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Author : Elizabeth Oke Gordon
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric London written by Elizabeth Oke Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prehistoric London written by and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Oke Gordon
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Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Prehistoric London written by Elizabeth Oke Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Seelochan Beharry
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786477970
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Prehistories of Baseball written by Seelochan Beharry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baseball's roots lie deep in our ancestral past. The ancient arts of throwing (distance warfare), hitting (close quarters combat), and running (attack and retreat) were woven into the earliest forms of baseball. Early humans recognized the importance of the sun and sought to placate it with sacrificial offerings, imitating its movements and deifying it. Myths and relics of these foundational practices and beliefs were carried westward across the Old World by Indo-European peoples. Games for the early British and Continental Europeans (notably the Celts and Druids) served military, religious, social and educational needs. As the Celts and Druids came under the control of the Roman Empire, and later the Christian Church, their customs and practices, including games, fell out of favor. Despite persecution, some folk games survived the millennia under such names as "stool-ball," "tut-ball," and "base-ball." Descendants of these peoples brought their variant games to the New World where the standardization of various informal rules led to their rapid spread. Baseball, with its underlying beliefs, superstitions and practices, still brings us together with familiar and comforting rituals as we assemble under the sun.
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Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)
Download or read book The Archaeological Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199541949
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book A Journey Through Ruins written by Patrick Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique evocation of Britain at the height of Margaret Thatcher's rule, A Journey Through Ruins views the transformation of the country through the unexpected prism of every day life in East London.Written at a time when the looming but still unfinished tower of Canary Wharf was still wrapped in protective blue plastic, its cast of characters includes council tenants trapped in disintegrating tower blocks, depressed gentrifiers worrying about negative equity, metal detectorists, sharp-eyed estate agents and management consultants, and even Prince Charles.Cutting through the teeming surface of London, it investigates a number of wider themes: the rise and dramatic fall of council housing, the coming of privatization, the changing memory of the Second World War, once used to justify post-war urban development and reform but now seen as a sacrifice betrayed. Written half a century after the blitz, the book reviews the rise and fall of the London of the post-war settlement. It remains one of the very best accounts of what it was like to livethrough the Thatcher years.
Author : Harold Bayley
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Total Pages : 936 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Archaic England written by Harold Bayley and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hugh Raffles
Publisher : Verse Chorus Press
ISBN 13 : 1891241745
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (912 download)
Download or read book The Book of Unconformities written by Hugh Raffles and published by Verse Chorus Press. This book was released on 2022-04-18 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of lnsectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, grief, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present. Unconformities are gaps in the geological record, physical evidence of breaks in time. For Hugh Raffles, these holes in history are also fissures in feeling, knowledge, memory, and understanding. In this endlessly inventive, riveting book, Raffles enters these gaps, drawing together threads of geology, history, literature, philosophy, and ethnography to trace the intimate connections between personal loss and world historical events, and to reveal the force of absence at the core of contemporary life. Through deeply researched explorations of Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan's Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived in New York City along with six Inuit adventurers in 1897, Raffles shows how unconformities unceasingly incite human imagination and investigation yet refuse to conform, heal, or disappear. A journey across eons and continents, The Book of Unconformities is also a journey through stone: this most solid, ancient, and enigmatic of materials, it turns out, is as lively, capricious, willful, and indifferent as time itself.
Author : David Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019884719X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Landscape and Subjectivity in the Work of Patrick Keiller, W. G. Sebald, and Iain Sinclair written by David Anderson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-06-29 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book situates the film-maker Patrick Keiller alongside the writers W.G. Sebald and Iain Sinclair as the three leading voices in 'English psychogeography', offering new insights to key works including London, The Rings of Saturn, and Lights Out for the Territory. Excavating social and political contexts while also providing plentiful close analysis, it examines the cultivation of a distinctive 'affective' mode or sensibility especially attuned to the cultural anxieties of the twentieth century's closing decades. Landscape and Subjectivity explores motifs including essayism, the reconciliation of creativity with market forces, and the foregrounding of an often agonised or melancholic. It asks whether the work can, collectively, be seen to constitute a 'critical theory of contemporary space' and suggests that Keiller, Sebald, and Sinclair's contributions represent a highly significant moment in English culture's engagement with landscape, environment, and itself. The book's analyses are fuelled by archival and topographical research and are responsive to various interdisciplinary contexts, including the tradition of the 'English Journey', the set of ideas associated with the 'spatial turn', critical theory, the so-called 'heritage debate', and more recent theorisation of the 'anthropocene'.
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Total Pages : 716 pages
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Download or read book T.P.'s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Works Added to the British Museum Library written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Total Pages : 1586 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Subject Index of Modern Books Acquired 1881/1900-. written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1586 pages
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Download or read book Subject Index of the Modern Books Acquired by the British Museum in the Years ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Geographical Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society, formerly published separately.
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Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folk Horror Revival
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326971905
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Otherworldly: Folk Horror Revival at the British Museum written by Folk Horror Revival and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "On a rainy Sunday in October 2016 almost 400 people gathered at The British Museum to be a part of a momentous occasion-- the very first Folk Horror Revival event. The day promised to be a packed and varied one with gallery tours, poetry recitals, films screenings, talks, music, Q & As and maybe a surprise guest or two. The volumed you have in your hand serves to record that day, by offering transcriptions of the talks and the Q & As, photographs of all those who took part and even some artwork produced on the day."--Page 5
Author : Nigel Pennick
Publisher : Coronet
ISBN 13 : 1473620287
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (736 download)
Download or read book The Secret Lore of London written by Nigel Pennick and published by Coronet. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Iain Sinclair. London is an ancient city, whose foundation dates back literally thousands of years into the legendary prehistory of these islands. Not surprisingly it has accumulated a large number of stories, both historic and mythical, during this period, many of which, though faithfully recorded at the time, have lain almost forgotten in dusty libraries throughout the city. The Secret Lore of London is a guide to the legends, including a discussion of their importance as part of the oral tradition of Britain, combining Prehistoric, Celtic, Arthurian, Roman, Saxon and Norman levels - each of which has contributed to the many-layered life of the city. The first part contains a unique selection of essays (some printed here for the first time) by experts in their fields, each of whom possesses a unique interest in the legends of these islands, and who have written widely on associated themes. The second part of the book will consist of a Gazetteer of the sites mentioned which are still in existence, together with various other sites of associated interest, compiled by the Editor, the contributors, and members of the London Earth Mysteries Group. This part will be fully updated and extended to include many more sites. The result is a wide ranging and wholly fascinating book, with wide sales application possible. A series of appendixes will include William Stukley's extraordinary document The Brill, which relates to the ancient prehistoric sites around the area of present day St. Pancras, and excerpts from some of the best known 19th and early 20th century works on Legendary London by Lewis Spence and Harold Bayley Contributors to the book are: Nigel Pennick John Matthews Caroline Wise Caitlín Matthews Carol Clancy R.J. Stewart Bernard Nesfield-Cookson Gareth Knight Robert Stephenson Geraldine Beskin Chesca Potter William Stukeley Lewis Spence Harold Bayley Alan V. Insole Ross Nichols
