Great Britain
epub |eng | 2014-09-02 | Author:Steve Ward

For all these trials and tribulations, Lord George Sanger continued to produce bigger and better spectacles. His name became synonymous with showmanship and he was even popular with royalty. Queen ...
( Category: Circus Performing Arts February 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-08 | Author:Lewis Goodall

Matlock in Derbyshire is typical Corbyn territory. Prosperous, semi-rural, relatively well-educated and well-heeled; the perfect retreat for a weekend break. Exactly the sort of place where you won’t find many ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism February 26,2020 )
azw3 |eng | 2017-03-04 | Author:Alan Wilson & Baram Blackett [Wilson, Alan]

So we have two fairly clear scenarios that explain the pattern of events in the civil war. First (1) Prince Nowi-Llacheu is killed in the Vandal War of 548 A.D. ...
( Category: Great Britain February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-17 | Author:Hill, Christopher;

NOTES 1 Corfield, op. cit., p. 215; cf. Stone, The Causes of the English Revolution, p. 71. 2 D. E. Underdown, Royalist Conspiracy in England, 1649–60 (1960) passim. 3 H. ...
( Category: Bible Study February 25,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-03-28 | Author:Ray Barron-Woolford;

Chapter Seven Best Friends – Fred Copeman and the Invergordon Mutiny In 1935, the first blockbuster movie, about HMS Bounty, was made. It told the story of crewmembers mutinying against ...
( Category: Historical European Biographies February 24,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Granville Allen Mawer

Chapter 15 Irrespective of Rank Although the Victoria Cross was created explicitly to reward valour regardless of rank, there was from the beginning a reluctance to award it to commanding ...
( Category: Great Britain February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Lavery [Lavery, Brian]

British Minefields The Royal Navy had taken comparatively little interest in mines before the war, except for purely defensive purposes in certain harbours. It had only 4,000 in stock, all ...
( Category: Engineering February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-20 | Author:Robert Lloyd George [LLOYD GEORGE, ROBERT]

After that second significant meeting at the Bar in May 1917, Lloyd George came to depend upon Churchill’s advice on a daily basis. As was his wont, he carefully sounded ...
( Category: Great Britain February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-22 | Author:David Pepin

The awe-inspiring grandeur of the fortress-like central tower of Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral dominates Merseyside. At 331 feet it is one of the tallest of church towers. The nave and choir ...
( Category: History February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Daniel Cottam

The redesigned frock coat of the late 1890s and early twentieth century hung open in front, rather than being fully fastened. John Hamilton-Gordon, Earl of Aberdeen, wearing his coat with ...
( Category: Fashion Design February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Hans Lemmen

Hand-painted Carter & Co. tile, c. 1925, executed in an in-glaze technique with a design by Truda Adams of a spray of semi-abstract flowers. Hand-painted Carter & Co. tile with ...
( Category: Pottery & Ceramics February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Graham Robson [Robson, Graham]

Even after its final restyling, the XJS was still selling well, and needed only high-quality advertising to keep it in the public eye. XJ6, V12 ENGINES AND BRITISH LEYLAND FROM ...
( Category: Automotive History February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alison Light

* I so much associated Jewishness with food that I was taken aback when Raphael announced, before we first visited his mother, that she could not cook. After the breakdown ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism February 23,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matthew Frank Stevens [Matthew Frank Stevens]

Challenges to the Englishries The Englishries of Wales also suffered from the catastrophic effects of famine and plague. It is estimated that the Great Famine resulted, directly or indirectly, in ...
( Category: Economic History February 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michael McNally

La Ferme de la Château, between Taviers and Franquenée, one of the potential ‘choke points’ that Marlborough feared would hinder the advance of his left wing, hence his decision to ...
( Category: Great Britain February 22,2020 )