Author: William Archibald Scott RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Kentish Archaeology. II. Cooling Castle. Cobham Hall and Its Owners ...
Author: William Archibald Scott RobertsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Unknown Kent
Author: Donald MaxwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kent (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Jottings of Kent
Author: William Miller (of the Indian Office.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Archaeologia Cantiana
Author: Behind the Castle Gate
Author: Matthew JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135135584
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
In this engaging book Matthew Johnson looks 'behind the castle gate' to discover the truth about castles in England at the end of the Middle Ages. Traditional studies have seen castles as compromises between the needs of comfort and of defence, and as statements of wealth or power or both. By encouraging the reader to view castles in relation to their inhabitants, Matthew Johnson uncovers a whole new vantage point. He shows how castles functioned as stage-settings against which people played out roles of lord and servant, husband and wife, father and son. Building, rebuilding and living in a castle was as complex an experience as a piece of medieval art. Behind the Castle Gate brings castles and their inhabitants alive. Combining ground-breaking scholarship with fascinating narratives it will be read avidly by all with an interest in castles.
The Great Explosion
Author: Brian DillonPublisher: Penguin Ireland
ISBN: 9780241956762
Category : Explosions
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"In April 1916, shortly before the commencement of the Battle of the Somme, a fire started in a vast munitions works located in the Kent marshes. The resulting series of explosions killed 108 people and injured many more. In a remarkable piece of storytelling, Brian Dillon recreates the events of that terrible day - and, in so doing, sheds a fresh and unexpected light on the British home front in the Great War. He offers a chilling natural history of explosives and their effects on the earth, on buildings, and on human and animal bodies. And he evokes with vivid clarity the interaction of human imperatives and the natural world in one of Britain's strangest and most distinctive landscapes - where he has been a habitual explorer for many years. The Great Explosion is a profound work of narrative, exploration and inquiry form one of our most brilliant writers." --Jacket flap.
The history of Maidstone
Author: J. M. RussellHistory of Strood
Author: Henry SmethamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Historical Ecology of the British Flora
Author: M. IngrouillePublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401112320
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 363
Book Description
The native British flora is today relatively ant species on the continent, such as Picea impoverished. Today the British Isles has a abies (Norway spruce), did not get into Britain flora of only about 1500 species of native in time. However, we must not over flowering plants. France and Spain, each emphasize the importance of Britain being an geographically only about twice the area, island. A comparison of floras on either side have 3-4 times as many species each. The of the English Channel shows that there are comparison is more marked when consider species present in England and not in ing the endemic species, those specialities of northern France as well as vice versa. Many each geographical region which grow of the species present in northern France but nowhere else. If only normal sexual species absent from England are weeds adapted to are considered, then there are only about 13 French agriculture. Others may be limited endemic species in the British Isles while 1000 not by the sea but by the climate. species are endemic to Spain. Nevertheless, the example of Ireland, However, the poverty of the British flora is which was isolated much earlier than the rest not a unique phenomenon. The whole of of the British Isles, does show the effect of north-western Europe, an area including isolation because it does have a much poorer northern France and much of Germany and flora and fauna.
Rockingham Castle and the Watsons
Author: Charles WisePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rockingham (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Edward Watson of Lyddington, Rutland County, a member of an ancient family, was a justice of the peace and a "surveyor general." He and his wife, Emma Smith, are said to have been the parents of fifteen children; seven are listed in his will. When he died in 1530, he held leases on a half a dozen parsonages and several "lordships, lands, and tenements" and was lord of some fourteen manors. The Watsons of Rockingham Castle were his descendants.