Newcastle The Biography
Newcastle The Biography

Author: Bill Purdue

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2011-10-15

Total Pages: 499

ISBN-13: 1445609347

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The story of the city of Newcastle, from its earliest origins in Roman Britain to the present day.

Newcastle
Newcastle

Author: Ray A. Kelch

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-01-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 0520363795

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1974.

The Little Book of Newcastle
The Little Book of Newcastle

Author: John Sadler

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2011-10-01

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 0750954000

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The Little Book of Newcastle is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and literally hundreds of wacky facts (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historic trivia). John Sadler’s new book gathers together a myriad of data on Newcastle. There are lots of factual chapters but also plenty of frivolous details which will amuse and surprise.A reference book and a quirky guide, this can be dipped in to time and time again to reveal something new about the people, the heritage, the secrets and the enduring fascination of the city. A remarkably engaging little book, this is essential reading for visitors and locals alike.

Carteret and Newcastle
Carteret and Newcastle

Author: Basil Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-04-17

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1107675138

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This book, originally published in 1943, presents an account of the lives and careers of John Carteret (1690-1763) and Thomas Pelham-Holles (1693-1768).

The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
The First Duke and Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Author: Thomas Longueville

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-06-13

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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The following book revolves around the first Duke and Duchess of Newcastle, William Cavendish, and his wife Margaret Lucas Cavendish. The Duke was appointed Royalist Captain-General in Northern England during the First English Civil War and was known as a renowned horse breeder, as well as being a patron of the playwright Ben Jonson, and the intellectual group known as the Welbeck Circle. The Duchess, on the other hand, was an English philosopher, poet, scientist, fiction writer, and playwright, well-known for her publication such as Poems and Fancies as well as Observations upon Experimental Philosophy.

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle
Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle

Author: Stebelton H. Nulle

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1512804983

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.