Book Description
Provides historical, geographical, and cultural information for every county in England, Wales and Scotland.
Author : Russell Grant
Publisher : Virgin Books Limited
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 23,54 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Provides historical, geographical, and cultural information for every county in England, Wales and Scotland.
Author : William Page
Publisher :
Page : 678 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Lancashire (England)
ISBN :
Author : Matthew Engel
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 803 pages
File Size : 48,66 MB
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1847659284
England, says Matthew Engel, is the most complicated place in the world. And, as he travels through each of the historic English counties, he discovers that's just the start of it. Every county is fascinating, the product of a millennium or more of history: still a unique slice of a nation that has not quite lost its ancient diversity. He finds the well-dressers of Derbyshire and the pyromaniacs of Sussex; the Hindus and huntsmen of Leicestershire; the goddess-worshippers of Somerset. He tracks down the real Lancashire, hedonistic Essex, and the most mysterious house in Middlesex. In Durham he goes straight from choral evensong to the dog track. As he seeks out the essence of each county - from Yorkshire's broad acres to the microdot of Rutland - Engel always finds the unexpected . Engel's England is a totally original look at a confused country: a guidebook for people who don't think they need a guidebook. It is always quirky, sometimes poignant and often extremely funny.
Author : Charlotte Maria Mason
Publisher :
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,26 MB
Release : 1925
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : James Dugdale
Publisher :
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 18,70 MB
Release : 1819
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300095999
The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.
Author : Rachel Dixon
Publisher : Wide Eyed Editions
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,85 MB
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1786039311
Take a tour of the United Kingdom as you’ve never seen it before in this fully illustrated set of county maps. Travel through England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and meet the incredible people born there, learn about its proud history, and discover ancient castles, modern feats of engineering and natural highlights while you revel in the nation’s curiosities, from the spectacular, to the quirky, to the downright strange! A fabulous introduction to Shakespeare’s Sceptre Isle, for readers young and old.
Author : John Milton
Publisher :
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 23,35 MB
Release : 1818
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Moule
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,9 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1849944970
The most beautiful Victorian maps of England's counties and cities – in large format – by one of Britain's great cartographer's Thomas Moule. Thomas Moule was one of the finest Victorian mapmakers and is regarded as the true follower of John Speed in the cartographic history of Britain. Moule’s beautifully observed county and city maps present a minutely detailed record of 19th-century England. They were first published in collectable parts between 1830 and 1837 and then published together in the extensive 2-volume masterwork The English Counties Delineated. Moule celebrated the ‘ancientness’ and history of each county by including pastoral or monument views within the maps, all framed by cartouches, festoons and architectural ornament in a variety of historical styles. But underpinning this ancient vision is the hand of the British Industrial Revolution. Moule’s maps are deeply informed by the early technical work of the Ordnance Survey and record the unstoppable growth of the major cities and the unrelenting spread of the railways. The maps have remained influential and highly collectable as both originals and as reproductions. For the first time in a generation this new large-format volume, comprising 55 county and city maps, presents the main body of Thomas Moule’s work alongside his original detailed text descriptions. The book’s Introduction explains Moule’s career as a writer and antiquary and sets his celebrated maps in the context of the technical cartographic revolution in which they were published. The book examines the wide-ranging artistic and cultural influences exhibited as Moule combines accurate cartography with highly decorative architectural frames and evocative, Romantic, pastoral views of the England he so cherished. In doing so it positions him alongside his fellow celebrated Victorian pioneers, including George Virtue, William Westall, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, JMW Turner, Augustus Pugin, Edward Stanford and George Bradshaw.
Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387007027
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.