The Mystery of Victor Grayson. [With a Portrait.].
Author : Reginald Groves
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Reginald Groves
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Page : 118 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 1946
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Author : Harry Taylor
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 16,54 MB
Release : 2021-08-20
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ISBN : 9780745343983
The true story of the strange disappearance of a radical icon
Author : Jonathan Pile
Publisher : Jonathan Pile
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 1471641805
Reveals evidence of a Watergate style conspiracy by British appeasers against Churchill masterminded by ex-MI5 officer and Conservative Party fixer Sir Joseph Ball, funded by murdered Bahamas Tax Exile Gold Magnate Sir Harry Oakes and British Pro-Nazis. Ball's friends included Cambridge Spy Guy Burgess and James Bond Author Ian Fleming. Events culminate in the mysterious stopping of Big Ben & the arrival of Rudolf Hess in Scotland. 11 years of research reveal how close Churchill came to losing his seat in parliament ,selling his beloved Chartwell, the dirty tricks used against him and how close England came to joining the Axis.
Author : Spencella Maljean
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,20 MB
Release : 19??
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Books
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 472 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 1961
Category : English imprints
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Author : David Clark
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780704374089
Victor Grayson's life may have been short but it was action-packed. Born in the slums of Liverpool, a bright lad, he served an engineering apprenticeship before he began preaching in non-conformist churches and started training as a Unitarian minister and attending Manchester University. His interest switched to politics and, in 1907, aged 25, he shook the British Establishment when he won the Colne Valley by-election as a socialist with active support from the Suffragettes. One afternoon in September 1920, he disappeared and has never resurfaced.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,64 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 1294 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892367857
Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.