Author: William FarrerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
Author: William FarrerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster: Blackburn hundred contd., Amounderness hundred, index to vols. 6 & 7
Author: William FarrerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Cumulated Index to the Books
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1200
Book Description
The Victoria history of the county of Hertford
Author: William PagePublisher: Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Nottingham
Author: William PagePublisher: Victoria County History
ISBN: 9780712904537
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Boydell & Brewer are pleased to announce that as from 1 December 2001 they will be distributing the Victoria County History, which has an international reputation as a work of reference for English local history. Begun in 1899, the publication of about three new volumes each year is gradually creating an encyclopedic history of the counties, ranging from earliest times to the present. For each county there is or is planned a set of volumes, containing general chapters on subjects such as prehistory and ecclesiastical and economic history, and topographical chapters giving a comprehensive, fully referenced account of each city, town and village in the county. Fourteen county sets have been completed; work is in progress on a further thirteen.
Bibliographical Projects
Author: University of Minnesota. Division of Library InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Subject-index of the London Library ...
Author: London LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subjects
Languages : en
Pages : 1312
Book Description
The Victoria History of the County of Lancaster
Author: William FarrerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lancashire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Catalogue of the London Library, St. Jame's Square, London
Author: London LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1076
Book Description
George V
Author: Jane RidleyPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062567519
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
From one of the most beloved and distinguished historians of the British monarchy, here is a lively, intimately detailed biography of a long-overlooked king who reimagined the Crown in the aftermath of World War I and whose marriage to the regal Queen Mary was an epic partnership The grandfather of Queen Elizabeth II, King George V reigned over the British Empire from 1910 to 1936, a period of unprecedented international turbulence. Yet no one could deny that as a young man, George seemed uninspired. As his biographer Harold Nicolson famously put it, "he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.” The contrast between him and his flamboyant, hedonistic, playboy father Edward VII could hardly have been greater. However, though it lasted only a quarter-century, George’s reign was immensely consequential. He faced a constitutional crisis, the First World War, the fall of thirteen European monarchies and the rise of Bolshevism. The suffragette Emily Davison threw herself under his horse at the Derby, he refused asylum to his cousin the Tsar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution, and he facilitated the first Labour government. And, as Jane Ridley shows, the modern British monarchy would not exist without George; he reinvented the institution, allowing it to survive and thrive when its very existence seemed doomed. The status of the British monarchy today, she argues, is due in large part to him. How this supposedly limited man managed to steer the crown through so many perils and adapt an essentially Victorian institution to the twentieth century is a great story in itself. But this book is also a riveting portrait of a royal marriage and family life. Queen Mary played a pivotal role in the reign as well as being an important figure in her own right. Under the couple's stewardship, the crown emerged stronger than ever. George V founded the modern monarchy, and yet his disastrous quarrel with his eldest son, the Duke of Windsor, culminated in the existential crisis of the Abdication only months after his death. Jane Ridley has had unprecedented access to the archives, and for the first time is able to reassess in full the many myths associated with this crucial and dramatic time. She brings us a royal family and world not long vanished, and not so far from our own.