Author: Paul Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781916182011
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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A non-fiction book about King Alfred, based on the personal visits by the author to the locations associated with him, combined with information gained from research. English and Anglo-Saxon history. Contains 27 colour images, including 20 customised maps.
Author: John Asser
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Author: Alfred the Great
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781774260104
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles is a collection of Old English annals chronicling the history of the Anglo-Saxon race. They were originally compiled in Wessex during the reign of Alfred the Great (871-899 AD). It was continuously updated by following generations and in one case was still being updated in 1154 AD. Regardless of certain biases, the Chronicle is the most important historical source of history of the British Isles for the period between the departure of the Roman Empire, and years following the Norman conquest. There are seven original copies of the text that reside in the British Library and two other public libraries in the United Kingdom.Alfred the Great was the king of the West Saxons at the time of heightened invasions from the Scandinavian Vikings. His kingdom of Wessex was the last surviving Saxon kingdom left in resistance to the invaders. At one-point Alfred's kingdom was reduced to his household in exile in the marshlands in Somerset, England. Through military reorganization, diplomatic maneuvers, and Christian missionary work, Alfred was able to push back against the Scandinavians and establish Wessex as the most powerful kingdom on the British Isles. By the end of his reign Wessex was the dominant power on the British Isles, the Vikings had been humbled and partially assimilated into Christian culture. His dream of an united Britain under the control of Wessex was almost complete. Alfred is the only English King to be given the title of 'the Great'.
Author: Alfred (King of England)
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ISBN:
Category : Law, Anglo-Saxon
Languages : la
Pages : 164
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Author: Richard Grosvenor Bartelot
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fordington (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Author: Adair Aldon
Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 8829516996
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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Anyone who knows the coast of New England will know also the Island of Appledore and just where it lies. People who know the Isle of Appledore will also tell you that it is not exactly the place described in this book, that it is small and bare with a handful of buildings and rocky with no woods, no meadows, no church, or mill, nor a mill-creek road. Perhaps all that the story tells of it that is true is that the rocks of Appledore give forth their strange deep song, “the calling of Appledore,” as warning of a storm, that there the poppies bloom as nowhere else in the world, that there the surf comes rolling in, day in and day out, the whole year through, and that there one’s memory turns back with longing, no matter how many years of absence have gone by. There, also, you can sit for hours to watch the huge, green breakers come foaming and tumbling in endless procession up the stony beach; you can watch the nimble sandpipers and the tireless, wheeling gulls; and if you choose you can spin for yourself just such a story, such as this one of Billy Wentworth and Captain Saulsby and Sally Shute, a tale of mysteries and perils and midnight adventures on the shores of Appledore. YESTERDAY’S BOOKS for TODAY’S CHARITIES 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to charities. ============= KEYWORDS-TAGS: Island of Appledore, Peering Eyes, Mill-Creek Road, Cruise Of The Josephine, Captain Saulsby, Watch, War Game, Ebbing, Tide, Mist, Moonlight, Stranger, The Mill, Calling Of The Island, Three Quarters Of A Year, Watchfires, Last Voyage, Johann Happs, American, Appledore Island, Arcturus, Atlantic, Aunt, authorities, battleship, beach, behind, Billy, binoculars, bluejackets, boat, Boston, BOYS OWN, Bradford, bridge, Captain, catboat, centreboard, Chicago, church, clock-maker, clouds, Congress, Destroyer, dreadnaught, end, engines, father, Fatherland, fellow, fog, found, garden, German, glasses, great, grey, hand, harbour, Harvey, home, house, Jacky, Jarreth, Joe, josephine, Junction, landing, light, little, man, manœuvres, Mattie, mill, Navy, Ned, night, ocean, officers, old-maid, Otto, passage, peace, pipe, Piscataqua, returned, Rockford, rose, sail, sailor, Sally, salt, Sanderson, sat, Saulsby, schooner, sea, ship, Shute, skipper, South, strawberries, submarines, suddenly, telescope, thought, tide, time, torpedo-boat, train, Trying, United States, War, warship, water, weather-beaten, Wentworth, West, western, white, wind, window, yacht
Author: P. H. Sawyer
Publisher: Oxford Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780192854346
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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'the volume will indeed be a treasury for pictorial sources, and the illustrations to more off-the-beaten-track chapters (especially Noonan's, on European Russia) are correspondingly unusual.' -Guy Halsall, War in History, 8, 3, 2001'the truest picture yet of the Vikings and their age.' -Publishing News
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Publisher: Abela Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 8834188934
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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WELSH RAREBIT TALES contains 15 very short stories. In explaining how these tales came to be, the author tells that he was a member of a "certain literary club" which held irregular meetings. Each member would read his latest work since the previous meeting. The others would comment and critique the work, which created "much mutual benefit" to all. At one such meeting, it seems that the members had "run short of first-class plots" so they decided to attempt an experiment, and sat down to a dinner of: 1 Large Portion Welsh Rarebit, 1 Broiled Live Lobster, 1 Piece Home Made Mince Pie, 1 Portion Cucumber Salad. The following meeting of the club had to be postponed "on account of illness of fourteen of the members," but at the next, "the accompanying tales were related." He notes also that "By unanimous sentence of the other fourteen members, and as a punishment for having been the originator of the scheme, mine was chosen as the unlucky name under which the Tales should appear" and hence, Welsh Rarebit Tales came into being. All these tales are very different. There is a mix of science fiction, horror, dark crime and all reveal something about the nature of the characters. Some are sad, some are downright pathetic, but for the most part, in combination they make for fun reading. The 15 tales in this collection are: The Man Who Made a Man In the Lower Passage The Fool and His Joke The Man and the Beast At the End of the Road The Space Annihilator A Question of Honor The Wine of Pantanelli The Strangest Freak The False Prophet A Study in Psychology The Painted Lady and the Boy The Palace of Sin The Man Who Was Not Afraid The Story the Doctor Told ===================== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Welsh, rarebit, tales, short stories, eclectic, literary club, science fiction, horror, dark crime, sin, vice, sex, fun reading, The Man Who Made a Man, Lower Passage, Fool, Joke, Beast, End of the Road, Space, Annihilator, Question of Honor, Wine, Pantanelli, Strange, Freak, False Prophet, Study, Psychology, Painted Lady, Boy, Palace of Sin, Afraid, courage, fear, Doctor
Author: Ryan Lavelle
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1782979328
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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There have been many studies of the Scandinavians in Britain, but this is the first collection of essays to be devoted solely to their engagement with Wessex. New work on the early Middle Ages, not least the excavations of mass graves associated with the Viking Age in Dorset and Oxford, drew attention to the gaps in our understanding of the wider impact of Scandinavians in areas of Britain not traditionally associated with them. Here, a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach to the problems of their study is presented. While there may not have been the same degree of impact, discernible particularly in place-names and archaeology, as in those areas of Britain which had substantial influxes of Scandinavian settlers, Wessex was a major theater of the Viking wars in the reigns of Alfred and Æthelred Unræd. Two major topics, the Viking wars and the Danish landowning elite, figure strongly in this collection but are shown not to be the sole reasons for the presence of Danes, or items associated with them, in Wessex. Multidisciplinary approaches evoke Vikings and Danes not just through the written record, but through their impact on real and imaginary landscapes and via the objects they owned or produced. The papers raise wider questions too, such as when did aggressive Vikings morph into more acceptable Danes, and what issues of identity were there for natives and incomers in a province whose founders were believed to have also come from North Sea areas, if not from parts of Denmark itself? Readers can continue for themselves aspects of these broader debates that will be stimulated by this fascinating and significant series of studies by both established scholars and new researchers.
Author: John Henry Haaren
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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