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Author : Esther Moir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain written by Esther Moir and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Esther Moir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain written by Esther Moir and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593847598
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (938 download)
Download or read book History of Britain and Ireland written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient bloody battles and colonial conquests to the Industrial Revolution and Beatlemania, this visual guide leads you through major moments in British and Irish history. Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that shaped British and Irish history, from the Stone Age to the present day. Combining over 700 photographs, maps, and illustrations with accessible text, History of Britain and Ireland is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn more about the British Isles. Spanning six distinct periods of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish history, the book tells you how Britain transformed with Norman rule, fought two World Wars in the 20th century, and finally came to terms with a new status in a fast-changing economy. This comprehensive volume places key figures – from Alfred the Great to Winston Churchill – and major events – from Caesar's invasion to the Battle of the Somme – in their wider context. This makes it easier than ever before to learn how certain charismatic leaders, political factions, and specific events influenced Britain and Ireland's development through the Age of Empires and into the modern era. Beautifully illustrated, History of Britain and Ireland is sure to delight history buffs of all ages.
Author : Esther Moir
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136767878
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (367 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain (Routledge Revivals) written by Esther Moir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, this book examines the Tour of Britain. It focuses, neither on foreign tourists coming to Britain, nor on British tourists travelling abroad, but on British people exploring their native land in the three centuries from 1540 to 1840. During this period, it became a popular pastime amongst gentlemen of leisure to travel for weeks, even months, in discovery of their own country and this book describes both the pleasure taken by tourists of Britain and the hardships they endured. Tracking these journeys over three centuries, the book presents a changing English landscape, a changing economy, and a change in people’s tastes as the interests and concerns of the tourists evolve over the timeframe covered.
Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852853099
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Antiquaries written by Rosemary Sweet and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-28 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteenth-century Britain saw an explosion of interest in its own past, a past now expanded to include more than classical history and high politics. Antiquaries, men interested in all aspects of the past, added a distinctive new dimension to literature in Georgian Britain in their attempts to reconstruct and recover the past. Corresponding and publishing in an extended network, antiquaries worked at preserving and investigating records and physical remains in England, Scotland and Ireland. In doing so they laid solid foundations for all future study in British prehistory, archaeology and numismatics, and for local and national history as a whole. Naturally, they saw the past partly in their own image. While many antiquaries were better at fieldwork and recording than at synthesis, most were neither crabbed eccentrics nor dilettanti. At their best, as in the works of Richard Gough or William Stukeley, antiquaries set new standards of accuracy and perception in fields ranging from the study of the ancient Britons to that of medieval architecture. Antiquaries is the definitive account of a great historical enterprise.
Author : Richard Bradley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462016
Total Pages : 29 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book The Prehistory of Britain and Ireland written by Richard Bradley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-05 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sited at the furthest limits of the Neolithic revolution and standing at the confluence of the two great sea routes of prehistory, Britain and Ireland are distinct from continental Europe for much of the prehistoric sequence. In this landmark 2007 study - the first significant survey of the archaeology of Britain and Ireland for twenty years - Richard Bradley offers an interpretation of the unique archaeological record of these islands based on a wealth of current and largely unpublished data. Bradley surveys the entire archaeological sequence over a 4,000 year period, from the adoption of agriculture in the Neolithic period to the discovery of Britain and Ireland by travellers from the Mediterranean during the later pre-Roman Iron Age. Significantly, this is the first modern account to treat Britain and Ireland on equal terms, offering a detailed interpretation of the prehistory of both islands.
Author : D. Pearman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780901158529
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (585 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of the Native Flora of Britain & Ireland written by D. Pearman and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who first described our native plants? This book attempts to answer that question, starting from almost the dawn of printing, with William Turner's Libellus of 1538. Of course there were medieval herbals in the five centuries or more before Turner, and also there is a vast body of folk-lore, but Turner was the first to describe more than a handful and to do so in print. Thus printed sources are the cornerstone of this work, and the first date is given for each of the 1670 species or aggregates of all the indisputably natives and archaeophytes, including 40 or so species that some have argued as native in the last half-century. But this is supplemented by information from manuscripts and herbaria which enable the display of an earlier date, a date of first evidence, for just under half of that total. The names of the discoverers and the counties where each was first recorded are also given, where known. Though the primary purpose of the book is to show the details of the discovery and recording of each species, it will also show the progress of discovery, leading to somewhat surprising conclusion that most (+/- 85%) of our flora had been described by the 1720s, once the critical, non-lowland and doubtful natives have been omitted. Indeed, the main achievement of these last three centuries has been a consolidation of our knowledge. The very extensive appendices cover the key herbals and floras, the relevant journals, the important works on the history of botany, some of the national herbaria and have a major section of the botanists who actually discovered the plants.--Back cover.
Author : W. R. Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (561 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of Britain by the Finns written by W. R. Mead and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guy de la Bédoyère
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500771839
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Roman Britain written by Guy de la Bédoyère and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2013-11-24 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superbly illustrated throughout, this illuminating account of Britain as a Roman province includes dramatic aerial views of Roman remains, reconstruction drawings and images of Roman villas, mosaics, coins, pottery and sculpture. The text has been updated to incorporate the latest research and recent discoveries, including the largest Roman coin hoard ever found in Britain, the thirty decapitated skeletons found in York and the magnificent Crosby Garrett parade helmet. Guy de la Bédoyère is one of the public faces of Romano-British history and archaeology through his many appearances on several television programmes and is the author of numerous books on the period.
Author : Philip C. Almond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521033855
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (338 download)
Download or read book The British Discovery of Buddhism written by Philip C. Almond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to examine the British discovery of Buddhism during the Victorian period. It was only during the nineteenth century that Buddhism became, in the western mind, a religious tradition separate from Hinduism. As a result, Buddha emerge from a realm of myth and was addressed as a historical figure. Almond's exploration of British interpretations of Buddhism--of its founder, its doctrines, its ethics, its social practices, its truth and value--illuminates more than the various aspects of Buddhist culture: it sheds light on the Victorian society making these judgements.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The History of Britain, that Part Especially Now Call'd England written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1670 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert W. Hanning
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Vision of History in Early Britain written by Robert W. Hanning and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparative study of the writings of four medieval historians who described the mass settlements of Germanic tribes in Britain.
Author : Leslie Alcock
Publisher : Viking Press
ISBN 13 : 9780140136050
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Arthur's Britain written by Leslie Alcock and published by Viking Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles a wealth of information about the Arthur of history by delving into the shadowy period of the past in which he lived. Drawing on evidence from both written adn archaeological sources, Leslie Alcock sifts history from fiction to take us back to life between the fourth and seventh centuries, a time of warfare and feuding, when Celtic Britain had shaken off Roman rule, and fell victim to floods of raiding Scots, Picts, and Anglo-Saxons. He also provides details on how the Britons lived, worshipped, dressed and fought, to create a vivid picture of the Arthurian age and its warrior hero.
Author : Geoffrey Ashe
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805001150
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of King Arthur written by Geoffrey Ashe and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1987-01-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author offers convincing proof that King Arthur existed by tracing the legend of King Arthur to its roots in the 12th century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth.
Author : Edward Bland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (724 download)
Download or read book The Discovery of New Britain written by Edward Bland and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Pitts
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500774811
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Digging Up Britain written by Mike Pitts and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has long been obsessed with its own history and identity, as an island nation besieged by invaders from beyond the seas: the Romans, Vikings and Normans. The long saga of prehistory is often forgotten. But our understanding of our past is changing. In the last decade, astounding archaeological discoveries have shed new light on those who have gone before us, radically altering the way we think about our history. This book presents ten of the most exciting and surprising of these discoveries. Mike Pitts leads us on a journey through time from the more recent and familiar to the most remote and bizarre, just as archaeologists delving into the earth find themselves moving backwards through the years until they reach the very oldest remnants of the past. At each of these sites we hear from the people who found and recovered these ancient remains, and follow their efforts to understand them. Some are major digs, carried out to record sites before they are covered over by new developments. Others are chance finds, leading to revelations out of proportion to the scale of the original projects. All are extraordinary tales of luck and cutting-edge archaeological science that have produced profound, and often unexpected, insights into peoples lives on these islands between a thousand and a million years ago.
Author : Mary-Ann Ochota
Publisher : Frances Lincoln
ISBN 13 : 0711253463
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (112 download)
Download or read book Secret Britain written by Mary-Ann Ochota and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully illustrated book, anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota unearths more than fifty of Britains most intriguing ancient places and artefacts and explores the mysteries behind them.
