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Book Synopsis Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as Recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine by : Arthur Jones
Download or read book Hertfordshire 1731-1800 as Recorded in the Gentleman's Magazine written by Arthur Jones and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains all Hertfordshire material of any importance which was published in The Gentleman's Magazine in the period from 1731 - 1800. It is a rich resource for research: history, news items of every kind, reports of robberies, court proceedings, executions, fires and, of course, the obituaries for which G.M. was particularly famous. Arranged chronologically with a detailed index of names and places and with supplementary listings for births, marriages, bankruptcies and deaths.
Book Synopsis Dury and Andrews Map of Hertfordshire by : Andrew Macnair
Download or read book Dury and Andrews Map of Hertfordshire written by Andrew Macnair and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the map of an English county – Hertfordshire – which was published in 1766 by two London mapmakers, Andrew Dury and John Andrews. For well over two centuries, from the time of Elizabeth I to the late 18th century, the county was the basic unit for mapping in Britain and the period witnessed several episodes of comprehensive map making. The map which forms the subject of this book followed on from a large number of previous maps of the county but was greatly superior to them in terms of quality and detail. It was published in a variety of forms, in nine sheets with an additional index map, over a period of 60 years. No other maps of Hertfordshire were produced during the rest of the century, but the Board of Ordnance, later the Ordnance Survey, established in the 1790s, began to survey the Hertfordshire area in 1799, publishing the first maps covering the county between 1805 and 1834. The OS came to dominate map making in Britain but, of all the maps of Hertfordshire, that produced by Dury and Andrews was the first to be surveyed at a sufficiently large scale to really allow those dwelling in the county to visualize their own parish, local topography and even their own house, and its place in the wider landscape. The first section examines the context of the map’s production and its place in cartographic history, and describes the creation of a new, digital version of the map which can be accessed online . The second part describes various ways in which this electronic version can be interrogated, in order to throw important new light on Hertfordshire’s landscape and society, both in the middle decades of the eighteenth century when it was produced, and in more remote periods. The attached DVD contains over a dozen maps which have been derived from the digital version, and which illustrate many of the issues discussed in the text, as well as related material which should likewise be useful to students of landscape history, historical geography and local history.
Book Synopsis Tracing Your Family History in Hertfordshire by : Margaret Ward
Download or read book Tracing Your Family History in Hertfordshire written by Margaret Ward and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This practical and comprehensive guide provides an introduction for family historians to trace their ancestors in Hertfordshire. It is thematic in approach, the chapters incorporating related material on subjects as broad as military ancestors and the poor and the sick"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500 by : Hugh C. Prince
Download or read book Parks in Hertfordshire Since 1500 written by Hugh C. Prince and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The cultural, political, and economic influences on the changing fortunes of Hertfordshire’s great parks over the past 500 years are examined in this authoritative history. Fascinating accounts of such parks as Hatfield, Moor Park, and Knebworth are illustrated by revisiting each historical era and its prevailing fashions, such as the enthusiasm for deer hunting in the 16th century and the golden age of landscape gardening in the 18th century. Close analysis of each time period’s cartographical sources further supports this fitting record of the county’s green spaces, which ultimately outlines the ongoing decline in Hertfordshire’s parklands, now divided piecemeal between golf courses, schools, and hotels; sold as real estate; or precariously maintained as tourist attractions.
Book Synopsis Hertfordshire Garden History by : Anne Rowe
Download or read book Hertfordshire Garden History written by Anne Rowe and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains original research into aspects of garden history in Hertfordshire.
Book Synopsis St Albans, 1650-1700 by : J. T. Smith
Download or read book St Albans, 1650-1700 written by J. T. Smith and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of St Albans covers the period from the Commonwealth to the accession of Anne which embraces religious and political changes of great interest in the life of a town of strongly dissenting opinion.
Download or read book Not Even Wrong written by Paul Collins and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collins elucidates, with great compassion, what it means to be 'normal' and what it means to be human." -Los Angeles Times When Paul Collins's son Morgan was two years old, he could read, spell, and perform multiplication tables in his head...but not answer to his own name. A casual conversation-or any social interaction that the rest of us take for granted-will, for Morgan, always be a cryptogram that must be painstakingly decoded. He lives in a world of his own: an autistic world. In Not Even Wrong, Paul Collins melds a memoir of his son's autism with a journey into this realm of permanent outsiders. Examining forgotten geniuses and obscure medical archives, Collins's travels take him from an English churchyard to the Seattle labs of Microsoft, and from a Wisconsin prison cell block to the streets of Vienna. It is a story that reaches from a lonely clearing in the Black Forest into the London palace of King George I, from Defoe and Swift to the discovery of evolution; from the modern dawn of the computer revolution to, in the end, the author's own household. Not Even Wrong is a haunting journey into the borderlands of neurology - a meditation on what "normal" is, and how human genius comes to us in strange and wondrous forms.
Book Synopsis Regions and Designed Landscapes in Georgian England by : Sarah Spooner
Download or read book Regions and Designed Landscapes in Georgian England written by Sarah Spooner and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garden design evolved hugely during the Georgian period – as symbols of wealth and stature, the landed aristocracy had been using gardens for decades. Yet during the eighteenth century, society began to homogenise, and the urban elite also started demanding landscapes that would reflect their positions. The gardens of the aristocracy and the gentry were different in appearance, use and meaning, despite broad similarities in form. Underlying this was the importance of place, of the landscape itself and its raw material. Contemporaries often referred to the need to consult the ‘genius of the place’ when creating a new designed landscape, as the place where the garden was located was critical in determining its appearance. Genius loci - soil type, topography, water supply - all influenced landscape design in this period. The approach taken in this book blends landscape and garden history to make new insights into landscape and design in the eighteenth century. Spooner’s own research presents little-known sites alongside those which are more well known, and explores the complexity of the story of landscape design in the Georgian period which is usually oversimplified and reduced to the story of a few ‘great men’.
Book Synopsis Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools by : Laura M. Mair
Download or read book Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools written by Laura M. Mair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate account of "ragged schools" that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving movements and Victorian philanthropy. With Lord Shaftesbury as their figurehead, these institutions provided a free education to impoverished children. The primary purpose of the schools, however, was the salvation of children’s souls. Using promotional literature and local school documents, this book contrasts the public portrayal of children and teachers with that found in practice. It draws upon evidence from schools in Scotland and England, giving insight into the achievements and challenges of individual institutions. An intimate account is constructed using the journals maintained by Martin Ware, the superintendent of a North London school, alongside a cache of letters that children sent him. This combination of personal and national perspectives adds nuance to the narratives often imposed upon historic philanthropic movements. Investigating how children responded to the evangelistic messages and educational opportunities ragged schools offered, this book will be of keen interest to historians of education, emigration, religion, as well as of the nineteenth century more broadly.
Book Synopsis The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton by : Ross Nelson
Download or read book The Selected Letters of Caroline Norton written by Ross Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the first nineteenth century woman to successfully campaign for women’s rights legislation, Caroline Norton has been comparatively neglected and under-researched. There is, however, a current and growing interest in her life and work. This is a new three volume collection of the correspondence of Caroline Norton. The collection includes over 750 of her letters and also features an introduction by the editors, contextualising and embedding Caroline’s literary and political achievements within the narrative of her letters.
Book Synopsis cold baths don't work by : Mike Clarke
Download or read book cold baths don't work written by Mike Clarke and published by Hitchin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold baths do not work, it seems, but many remedies have been tried over the years. This book spans 350 years of mental health care in Hitchin and the local area. It starts with William Drage, the 17th century Hitchin apothecary, who is commemorated by the mortar and pestle in the Physic Garden outside Hitchin Museum. His published work includes descriptions of the influence of the planets and witches, and various herbal remedies. A cold bath was prescribed for George Radcliffe of Hitchin Priory in 1731, without much hope of curing his `insanity', and the other medical and legal remedies are described. Two of the great 19th century reformers, Samuel Whitbread and Samuel Tuke, have local connections. The notorious case in 1858 of the confinement of the wife of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, the author and government minister of Knebworth House, is described. This involved Robert Gardiner Hill and Charles Hood, eminent alienists of that time, and John Forster, friend of Charles Dickens and the Secretary of the Lunacy Commission. Some of the more benevolent Victorian attempts to improve the care of the mentally ill are included, with an account of the local temperance movement. Henry Hawkins, the founder of the Mental Care Association in 1879, and the famous hermit, "Mad Lucas", who resisted efforts by his family to have him certified, also lived nearby. The care provided in Bedford and then Three Counties Asylums, as well as the private licensed houses and the workhouse in the 19th century is described, and then the developments throughout the 20th century. Finding ways that help each individual and family is a continuing challenge. This book does not provide any new answers, but it may help make some sense of what has been tried in the past.
Book Synopsis Private Enterprise and the China Trade by : Meike von Brescius
Download or read book Private Enterprise and the China Trade written by Meike von Brescius and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-05-20 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book examines the European commercial landscape of the early China trade, c.1700–1750. It looks at the foundational period of Sino-European commerce and explores a world of private enterprise beneath the surface of the official East India Company structures. Using rich private trade records, it analyses the making of pan-European markets, distribution networks and patterns of investment that together reveal a new geography of a trading system previously studied mostly at Canton. By considering the interloping activities of British-born merchants working for the smaller East India Companies, the book uncovers the commercial practices and cross-Company collaborations, both legal and illicit, that sustained the growth of the China trade: smuggling, wholesale trading, private commissions and the manipulation of Company auctions.
Book Synopsis Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders by : Don Herzog
Download or read book Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders written by Don Herzog and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conservatism was born as an anguished attack on democracy. So argues Don Herzog in this arrestingly detailed exploration of England's responses to the French Revolution. Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders ushers the reader into the politically lurid world of Regency England. Deftly weaving social and intellectual history, Herzog brings to life the social practices of the Enlightenment. In circulating libraries and Sunday schools, deferential subjects developed an avid taste for reading; in coffeehouses, alehouses, and debating societies, they boldly dared to argue about politics. Such conservatives as Edmund Burke gaped with horror, fearing that what radicals applauded as the rise of rationality was really popular stupidity or worse. Subjects, insisted conservatives, ought to defer to tradition--and be comforted by illusions. Urging that abstract political theories are manifest in everyday life, Herzog unflinchingly explores the unsavory emotions that maintained and threatened social hierarchy. Conservatives dished out an unrelenting diet of contempt. But Herzog refuses to pretend that the day's radicals were saints. Radicals, he shows, invested in contempt as enthusiastically as did conservatives. Hairdressers became newly contemptible, even a cultural obsession. Women, workers, Jews, and blacks were all abused by their presumed superiors. Yet some of the lowly subjects Burke had the temerity to brand a swinish multitude fought back. How were England's humble subjects transformed into proud citizens? And just how successful was the transformation? At once history and political theory, absorbing and disquieting, Poisoning the Minds of the Lower Orders challenges our own commitments to and anxieties about democracy.
Book Synopsis "This Little Commonwealth" by : Heather Falvey
Download or read book "This Little Commonwealth" written by Heather Falvey and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sources for Local Historians by : Paul Carter
Download or read book Sources for Local Historians written by Paul Carter and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people interested in the history of their town or village want to undertake research into its past, and most need to use primary sources sooner or later. Nothing quite equates with the thrill of reading first-hand a letter, diary, set of accounts or other records written in the past. Some sources, such as parish registers and census returns, are well known, but others are undiscovered treasures. This new book introduces the reader to the enormous range of documents available. The authors convey their own enthusiasm for the material and explain the information it can reveal. Their unique background - working for The National Archives and for local record offices - gives them an unrivalled knowledge of archival sources, and both of them have used much of this material in their own research. The chapters deal with subjects such as the land, the people, poverty, health, crime and family life. An essential guide for the local or family historian needing to consult original documents.
Download or read book Hoddesdon written by Frank Meeres and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the entire story of Hoddesdon from the earliest times up to and including the formation of the borough of Broxbourne in 1974. From the arrival of the first people to the settlement recorded in Domesday Book, from feudal and medieval times to the growth into urban district and then borough, the changing ways of life are chronicled, as are the stories of many individuals who left their mark on the making of Hoddesdon. In researching her narrative the author has drawn on many sources, as well as the rich local records and the visual evidence of the past around us.
Book Synopsis Garden Making and the Freman Family by : Anne Rowe
Download or read book Garden Making and the Freman Family written by Anne Rowe and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Freman family and their home Hamels in Hertfordshire. Ralph Freman (1666-1742), son of Ralph Freman (1627-1714) and Elizabeth Aubrey (1644-1721), married Elizabeth Catesby and they had three children. They moved into Hamels in 1713. Includes the memoirs of the Vicar of Braughing, George Smith, from 1713-1733, which includes many references to Hamels.
