Author: Clare Lydon
Publisher: Custard Books
ISBN: 1912019930
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
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She had one rule. She broke it… Cleo Nightingale, star event-planner and recent member of the 'My Marriage Went Kaput' club, is dipping her toe back in the dating pool. She's armed with one steadfast rule: absolutely no dating younger women. Simple, right? Enter Becca Cramer, just out of university, footloose and fancy-free. She’s not hunting for love, but as fate would have it, she stumbles right into Cleo's carefully planned life. They share a drunken kiss. They meet again. Then all hell breaks loose… Prepare yourself for a riot of a ride featuring two weddings, a festival with more drama than EastEnders, a brother nursing a bruised ego, and a bestie who's about to drop. Book five in the much-loved London Romance series delivers yet another hilarious and heartwarming tale: a story of unexpected love, and the joy of not playing by the rules.
Author: John Wareing
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191093262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 465
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The key role played by indentured servants in the settlement and development of the English colonies in the West Indies and the North American mainland in the first century of English colonisation has been overshadowed by interest in the much larger later trade in African slaves. 'There is Great Want of Servants' provides the first full examination of the English trade in indentured servants, which delivered the majority of an estimated 457,000 white people who migrated to the American colonies before 1720. English colonisation intended to create 'new Englands out of England' - to enlarge trade and plantation - but settlement required people to work the land. Labour had to be transported over 4,000 miles of threatening ocean in a new system of indentured servitude, in which people paid for their transportation and keep, with four years of unpaid service for adults, and more for children and adolescents. The system was not benign, neither in the sugar plantations of the West Indies and the tobacco plantations of Maryland and Virginia, nor at the centre of the trade in London and in other ports such as Bristol. Merchants, procurers, and masters of ships often used illicit methods to recruit servants as human cargo. Measures to reduce spiriting by making the offence a felony punishable by hanging, or registering servants in new offices, had little effect. The 1718 Transportation Act eased servant recruitment, but when wars in 1689-1697 and 1702-1713 disrupted the supply of servants, and demand for the addictive products of the sugar and tobacco colonies soared in Britain and Europe, white servants were increasingly substituted by African chattel slaves.
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Category : Asbestos
Languages : en
Pages : 826
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Author: Lawrence Manley
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521461610
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 638
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The literature of early modern London, and its contribution to the development of metropolitan culture.
Author: Clare Lydon
Publisher: Custard Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Author: Jeremy Boulton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521021302
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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A pioneering social and economic study, which sheds new light on London's social history. Chapters on demography, social and occupational structure, topography, population turnover and residential mobility, and neighbourly relations, lead to a discussion of the involvement of the district's inhabitants in local government and church ceremonial.
Author: David A. Turner
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004518088
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Comparative Education: A Field in Discussion is a personal reflection on the field of comparative education from the perspective of one scholar who has been active in the field since the 1980s.
Author: Charles George Harper
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Author: Michael Fitzgerald
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 075246678X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Ragged London describes life in the rookeries of London, where forty people would live together in one room. Although life was a constant struggle against famine, disease and violence, the people enjoyed a closeness that was more than the result of overcrowding. Their lives were lived entirely within the 'mean streets' of their little corner of London. They were born and raised within the rookeries, earned their meagre living there, enjoyed life as best they could, dressed in the latest fashion, got married, had children, died and were buried there. The lack of cooking facilities led to them inventing the takeaway, and there was absolutely no sanitation. In the poorest district of all, St Giles, only a single water pump serviced the entire population. It was a closed world, although the population explosion of nineteenth-century London led to millions of new arrivals in the already-congested rookery districts. The areas were lawless to a degree that dwarfs contemporary concerns about crime. Though life was cheap in the rookeries, they produced some of the best soldiers and sailors in the British armed forces.
Author: Walter Besant
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 804
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Medieval London is a historical account of the England's capital during the Middle Ages, written by Sir Walter Besant, English novelist and historian who dedicated most of his life researching history and topography of London. The work is divided in three parts: first part is historical and it deals with mediaeval sovereigns of England and their treatment of the city; second part presents general view of London, dealing with social life, customs, tradition, and other aspect of city life such as trade, crime, literature or sports. Final part of the work is ecclesiastical and deals with religion, religious houses and objects of faith that signified the capital of England in the Middle Ages.
