Author : Kate Morris
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2021-05-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1445690748
Secret St Albans explores the lesser-known history of the Hertfordshire city of St Albans through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.
Author : Mark Freeman
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,91 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN :
Presents an important history of St Albans. This title combines local history with important national themes.
Author : Cathryn J. Prince
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 25,48 MB
Release : 2006-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786717514
On a dreary October afternoon, bands of Confederate raiders held up the three banks in St. Albans. With guns drawn, they herded the townspeople out into the common, sending the people of the North into panic. Operating out of a Confederate stronghold in Canada, the raiders were young men, mostly escapees from Union prison camps, who had been recruited to inaugurate a new kind of guerilla war along the Yankees' unprotected border. The raid, though bungling at times, was successful — the consequent pursuit of the rebels into Canada. The celebrity-like trial it sparked in Montreal and resulting diplomatic tensions that arose between the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain, left the Southern dream of a second-front diversion in ruins. What survived, however, is a fascinating tale of the South's desperate attempt to reverse the course of the war. Burn the Town and Sack the Banks is a tale filled with dashing soldiers, spies, posses, bumbling plans, smitten locals, lawyers, diplomats, and an idyllic Vermont town, set against the backdrop of the great battles far from the Northern border that were bringing the Civil War to its bloody conclusion.
Author : Raymond Bernard
Publisher : Health Research Books
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 46,50 MB
Release : 1993-04
Category :
ISBN : 9780787300951
The Rosicrucian adept who preserved his youth for centuries. Was Francis Bacon the author of Shakespeare's plays; Editor of King James Version of the Bible; Count Saint-Germain founder of Freemasonry; heir to the English throne; Prince Rakoczy; foun.
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Page : 784 pages
File Size : 40,16 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Michelle Arnosky Sherburne
Publisher : Civil War
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9781626196292
"The history of the Confederate raid on St. Albans, Vermont"--
Author : Paul Adams
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 10,78 MB
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0750951516
St Albans is a city steeped in history, a place of former martyrs, Roman legions, battles, bloodshed ... and ghosts. Here the paranormal history of this remarkable area is brought vividly to life in the first dedicated guide to its unique haunted heritage that presents true encounters with the world of the strange and the unseen. Paranormal historian Paul Adams opens case files both ancient and modern to compile a chilling collection of supernatural experiences – the much haunted St Albans Cathedral where phantom monks have been seen in daylight and the fighting ghosts of Battlefield House and the legless apparition of a long-dead butler are just some of the unnerving experiences that await the reader.
Author : Charles Spooner Forbes
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,29 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Vermont
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 27,30 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Michelle Still
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,36 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1351895303
St Albans was one of the greatest Benedictine abbeys of medieval England, and the early 14th century was a period during which the concerns of the community and the role of the abbot emerge particularly clearly. Yet the history of the abbey during this period has received little attention since general surveys undertaken over eighty years ago, and the manorial history by Levett in 1938. Basing herself on the unique and relatively unexploited Gesta Abbatum Monasterii Sancti Albani, Michelle Still examines the position of St Albans in both the secular and monastic worlds, with a focus on the period 1290-1349. The study includes discussion of the role of the abbot as a feudal landlord, a provider of education (at the abbey's grammar school), and a dispenser of charity. In conclusion, she notes the pivotal importance of the personality and influence of the abbot of St Albans in ensuring the strict observance of the Rule of St Benedict in an age when traditional monasticism was increasingly challenged. Through the detailed study of this one abbey, this book makes an important contribution to the overall picture of monastic life in medieval England.
