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Download or read book Oh Happy Day written by Carmen Callil and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A triumphant family memoir' Hallie Rubenhold 'Powerfully told...an impressive work' The Times 'Gives a voice to the voiceless' Australian Book Review In this remarkable book, Carmen Callil discovers the story of her British ancestors, beginning with her great-great grandmother Sary Lacey, born in 1808, an impoverished stocking frame worker. Through detailed research, we follow Sary from slum to tenement and from pregnancy to pregnancy. We also meet George Conquest, a canal worker and the father of one of Sary's children. George was sentenced - for a minor theft - to seven years' transportation to Australia, where he faced the extraordinary brutality of convict life. But for George, as for so many disenfranchised British people like him, Australia turned out to be his Happy Day. He survived, prospered and eventually returned to England, where he met Sary again, after nearly thirty years. He brought her out to Australia, and they were never parted again. A miracle of research and fuelled by righteous anger, Oh Happy Day is a story of Empire, migration and the inequality and injustice of nineteenth-century England. 'A remarkable tale...drawing chilling parallels to the inequalities of our times' Observer
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Book Synopsis Writing local history by : John Beckett
Download or read book Writing local history written by John Beckett and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of 'professional' history in the nineteenth century, to the recent past. Concentrating on the past sixty years, it looks at the opening of archive offices, the invigorating influence of family history, the impact of adult education and other forms of lifelong learning. The author considers the debates generated by academics, including the divergence of views over local and regional issues, and the importance of standards set by the Victoria County History (VCH). Also discussed is the fragmentation of the subject. The antiquarian tradition included various subject areas that are now separate disciplines, among them industrial archaeology, name studies, family, landscape and urban history. This is an authoritative account of how local history has come to be one of the most popular and productive intellectual pastimes in our modern society. Written by a practitioner who has spent more than twenty years teaching local history to undergraduates and M.A. students, as well as lecturing to local history societies, John Beckett is currently Director of the VCH. A remarkable book that will be of great interest to students and scholars of local history as well as amateur and professional genealogists.
Book Synopsis Rival Jerusalems by : K. D. M. Snell
Download or read book Rival Jerusalems written by K. D. M. Snell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete geography of religion in England and Wales, including exhaustive analyses of many religious questions and debates.
Download or read book Faxton written by Lawrence Butler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The village of Faxton in Northamptonshire was only finally deserted in the second half of the 20th century. Shortly afterwards, between 1966 and 1968, its medieval crofts were investigated under the direction of archaeologist Lawrence Butler. At the time this was one of the most ambitious excavations of a deserted medieval settlement to have been conducted and, although the results were only published as interim reports and summaries, Butler’s observations at Faxton were to have significant influence on the growing academic and popular literature about village origins and desertion and the nature of medieval peasant crofts and buildings. In contrast to regions with abundant building stone, Faxton revealed archaeological evidence of a long tradition of earthen architecture in which so-called ‘mud-walling’ was successfully combined with other structural materials. The ‘rescue’ excavations at Faxton were originally promoted by the Deserted Medieval Village Research Group and funded by the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works after the extensive earthworks at the site came under threat from agriculture. Three areas were excavated covering seven crofts. In 1966 Croft 29 at the south-east corner of the village green revealed a single croft in detail with its barns, yards and corn driers; in 1967 four crofts were examined together in the north-west corner of the village in an area badly damaged by recent ploughing and, finally, an area immediately east of the church was opened up in 1968. In all, some 4000m2 were investigated in 140 days over three seasons. The post-excavation process for Faxton was beset by delay. Of the 12 chapters presented in this monograph, only two were substantially complete at the time of the director’s death in 2014. The others have had to be pieced together from interim summaries, partial manuscripts, sound recordings, handwritten notes and on-site records. Building on this evidence, a new team of scholars have re-considered the findings in order to set the excavations at Faxton into the wider context of modern research. Their texts reflect on the settlement’s disputed pre-Conquest origins, probable later re-planning and expansion, the reasons behind the decline and abandonment of the village, the extraordinary story behind the destruction of its church, the development of the open fields and the enclosure process, as well as new evidence about Faxton’s buildings and the finds discovered there. Once lauded, then forgotten, the excavations at Faxton now make a new contribution to our knowledge of medieval life and landscape in the East Midlands.
Book Synopsis The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester: pt. 1. Framland Hundred. 1795. pt. 2. Gartree Hundred. 1798 by : John Nichols
Download or read book The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester: pt. 1. Framland Hundred. 1795. pt. 2. Gartree Hundred. 1798 written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours by : John Burke
Download or read book A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Enjoying Territorial Possessions Or High Official Rank: But Uninvested with Heritable Honours written by John Burke and published by . This book was released on 1838 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Midland Railway by : Clement Edwin Stretton
Download or read book The History of the Midland Railway written by Clement Edwin Stretton and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester by : John Nichols
Download or read book The history and antiquities of the county of Leicester written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The First English Explorer by : Kit Mayers
Download or read book The First English Explorer written by Kit Mayers and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-11-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first real explorer, for the English, was Anthony Jenkinson. He sailed to Russia and set out into the unknown to discover an overland route, right across Asia. His detailed reports and his map were a revelation for the Tudors. In 1557 Anthony Jenkinson was sent by the merchants of London to try to find an overland route right across Asia to Cathay and the riches of the Orient, setting off a year before Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne. His expedition to the east took place some twenty nine years earlier than the first English expedition to the west. As well as surviving storms, Jenkinson was faced with thieving, illness and several attacks by bandits, before eventually, by sheer persistence, reaching Bokhara, which is now in Uzbekistan. He had completed two thirds of the journey and had reached the ‘Silk Road’ that led to Cambaluc (Beijing), before finding that he could go no further because the route ahead was closed by continuous wars. In later expeditions, he travelled to Persia where he nearly had his head cut off and he also went to Moscow where he managed some extremely tense negotiations with Tsar Ivan the Terrible on behalf of the Muscovy Company. His reports back to the Company in London give us a great insight into what Russia was like at the time, and Tartary and Persia. ‘This book is a lively and carefully researched study of Anthony Jenkinson,’ – Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt, OBE ‘This important book fills an undoubted gap in the history of English travellers in the sixteenth century,’ – Professor David Loades, FSA, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Wales The First English Explorer will appeal to fans of history, particularly those with a strong interest in explorers and eastern travel.
Book Synopsis The Image of Aristocracy by : David Crouch
Download or read book The Image of Aristocracy written by David Crouch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-11-29 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.
Book Synopsis History, Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire, and the ... County of Rutland by : William White (Publisher in Sheffield.)
Download or read book History, Gazetteer and Directory of Leicestershire, and the ... County of Rutland written by William White (Publisher in Sheffield.) and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 870 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire, and ... Rutland; together with the adjacent towns of Grantham & Stamford by : William White
Download or read book History, gazetteer, and directory of Leicestershire, and ... Rutland; together with the adjacent towns of Grantham & Stamford written by William White and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club by : Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club
Download or read book Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club written by Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pinnock's History and Topography of England and Wales. [With Maps.] by : William PINNOCK
Download or read book Pinnock's History and Topography of England and Wales. [With Maps.] written by William PINNOCK and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club by :
Download or read book Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society and Field Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Journal of the Northamptonshire Natural History Society & Field Club written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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