mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

Building the Tower subway, 1860s (illustration credit Ill.24) The younger Brunel took over the work only to discover that the tunnel was coming close to the bed of the Thames. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Penelope Lively

8 ‘Lovely plant,’ says the nurse. ‘Your sister-in-law brought it, didn’t she? Gorgeous colour. It’ll be one of those hothouse species, I expect. I’ll put it nearer the radiator.’ Claudia ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-04-07 | Author:Neil Ansell

6. The Bird in the Bush The goshawks caught me unawares. So far as I knew they had died out in Britain decades ago, and their stealthy return had passed ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1972-06-24 | Author:Plowden, Alison [Plowden, Alison]

I. Bess of Hardwick as Ladv C'avendish 2. Sir William Cavendish 3. Arbclla Stuart at two years old 4. Bess of Hardwick, Countess of Shrewsbui-\' t). George Talbot, Earl of ...

mobi |eng | 1989-01-02 | Author:Frances Gies; Joseph Gies

Heavy plow, with coulter and mouldboard, drawn by four oxen. British Library, Luttrell Psalter, Ms. Add. 42130, f. 170. Plows and plow animals were shared to make up plow teams. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-02-15 | Author:Guy Halsall

A: The Origins of the southernmost English Kingdom (Kent) (32 words) B.1: Introductory comment about Arthur (16 words) B.2: Battle 1 (9 words) B.3 Battles 2–5 (18 words)Z B.1 & ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-12 | Author:Ackroyd, Peter [Ackroyd, Peter]

23 Faith of our fathers The failure of Wyatt’s rebellion, and the subsequent arrival of Philip, lent confidence to the queen. The pace of religious reform, or perhaps of religious ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2004-11-09 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

Antiquarianism and English History “Britannia”: frontispiece illustration to William Camden’s Britannia, 1600 CHAPTER 30 Among the Ruins In his twenty-ninth year John Milton wrote in a letter that “my genius ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Bill Byson

Notes from a Small Island CHAPTER FIFTEEN I WENT TO RETFORD. I CAN'T EXPLAIN IT. THROUGH MY MORNING ablutions, the gentle removal of the tissues from my swollen nostrils, through ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-09 | Author:H.L. Mencken

2. THE ADVANCE OF AMERICAN SPELLING But such uncompromising defenders of English spelling lead a forlorn hope. Not only is there a general movement toward American forms in the newspapers ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2007-12-18 | Author:Peter Ackroyd

Antiquarianism and English History “Britannia”: frontispiece illustration to William Camden’s Britannia, 1600 CHAPTER 30 Among the Ruins In his twenty-ninth year John Milton wrote in a letter that “my genius ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-22 | Author:Sarah Rose

Behind the gentlemanly façade of the East India Company there were often hidden rivalries and simmering tensions, and within the Indian network of company gardeners this friction often centered on ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-08-18 | Author:Stephen Budiansky

Above all, Mr. Secretary wanted Elizabeth to greatly increase support to the rebels in France and the Low Countries, and so vex both of the Catholic powers at once. If ...

mobi, epub |eng | 1993-01-10 | Author:Margaret Thatcher

SDI President Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative, about which the Soviets and Mr Gorbachev were already so alarmed, was to prove central to the West’s victory in the Cold War. Although, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Alison Weir

There was no hint in this letter of any criticism of the King, to whom the Queen constantly referred as her “very dear lord,” as became a loving wife. Yet ...