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Download or read book Gloucestershire, 2: the Vale and the Forest of Dean written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Verey
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300097337
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (973 download)
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire 2: The Vale and the Forest of Dean and its companion, Gloucestershire I: The Cotswolds, provide a lively and uniquely comprehensive guide to the architecture of Gloucestershire. Alan Brooks's extensively revised and expanded editions of David Verey's original volumes bring together the latest research on a county unusually rich in attractive and interesting buildings. The area covered lies on both sides of the River Severn, rising from flat alluvial lands to the lower slopes of the Cotswold Escarpment on the east and the rough wooded hills of the Forest of Dean on the Welsh border, with its distinctive industrial inheritance. Architecture is generally more varied and unpredictable than in the Cotswolds: stone, timber, brick and stucco all have local strongholds. The Vale is most famous for its two great churches, Gloucester Cathedral and Tewkesbury Abbey, both Norman buildings with brilliantly inventive late medieval modifications. The other major settlement is the spa town of Cheltenham, with its fine parades of Regency terraces. Country houses include Thornbury Castle, greatest of Early Tudor private houses, timber-framed manors such as Preston Court, and the extravagantly Neo-Gothic Toddington; churches range from the enigmatic Anglo-Saxon pair at Deerhurst to Randall Wells's Arts-and-Crafts experiment at Kempley. Amongst the memorable post-war landmarks are the suspension bridges and nuclear power stations on the banks of the Severn, and Aztec West, one of the best British business parks, on the northern fringes of Bristol. Visitors and residents alike will find their understanding and enjoyment of west Gloucestershire transformed by this book.
Author : Gregory Holyoake
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398117048
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (981 download)
Download or read book Paved with Gold written by Gregory Holyoake and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-07-15 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating true story of one of the most recognisable names in British folklore - Richard 'Dick' Whittington.
Author : David Verey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : K. D. M. Snell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460625
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Parish and Belonging written by K. D. M. Snell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What role did the parish play in people's lives in England and Wales between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, the book stresses how important parochial belonging once was. Professor Snell discusses themes such as settlement law and practice, marriage patterns, cultures of local xenophobia, the continuance of out-door relief in people's own parishes under the new poor law, the many new parishes of the period and their effects upon people's local attachments. The book highlights the continuing vitality of the parish as a unit in people's lives, and the administration associated with it. It employs a variety of historical methods, and makes important contributions to the history of welfare, community identity and belonging. It is highly relevant to the modern themes of globalisation, de-localisation, and the decline of community, helping to set such changes and their consequences into local historical perspective.
Author : Mark Turner
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445697416
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book 50 Gems of Gloucestershire written by Mark Turner and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully photographed selection of fifty of Gloucestershire’s most precious assets shows what makes it such a popular destination.
Author : Oliver Bradbury
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135154862X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Sir John Soane? Influence on Architecture from 1791 written by Oliver Bradbury and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir John Soane?s Influence on Architecture from 1791: A Continuing Legacy is the first in-depth study of this eighteenth-century British architect?s impact on the work of others, extending globally and still indeed the case over 200 years later. Author Oliver Bradbury presents a compelling argument that the influence of Soane (1753-1837) has persevered through the centuries, rather than waning around the time of his death. Through examinations of internationally-renowned architects from Benjamin Henry Latrobe to Philip Johnson, as well as a number of not so well known Soanean disciples, Bradbury posits that Soane is perhaps second only to Palladio in terms of the longevity of his influence on architecture through the course of more than two centuries, from the early 1790s to today, concluding with the recent return to pure revivalism. Previous investigations have been limited to focusing on Soane?s late-Georgian and then post-modern influence; this is the first in-depth study of his impact over the course of two centuries. Through this survey, Bradbury demonstrates that Soane?s influence has been truly international in the pre-modern era, reaching throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detailed case studies, Bradbury contends that Soane?s is a continuing, not negated, legacy in architecture.
Author : David Verey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (635 download)
Download or read book Gloucestershire written by David Verey and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382155109
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Reports from Commissioners: Twenty-Two Volumes written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-03-25 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : Mike Osborne
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Defending Gloucestershire and Bristol written by Mike Osborne and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2024-06-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gloucestershire's strategic location straddling the Severn is reinforced by Bristol's importance as a port. The Forest of Dean and the Cotswolds are densely populated by prehistoric hillforts and Gloucester, Cirencester and Winchcombe were important throughout the Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods. The Normans built substantial castles at Bristol, Gloucester and Berkeley, scene of Edward II's murder, with many more of earth and timber. Many figured in the conflicts between rival factions culminating in the Battle of Tewkesbury. In the Civil War, Bristol underwent two sieges and Gloucester another and one of the last battles, at Stow, followed continuous skirmishing. The next centuries saw volunteer forces established, formalised by the State by the end of Victoria's reign, to counter threats external and internal. A nascent aircraft industry would develop into aircraft factories and airfields in the First World War with further development of training and aircraft storage facilities for the newly formed RAF during the inter-War period. Anti-invasion defences were constructed in the Second World War, but the primary effort was in logistics: bases for arriving US troops; RAF and USAAF training airfields and depots; and communications facilities. This last aspect, along with intelligence gathering, continued into the Cold War and beyond.
Author : John Adolphus
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The political state of the British empire, containing a general view of the domestic and foreign possessions of the crown, the laws, commerce, revenues, offices and other establishements, civil and military written by John Adolphus and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 902 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopaedia Britannica written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire ... written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Murray (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Handbook for Travellers in Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, and Herefordshire. With Map and Plans written by John Murray (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey of Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and of the Museum of Practical Geology written by Geological Survey of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Richard Warmington
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780861932368
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (323 download)
Download or read book Civil War, Interregnum and Restoration in Gloucestershire, 1640-1672 written by Andrew Richard Warmington and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent studies of particular areas during the Civil War have shown how kinship and social and educational ties, far from reinforcing county isolationism, frequently drew inhabitants into a far wider network and divided existing loyalties. Following this approach, Dr Warmington's examination of the history of Gloucestershire during the period begins with the descent into war between 1640 and 1642, showing how the two sides formed and why the Parliamentarians had the more durable war machine. He goes on to consider the anarchic situation between 1645 and 1649 and the series of new experiments in government which followed until 1660, undertaken by an almost entirely new governing group of minor gentlemen, elevated through military service to the regime and by religious affiliations. The attempted rebellion of 1659 is examined in detail, and the book concludes with a look at the Restoration of the Stuart dynasty, the Anglican Church, and the sons of the pre-war county ruling elite, exploring how the new regime compared with its Cromwellian predecessors.ANDREW WARMINGTONwas formerly senior research assistant in history at the University of Durham, following a First Class degree from York and a D.Phil. from St Peter's College, Oxford. He is now a freelance research analyst.
