Secret Swindon

Secret Swindon
Title Secret Swindon PDF eBook
Author Angela Atkinson
Publisher Amberley Publishing Limited
Pages 147
Release 2018-07-15
Genre Photography
ISBN 1445683393

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Secret Swindon explores the lesser-known history of the Wiltshire town of Swindon through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Land Reform and Sustainable Development

Land Reform and Sustainable Development
Title Land Reform and Sustainable Development PDF eBook
Author Robert W. Dixon-Gough
Publisher Routledge
Pages 268
Release 2018-11-08
Genre Education
ISBN 042976748X

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First published in 1999, this volume is unique in that it gives a valuable comparison between the current state of land reform and sustainable development across greater Europe. The chapters are broadly divided into those related to the established systems of land reform and sustainable development encountered in Western Europe, and those which concentrate upon the evolving systems which are currently in the process of development in the former communist states of Eastern and Central Europe. The book is based on the papers presented at the 21st International Symposium of the European Faculty of Land Use and Development. The papers have been presented and peer-reviewed by some of the leading experts and practitioners of Land Reform in Europe. All papers have been extensively edited and revised, and are presented as chapters within the three sections of the book: Land Reform, Sustainable Development and Rural Land Development.

Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle

Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle
Title Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 1596
Release 1927
Genre Cattle
ISBN

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Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.

The Swindon Book

The Swindon Book
Title The Swindon Book PDF eBook
Author Mark Child
Publisher
Pages 298
Release 2013-06
Genre History
ISBN 9781906978280

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Alphabetical compendium of people, places and events in the history of Swindon, one of the largest towns in central southern England, by well known and respected local historian and author.

The Secret Passage

The Secret Passage
Title The Secret Passage PDF eBook
Author Fergus Hume
Publisher Read Books Ltd
Pages 222
Release 2017-07-21
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1473349540

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When a woman is murdered in her home with some curious clues left behind, a seasoned detective and curious citizen embark on separate missions to unravel the mystery. Fergusson Wright Hume (8 July 1859 - 12 July 1932) was an English novelist. He was a prolific writer, producing more than 100 novels and short stories in his lifetime. Hume wrote many popular mystery stories and is considered a progenitor of the modern detective genre. Other notable works by this author include: "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" (1886), "The White Room" (1904), and "The Caretaker" (1915). Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author. First published in 1905.

Secret Science

Secret Science
Title Secret Science PDF eBook
Author Ulf Schmidt
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 670
Release 2015-07-09
Genre History
ISBN 0191056049

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From the early 1990s, allegations that servicemen had been duped into taking part in trials with toxic agents at top-secret Allied research facilities throughout the twentieth century featured with ever greater frequency in the media. In Britain, a whole army of over 21,000 soldiers had participated in secret experiments between 1939 and 1989. Some remembered their stay as harmless, but there were many for whom the experience had been all but pleasant, sometimes harmful, and in isolated cases deadly. Secret Science traces, for the first time, the history of chemical and biological weapons research by the former Allied powers, particularly in Britain, the United States, and Canada. It charts the ethical trajectory and culture of military science, from its initial development in response to Germany's first use of chemical weapons in the First World War to the ongoing attempts by the international community to ban these types of weapons once and for all. It asks whether Allied and especially British warfare trials were ethical, safe, and justified within the prevailing conditions and values of the time. By doing so, it helps to explain the complex dynamics in top-secret Allied research establishments: the desire and ability of the chemical and biological warfare corps, largely comprised of military officials, scientists, and expert civil servants, to construct and identify a never-ending stream of national security threats which served as flexible justification strategies for the allocation of enormous resources to conducting experimental research with some of the most deadly agents known to man. Secret Science offers a nuanced, non-judgemental analysis of the contributions made by servicemen, scientists, and civil servants to military research in Britain and elsewhere, not as passive, helpless victims 'without voices', or as laboratory and desk perpetrators 'without a conscience', but as history's actors and agents of their own destiny. As such it also makes an important contribution to the burgeoning literature on the history and culture of memory.

Most Secret

Most Secret
Title Most Secret PDF eBook
Author Paddy Heazell
Publisher The History Press
Pages 435
Release 2011-10-24
Genre History
ISBN 0752474243

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Orford Ness was so secret a place that most people have never heard of it. The role it played in inventing and testing weapons over the course of the twentieth century was far more significant and much longer than that of Bletchley Park. Nestled on a remote part of the Suffolk coast, Orford Ness operated for over eighty years as a highly classified research and testing site for the British military, the Atomic Weapons Reserach Establishment and, at one point, even the US Department of Defence. The work conducted here by some of the greatest 'boffins' of past generations played a cruicial role in winning the three great wars of the twentieth century: the First, Second and the Cold. Hosting dangerous early night flying and parachute testing during the First World War, the ingenious radar trials by Watson Watt and his team in the 1930s, through to the testing of nuclear bombs and the top-secret UK-US COBRA MIST project, the 'Ness' has been at the forefront of military technology from 1913 to the 1990s. Now a unique National Trust property and National Nature Reserve, its secrets have remained buried until recently. This book reveals an incredible history, rich with ingenuity, intrigue and typical British inventiveness.