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Author: Alastair Scott Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 0857900528 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 215
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In Eccentric Wealth, Alastair Scott traces the life of Lancashire industrialist Sir George Bullough in this absorbing biography which explores his family's connection with the Hebridean island of Rum, particularly the building of Kinloch Castle, the most intact preserve of Edwardian highliving to be found in Britain. Based on new information, the book offers a fascinating insight into the life and times of one of the great eccentrics of his age, including the Bullough myths and scandals which continue to make extraordinary reading more than a hundred years later.
Author: Alastair Scott Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 0857900528 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
In Eccentric Wealth, Alastair Scott traces the life of Lancashire industrialist Sir George Bullough in this absorbing biography which explores his family's connection with the Hebridean island of Rum, particularly the building of Kinloch Castle, the most intact preserve of Edwardian highliving to be found in Britain. Based on new information, the book offers a fascinating insight into the life and times of one of the great eccentrics of his age, including the Bullough myths and scandals which continue to make extraordinary reading more than a hundred years later.
Author: Richard Shaw Crossley Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1300775963 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 306
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A series of 100 articles appeared in the Accrington Observer in 1925-1927 under the title Accrington A Century Ago. Written By Richard Shaw Crossley with the help of Richard Ainsworth, they featured life and personalities of Accrington in the early part of the 19th century. For anyone researching their ancestors in Accrington there is a wealth of information and biographical details.
Author: L. R. Poos Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0192865110 Category : Divorce settlements Languages : en Pages : 338
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Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and adroitly manipulated his own and other people's land. The dozens of lawsuits in which the Rishtons were involved, in many different courts, elucidate one family's engagement with law in Tudor England: how they used and misused law, how it shaped their perceptions of rights and mutual obligations, and how it framed litigants' and witnesses' language. Drawing upon trial and estate records, the core of this study is the central narrative of Ralph Rishton's three wives, of litigiousness and violence, marriage and property, and the pursuit of equitable resolutions to disputes, along with countless smaller narratives that vividly capture a culture in its time and place. Alongside that central narrative, L. R. Poos uses the Rishton stories as a starting-point to analyse child marriage, the construction of memory, and the development of local historical identity through antiquarians and the Victorian and Edwardian local press, demonstrating how - from the time of the Rishtons into the twentieth century - historical narratives were continually reshaped and repurposed.
Author: Alastair Scott
Author: Alastair Scott
Author: Richard Shaw Crossley
Author: Great Britain
Author: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
Author: L. R. Poos
Author: Great Britain
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