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Bosbury is the second parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire following the history of Eastnor published in 2013nbsp Like Eastnor Bosbury is an agricultural parish near the market town of Ledbury It covers a relatively large area below the western slopes of the Malvern Hills In the Middle Ages Bosbury was the site of one of the favourite residences of the bishops of Hereford in the western part of the parish called Upleadon was an estate belonging first to the Knights Templar and then to the Hospitallers From the 16th century onwards both estates passed into the hands of tenants leaving the parish without a major resident landowner until John Stedman and Edward Higgins successively developed the Bosbury House estate in the late 18th and the 19th century Much of that estate was given after the First World War to create the Bosbury Farm Settlement for former soldiers The economy of the parish has always been agricultural mixed farming being practised Orchards have been important particularly on the higher ground in the northern part of the parish and hops have been grown since the 17th century By the late 19th century the lack of industry and indeed of any major roads made the parish appear an oasis of rural peace The many timberframed buildings particularly those along the village street and the parish church with its detached bell tower attracted visitors and some new residents but the parish avoided any largescale 20thcentury development nbsp
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Bosbury is the second parish history to be produced by the Trust for the Victoria County History of Herefordshire following the history of Eastnor published in 2013nbsp Like Eastnor Bosbury is an agricultural parish near the market town of Ledbury It covers a relatively large area below the western slopes of the Malvern Hills In the Middle Ages Bosbury was the site of one of the favourite residences of the bishops of Hereford in the western part of the parish called Upleadon was an estate belonging first to the Knights Templar and then to the Hospitallers From the 16th century onwards both estates passed into the hands of tenants leaving the parish without a major resident landowner until John Stedman and Edward Higgins successively developed the Bosbury House estate in the late 18th and the 19th century Much of that estate was given after the First World War to create the Bosbury Farm Settlement for former soldiers The economy of the parish has always been agricultural mixed farming being practised Orchards have been important particularly on the higher ground in the northern part of the parish and hops have been grown since the 17th century By the late 19th century the lack of industry and indeed of any major roads made the parish appear an oasis of rural peace The many timberframed buildings particularly those along the village street and the parish church with its detached bell tower attracted visitors and some new residents but the parish avoided any largescale 20thcentury development nbsp
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Good condition This is the average used book that has all pages or leaves present but may include writing Book may be exlibrary with stamps and stickers 181
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A true masterpiece and a musthave for maritime history enthusiasts the 1912 RMS Titanic 3D Ship Painting is a unique handbuilt model of the legendary British passenger liner that sank on its maiden voyage Beautifully painted in the original colors of the Titanic With its four painted smokestacks hundreds of windows it is a true beauty It includes many incredible details and ornaments With its quality craftsmanship it is a soughtafter piece for any collector 3 in x 47 in x 22 in Color MultiColored
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How to Make It as a Woman outlines the history of prosopography or group biography focusing on the allfemale collections that took hold in nineteenthcentury Britain and America The queens nurses writers reformers adventurers even assassins in these collective female biographies served as models to guide the moral development of young women But often these famous historical women presented untrustworthy examples Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan Alison Booth traces the long tradition of this genre investigating the varied types and stories most often grouped together in illustrated books designed for entertainment and instruction She claims that these group biographies have been instrumental in constructing modern subjectivities as well as relations among classes races and nations From Joan of Arc to Virginia Woolf Booth examines a host of models of womanhoodboth bad and good Incorporating a bibliography that includes more than 900 allfemale collections published in English between 1830 and 1940 Booth uses collective biographies to decode the varied advice on how to make it as a woman
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How to Make It as a Woman outlines the history of prosopography or group biography focusing on the allfemale collections that took hold in nineteenthcentury Britain and America The queens nurses writers reformers adventurers even assassins in these collective female biographies served as models to guide the moral development of young women But often these famous historical women presented untrustworthy examples Beginning in the fifteenth century with Christine de Pizan Alison Booth traces the long tradition of this genre investigating the varied types and stories most often grouped together in illustrated books designed for entertainment and instruction She claims that these group biographies have been instrumental in constructing modern subjectivities as well as relations among classes races and nations From Joan of Arc to Virginia Woolf Booth examines a host of models of womanhoodboth bad and good Incorporating a bibliography that includes more than 900 allfemale collections published in English between 1830 and 1940 Booth uses collective biographies to decode the varied advice on how to make it as a woman
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The parish of Newport lies in the valley of the river Cam in northwest Essex about three and a half miles southwest of the market town of Saffron Walden and a short distance from the Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire borders It probably originated in the early 10th century as a royal foundation and it soon developed some urban features such as a market Its position on an important through route between London and East Anglia gave it a more varied character than some of its neighbouring villages and the coming of the railway in the 19th century led to the establishment of a gas works and maltings Even so it remained a largely agricultural community until the mid 20th century but thereafter its position as a thoroughfare village helped to establish Newport as a community with most of its adult population finding work elsewhere some in London This book explores the varying character of Newport over eleven centuries It examines the changing patterns of landownership social structure and economy of the village and its institutions not least its 16thcentury grammar school It also discusses the part played especially in the 18th 19th and 20th centuries by the owners of Shortgrove Hall within the parish and Quendon Hall a few miles to the south
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This volume is the first of two containing the history of all the places in Waltham hundred and some of those in Becontree hundred This region most of which is now in Greater London extends eastwards from the River Lea and northwards from the Thames Until the mid19th century it was rich farm land and was also fashionable with the gentry as a place of residence Its northern fringe is still rural but the remainder has since 1850 been the scene of a most remarkable example of sustained inflow and settlement of population This transformation starting in West Ham is described for the region as a whole in a special introductory article The parish histories include Barking and Dagenham which now contain the Becontree housing estate the residential suburbs of Chingford and Ilford and the market towns of Epping and Waltham Abbey
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This volume covers seven parishes and some sixteen ancient settlements on the eastern dipslope of the Yorkshire Wolds Its rich and varied past extends from the important Iron Age settlements with their wellknown chariot burials to the great estate at its high point one of the largest in England built up by the Sykes family in the 18th and 19th centuries and centred upon the village of Sledmere The volume includes a substantial introduction covering the history and archaeology of the area as a whole and analysing the impact of the Sledmere estate on local villages churches and farmsteads There are also detailed sections on the landscape and topography economic social and religious history of the parishes and their settlementsThe villages covered by the volume are Cowlam Duggleby Fimber Fridaythorpe Helperthorpe Kirby Grindalythe East and West Lutton Sledmere Weaverthorpe and Wetwang DAVID and SUSAN NEAVE are former staff of the University of Hull
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Eighteenth century watercolorist Georg Dionysius Ehret loved drawing not growing plants When apprenticed to his uncle a gardener young Ehret considered this period three years of slavery and continued throughout to draw plants at every opportunity writes Saunders A curator at Londons Victoria and Albert Museum Saunders offers a concise introductory essay on the artist who publicized Carl Linnaeuss system of botanical classification and approached plant illustration like a painter of human portraits improving upon nature smoothing out the imperfections and showing his subjects at their best The 40 color plates from the museums collection range from the common carnation to newly discovered exotics like the American Turkscap lily Beautifully reproduced they convey the extraordinary quality of Ehrets watercolors Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information Inc
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Ecclesiastical history the history of public schools and endowed grammar schools and sporting history provide the bulk of the content in Volume II The opening chapter deals not only with the territorial organization of the established church in Shropshire but also with the history of Roman catholic and protestant nonconformist organization There are separate articles on 40 religious houses including the abbeys of Buildwas Haughmond Lilleshall and Shrewsbury and the priory of Wenlock an account of the Ludlow Palmers Guild which maintained a college of chaplains in St Lawrences church is also included Among the 15 schools whose histories are treated are Ludlow Grammar School and Oswestry School whose origins lie in the Middle Ages and Shrewsbury School founded in 1552 to become one of the leading schools of Elizabethan England and restored to greatness in the early 19th century under the energetic rule of Samuel Butler The dozen articles on the sporting history of Shropshire besides illuminating the social basis of some sports revive the memory of such noteworthy sportsmen as John Mytton of Halston and John Purcell the sporting parson of Sidbury A table of population completes the volume based on the official censuses 18011961 the table gives statistics of each parish and for various other local government areas
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on A People s Counsel History sold at 34.37 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Where no counsel is the people fall Proverbs Entertaining and instructive evocative and evenhanded crammed with novel details yet always conveying the formidable development of this monolithic institution A Peoples Counsel is calculated to augment popular curiosity about Victorias dominant political institution far beyond the parliamentary precinct itself It will be essential reading parliamentarians and journalists and will edify secondary and tertiary students accustomed to fusty and respectful parliamentary histories Ray Wright has broken new ground by identifying the critical insideroutsider link and by exploiting it with panache Intimate knowledge of a unique place and a sure grasp of its changing contextual setting is an unusual combination it is complemented by his appreciation of the needs and values of the institution and an understanding of the groups and individuals that have given it so much of its colour purpose pride and vulnerability
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An outstanding account of a decade whose highlights included separation from New South Wales the gold rushes the Eureka Stockade the establishment of parliamentary government and the attempts to unlock the land
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Where no counsel is the people fall Proverbs Entertaining and instructive evocative and evenhanded crammed with novel details yet always conveying the formidable development of this monolithic institution A Peoples Counsel is calculated to augment popular curiosity about Victorias dominant political institution far beyond the parliamentary precinct itself It will be essential reading parliamentarians and journalists and will edify secondary and tertiary students accustomed to fusty and respectful parliamentary histories Ray Wright has broken new ground by identifying the critical insideroutsider link and by exploiting it with panache Intimate knowledge of a unique place and a sure grasp of its changing contextual setting is an unusual combination it is complemented by his appreciation of the needs and values of the institution and an understanding of the groups and individuals that have given it so much of its colour purpose pride and vulnerability
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This is an exlibrary book and may have the usual libraryusedbook markings insideThis book has hardback covers Clean from markings In fair condition suitable as a study copy Dust jacket in fair condition
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This volume contains the histories of 24 parishes in southeast Cambridgeshire forming the hundreds of Chilford Radfield and Whittlesford Traversed and in part bounded by the Icknield Way and the ancient Wool Street they stretch from the neighbourhood of Cambridge to the Suffolk border In the valley of the Cam or Granta the arable was cultivated in open fields until the early rgthcentury inclosures On the southeastern upland the medieval clearance of ancient woodland in the heavy clays produced much early inclosure while the heathland lying along the Icknield Way encouraged sheepfarming and nearer Newmarket is used for studfarms Babraham was notable for 17thcentury irrigated meadows and as the home of the Victorian sheepbreeder Jones Webb The villages in the river valleys are mostly nucleated in the less populous eastern part settlement has been more scattered The former market town of Linton near the centre of the area had once two small religious houses and Castle Camps a motteandbailey castle held by the Veres Among later mansions the Tudor Babraham Hall and Horseheath Hall a grand classical house destroyed through its owners extravagance have gone Sawston Hall the seat of the Catholic Huddlestons during four centuries survives The village of Sawston and its neighbours have grown since the 19thcentury through the presence of such industries as tanning papermaking and the production of fertilizers and more recently of adhesives besides light engineering Further east the land is still devoted mainly to farming
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The familiar image of Cheltenham a large and prosperous former spa town worldfamous on account of its Georgian and Regency architecture its festivals and educational establishments masks an earlier history While numerous descriptions of the town have been published over the years most say little about the many centuries of its existence before the 1740s when it began to develop as a fashionable resort This is the fullest account ever attempted to chronicle those centuries from the late Saxon period until the 18th century In this period Cheltenham developed into a successful small town ranged along a single main street with the market and trades serving not only its own needs but also those of the surrounding countryside It draws on a range of documentary sources preserved in local and national archives many of them never examined in detail before It therefore helps to explain the foundations upon which presentday Cheltenham was constructed
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