Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0349412677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark? In THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND, Nigel Cawthorne unearths an extraordinary collection of the most bizarre and arcane laws that have been enacted over the centuries. Some of the laws, incredibly, are still in force. It is still illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour . . . This elegant and amusing book is perfect for everyone fascinated by the eccentric history of these islands.
The Strange Laws Of Old England
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0349412677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark? In THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND, Nigel Cawthorne unearths an extraordinary collection of the most bizarre and arcane laws that have been enacted over the centuries. Some of the laws, incredibly, are still in force. It is still illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour . . . This elegant and amusing book is perfect for everyone fascinated by the eccentric history of these islands.
Publisher: Piatkus
ISBN: 0349412677
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Did you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark? In THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND, Nigel Cawthorne unearths an extraordinary collection of the most bizarre and arcane laws that have been enacted over the centuries. Some of the laws, incredibly, are still in force. It is still illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour . . . This elegant and amusing book is perfect for everyone fascinated by the eccentric history of these islands.
A Guide to Old English
Author: Bruce Mitchell
Publisher: Oxford : B. Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher: Oxford : B. Blackwell
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Saxon language
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
England's reformation from the time of King Henry the VIIIth to the end of Oates's plot. 4 cantos
Author: Thomas WARD (Roman Catholic Soldier.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Old England's Worthies
Author:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Sonnets, amatory, descriptive and religious; odes, etc
Author: Thomas RODD (the Elder.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Orwell's England
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141185171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Containing The Road to Wigan Pier , Orwell's account of poverty in Northern England, this title also includes The English People , in which he lists the nation's characteristics, and his essays on class, the horrors of private school life, and the merits of cricket, gardening and pubs.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141185171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 643
Book Description
Containing The Road to Wigan Pier , Orwell's account of poverty in Northern England, this title also includes The English People , in which he lists the nation's characteristics, and his essays on class, the horrors of private school life, and the merits of cricket, gardening and pubs.
England's Reformation from the time of King Henry VIII to the End of Oates's Plot
Author: Thomas Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
The Church of the people [afterw.] The Church of the people and free church penny magazine
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Shortest History of England: Empire and Division from the Anglo-Saxons to Brexit - A Retelling for Our Times (Shortest History)
Author: James Hawes
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615198156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
ISBN: 1615198156
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
How the most powerful country in the UK was forged by invasion and conquest, and is fractured by its north-south divide. The Shortest History books deliver thousands of years of history in one riveting, fast-paced read. England—begetter of parliaments and globe-spanning empires, star of beloved period dramas, and home of the House of Windsor—is not quite the stalwart island fortress that many of us imagine. Riven by an ancient fault line that predates even the Romans, its fate has ever been bound up with that of its neighbors; and for the past millennia, it has harbored a class system like nowhere else on Earth. This bracing tour of the most powerful country in the United Kingdom reveals an England repeatedly invaded and constantly reinvented—yet always fractured by its very own Mason-Dixon Line. It carries us swiftly through centuries of conflict between Crown and Parliament (starring the Magna Carta), America’s War of Independence, the rise and fall of empire, two World Wars, and England’s break from the EU. We discover: why the American colonists of 1776 believed that they were the true Anglo-Saxons how the British Empire was undermined from within why Winston Churchill said the UK could only be saved by splitting up England itself and how populism spawned Brexit and its “new elite.” The Shortest History of England brings all this and more to prescient life—offering the most direct, compelling route to understanding the country behind today’s headlines.
The Rise and Fall of Merry England
Author: Ronald Hutton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192854476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and early modern England.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780192854476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
Highly readable and entertaining, Ronald Hutton's acclaimed work is the first comprehensive account of the religious and secular rituals of late medieval and early modern England.