Book Description
Manuscripts of the Bathurst family, 1665-1834, but largely papers of Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst, 1796-1821, together with some Lennox family papers, 1753-98.
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Page : 832 pages
File Size : 47,40 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Archives
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Manuscripts of the Bathurst family, 1665-1834, but largely papers of Henry, 3rd Earl Bathurst, 1796-1821, together with some Lennox family papers, 1753-98.
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Page : 520 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Neville Thompson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 44,6 MB
Release : 1999-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0850526450
Earl Bathurst arguably exerted greater influence on the establishment and consolidation of the British Empire than any other single individual. In writing this highly authoritative work, Professor Thompson had access to the previously untapped Bathurst Family archives.This biography also throws fresh light on other leading figures of the period notably The Duke of Wellington and The Prince Regent.
Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Page : 588 pages
File Size : 48,56 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Page : 528 pages
File Size : 32,57 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
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Page : 954 pages
File Size : 49,99 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Scotland
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Author : Grande-Bretagne. Historical manuscripts commission
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Page : pages
File Size : 46,82 MB
Release : 1923
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Author : Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Eugene Charlton Black
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 38,24 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674050006
The generations of Britons living through the reign of George III saw basic changes in economic and social structure: industrial revolution, agricultural revolution, demographic revolution. Romanticism displaced classicism. The religious and spiritual life of the nation changed dramatically. The rise of the mass constituency, the extension of political consensus, proved the salient new political fact. Traditional institutions and relationships were not impervious to change, but extraparliarmentary political organizations forced the pace. They reflected the interests of the community far more closely than the traditional, fragmented political factions. National extraparliamentary political organizations attempted, in parliamentary constituencies, to secure the election of members pledged to a specific program. Potential supporters were organized, after a fashion, in parliament. This is the nucleus of modern party organization, platform, and propaganda. Mr. Black examines a number of these associations—their motives, their leaders, their opponents, their means of expression and operation, their accomplishments and failures. Names such as Wilkes, Wyvill, Gordon, Jebb, and Reeves are found in cooperation with and opposition to Rockingham, Pitt, Fox, and North. Organizations such as the Associated Counties; the Protestant Association; the Society for the Commemoration of the Glorious Revolution; and the Association for the Preservation of Liberty and Property against Republicans and Levellers are represented in this narrative of eighteenth-century political history.
Author : Rory Muir
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 761 pages
File Size : 17,55 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300214049
The preeminent Wellington biographer presents a fascinating reassessment of the Duke’s most famous victory and his political career after Waterloo. The Duke of Wellington’s momentous victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo was the culminating point of a brilliant military career. Yet Wellington’s achievements were far from over. He commanded the allied army of occupation in France to the end of 1818, returned home to a seat in Lord Liverpool’s cabinet, and became prime minister in 1828. He later served as a senior minister in Robert Peel’s government and remained Commander-in-Chief of the Army for a decade until his death in 1852. In this richly detailed work, the second and concluding volume of Rory Muir’s definitive biography, the author offers a substantial reassessment of Wellington’s significance as a politician and a nuanced view of the private man behind the legendary hero. Muir presents new insights into Wellington’s determination to keep peace at home and abroad, achieved by maintaining good relations with the Continental powers, resisting radical agitation, and granting political equality to the Catholics in Ireland. Countering one-dimensional image of Wellington as a national hero, Muir paints a nuanced portrait of a man whose austere public demeanor belied his entertaining, gossipy, generous, and unpretentious private self.