Author: Tim EversonPublisher:
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Category : Kingston upon Thames (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A Century of Kingston Upon Thames
Author: Tim EversonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kingston upon Thames (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Century of Kingston Upon Thames
Author: Tim EversonPublisher: History Press (SC)
ISBN: 9780750949347
Category : Kingston upon Thames (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
This fine selection of photographs illustrates the transformation that has taken place in Kingston-upon-Thames during the 20th century, offering insight into the daily lives and living conditions of local people during a century of change.
Kingston-Upon-Thames Through Time
Author: Tim EversonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445629089
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This fascinating selection of more than 180 photographs traces some of the many ways in which Kingston upon Thames has changed and developed over the last century.
Kingston-Upon-Thames Through Time Revised Edition
Author: Tim EversonPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445650185
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
The fascinating history of Kingston-upon-Thames illustrated through old and modern pictures in a fully updated edition.
Report on Some Deeds Relating to Kingston Upon Thames and District
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical ManuscriptsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
The History and Antiquities of ... Kingston-upon-Thames, Compiled from ... Authentic Documents ...
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Kingston-upon-Thames (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: Trevor HerbertPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199898316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
The first book to explore the contribution made by the military to British music history, Music & the British Military in the Long Nineteenth Century shows that military bands reached far beyond the official ceremonial duties they are often primarily associated with and had a significant impact on wider spheres of musical and cultural life.
Football: The First Hundred Years
Author: Adrian HarveyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134269129
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. Harvey argues that established football history does not correspond with the facts. Football, as played by the 'masses' prior to the adoption of the public school codes is almost always portrayed as wild and barbaric. This view may require considerable modification in the light of Harvey's research. Football's First One Hundred Years provides a very detailed picture of the football played outside the confines of the public schools, revealing a culture that was every bit as sophisticated and influential as that found within their prestigious walls. Football, The First Hundred Years sets forth a completely revisionist thesis, offering a different perspective on almost every aspect of the established history of the formative years of the game. The book will be of great interest to sports historians and football enthusiasts alike.
Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England
Author: Richard Valpy FrenchPublisher: LORIMER AND GILLIES
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The object of this work is to ascertain the part which Drink has played in the individual and national life of the English people. To this end, an inquiry is instituted into the beverages which have been in use, the customs in connection with their use, the drinking vessels in vogue, the various efforts made to control or prohibit the use, sale, manufacture, or importation of strong drink, whether proceeding from Church, or State, or both: the connection of the drink traffic with the revenue, together with incidental notices of banquets, feasts, the pledging of healths, and other relevant matter. It must interest every thoughtful being to know how our national life and national customs have come to be what they are. They have not sprung up in a night like a mushroom. They have been forming for ages. Each day has contributed something. The great river of social life, ever flowing onward to the ocean of eternity, has been constantly fed by the tributaries of necessity, appetite, fashion, fancy, vanity, caprice, and imitation. Man is a bundle of habits and customs. With some, it is true, life is mere routine, a round of conventionalities; literally ‘one day telleth another;’ with others, each day is a reality, has its fresh plan, is a rational item in the account of life. To these nothing is without its meaning; there is a definiteness, a precision, about its hours of action, of thought, of diversion, of ministering to the bodily claims of sustenance by eating and drinking. Around the latter, social life has fearfully encircled itself. The world was, and still is,— ‘On hospitable thoughts intent.’ The latter days are but a repetition of the former. ‘As it was ... so shall it be also. They did eat, they drank.’ Social life is intimately connected with the social or festive board; in short, with eating and drinking, because these are a necessity of nature. Other customs and habits may be fleeting, but men must eat, men must drink. Food ministers not only to the principle of life, but to that of brain force also. Thought is stimulated, activity is excited, man becomes communicable. He then seeks society and enjoys it. Thus has social intercourse gathered round the social board. Eating and drinking are two indispensable factors in dealing with the history of a nation’s social life. Adopting the adage by way of accommodation, ‘In vino veritas,’ truth is out when wine is in, once know the entire history of a nation’s drinking, and you have important materials for gauging that nation’s social life. For obvious reasons, a division has been adopted of the subject into periods, in some respects artificial so far as the present inquiry is concerned. The Romano-British period has been selected as the terminus a quo. It might have been speculatively interesting to penetrate further into the arcana of the past, to have inquired who were the earliest inhabitants of this country? Were they aborigines, natives of the soil, or were they colonists? Had they an independent tribal existence, or were they originally a part of that great Asiatic family who emigrated into and peopled Western Europe, and to whom the Romans gave the name of Gauls? Had such an inquiry been relevant, the question would have been of immense importance; for drawing, as one must, considerably upon imagination in dealing with any period not strictly historic, one must either regard the primitive inhabitants as independent aborigines, and accommodate their supplies to their wants, or, regarding them as an offshoot from another nation, suppose them to have carried with them the customs of their parent tribe, and find the sought-for habits of the child in the ascertained habits of the parent. But we are concerned with fact; and must therefore date from a period when facts, however meagre and involved, are forthcoming. A chapter of Bibliography is appended for the benefit of any who might wish to prosecute a study, of which the present effort is a mere outline.
Author: Samuel Lewis