The Sinclairs of England
Author : Thomas Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 39,49 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Robert Sinclair
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2013-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1481796232
This book provides us with an accurate historical view of the Sinclair family alongside Scottish history It explores the journey of the Sinclairs from their Normandy routes to Scotland. Sinclair is one of the oldest surnames in Europe and its ancestry goes back to William the Conqueror. The book identifies the origin and formation of the Sinclair Clan, shows the crest and tartans and their Earldoms and Castles. From these it guides us to places of interest today. The Sinclairs were well respected and throughout the centuries, won or were awarded property and lands. They were greatly involved in the battles of the Wars of Independence and are first mentioned in the invasion of England with William the Conqueror. This book goes on to describe in detail, all the battles looking at the first Battle of Dunbar in 1296 effectively ending in an English victory to the first battle for Independence, the Battle of Roslin. It goes on encountering the Sinclairs in the likes of the Battles of Bannochburn and Culloden to the ill fated Invasion of England in 1648 with King Charles II. It then takes us on, ending the journey at the Union of Parliaments of Scotland and England in 1707.
Author : James Traill Calder
Publisher :
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Caithness (Scotland)
ISBN :
Author : Sinclair McKay
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1472284569
Discover the stories of the brave men and women who worked, trained and fought across the UK, from Bletchley Park in southern England all the way to Arisaig in northern Scotland, in an unbelievable effort to defeat the Nazis and win the Second World War . From the outset of the war, most of Britain felt like a mystery even to those who lived there. All road and railway signs were removed up and down the country to thwart potential enemy spies. An invisible web of cunning spread across the United Kingdom; secret laboratories were hidden in marshes, underground bases were built to conceal key strategic plans and grand country houses became secret and silent locations for eccentric boffins to do their confidential cryptography work. In Secret Britain, Sinclair McKay maps out the UK through the hidden bases and battlegrounds of WWII. These locations are full of history and intrigue, but if you don't know where to look, you might just miss them. Journeying through secret wildernesses, suburbs, underground tunnels and manor houses, Sinclair gives a glimpse into the stories of the incredible people behind the war effort, and shows how you might be able to visit these mysterious and evocative locations yourself. With his trademark warmth and compassion, Sinclair unearths the truths of the war that have remained under layers of secrecy since the war was won in 1945.
Author : Iain Sinclair
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1786071754
A New Statesman Book of the Year London. A city apart. Inimitable. Or so it once seemed. Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard, Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition. The vestiges of secret tunnels, the ghosts of saints and lost poets lie buried by developments, the cycling revolution and Brexit. An electrifying final odyssey, The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory.
Author : L.A. Morrison
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1896
Category : History
ISBN : 5872617577
The history of the Sinclair family in Europe and America for eleven hundred years giving a genealogical and biographical history of the family in Normandy, France, a general record of it in Scotland, England, Ireland, and a full biographical and genealogical record of many branches in Canada and the United States.
Author : Richard Hay
Publisher :
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 1835
Category : Scotland
ISBN :
Author : Catherine Sinclair
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 11,23 MB
Release : 1837
Category : English fiction
ISBN :
Author : Karen Ranney
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062242458
True love blossoms between a widow and an inventor in the Scottish Highlands in the steamy historical romance by a New York Times–bestselling author. For Virginia Traylor, Countess of Barrett, marriage was merely the vehicle to buy her father a title. Widowhood, however, brings a host of problems. For her husband deliberately spent the money intended for Virginia and her in-laws, leaving them penniless—unless she produces an heir. Desperate and confused, Virginia embarks on a fateful journey that brings her to the doorstep of the only man she’s ever loved . . . He’s known as the Devil, but Macrath Sinclair doesn’t care. He moved to a tiny Scottish village in hopes of continuing his work as an inventor and starting a family of his own. He bought the house; he chose the woman. Unfortunately, Virginia didn’t choose him. Macrath knows he should turn her away now, but she needs him, and he wants her more than ever. Whatever game Virginia’s playing, Macrath intends to win—one wickedly seductive deed at a time . . . Praise for The Devil of Clan Sinclair “In this first in her new Clan Sinclair series, Karen Ranney enchants the reader with strong descriptions of people, places, and artifacts. Her characters are finely drawn. . . . Her descriptions of the Scottish Highlands . . . are clear and evocative. An energetic story with many surprising twists and turns.” —Historical Novel Society
Author : Virginia Nicholson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 31,7 MB
Release : 2005-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0060548460
They ate garlic and didn't always bathe; they listened to Wagner and worshiped Diaghilev; they sent their children to coeducational schools, explored homosexuality and free love, vegetarianism and Post-impressionism. They were often drunk and broke, sometimes hungry, but they were of a rebellious spirit. Inhabiting the same England with Philistines and Puritans, this parallel minority of moral pioneers lived in a world of faulty fireplaces, bounced checks, blocked drains, whooping cough, and incontinent cats. They were the bohemians. Virginia Nicholson -- the granddaughter of painter Vanessa Bell and the great-niece of Virginia Woolf -- explores the subversive, eccentric, and flamboyant artistic community of the early twentieth century in this "wonderfully researched and colorful composite portrait of an enigmatic world whose members, because they lived by no rules, are difficult to characterize" (San Francisco Chronicle).