Author: William Hickman Smith AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The National and Domestic History of England
Author: William Hickman Smith AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
Book Description
The national and domestic history of England
Author: William Hickman S. AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
The National and Domestic History of England
Author: William Hickman Smith AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1128
Book Description
The National and Domestic History of England
Author: William Hickman Smith AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The London Quarterly Review
Author: William Lonsdale WatkinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Behind the Throne
Author: Adrian TinniswoodPublisher: Basic Books
ISBN: 0465094031
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
An "enchanting" upstairs/downstairs history of the British royal court, from the Middle Ages to the reign of Queen Elizabeth II (Wall Street Journal). Monarchs: they're just like us. They entertain their friends and eat and worry about money. Henry VIII tripped over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back on the alcohol bills. In Behind the Throne, historian Adrian Tinniswood uncovers the reality of five centuries of life at the English court, taking the reader on a remarkable journey from one Queen Elizabeth to another and exploring life as it was lived by clerks and courtiers and clowns and crowned heads: the power struggles and petty rivalries, the tension between duty and desire, the practicalities of cooking dinner for thousands and of ensuring the king always won when he played a game of tennis. A masterful and witty social history of five centuries of royal life, Behind the Throne offers a grand tour of England's grandest households.
Imperial Intimacies
Author: Hazel V. CarbyPublisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 1788735110
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
'Where are you from?' was the question hounding Hazel Carby as a girl in post-World War II London. One of the so-called brown babies of the Windrush generation, born to a Jamaican father and Welsh mother, Carby's place in her home, her neighbourhood, and her country of birth was always in doubt. Emerging from this setting, Carby untangles the threads connecting members of her family to each other in a web woven by the British Empire across the Atlantic. We meet Carby's working-class grandmother Beatrice, a seamstress challenged by poverty and disease. In England, she was thrilled by the cosmopolitan fantasies of empire, by cities built with slave-trade profits, and by street peddlers selling fashionable Jamaican delicacies. In Jamaica, we follow the lives of both the 'white Carbys' and the 'black Carbys', as Mary Ivey, a free woman of colour, whose children are fathered by Lilly Carby, a British soldier who arrived in Jamaica in 1789 to be absorbed into the plantation aristocracy. And we discover the hidden stories of Bridget and Nancy, two women owned by Lilly who survived the Middle Passage from Africa to the Caribbean. Moving between the Jamaican plantations, the hills of Devon, the port cities of Bristol, Cardiff, and Kingston, and the working-class estates of South London, Carby's family story is at once an intimate personal history and a sweeping summation of the violent entanglement of two islands. In charting British empire's interweaving of capital and bodies, public language and private feeling, Carby will find herself reckoning with what she can tell, what she can remember, and what she can bear to know.
Doomsday Book
Author: Connie WillisPublisher: Spectra
ISBN: 0553562738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
Connie Willis draws upon her understanding of the universalities of human nature to explore the ageless issues of evil, suffering, and the indomitable will of the human spirit. “A tour de force.”—The New York Times Book Review For Kivrin, preparing to travel back in time to study one of the deadliest eras in humanity’s history was as simple as receiving inoculations against the diseases of the fourteenth century and inventing an alibi for a woman traveling alone. For her instructors in the twenty-first century, it meant painstaking calculations and careful monitoring of the rendezvous location where Kivrin would be received. But a crisis strangely linking past and future strands Kivrin in a bygone age as her fellows try desperately to rescue her. In a time of superstition and fear, Kivrin—barely of age herself—finds she has become an unlikely angel of hope during one of history’s darkest hours.
The National And Domestic History Of England
Author: William Hickman Smith AubreyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1023
Book Description
Domestic Culture in Early Modern England
Author: Antony BuxtonPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1783270411
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
A detailed study of the domestic life of the early modern, non-elite household