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ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
The Builder
Author: Story of Boston
Author: Richard GurnhamPublisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750956941
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Founded shortly after the Conquest of 1066, Boston rapidly grew to become the most successful English port outside of London. The growth of the wool trade in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries led to the building of St Botolph’s, the largest parish church in the country. During the seventeenth century the town was strongly Puritan, causing some inhabitants to emigrate to America to found the new city of Boston, Massachusetts. Some of the Pilgrim Fathers were imprisoned in the medieval Guildhall, which survives to this day. Boston’s story is brought right up to date, celebrating the complete history of this fabulous Lincolnshire town in a volume that will delight locals and visitors alike.
The Building Industry in the Upper Swansea Valley and Its Economic and Social Ramifications, C. 1750-1975
Author: Robert Owen RobertsPublisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773477889
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
This study starts with the economic history of the Upper Swansea Valley, including an account of the provision of the canal, tramroads and railways which made possible the extensive exploitation of the mineral resources of the district by firms large and small.
When I Heard the Bell
Author: John MacLeodPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 0857905112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 443
Book Description
On 31 December 1918, hours from the first New Year of peace, hundreds of Royal Naval Reservists from the Isle of Lewis poured off successive trains onto the quayside at Kyle of Lochalsh. A chaotic Admiralty had made no adequate arrangements for their safe journey home. Corners were cut, an elderly and recently requisitioned steam-yacht was sent from Stornoway, and that evening HMY Iolaire sailed from Kyle of Lochalsh, grossly overloaded and with life-belts for less than a third of all on board. The Iolaire never made it. At two in the morning, in pitch-black and stormy conditions, she piled onto rocks only yards from the harbour entrance and just half a mile from Stornoway pier, where thronged friends and relatives eagerly awaited the return of their heroes. 205 men drowned, 188 of them natives of Lewis and Harris - men who had come through all the alarms and dangers of the First World War only to die on their own doorstep, at the mouth of a harbour many could themselves have navigated with ease, on a day precious to Highlanders for family, celebration and togetherness. The loss of the Iolaire remains the worst peacetime British disaster at sea since the sinking of the Titanic. Yet, beyond the Western Isles, few have ever heard of what is not only one of the cruellest events in our history but an extraordinary maritime mystery - a tale not only of bureaucrats in a hurry, unfathomable Naval incompetence and abiding, official contempt for the lives of Highlanders, but of individual heroism, astonishing escapes, heart-rending anecdote and the resilience and faith of a remarkable people. In the first English account and on the ninetieth anniversary of the 'dark ship', John MacLeod tells the story of the Iolaire, the astonishing commitment of the people of Lewis to the war against the Kaiser, its sickening end, and the way of life the disaster effectively destroyed - a tipping-point, he argues, in the overthrow of an old human economy and which deprived the Isle of Lewis of an entire generation.
OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Switzerland 2006
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264025839
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
This book analyses the strengths and weaknesses of the Swiss health system.
Building World
Author: Architect
Author: Kenya National Assembly Official Record (Hansard)
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ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.
Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia
Author: West VirginiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Includes extra and special sessions.