Author: John Van der Kiste
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493663
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 357
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Eighth-century martyr St Boniface, tennis player and TV presenter Sue Barker, painter Sir Joshua Reynolds, scholar Sir Thomas Bodley, actor Sir Donald Sinden, Boer War commander Sir Redvers Buller, radio and TV presenter Ed Stewart and round-the-world yachtsman Sir Francis Chichester are among personalities through the ages who have been born in Devon. The county can claim many more who were either born or lived here for a major part of their lives, including Scott of the Antarctica, Agatha Christie, Parson Jack Russell (of terrier fame) and Wayne Sleep. The Elizabethan explorers Sir Francis Drake, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh were all Devonians, as were party leaders Michael Foot and David Owen. This book, by renowned local author John Van der Kiste, features mini-biographies of all these and many more.
Author: Roy Hattersley
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448182271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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William Cavendish, the father of the first Earl, dissolved monasteries for Henry VIII. Bess, his second wife, was gaoler-companion to Mary Queen of Scots during her long imprisonment in England. Arbella Stuart, their granddaughter, was a heartbeat away from the throne of England and their grandson, the Lord General of the North, fought to save the crown for Charles I. With the help of previously unpublished material from the Chatsworth archives, The Devonshires reveals how the dynasty made and lost fortunes, fought and fornicated, built great houses, patronised the arts and pioneered the railways, made great scientific discoveries, and, in the end, came to terms with changing times.
Author: James Lees-Milne
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
ISBN: 9780719556005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Author: Deborah
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
ISBN: 9780711222571
Category : Cooking
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Eat like a Duchess and get to know more about one of England's great houses and the family who live there. Although she is the first to admit that she herself hasn't cooked for half a century, Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire is deeply interested in good food. Chatsworth is renowned for its superb farm shop, its brilliant catering and by those lucky enough to have sampled it – the delectable product of this private kitchen.In this book, the Duchess has collected the recipes for dishes that she loves. They range from simple soups and suppers to sumptuous dinner, and include brunches and breads and some of the cakes, jams and marmalades that sell so successfully under the Duchess of Devonshire's own label. Each section – and many of the recipes – comes with a personal introduction from the Duchess in which she mixes history, observation and wit in the style that has gained her such a devoted following.
Author: Thomas Westcote
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Comprising 2 works, "A view of Devonshire" and "The pedigrees of most of our Devonshire families", from an unpublished manuscript.
Author: Georgiana Spencer Cavendish (Duchess of Devonshire)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Author: Dowager Duchess of Devonshire
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780711226258
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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This diary is filled with wonderful images of the glorious landscape andarden at Chatsworth in Derbyshire, including parterres and vistas, water inll its forms, rockeries and trees, a productive kitchen garden and superbtaturary, as well as magnificent borders. Each photograph is captioned withhe Dowager Duchess of Devonshire's lively and informative text. Each weekas a full-page colour photograph and the diary includes national andeligious holidays and astronomical information. Beautifully produced ineek-to-view format with a colour picture on every spread, it has a freshesign, generously laid out, with plenty of room to write. The Dowageruchess of Devonshire, widow of the 11th Duke, has known and loved Chatsworthor over half a century and probably knows it better than anyone else. She ishe youngest of the seven children of the second Lord Redesdale, and sisterf the writers Nancy and Jessica Mitford and Diana Mosley. She herself is theuthor of several books, which include the phenomenally successful "Countingy The Garden at Chatsworth".
Author: Francis Arnold Knight
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devon (England).
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Author: Phil Smith
Publisher: Triarchy Press
ISBN: 1909470538
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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World of Fact: The novel draws on the author's longtime exploration of psychogeography, Situationism, drift and derive, and fleshes out his practice of mythogeography through the curious mind of a young girl exploring the gaps between her parents' respective worlds and her own; between the city that she sees and the one that she finds when she walks out into it; between the layers of possible experience. It's a quite remarkable journey for anyone interested in those subjects, in what it's like to upgrade (whether as an adolescent or as an adult), or in the tears in the fabric of things that we mostly manage to ignore. World of Dream: "e;Can a city fall to bits one day and put itself back together the next? I think so, but I am crazy. So why should you believe me? Dad says it's OK to be mad. Bad is the problem. And the city is bad. I saw its badness. For one day its glass was everywhere like broken teeth after a fight between lions and sharks. Big buildings leaning on each other like drunk dinosaurs. The new shopping centre was a cave full of smoke. And everyone was frightened of each other. But I wasn't frightened. I could see that between the pieces of glass were shining gaps. And in the biggest building were passageways and tunnels and I could see that that was the good city. The city of holes and caves. Between the bad was the good, but only if you knew that before you looked. A little while later - I'm not sure how long because that was when I was ill again - the bigger cities burned for real; life had a really bad dream. By then, though, I knew that the cities were always ruins, no matter what they looked like. And that you had to know how to see fire to find warmth."e;
Author: Victor Clinton Clinton-Baddeley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Devon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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