A History of Norwich School
Author: Richard Harries
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780951856116
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A manual of the Greek accidence for the use of Norwich school
Author: Augustus Jessopp
Publisher:
Published: 1865
Total Pages: 178
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Norwich
Author: Frank Meeres
Publisher: Phillimore
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780750966382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book will be warmly welcomed by local historians interested in the history of Norwich, while its attractive style and presentation will ensure its popularity with the general reader, whether resident or visitor.
A History of Norwich, Vermont
Author: Merritt Elton Goddard
Publisher:
Published: 1905
Total Pages: 334
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIvory Vikings
Author: Nancy Marie Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2015-09
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1137279370
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early 1800's, on a Hebridean beach in Scotland, the sea exposed an ancient treasure cache: 93 chessmen carved from walrus ivory. Norse netsuke, each face individual, each full of quirks, the Lewis Chessmen are probably the most famous chess pieces in the world. Harry played Wizard's Chess with them in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Housed at the British Museum, they are among its most visited and beloved objects. Questions abounded: Who carved them? Where? Nancy Marie Brown's Ivory Vikings explores these mysteries by connecting medieval Icelandic sagas with modern archaeology, art history, forensics, and the history of board games. In the process, Ivory Vikings presents a vivid history of the 400 years when the Vikings ruled the North Atlantic, and the sea-road connected countries and islands we think of as far apart and culturally distinct: Norway and Scotland, Ireland and Iceland, and Greenland and North America. The story of the Lewis chessmen explains the economic lure behind the Viking voyages to the west in the 800s and 900s. And finally, it brings from the shadows an extraordinarily talented woman artist of the twelfth century: Margret the Adroit of Iceland.
The Norwich Shawl
Author: Pamela Clabburn
Publisher: Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe city of Norwich, a major textile centre in the 18th century, led the way in the manufacture of shawls based on traditional Indian styles and designs. This text includes background information on the Norwich shawl, placing the garment in the context of contemporary fashion design and the history of the textile industry. For the first time, the collection of Norwich shawls housed at Strangers Hall Museum has been made available for public viewing at Style and Splendour, The Norwich Shawl Industry 1785-1885 exhibition at the Norwich Castle Museum, 16 September - 26 November 1995.
The Popes
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780099565871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Julius Norwich examines the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter (traditionally - but by no means historically - the first Pope) to the present. Of the 280-odd holders of the supreme office, some have unquestionably been saints; others have wallowed in unspeakable iniquity. One was said to have been a woman, her sex being revealed only when she improvidently gave birth to a baby during a papal procession. Almost as shocking was Formosus whose murdered corpse was exhumed, clothed in pontifical vestments, propped up on a throne and subjected to trial; or John XII, of whom Gibbon wrote 'his rapes of virgins and widows had deterred the female pilgrims from visiting the shrine of St Peter'. John Julius Norwich brings the story up to date with lively investigations into the anti-semitism of the contemptible Pius XII, the possible murder of John Paul I and the phenomenon of the Polish John Paul II. From the glories of Byzantium to the decay of Rome, from the Albigensian Heresy to controversy within the Church today, "The Popes" is superbly written, witty and revealing.
Norwich Since 1550
Author: Carole Rawcliffe
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-11-01
Total Pages: 684
ISBN-13: 0826440207
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNorwich remained the second largest city in England until the eighteenth century. Its history over the last 450 years is of exceptional interest. Norwich since 1550 is a full account of the post-medieval history of the city and covers all aspects of Norwich life, including its population, housing, churches and chapels, politics, work, education, arts, architecture and medical care. It brings out Norwich's individuality and shows how it became the city it is today. While it changed and developed in many ways over the centuries, its textiles could not compete with those of the northern boom towns of the Industrial Revolution. Instead it settled into its role as a regional and banking capital.
Norwich The Biography
Author: Christopher Reeve
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-11-15
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1445609355
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe history of one of England's most important historic cities through the 'voices' of Norwich's inhabitants, from its earliest origins to the present
A History of Venice
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2003-07-03
Total Pages: 932
ISBN-13: 0141013834
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Julius Norwich's dazzling history of Venice from its origins to its eighteenth century fall. 'Lord Norwich has loved and understood Venice as well as any other Englishman has ever done. He has put readers of his generation more in his debt than any other English writer' Peter Levi, The Sunday Times.
