Author: John Barford LindopPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244127255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
HMS Glendower Revisited
Author: John Barford LindopPublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244127255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
HMS Glendower Revisited
Author: John LindopChatham Dockyard, 1815-1865
Author: Philip MacDougallPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754665977
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
By the end of the Napoleonic Wars, the seven home dockyards of the British Royal Navy employed a workforce of nearly 16,000 men and some women. From 1815-1865 the make-up of those workforces changed with metal working skills replacing wood working skills as dockyards fully harnessed the use of steam and made the conversion from constructing ships of timber to those of iron. The impact on industrial relations and on the environment of the yards was enormous.Concentrating on the naval yard at Chatham, the book examines how the day-to-day running of a major centre of industrial production changed during this period of transition.
John Clements Wickham: Charles Darwin's Glorious Fellow
Author: Barrie JamiesonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781097834556
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
John Clements Wickham RN, played an essential navigational role in three voyages of HMS Beagle, the ship on which Charles Darwin, in the second voyage, was naturalist. On the third voyage Wickham was the Commander, from 1837 until he left, ostensibly owing to ill health, in 1841. From 1842 to 1858, he played a prominent role in Brisbane affairs, as Police Magistrate and, later, Government Resident, living at Newstead House. In 1842 he married Anna, daughter of Hannibal Macarthur, who died in 1852, and he married Ellen Deering in 1857 both of whom bore children. Darwin described Wickham as a glorious fine fellow. But despite such praise, and Wickham's great contributions to the founding of Australia, as a navigator, charting and naming its coastline, and as an administrator, no biography of him has appeared apart from some valuable essays and chapters and an excellent booklet by Brian Stewart. The present work attempts to track Wickham's activities throughout his life, until his death at Biarritz in 1864. The text has been kept close to that of the chroniclers of the voyages, Phillip Parker King, Robert Fitz-Roy, Charles Darwin and John Lort Stokes, his companions on board.
A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry ...
Author: Bernard BurkePublisher: London : Harrison
ISBN:
Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 526
Book Description
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Volume 8
Author: Edward GibbonPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347421888
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
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The Northumbrians
Author: Dan JacksonPublisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 1787381943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of Northumbrian culture--hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity--in centuries of border warfare and dangerous and demanding work in industry, at sea and underground. He explains how the landscape and architecture of the North East explains so much about the people who have lived there, and how a 'Northumbrian Enlightenment' emerged from this most literate part of England, leading to a catalogue of inventions that changed the world, from the locomotive to the lightbulb. Jackson's Northumbrian journey reaches right to the present day, as this remarkable region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and a newly assertive Scotland. Covering everything from the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history makes sense of a part of England facing an uncertain future, but whose people remain as distinctive as ever.
The Cambridge History of English Literature
Author: Sir Adolphus William WardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 602
Book Description
Church Book of St. Mary the Virgin, Tenby
Author: Edward LawsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church records and registers
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing (Tenth Edition)
Author: Burton G. MalkielPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393340740
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Presents an informative guide to financial investment, explaining how to maximize gains and minimize losses and examining a broad spectrum of financial opportunities, from mutual funds to real estate to gold.