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Download or read book McKie's Gazetteer written by David McKie and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes readers on a journey through the hidden history of Great Britain. From Castle Dangerous in South Lanarkshire to Defiance Platform in Cornwall, it relates anecdotes and arguments, heroes and villains that comprise Britain's rich local history.
Book Synopsis What's in a Surname? by : David McKie
Download or read book What's in a Surname? written by David McKie and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER Surnames are much more than convenient identity tags; they are windows into our families’ pasts. Some suggest ancestral trades (Butcher, Smith, Roper) or physical appearance (Long, Brown, Thynne). Some provide clues to where we come from (McDonald, Evans, Patel). And some – Rymer, Brocklebank, Stolbof – offer a hint of something just a little more exotic or esoteric. All are grist to the mill for David McKie who, in What’s in a Surname?, sets off on a journey around Britain to find out how such appellations have evolved and what they tell us about ourselves. En route he looks at the surname’s tentative beginnings in medieval times, and the myriad routes by which particular names became established. He considers some curious byways: the rise and fall of the multi-barrel surname and the Victorian reinvention of ‘embarrassing’ surnames among them. He considers whether fortune favours those whose surnames come at the beginning of the alphabet. And he celebrates the remarkable and the quirky, from the fearsome Ridley (the cry of which once struck terror in the hearts of their neighbours) to the legend-encrusted Tichborne, whose most famous holders were destined to suffer misfortune and controversy. Elegiac and amusing by turns, he offers a wonderfully entertaining wander along the footpaths of the nation’s history and culture, celebrating not just the Smiths and Joneses of these islands but the Chaceporcs and Swetinbeddes, too.
Book Synopsis Tales Of Two Londons by : Claire Armitstead
Download or read book Tales Of Two Londons written by Claire Armitstead and published by OR Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scintillating anthology draws on the rich mélange of people who inhabit today’s London, both lamenting the unequal way the city treats them and celebrating the vibrant urban life their co-existence delivers.
Book Synopsis Bright Particular Stars by : David Mckie
Download or read book Bright Particular Stars written by David Mckie and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Bright Particular Stars, David McKie examines the impact of 26 remarkable British eccentrics on 26 unremarkable British locations. From Broadway in the Cotswolds, where the Victorian bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps nurtured dreams of possessing every book in the world, to Kilwinning in Scotland, where in 1839 the Earl of Eglinton mounted a tournament that was Renaissance in its extravagance and disastrous in its execution, McKie leads us to places transformed, inspired, and sometimes scandalized by the obsessional endeavors of visionary mavericks. Some of McKie's eccentrics, such as Mary Macarthur, who helped the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath win the right to a fair wage in 1910, were good to the point of saintliness; others, including the composer Peter Heseltine, who in the 1920s set net curtains twitching by his hard drinking and naked motorbike riding, rather less so. But together their fascinating stories illuminate some of the most secret and most extraordinary byways of British history. Here, quiet, unassuming streetscapes become sites of eccentric and uproarious sites of action. The triumphs and failures of the visionaries who thus transformed them—recaptured here in vivid and beguiling fashion—have each, in their own way, helped shape the island's rich and checkered history.
Book Synopsis Gazetteer and Business Directory of Washington County, N.Y. for 1871 by :
Download or read book Gazetteer and Business Directory of Washington County, N.Y. for 1871 written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Smith's Canadian Gazetteer by : William Henry Smith
Download or read book Smith's Canadian Gazetteer written by William Henry Smith and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Hampshire by : William White
Download or read book History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Hampshire written by William White and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 934 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, Etc by : William White (Publisher in Sheffield.)
Download or read book History, Gazetteer, and Directory, of the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire, Etc written by William White (Publisher in Sheffield.) and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 1778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Wright's Australian and American Commercial Directory and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 2078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New England Business Directory and Gazetteer for ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Tribune for Victory and Socialism written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Bengal and Agra Annual Guide and Gazetteer written by and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 1230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Missouri State Gazetteer and Business Directory ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
