The Town and Country Magazine, Or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment
Title | The Town and Country Magazine, Or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment PDF eBook |
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Pages | 790 |
Release | 1782 |
Genre | English periodicals |
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Tercentenary Handlist of English & Welsh Newspapers, Magazines & Reviews ...
Title | Tercentenary Handlist of English & Welsh Newspapers, Magazines & Reviews ... PDF eBook |
Author | Roland Austin |
Publisher | London : Dawsons of Pall Mall |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | English newspapers |
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Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots
Title | Afterlife of Mary, Queen of Scots PDF eBook |
Author | Steven J. Reid |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2024-04-30 |
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ISBN | 1399523562 |
Mary Queen of Scots (1542-1587) was active as monarch of Scotland for just six years between 1561 and 1567, but her impact as a ruler in Scotland is much less important than her subsequent role in popular culture and imagination. Her story has enjoyed perpetual retelling and reached a global audience over the past four and a half centuries. This collection surveys the exceptionally varied range of objects, literature, art and media that have been produced to commemorate Mary between her own time and the present day. Why is her story so enduring, pervasive, and of such interest to so many different audiences? How have the narratives associated with these objects evolved in response to shifting cultural attitudes? The collection offers a much-needed novel perspective on the Queen of Scots, using an approach at the intersection of early modern, gender and cultural history, museum and heritage studies, and memory studies.
The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800
Title | The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature: Volume 2, 1660-1800 PDF eBook |
Author | George Watson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1698 |
Release | 1971-07-02 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 9780521079341 |
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 2 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
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Pages | 846 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Anonyms and pseudonyms |
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Author | John Herbert Slater |
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Pages | 844 |
Release | 1901 |
Genre | Anonyms and pseudonyms |
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Glorious Goodwood
Title | Glorious Goodwood PDF eBook |
Author | James Peill |
Publisher | Constable |
Pages | 370 |
Release | 2019-06-06 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1472128230 |
'Delightful' A HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR / BOOK OF THE WEEK, Daily Mail 'Goodwood curator James Peill writes with a wonderfully light touch . . . The Goodwood story is extraordinary and rightly celebrated' Country Life The history of Goodwood, England's greatest sporting estate Goodwood has been the home of English sport for centuries. The story of how a small hunting lodge became the iconic location for the globally-renowned Festival of Speed, Glorious Goodwood and Goodwood Revival events is inextricably intertwined with the tale of the Dukes of Richmond. The Dukes were, variously, patrons of the arts, political influencers, royal confidantes, architectural innovators, horticultural enthusiasts and stewards of the community. Above all, they were passionate about the sports for which Goodwood is best known: horseracing, motor sports, foxhunting, cricket, shooting and golf. Drawing upon the wealth of the Goodwood archives, James Peill vividly captures the character of each Duke, some radical and others staunchly traditional, and the wide-ranging impact they had on the Goodwood of today. The broader context is a sweeping history of England, and one family's part in it. Beginning with Charles II and his mistress Louise de Keroualle, the parents of the first Duke, Glorious Goodwood takes the reader on a journey through time, from the seventeenth century to present day, via the Jacobite Rising, the Battle of Waterloo and the First and Second World Wars. There are cameo appearances from George Stubbs, Canaletto, Alexander, Emperor of Russia, Queen Victoria, Jackie Stewart and Edward VII, who famously hosted Privy Council meetings in the Tapestry Drawing Room during race week. Glorious Goodwood is a vivid and intimate portrait of a house and its inhabitants set against a dazzling, panoramic backdrop of English history. At the heart of this colourful and compelling story is a rich sense of the British heritage Goodwood embodies.