Author: Sir John ClerkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik, Baronet, Baron of the Exchequer
Author: Sir John ClerkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Journals of Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda, 1665-1676
Author: Lord John Lauder FountainhallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir John Clerk of Penicuik
Author: Sir John ClerkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Finance
Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Recovery of Roman Britain 1586-1906
Author: Richard HingleyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191553190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
From the sixteenth century, classical texts enabled Scottish and English authors and artists to imagine the character and appearance of their forebears and to consider the relevance of these ideas to their contemporaries. Richard Hingley's study crosses traditional academic boundaries by exploring sources usually separately addressed by historians, classicists, archaeologists, and geographers, to provide a new perspective on the origin of English and Scottish identity. His book is the first full exploration of these issues to cover such a long period in the development of British society and to relate ideas derived from Roman sources to the development of empire, while also placing ideas of origin in a European context. It is illustrated throughout with artefact drawings, site plans, and photographs.
Diary of Sir Archibald Johnston Lord Wariston 1639
Author: Archibald JohnstonTouring and Publicizing England's Country Houses in the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: Jocelyn AndersonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501334980
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Over the course of the long 18th century, many of England's grandest country houses became known for displaying noteworthy architecture and design, large collections of sculptures and paintings, and expansive landscape gardens and parks. Although these houses continued to function as residences and spaces of elite retreat, they had powerful public identities: increasingly accessible to tourists and extensively described by travel writers, they began to be celebrated as sites of great importance to national culture. This book examines how these identities emerged, repositioning the importance of country houses in 18th-century Britain and exploring what it took to turn them into tourist attractions. Drawing on travel books, guidebooks, and dozens of tourists' diaries and letters, it explores what it meant to tour country houses such as Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Wilton, Kedleston and Burghley in the tumultuous 1700s. It also questions the legacies of these early tourists: both as a critical cultural practice in the 18th century and an extraordinary and controversial influence in British culture today, country-house tourism is a phenomenon that demands investigation.
The Account Book of Sir John Foulis of Ravelston 1671-1707
Author: Sir John FoulisPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Under Another Sky
Author: Charlotte HigginsPublisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1468312367
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
The author and classics scholar shares “a delightful, deeply informed recounting of her journeys across Britain in search of its ancient Roman past” (Kirkus, starred review). What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains rediscovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse? Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome’s northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell. Under Another Sky invites readers to see the British landscape, and British history, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize
Publications of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Miscellany of the Scottish History Society
Author: Scottish History SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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