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Author: James Tate
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1995-12-01
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 0880014318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMasterfully drawing on a variety of voices and characters, James Tate joyfully offers his first book since winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for his "Selected Poems."
Author: J. F. Houston
Publisher: John Houston
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9780952160885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jane Peyton
Publisher: Summersdale
Published: 2012-09-05
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0857657909
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrilliant Britain is an entertaining journey through the quirks, oddities and idiosyncrasies that define our nation, from unusual sports and pastimes such as bog snorkelling and worm charming, to a recipe for the perfect chip butty. This book lifts the lid on a rich heritage of eccentricity and diversity, exploring all that makes Britain brilliant.
Author: Richard Wadge
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2009-03-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0750967129
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book chronicles the overwhelming importance of the military archer in the late medieval period. The longbow played a central role in the English victory at the battles of Crecy and Agincourt. Completely undermining the supremacy of heavy cavalry, the longbow forced a wholesale reassessment of battlefield tactics. Richard Wadge explains what made England's longbow archers so devastating, detailing the process by which their formidable armament was manufactured and the conditions that produced men capable of continually drawing a bow under a tension of 100 pounds. Uniquely, Wadge looks at the economics behind the supply of longbows to the English army and the social history of the military archer. Crucially, what were the advantages of joining the first professional standing army in England since the days of the Roman conquest? Was it the pay, the booty, or the glory? With its painstaking analysis of contemporary records, Arrowstorm paints a vivid portrait of the life of a professional soldier in the war which forged the English national consciousness.
Author: David Long
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-02-04
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1628739258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA charming gift book of the strangest and most intriguing stories of London. A fascinating tour of London's strangest and most intriguing locations. Ranging from architectural evidence of past incidents and stories of life beneath the city, to anecdotes of magic, mystery, and murder, this is a perfect companion for anyone curious about London. It includes: A Museum of Magical Curiosities; The City's Lost Tunnels and Citadels; The Ghost of a She-Wolf; The Bawdy House Riots; The Story of “Jack the Stripper”; The Atmospheric Railway; The Thames Ringway Bicycle Race; A Banker Hanged at Newgate; The Crossdressing Highwayman; Bluebottles, Rozzers and Woodentops; The Hidden Statue of a Beaver; The “Belgravia of Death”; Whitehall’s Licensed Brothel; Pin-Makers, Mole-Takers and Rat Catchers; Drinking in “The Bucket of Blood”; London's Most Haunted House. All of London is here!
Author: Mads Daugbjerg
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1317376153
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is re-enactment and how does it relate to heritage? Re-enactments are a ubiquitous part of popular and memory culture and are of growing importance to heritage studies. As concept and practice, re-enactments encompass a wide range of forms: from the annual ‘Viking Moot’ festival in Denmark drawing thousands of participants and spectators, to the (re)staged war photography of An-My Lê, to the Titanic Memorial Cruise commemorating the centennial of the ill-fated voyage, to the symbolic retracing of the Berlin Wall across the city on 9 November 2014 to mark the 25th anniversary of its toppling. Re-enactments involve the sensuousness of bodily experience and engagement, the exhilarating yet precarious combination of imagination with ‘historical fact’, in-the-moment negotiations between and within temporalities, and the compelling drive to re-make, or re-presence, the past. As such, re-enactments present a number of challenges to traditional understandings of heritage, including taken-for-granted assumptions regarding fixity, conservation, originality, ownership and authenticity. Using a variety of international, cross-disciplinary case studies, this volume explores re-enactment as practice, problem, and/or potential, in order to widen the scope of heritage thinking and analysis toward impermanence, performance, flux, innovation and creativity. This book was originally published as a special issue of the International Journal of Heritage Studies.
Author: Heather Child
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 1965
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 080630071X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illustrated guide to assist artists, craftsmen, designers, and architects.
Author: Erik Roth
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 0752477978
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn With a Bended Bow Erik Roth presents a comprehensive examination of the archer and his weapon in a time when archery was both economically and militarily vital to the security of England, based on the study of mediaeval writings and period artefacts. As an accomplished artist, his illustrations are an invaluable aid to understanding the manufacture and use of the bow. The book examines the types of weapons and kit produced by guildsmen, the materials used and the work of different specialists including bowyers, fletchers and stringers. It also details the life of the archer himself, how he cared for his equipment, learned to shoot and fought for his country on the battlefields of Scotland and France. With a Bended Bow gives an exceptional insight into the tools, training and fighting techniques of the soldier who defined mediaeval warfare.
Author: Brian Henry
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780472113767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first critical collection on the work of one of the most influential yet misunderstood American poets working today
Author: Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher: Piatkus
Published: 2015-11-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0349412677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDid you know that: It's against the law to check into a hotel in London under assumed names for the purpose of lovemaking? Under a statute of Edwards II all whales washed up on the shore belong to the monarch? Under a Tudor law Welshmen are not allowed into the city of Chester after dark? In THE STRANGE LAWS OF OLD ENGLAND, Nigel Cawthorne unearths an extraordinary collection of the most bizarre and arcane laws that have been enacted over the centuries. Some of the laws, incredibly, are still in force. It is still illegal to enter the Houses of Parliament in a suit of armour . . . This elegant and amusing book is perfect for everyone fascinated by the eccentric history of these islands.
