lives, their pleasures and their Quaker integrity and their wide and distinguished connections in society, literature and science.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781904880318
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Offers an account of the early Victorian Fox family members, their business and home lives, their pleasures and their Quaker integrity and their wide and distinguished connections in society, literature and science.
Memories of Old Friends. Being Extracts From the Journals of Caroline Fox of Penjerrick, Cornwall from 1835 to 1871
Author: John Stuart Mill
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385399807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385399807
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
The Short Journal and Itinerary Journals of George Fox
Author: George Fox
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Trelawny’s Cornwall
Author: Petroc Trelawny
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1474625118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national anthem. But when a stranger challenges the Radio 3 presenter on his ancestry, he is inspired to return to the lands of his boyhood to rediscover the place where he grew up, and attempt to confirm if he still belongs there. Part history, part memoir, this is a deeply felt exploration of Cornwall - past, present and future. Petroc embarks on a slow journey that sees him visit old mine workings, ancient churches, sites where new technology was forged, and places where poets, musicians, architects and film makers have worked to shape Cornwall's cultural identity. He explores the Tamar, the river that marks out the Cornish frontier, and holds a finger up to winds of change, exploring the collapse of Methodism, the decline of the Cornish language, and the complex , sometimes lucrative, sometimes destructive, relationship with tourism. As he travels by road, rail and foot, he conjures marvellously vivid figures and scenes from memory, telling the stories of a loving family full of mysteries and a landscape still redolent of 'Cornish otherness'.
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 1474625118
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
'I can't think of a more enjoyable or more illuminating guide to Cornwall than Petroc Trelawny, who knows it intimately, loves it deeply, and shares it generously' - THE REVEREND RICHARD COLES It would be hard to think of a more thoroughly Cornish name than Petroc Trelawny. His first name is shared with one of Cornwall's most celebrated saints, his second is the name of its unofficial national anthem. But when a stranger challenges the Radio 3 presenter on his ancestry, he is inspired to return to the lands of his boyhood to rediscover the place where he grew up, and attempt to confirm if he still belongs there. Part history, part memoir, this is a deeply felt exploration of Cornwall - past, present and future. Petroc embarks on a slow journey that sees him visit old mine workings, ancient churches, sites where new technology was forged, and places where poets, musicians, architects and film makers have worked to shape Cornwall's cultural identity. He explores the Tamar, the river that marks out the Cornish frontier, and holds a finger up to winds of change, exploring the collapse of Methodism, the decline of the Cornish language, and the complex , sometimes lucrative, sometimes destructive, relationship with tourism. As he travels by road, rail and foot, he conjures marvellously vivid figures and scenes from memory, telling the stories of a loving family full of mysteries and a landscape still redolent of 'Cornish otherness'.
Memoires of old friends, extracts from journals and letters, 1835 to 1871, ed. by H.N. Pym. To which are added 14 original letters from J. S. Mill
Author: Caroline Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Zenon Vantini
Author: Pamela Sambrook
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0718895762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formative years of the railway network in England and France. In doing so, she interrogates what lies behind some of Zenon Vantini’s very real achievements, legacies and disasters. She asks how far he was driven by his familial background in Elba and his involvement in the political turmoil of early-nineteenth-century France, and to what extent his whole life was known to those around him. Vantini’s extraordinary life encapsulates the change between two very different worlds – the old imperial past and the new age of entrepreneurial risk-taking. Never shaking off his old political loyalties, he believed resolutely that the mobility afforded by railway travel would change Europe fundamentally. In the long view he was a component part in the very early years of an industry which arguably changed England and Europe more than did even his hero, Napoleon. Scholars and casual readers of British and European social history will be fascinated by his story.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 0718895762
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon’s Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formative years of the railway network in England and France. In doing so, she interrogates what lies behind some of Zenon Vantini’s very real achievements, legacies and disasters. She asks how far he was driven by his familial background in Elba and his involvement in the political turmoil of early-nineteenth-century France, and to what extent his whole life was known to those around him. Vantini’s extraordinary life encapsulates the change between two very different worlds – the old imperial past and the new age of entrepreneurial risk-taking. Never shaking off his old political loyalties, he believed resolutely that the mobility afforded by railway travel would change Europe fundamentally. In the long view he was a component part in the very early years of an industry which arguably changed England and Europe more than did even his hero, Napoleon. Scholars and casual readers of British and European social history will be fascinated by his story.
The Making of the Geological Society of London
Author: Cherry Lewis
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392779
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher: Geological Society of London
ISBN: 9781862392779
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Mary Somerville and the Cultivation of Science, 1815–1840
Author: E.C. Patterson
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400968396
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400968396
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Among the myriad of changes that took place in Great Britain in the first half of the nineteenth century, many of particular significance to the historian of science and to the social historian are discernible in that small segment of British society drawn together by a shared interest in natural phenomena and with sufficient leisure or opportunity to investigate and ponder them. This group, which never numbered more than a mere handful in comparison to the whole population, may rightly be characterized as 'scientific'. They and their successors came to occupy an increasingly important place in the intellectual, educational, and developing economic life of the nation. Well before the arrival of mid-century, natural philosophers and inventors were generally hailed as a source of national pride and of national prestige. Scientific society is a feature of nineteenth-century British life, the best being found in London, in the universities, in Edinburgh and Glasgow, and in a few scattered provincial centres.
The Quaker Family in Colonial America
Author: J. William Frost
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466887877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The Quaker Family in Colonial America is a book by J. William Frost.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466887877
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The Quaker Family in Colonial America is a book by J. William Frost.