Great Britain
epub |eng | 2018-03-12 | Author:Parish, Helen L.;
‘MARRIED TO CHRIST’: CLOISTERED WOMEN AND THE REFORMATION Cloistered women were among the first to encounter the Reformation. The appeal of the liberation motif lay in the assumption that the ...
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Great Britain
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Piu Marie Eatwell
Avory’s cross-examination of Mrs Hamilton had exposed flaws in her account of her family history and the genuineness of her story; to say nothing of the unmitigated disaster of Robert ...
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Crime & Criminals
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-28 | Author:Friedman, Norman
Juno 1897 HMS Juno is shown soon after completion, September 1897. This class was unusual among British pre-1900 cruisers in having most of the conning tower forward of the bridge ...
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Great Britain
March 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ian Fraser
26 Explosions at ABN At an investor lunch in Edinburgh’s New Club, the favoured watering hole of the Scottish establishment, Colin McLean, chief executive of SVM Asset Management, questioned Goodwin’s ...
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Economics
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-11-02 | Author:Martin Latham
GIBBONS IN DEPTFORD A similar feeling overcame the courtier and diarist John Evelyn in 1671 when he discovered the woodcarver Gibbons in Deptford. Today Deptford is a friendly, roistering place ...
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Great Britain
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-07-03 | Author:Laura Cumming
9 Icarus The first image my mother ever owned, as a new student heady with freedom and hard-won post office shillings, was Brueghel’s Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. It ...
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Adoption
March 12,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tinniswood, Adrian; [Tinniswood, Adrian]
A meeting of the Society at Somerset House, c.1844. Members and visitors sit on benches facing the president; the mace rests on a table in the centre of the room. ...
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History & Philosophy
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-21 | Author:Charles Dickens [Dickens, Charles]
Theodosius looked as if he cared for nothing earthly. ‘She’s the daughter of a member of parliament,’ said Maria.—Theodosius started. ‘And her name is—?’ he inquired. ‘Miss Brook Dingwall.’ ‘Great ...
( Category:
Short Stories
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Aitchison
Some planned villages were designed to attract industry – places like Balfron, New Lanark and Stanley in Perthshire where the fast-flowing Tay provided the power for a cotton mill. Others ...
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Ethnic Studies
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-12 | Author:James Bryce [Bryce, James]
VI.: Direct Legislation at Rome. A.: The Popular Assembly. We have now compared the organs and the methods of legislation which existed in the Roman Republic and Empire with those ...
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History & Theory
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-11 | Author:Antony Mason
Royal names around the world Sir Walter Raleigh is believed to have named the US state of Virginia after Elizabeth I, the ‘Virgin Queen’. As a result of the British ...
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Royalty
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-06-17 | Author:Philip Haythornthwaite [Haythornthwaite, Philip]
Light infantry tactics when covering a retreat – an illustration from a contemporary manual. At left, an enemy force (shaded block) preceded by skirmishers (a), pursues a retreating body (B, ...
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Great Britain
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-19 | Author:Phelps, Stephen [Phelps, Stephen]
TWELVE The Duchess of Richmond A S SIR HENRY TIZARD SAT DOWN TO DINNER with Vannevar Bush on the evening of August 28 in the civilized surroundings of the Cosmos ...
( Category:
History of Technology
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Forth, Aidan
“DUTCH SERFDOM AND THE EQUAL RIGHTS OF GREAT BRITAIN” Authorities cited the “magnanimity of Great Britain” toward the native population as an original justification for war. Black inmates could “appreciate ...
( Category:
Criminology
March 11,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Haythornthwaite
The strongest part of Kutuzov’s line was his right, his concentration on that flank suggesting that he expected Napoleon’s main drive to be along the New Smolensk Road, while the ...
( Category:
Great Britain
March 11,2020 )
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