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England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles

Author : David Cressy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019259852X
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles written by David Cressy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-30 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's Islands in a Sea of Troubles examines the jurisdictional disputes and cultural complexities in England's relationship with its island fringe from Tudor times to the eighteenth century, and traces island privileges and anomalies to the present. It tells a dramatic story of sieges and battles, pirates and shipwrecks, prisoners and prophets, as kings and commoners negotiated the political, military, religious, and administrative demands of the early modern state. The Channel Islands, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, Lundy, Holy Island and others emerge as important offshore outposts that long remained strange, separate, and perversely independent. England's islands were difficult to govern, and were prone to neglect, yet their strategic value far outweighed their size. Though vulnerable to foreign threats, their harbours and castles served as forward bases of English power. In civil war they were divided and contested, fought over and occupied. Jersey and the Isles of Scilly served as refuges for royalists on the run. Charles I was held on the Isle of Wight. External authority was sometimes light of touch, as English governments used the islands as fortresses, commercial assets, and political prisons. London was often puzzled by the linguistic differences, tangled histories, and special claims of island communities. Though increasingly integrated within the realm, the islands maintained challenging peculiarities and distinctive characteristics. Drawing on a wide range of sources, and the insights of maritime, military, and legal scholarship, this is an original contribution to social, cultural, and constitutional history.

Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World

Author : David Farr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000571211
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Brokerage and Networks in London’s Global World written by David Farr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-03-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Londoner John Blackwell (1624-1701), shaped by his parents’ Puritanism and merchant interests of his iconoclast father, became one of Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army captains. Working with his father in Parliament’s financial administration both supported the regicide and benefitted financially from the subsequent sales of land from those defeated in the civil wars. Surviving the Restoration, Blackwell pursued interests in Ireland and banking schemes in London and Massachusetts, before being governor of Pennsylvania. Blackwell worked with his son, Lambert Blackwell, who established himself as a merchant, financier and representative of the state in Italy during the wars of William III before being embroiled in the South Sea Bubble. The linked histories of the three Blackwells reinforce the importance of kinship and the development of the early modern state centred in an increasingly global London and illustrate the ownership of the memory of the civil wars, facilitated by their kin links to Cromwell and John Lambert, architect of Cromwell’s Protectorate, by those who fought against Charles I. Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern English, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

Devil-Land

Author : Clare Jackson
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141984589
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Devil-Land written by Clare Jackson and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *WINNER OF THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2022* A BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021, AS CHOSEN BY THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH AND TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 'A big historical advance. Ours, it turns out, is a very un-insular "Island Story". And its 17th-century chapter will never look quite the same again' John Adamson, Sunday Times A ground-breaking portrait of the most turbulent century in English history Among foreign observers, seventeenth-century England was known as 'Devil-Land': a diabolical country of fallen angels, torn apart by seditious rebellion, religious extremism and royal collapse. Clare Jackson's dazzling, original account of English history's most turbulent and radical era tells the story of a nation in a state of near continual crisis. As an unmarried heretic with no heir, Elizabeth I was regarded with horror by Catholic Europe, while her Stuart successors, James I and Charles I, were seen as impecunious and incompetent. The traumatic civil wars, regicide and a republican Commonwealth were followed by the floundering, foreign-leaning rule of Charles II and his brother, James II, before William of Orange invaded England with a Dutch army and a new order was imposed. Devil-Land reveals England as, in many ways, a 'failed state': endemically unstable and rocked by devastating events from the Gunpowder Plot to the Great Fire of London. Catastrophe nevertheless bred creativity, and Jackson makes brilliant use of eyewitness accounts - many penned by stupefied foreigners - to dramatize her great story. Starting on the eve of the Spanish Armada in 1588 and concluding with a not-so 'Glorious Revolution' a hundred years later, Devil-Land is a spectacular reinterpretation of England's vexed and enthralling past.

Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726

Author : David Farr
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000908917
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Oliver Cromwell’s Kin, 1643-1726 written by David Farr and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study centres around three leading military statesmen who served under Oliver Comwell but were also his kin and shared the experiences of the civil wars, John Disbrowe (1608–80), Henry Ireton (1611–51), and Charles Fleetwood (1618–92). It seeks to develop our picture of their positions from the context of their kin link to Cromwell and how their private worlds shaped their public roles, how kinship was part of the functioning of the Cromwellian state, how they were seen and presented, and how this impacted on their own lives, and their kin, before and after the Restoration. Cromwell's career can be explored further by considering figures in his kinship network to show how the public and private overlapped and influenced each other through their interaction before and after 1660. This study aims to consider the trajectory of elements of Cromwell's network and how its functioning and the interaction of its constituent parts over time shaped the politics of the years 1643 to 1660 but also how the survival of some networks after 1660 were continuing communities of those willing to own their memories of the civil wars, regicide, and Cromwell. A study of aspects of Cromwell's kin also provides examples of the continuities between those who resisted the Stuarts in the 1640s and 1650s and did so again in the 1680s. Suitable for specialists in the area and students taking courses on early modern British, European and American history as well as those with a more general interest in the period.

Scotland and the Wider World

Author : Neil McIntyre
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1783276835
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Scotland and the Wider World written by Neil McIntyre and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides for a historical perspective of Scotland's interaction with the world beyond its borders. As one of the most prolific historians of his generation, Allan I. Macinnes, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Strathclyde, has been foremost in promoting an international rather than insular approach to the study of Scotland. In a distinguished career he has written extensively on the Scottish Highlands, the British revolutions, the formation of the United Kingdom, the Jacobite movement, and Scottish involvement in the British Empire. The chapters collected here reflect the extent of these interests and a commitment to understanding Scotland - or indeed, other territorial units - in an international or global context. Covering a period from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, essays examine the complex interaction of the peoples of the British and Irish isles; they consider Scottish participation in Britannic and European conflict; and they explore Scottish involvement in business networks, political unions, and maritime empires. From intellectual and cultural exchange to political and military upheaval, Scotland and the Wider World will be key reading for anyone interested in the antecedents to Scotland's current international standing.

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019890293X
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (989 download)

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The Second World War and the 'Other British Isles'

Author : Daniel Travers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350006955
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Second World War and the 'Other British Isles' written by Daniel Travers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is often held to be Britain's 'finest hour' – the Second World War – was not experienced so uniformly across the British Isles. On the margins, the war was endured in profoundly different ways. While D-Day or Dunkirk is embedded in British collective memory, how many Britons can recall that Finns were interned on the Isle of Man, that enemy soldiers developed British infrastructure in Orkney, or that British subjects were sent to concentration camps from Guernsey? Such experiences, tangential to the dominant British war narrative, are commemorated elsewhere in the 'other British Isles'. In this remarkable contribution to British Island Studies, Daniel Travers pursues these histories and their commemoration across numerous local sites of memory: museums, heritage sites and public spaces. He examines the way these island identities assert their own distinctiveness over the British wartime story, and ultimately the way they fit into the ongoing discourse about how the memory of the Second World War has been constructed since 1945.

Sea Room

Author : Adam Nicolson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061238821
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Sea Room written by Adam Nicolson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-08-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1937, Adam Nicolson's father answered a newspaper ad—"Uninhabited islands for sale. Outer Hebrides, 600 acres. . . . Puffins and seals. Apply."—and thus found the Shiants. With a name meaning "holy or enchanted islands," the Shiants for millennia were a haven for those seeking solitude, but their rich, sometimes violent history of human habitation includes much more. When he was twenty-one, Nicolson inherited this almost indescribably beautiful property: a landscape, soaked in centuries-old tales of restless ghosts and Bronze Age gold, that cradles the heritage of a once-vibrant world of farmers and fishermen. In Sea Room, Nicolson describes and relives his love affair with the three tiny islands and their strange and colorful history in passionate, keenly precise prose—sharing with us the greatest gift an island bestows on its inhabitants: a deep engagement with the natural world.

Our Sea of Islands

Author : Matthew Boyd Goldie
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031464052
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Our Sea of Islands written by Matthew Boyd Goldie and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-01-27 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book considers how to conceive of the group of islands known in our time as the British Isles in the Late Middle Ages. Was the archipelago considered one geographical unit? Was it an it, or were the islands a they? Singular or plural? Contributions consider possible paths to thinking about late-medieval archipelagism, and in doing so, highlight the inconsistencies and contradictions in medieval (and modern) conceptions of the region.

Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. By Agnes Strickland. ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Augmented. In Six Volumes

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Author : Agnes STRICKLAND
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest. By Agnes Strickland. ... A New Edition, Carefully Revised and Augmented. In Six Volumes written by Agnes STRICKLAND and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History and Hope

Author : Brian Eggins
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750964758
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book History and Hope written by Brian Eggins and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1970, a group of people had what many commentators felt was a ludicrous dream, that politics in Northern Ireland ‘should not be dominated by division, but should be about co-operation, partnership and reconciliation'. This dream was to become the Alliance Party of Northern Ireland.In the years since, this ambition to overcome tribal politics for a greater good has been preserved, through good times and bad. This book, the first full record of the development of the Alliance Party, charts that journey of hope and of history.

A History of England

Author : Charles Oman
Publisher : Ozymandias Press
ISBN 13 : 1531266479
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book A History of England written by Charles Oman and published by Ozymandias Press. This book was released on 2018-01-19 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN the dim dawn of history our island was a land of wood and marsh, broken here and there by patches of open ground, and pierced by occasional track-ways, which threaded the forest and circled round the edges of the impassable fen. The inhabited districts of the country were not the fertile river-bottoms where population grew thick in after-days; these were in primitive times nothing but sedgy water-meadows or matted thickets. Men dwelt rather on the thinly wooded upland, where, if the soil was poor, it was at any rate free from the tangled undergrowth that covered the valleys. It was on the chalk ridges of Kent or Wilts, or the moorland hills of Yorkshire or Cornwall, rather than on the brink of the Thames or Severn, that the British tribes clustered thick. Down by the rivers there were but small settlements of hunters and fishers perched on some knoll that rose above the brake and the rushes...

Problems of Greater Britain

Author : Dilke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 770 pages
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Download or read book Problems of Greater Britain written by Dilke and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Problems of Greater Britain

Author : Charles Dilke (Sir).)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
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Download or read book Problems of Greater Britain written by Charles Dilke (Sir).) and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300049800
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (498 download)

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Download or read book A Tour Through the Whole Island of Great Britain written by Daniel Defoe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Observations on the principal cities, ports and geographical features, customs, manners, and inhabitants of early eighteenth-century Britain

A Teacher's Geography, Emphasizing the Problem Method

Author : Mendel Everett Branom
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A Teacher's Geography, Emphasizing the Problem Method written by Mendel Everett Branom and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Our Island Story

Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1625583745
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Our Island Story written by H. E. Marshall and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.