Author: Robert Scott MylnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The Master Masons to the Crown of Scotland and Their Works
Author: Robert Scott MylnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architects
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Chartism
Author: Malcolm ChasePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847791360
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
Chartism, the mass movement for democratic rights, dominated British domestic politics in the late 1830s and 1840s. It mobilised over three million supporters at its height. Few modern European social movements, certainly in Britain, have captured the attention of posterity to quite the extent it has done. Encompassing moments of great drama, it is one of the very rare points in British history where it is legitimate to speculate how close the country came to revolution. It is also pivotal to debates around continuity and change in Victorian Britain, gender, language and identity. Chartism: A New History is the only book to offer in-depth coverage of the entire chronological spread (1838-58) of this pivotal movement and to consider its rich and varied history in full. Based throughout on original research (including newly discovered material) this is a vivid and compelling narrative of a movement which mobilised three million people at its height. The author deftly intertwines analysis and narrative, interspersing his chapters with short ‘Chartist Lives’, relating the intimate and personal to the realm of the social and political. This book will become essential reading for anyone with an interest in early Victorian Britain, specialists, students and general readers alike.
The History of Edinburgh
Author: Hugo ArnotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 692
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Memorials of the Montgomeries, Earls of Eglinton
Author: Sir William FraserPublisher:
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Category : Eglinton, Earls of
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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Broken Idols of the English Reformation
Author: Margaret AstonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316060470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1994
Book Description
Why were so many religious images and objects broken and damaged in the course of the Reformation? Margaret Aston's magisterial new book charts the conflicting imperatives of destruction and rebuilding throughout the English Reformation from the desecration of images, rails and screens to bells, organs and stained glass windows. She explores the motivations of those who smashed images of the crucifixion in stained glass windows and who pulled down crosses and defaced symbols of the Trinity. She shows that destruction was part of a methodology of religious revolution designed to change people as well as places and to forge in the long term new generations of new believers. Beyond blanked walls and whited windows were beliefs and minds impregnated by new modes of religious learning. Idol-breaking with its emphasis on the treacheries of images fundamentally transformed not only Anglican ways of worship but also of seeing, hearing and remembering.
The Cornell Widow
Author: Kirkwall in the Orkneys
Author: Buckham Hugh HossackPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kirkwall (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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The Gentleman and Cabinet-maker's Director
Author: Thomas ChippendalePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cabinetwork
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Walks in Edinburgh
Author: Robert ChambersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Edinburgh (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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The Annals of Banff
Author: William CramondPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banff (Scotland)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
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