Author: James Lees-Milne
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848547099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.
Diaries, 1942-1954
Author: James Lees-Milne
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848547099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.
Publisher: John Murray
ISBN: 1848547099
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The diaries of the National Trust's country house expert James Lees-Milne (1908-97) have been hailed as 'one of the treasures of contemporary English literature'. The first of three, this volume, which includes interesting material omitted when the diaries were originally published during the author's lifetime, covers the years 1942 to 1954, beginning with his wartime visits to hard-pressed country house owners, and ending with his marriage to the exotic Alvilde Chaplin.
Library Catalog
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Library
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Reading in the 1950s
Author: Stuart Hylton
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In Reading: The 1950s Stuart Hylton gives a fascinating account of the town and its people during a decade of rapid and memorable change. The story begins in the drab atmosphere of the early postwar years, with their austerity, sense of shrinking empire and declining national prestige. It ends with the brash new world of the swinging sixties, which brought The Beatles, the miniskirt and the Mini car.From television and labour-saving appliances which revolutionised the home, to the motor car which began to dominate travel and to alter the character of the town, the author also records aspects of Reading that stayed much the same – the courage and humour of the townspeople in sometimes trying circumstances, the ingenuity and incompetence of the criminal classes, the absurdities of officialdom, and the sheer diversity of local life as it emerges from reports in the press.Capturing the spirit of the population during an era of bewildering development and change, this is a must-have for locals and anybody with an interest in the history of the town.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752497197
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In Reading: The 1950s Stuart Hylton gives a fascinating account of the town and its people during a decade of rapid and memorable change. The story begins in the drab atmosphere of the early postwar years, with their austerity, sense of shrinking empire and declining national prestige. It ends with the brash new world of the swinging sixties, which brought The Beatles, the miniskirt and the Mini car.From television and labour-saving appliances which revolutionised the home, to the motor car which began to dominate travel and to alter the character of the town, the author also records aspects of Reading that stayed much the same – the courage and humour of the townspeople in sometimes trying circumstances, the ingenuity and incompetence of the criminal classes, the absurdities of officialdom, and the sheer diversity of local life as it emerges from reports in the press.Capturing the spirit of the population during an era of bewildering development and change, this is a must-have for locals and anybody with an interest in the history of the town.
Year Book of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Author: Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Comprises the obituary notices and appendices to Proceedings previously published at the end of each session's volume of Proceedings. Cf. Foreword 1940/41.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Comprises the obituary notices and appendices to Proceedings previously published at the end of each session's volume of Proceedings. Cf. Foreword 1940/41.
Calvinism and the Arts
Author: Christopher Richard Joby
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042919235
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
It is often thought that the French Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) had a negative attitude towards the arts, particularly visual art. However, in Calvinism and the Arts: A Re-assessment, Dr. Joby argues that in Calvin's writings and in the development of the Reformed tradition more generally, it is possible to discern a more positive attitude than has hitherto been recognized. He makes a start by examining exactly what type of visual art Calvin rejected and what type he affirmed. He goes on to consider how Calvin's epistemology and eschatology can be used to argue for the placing of certain types of art, notably histories and landscape paintings, within Reformed churches and then devotes separate chapters to reflecting on how music, architecture and church decoration within the Reformed tradition provide further arguments for the use of these works of art. In the final section, he looks at specific histories and landscapes from the Dutch Golden Age and considers how the form and content of both of these types of art provide us with further ontological and epistemological arguments which inevitably lead to the conclusion that their continued exclusion from Reformed churches is no longer tenable.
Publisher: Peeters Publishers
ISBN: 9789042919235
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
It is often thought that the French Reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) had a negative attitude towards the arts, particularly visual art. However, in Calvinism and the Arts: A Re-assessment, Dr. Joby argues that in Calvin's writings and in the development of the Reformed tradition more generally, it is possible to discern a more positive attitude than has hitherto been recognized. He makes a start by examining exactly what type of visual art Calvin rejected and what type he affirmed. He goes on to consider how Calvin's epistemology and eschatology can be used to argue for the placing of certain types of art, notably histories and landscape paintings, within Reformed churches and then devotes separate chapters to reflecting on how music, architecture and church decoration within the Reformed tradition provide further arguments for the use of these works of art. In the final section, he looks at specific histories and landscapes from the Dutch Golden Age and considers how the form and content of both of these types of art provide us with further ontological and epistemological arguments which inevitably lead to the conclusion that their continued exclusion from Reformed churches is no longer tenable.
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The Century Cyclopedia of Names
Author: Benjamin Eli Smith
Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
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Publisher:
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Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 1101
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The Englishman's Christmas
Author: John Alfred Ralph Pimlott
Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher:
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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