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Widower's House by John Bayley
epub |eng | | Author:John Bayley

That was the end of what I had written down just after Iris died, and apparently forgotten about in the days that followed. The two women and the time I ...
( Category: Arts & Literature March 2,2020 )
The Victorians and Edwardians at Work by John Hannavy
epub |eng | 2011-10-30 | Author:John Hannavy

In the 1870s the London Stereoscopic Company produced many series of hand-tinted stereoscopic and carte-de-visite sized images to be bought and collected. This carte-de-visite, purporting to show a ‘Welsh farmer’s ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. by William Makepeace Thackeray
epub |eng | 2009-09-22 | Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

Chapter 11 THE FAMOUS MR JOSEPH ADDISON1 THE gentlemen ushers had a table at Kensington, and the Guard a very splendid dinner daily at St James’s, at either of which ...
( Category: European March 2,2020 )
In Europe's Shadow by Robert D. Kaplan
epub |eng | 2016-02-09 | Author:Robert D. Kaplan [Kaplan, Robert D.]

That was only four months following Ceauşescu’s downfall. The Traian now boasted the latest fixtures and amenities, with remodeled bathrooms and a brand-new lobby in a pseudo-European global style. The ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
epub |eng | 2016-08-15 | Author:Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton [Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron]

BOOK V. THE CRISIS. "Questo ha acceso 'i fuoco e la fiamma laquale non la par spotegnere."—"Vita di Cola di Rienzi", lib. i. cap. 29. "He has kindled fire and ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
Thatcher's Trial by Kwasi Kwarteng
epub |eng | 2015-10-06 | Author:Kwasi Kwarteng

© Mirrorpix Thatcher’s birthplace, Grantham. The shop was owned by her father, Alfred Roberts, a Methodist lay preacher. It would come to be a symbol of Thatcher’s economic and political ...
( Category: Historical March 2,2020 )
Mosquitopanik! by Martin W. Bowman
epub |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Martin W. Bowman

On 21 November, 136 Wing was created within 2nd TAF by the arrival, from Fighter Command, of Nos. 418 and 605 Squadrons, which transferred to Hartford Bridge. That month fourteen ...
( Category: Engineering March 2,2020 )
Mersey Ferries Through Time by Ian Collard
epub |eng | 2014-12-02 | Author:Ian Collard [Collard, Ian]

Egremont Ferry in 1878. A White Star passenger liner passes Egremont Ferry. Ice on the Mersey in 1895. Passengers embark from the New Brighton ferry at Liverpool Landing Stage in ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )
Glossop in the Great War by Cooper Glynis
epub |eng | 2015-03-30 | Author:Cooper, Glynis

Chapter Four 1917 AT NEW YEAR the Glossop churches held Watchnight services. These started late on New Year’s Eve and finished in the early hours of New Year’s Day. During ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
Small Island, Big History: Essays On the British Empire by Christopher Berg
epub |eng | 2016-03-27 | Author:Christopher Berg [Berg, Christopher]

GOVERNOR-GENERAL CHARLES GORDON AND THE SLAVE TRADE IN EGYT AND SUDAN, 1880 Egypt maintained friendly relations with Great Britain from the time Muhammed Ali saw firsthand the awesome power of ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
The Grand Spas of Central Europe by David Clay Large
epub |eng | 2015-03-01 | Author:David Clay Large [Large, David Clay]

* * * *Wilhelm was a royal regent at this point because his brother, Friedrich-Wilhelm IV, had suffered a stroke in 1857 that left him mentally incapacitated (a condition some ...
( Category: Human Geography March 2,2020 )
History of King Charles the Second of England by Abbot Jacob
epub | | 2009-06-07 | Author:Abbot, Jacob [Abbot, Jacob]

“The royal oak, it was the tree, That saved his royal majesty.” CHAPTER VIII. THE KING’S ESCAPE TO FRANCE. When the king and Carlis came into the house again, on ...
( Category: Historical March 2,2020 )
The Birth of the West by Paul Collins
epub |eng | 2013-01-16 | Author:Paul Collins

For the Romans, Caledonia, or Scotland, was beyond the borders of the known world. But for seven years beginning in AD 77 under the command of the very able governor ...
( Category: Historic Preservation March 2,2020 )
A History of the South Yorkshire Countryside by Hey David
epub |eng | 2015-05-29 | Author:Hey, David

The villages on the magnesian limestone were built in local stone, but pantiles replaced thatch as the roofing material. These nineteenth-century houses in the lower part of Hooton Pagnell are ...
( Category: Europe March 2,2020 )
Winson Green to Brookfields Through Time by Rudge Ted
epub |eng | 2015-06-14 | Author:Rudge, Ted

‘The Flat’, Lodge Road, Hockley For over 100 years the large variety of shops on ‘The Flat’ has attracted shoppers, young and old, from all the surrounding districts. This all ...
( Category: Photography & Video March 2,2020 )

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