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Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Local Collections; Or, Records of Remarkable Events, Connected with the Borough of Gateshead
Author: Sotheran's Price Current of Literature
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdA Catalogue of Superior Second-hand Books in Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts
Author: Henry Sotheran LtdPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
The Wear & Derwent Railway
Author: Rob LanghamPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1398106534
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
Lavishly illustrated throughout, this is the fascinating story behind one of North East England's historic railways.
A Catalogue of the manuscripts, books, Roman and other antiquities, belonging to the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
A catalogue of the library ... inclusive of the manuscripts, drawings, prints and maps
Author: Society of antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne librPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
William Armstrong
Author: Henrietta HealdPublisher: McNidder and Grace Limited
ISBN: 0857160354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
William Armstrong was a brilliant and charismatic figure of the 19th Century – a self-made man whose achievements are now being more widely recognised. Inventor, scientist, engineer, and an early advocator of renewable energy, he built a pioneering house in Northumberland in the North East of England called Cragside, the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. Armstrong's industrial powerhouse Elswick Works on the Tyne employed over 25,000 people in its heyday manufacturing hydraulic cranes, warships and armaments. He was a visionary who was loved, and hated, and feared in equal measure. While he brought great fame and fortune to his native Newcastle upon Tyne, and to his country as a whole, he was condemned in some quarters as 'a merchant of death' for his manufacturing of weapons of war. 'This intimate, authoritative portrait reveals as never before the extraordinary achievements of a multi-faceted Victorian giant.' David Kynaston 'An excellent book – hugely enjoyable.' Alexander Armstrong
Nathaniel Bowditch and the Power of Numbers
Author: Tamara Plakins ThorntonPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469626942
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In this engagingly written biography, Tamara Plakins Thornton delves into the life and work of Nathaniel Bowditch (1773-1838), a man Thomas Jefferson once called a "meteor in the hemisphere." Bowditch was a mathematician, astronomer, navigator, seafarer, and business executive whose Enlightenment-inspired perspectives shaped nineteenth-century capitalism while transforming American life more broadly. Enthralled with the precision and certainty of numbers and the unerring regularity of the physical universe, Bowditch operated and represented some of New England's most powerful institutions—from financial corporations to Harvard College—as clockwork mechanisms. By examining Bowditch's pathbreaking approaches to institutions, as well as the political and social controversies they provoked, Thornton's biography sheds new light on the rise of capitalism, American science, and social elites in the early republic. Fleshing out the multiple careers of Nathaniel Bowditch, this book is at once a lively biography, a window into the birth of bureaucracy, and a portrait of patrician life, giving us a broader, more-nuanced understanding of how powerful capitalists operated during this era and how the emerging quantitative sciences shaped the modern experience.
Proceedings
Author: Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon TynePublisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Victorians Against the Gallows
Author: James GregoryPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857721062
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
By the time that Queen Victoria ascended the throne in 1837, the list of crimes liable to attract the death penalty had effectively been reduced to murder. Yet, despite this, the gallows remained a source of controversy in Victorian Britain and there was a growing unease in liberal quarters surrounding the question of capital punishment. Unease was expressed in various forms, including efforts at outright abolition. Focusing in part on the activities of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, James Gregory here examines abolitionist strategies, leaders and personnel. He locates the 'gallows question' in an imperial context and explores the ways in which debates about the gallows and abolition featured in literature, from poetry to 'novels of purpose' and popular romances of the underworld. He places the abolitionist movement within the wider Victorian worlds of philanthropy, religious orthodoxy and social morality in a study which will be essential reading for students and researchers of Victorian history.