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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 750
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The London Magazine; Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Author: The London Magazine, Or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer
Author: THE LONDON MAGAZINE OR GENTLEMEN'S MONTHLY INTELLIGENCE
Author: Frontier Forts Under Fire
Author: Paul WilliamsPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476670935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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Fort William Henry and Fort Phil Kearny were both military outposts of the North American frontier. Both lasted but briefly--about two years from construction until their walls went up in flames. And both saw what were termed "massacres" by Indians outside their walls. This book reexamines the traumatic events at both forts. The Fort William Henry Massacre was condemned by both the British and the French as barbaric. Yet these European powers proved capable of similar crimes. The Fort Phil Kearny defeat, traditionally attributed to Captain William Fetterman's having disobeyed orders, has been scrutinized in recent years. Did the women present at that time write a distorted version of events? It would appear that his second-in-command, the rash Lieutenant George Grummond, led the charge over Lodge Trail Ridge. Or did he?
Queen of the Courtesans
Author: Barbara WhitePublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752493884
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342
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Fanny Murray (1729-1778) was a famous Georgian beauty and courtesan, desired throughout England and often to be found pressed to a gentleman’s heart in the form of a printed disc secretly tucked into their pocket-watch. She rose from life in the ‘London stews’ to fame and fortune, through her career as a high-class courtesan. She was seduced and then abandoned, aged just 12, by Jack Spencer, grandson of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough (and related to the Althorp-based Spencers). Her luck turned when she caught the eye of the infamous Beau Nash, ‘King of Bath’. But it was her time in London that promoted her to national fame and notoriety. After ten years at the top, she was heavily in debt, but managed to secure an arranged marriage to a respectable man. The scandals of her past caught up with her as she was named in the national scandal surrounding Wilke’s pornography case at the High Court.
The Gordon Riots
Author: Ian HaywoodPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052119542X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A new and controversial perspective on the causes, personalities and consequences of the most devastating urban riots in British history.
A Catalogue of the Library of the London Institution: Systematically Classed. Preceded by an Historical and Bibliographical Account of the Establishment. [Compiled by William Upcott, Richard Thomson and Edward W. Brayley.]
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Author: London Institution (London)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 750
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List of Books Forming the Reference Library in the Reading Room of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Spitalfields
Author: Dan CruickshankPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1448164567
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1115
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE HESSELL-TILTMAN HISTORY PRIZE 2017 AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 Religious strife, civil conflict, waves of immigration, the rise and fall of industry, great prosperity and grinding poverty – the handful of streets that constitute modern Spitalfields have witnessed all this and much more. In Spitalfields, one of Britain's best-loved historians tells the stories of the streets he has lived in for four decades. Starting in Roman times and continuing right up to the present day, Cruickshank explains how Spitalfields' streets evolved, what people have lived there, and what lives they have led. En route, he discovers the tales of the Huguenot weavers who made Spitalfields their own after the Great Fire of London. He recounts the experiences of the first Jewish immigrants. He evokes the slum-ridden courts and alleys of Jack the Ripper's Spitalfields. And he describes the transformation of the Spitalfields he first encountered in the 1970s from a war-damaged collection of semi-derelict houses to the vibrant community it is today. This is a fascinating evocation of one of London's most distinctive districts. At the same time, it is a history of England in miniature.
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