Ancient Songs, from the Time of King Henry the Third to the Revolution

Ancient Songs, from the Time of King Henry the Third to the Revolution PDF Author: Joseph Ritson
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Languages : en
Pages : 428

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Ancient Songs

Ancient Songs PDF Author: Joseph Ritson
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Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature

The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature PDF Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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Biographical Dictionary of Musicians

Biographical Dictionary of Musicians PDF Author: James Duff Brown
Publisher: Paisley and London : A. Gardner
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 674

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Discovering Robin Hood

Discovering Robin Hood PDF Author: Stephen Basdeo
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
ISBN: 1526777827
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 335

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The name of Joseph Ritson, born in Stockton-on-Tees in 1752, will be familiar to very few people. The name of Robin Hood is known the world over. Yet it was Ritson whose research in the late eighteenth century ensured the survival of the Robin Hood legend. He traveled all over the country looking for ancient manuscripts which told of the life and deeds of England’s most famous outlaw. Without his efforts, the legend of Robin Hood might have gone the way of other medieval outlaws such as Adam Bell — famous in their day but not so much now. Yet this is not only a story about the formation of the Robin Hood legend. Ritson’s story is one of rags to riches. Born in humble circumstances, his aptitude for learning meant that he rose through society’s ranks and became a successful lawyer, local official, and a gentleman. However, underneath the genteel and bourgeois façade of Joseph Ritson, Esq. was a revolutionary: having traveled to Paris at the height of the French Revolution, he was captivated by the revolutionaries’ ideology of liberté, egalité, fraternité. He returned to England as a true democrat who sought the abolition of the British monarchy and the ‘rotten’ parliamentary system and wished for French Revolution and its reign of terror to spread over to England. This the history of the life and times of Joseph Ritson: gentleman, scholar, and revolutionary.

R.Z

R.Z PDF Author: William Thomas Lowndes
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 528

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Bibliotheca Grenvilliana

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana PDF Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books. Grenville Library
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Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Victorian Songhunters

Victorian Songhunters PDF Author: E. David Gregory
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810857030
Category : Ballads, English
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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Victorian Songhunters is a history of popular song collecting and ballad editing from 1820 to 1883. It is a comprehensive telling of the Victorian vernacular song revival leading up to the Eduardian folksong festival, and includes information on the folksong revival in Scotland.

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana ; Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books, Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville

Bibliotheca Grenvilliana ; Or Bibliographical Notices of Rare and Curious Books, Forming Part of the Library of Thomas Grenville PDF Author: John Thomas Payne
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Languages : en
Pages : 534

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The Local Records of Stockton and the Neighbourhood

The Local Records of Stockton and the Neighbourhood PDF Author: Thomas Richmond
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Category : Cleveland (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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