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Norfolk has a wealth of important archaeological sites, historic buildings and landscapes. This guide is the first to use them to tell the countys rich history.Starting with real footprints of people who lived here nearly 1 million years ago, A History of Norfolk in 100 Places will take you on a chronological journey through prehistoric monuments, Roman forts, medieval churches and Nelsons Monument, right up to twentieth-century defensive sites. With detailed entries illustrated by aerial photographs and ground-level shots, here you will find a reliable guide to historic places that are either open to the public, or are visible from public roads or footpaths for you to explore.

Stourbridge came into existence in the early Middle Ages. It has seen much development from Roman and Saxon times and during the reigns of Elizabeth and Victoria. More changes followed in the 20th century; though an agricultural market town it is also renown for its glass-making.

Surrey reveals an indomitable character, in its life and scenery, which has survived the relentless advance of London.There is much in the history of Surrey of significance in the wider history of England, indeed of Europe. The county affords good examples of prosperous peasant life at the woodland margin in the Middle Ages, and had some of the best developed industry before the Industrial Revolution. One of the first places in which men cultivated a sense of natural beauty and escaped from the turmoil of the city into the peace of the countryside, the landscape gardening which has made Surrey unrivalled in its beautifully contrived scenery is a major contribution to the arts of Western Europe. However, the author gives due prominence to the contribution of generation of ordinary Surrey folk who, as they lived their quiet, virtually unknown lives, stamped their personality on the county.Dr Brandons first edition of this book, in 1977, was widely praised for its original and perceptive analysis of the tension between the ancient rural country and its burgeoning and intrusive neighbour, the metropolis.Updated in this new paperback edition, A History of Surrey remains a taut yet comprehensive text that will appeal to those in both urban and rural parts of ancient Surrey.

Whitby is well known today as a seaside resort and a picturesque place to visit, with its piers, boats, fine sands and, overlooking its tangle of red-roofed houses, the ruins of its Abbey in one of the most splendid settings in Britain for such romantic remains. But few of its many visitors would guess the long history of the town or its significance, from time to time, in national affairs. Its fine natural harbour, one of the few on the east coast, gave it early importance as a place of refuge and a fishing port. The Middle Ages saw quiet growth but the 17th century brought great prosperity, with shipbuilding on a scale out of all proportion to its size. Long isolated, except by sea, Whitby developed a very distinctive set of traditions and folklore. Not until a horse-drawn railway was built in the 1830s did Whitbys inland communications improve, bringing visitors for whom hotels and boarding houses were built on the west cliff. Largely derived from its unusual past, the towns unique character draws thousands of visitors each year; and the first edition of this book, in 1993, was as much welcomed by them as by the locals. The only comprehensive history of Whitby, it rapidly sold out and Dr White, its author, of ancient Whitby stock, has now fully revised and updated his book, with some new illustrations and interpretations. This new edition will continue as the definitive work on Whitby.

Worcestershire is a county of wide, fertile valleys, drained by the Severn, the Avon, the Teme and the Stour and ringed by some of Englands best-known hills, including the Malverns and the Cotswolds.This concise but comprehensive account is based on a wealth of published and unpublished research. It is both highly readable and well illustrated, and will interest the general reader, students and local groups seeking to put their own work within a wider perspective. Particular attention is given to the settlement of the county, especially to its colonisation by the Hwicce in the sixth and seventh centuries. There are fascinating insights into the lives of ordinary people through the ages, based on records such as medieval monastic estate records and later probate inventories. Throughout, local happenings are related to national trends, and dramatic events such as the Battle of Evesham of 1265 and the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 are highlighted.Contrasts between rural and urban areas are explored, and products such as the carpets of Kidderminster, the salt of Droitwich and the glass of Stourbridge are seen within a wider economic context. Information on important individuals is also examined, some of whom, such as Edward Elgar and the poet Piers Plowman, are already well known, while others emerge from local records for the first time. This book reaches right up to the 1990s, including the triumphs of Worcestershire County Cricket Club and the day-to-day concerns of the Archers in the final chapter.

Telling stories about well-known local characters of Paignton, the history of local businesses, A Paignton Scrapbook explores the truth behind various myths and legends, and, reminds readers of long-gone buildings, and bygone pubs and clubs, among others.

Walthamstow is well known as the home of William Morris, a former greyhound racing track and the boy band East 17. Its also been home to communities of people for thousands of years. This history tells the unique story of Walthamstow from the areas first Iron Age settlements to its Anglo-Saxon place names, medieval manors, agricultural hamlets and Victorian terraced housing. It includes the areas history in the twentieth century as a suburb of London. The development of Walthamstow is told from the perspective of the people who have lived there and who have helped to shape the place known around Britain today. Their stories are captured using photographs and illustrations, which bring to life how they have lived and worked over the years.

A fascinating history of an ancient place.From its first mention in legend in the Book of Invasions, through early Christian monastic settlements, castles and grand residences, Fenian raids and the Battle of Tallaght, there has been huge change in Tallaght. In more recent times it has seen car and motorcycle racing, an aerodrome, the rise and fall of a chocolate factory and a pioneering telecommunications firm. The massive population explosion and rapid modernisation towards the end of the twentieth century means this once-tiny village in Dublins foothills is now home to over 80,000 people.Richly illustrated with period photographs and original drawings by Michael OBrien, Albert Perris tells the often-surprising story of Tallaght.

This delightful book, first published in 1993, is the slightly edited version of the sixteen lectures of a course Luna had just taught, and the traces of orality are part of its appeal. It shows two of his singular facets. "Felix Luna occupies a place that is just as singular as it is essential for those of us who are committed to the knowledge and spread of history. He wrote several remarkable books, among which I have chosen two that are, in my opinion, outstanding: El 45 and Ortiz. He also promoted a fundamental undertaking, Todo es Historia, significant in attracting fresh readers and encouraging new researchers, who enjoyed the opportunity to rub shoulders in this monthly publication with the most prominent historians of the moment. This delightful book, first published in 1993, is the slightly edited version of the sixteen lectures of a course Luna had just taught, and the traces of orality are part of its appeal. It shows two of his singular facets. The first is the ability to create an intelligent synthesis of four centuries of Argentine history, which is an extremely difficult task for the specialized historian. The second is the skill for presenting the result in a way that attracts and captivates his readers". LUIS ALBERTO ROMERO

This absorbing collection of Sussex carols and customs, seasonal recipes and literary tales, plays and pastimes, re-examines the rich heritage of Christmas past from around the county. Stories range from the Anglo-Saxon era to the Second World War, encompassing urban and rural Sussex, and featuring secular and religious celebrations of rich and poor, which is sure to enthrall both long-time residents and newcomers alike.From tales of Brighton Pavilion under snow and old festive recipes to well-known seasonal songs, such as Good King Wenceslas and the traditional Sussex wassail, A Sussex Christmas provides the reader with a seasonal anthology of the county and will be a treat for all.

A Toby in the Lane reveals the rich fabric of the East End markets, primarily in Petticoat Lane and Brick Lane, and celebrates the street traders and stalls which call these London institutions home. This is the story of immigrant communities and their fight for survival, reflected in sweat and toil. Countless tales of traders scams, tricks and banter are found inside. Families who have traded throughout the generations on the market offer up a unique insight into the layers of history that up until now have remained untold. The story also traces the sometimes complicated relationships between trader and authorities in an often amusing but informative tale of London market life. A spellbinding, quirky and intimate portrait of life on the famous markets of Londons East End, written by an East End senior market inspector, A Toby in the Lane will delight Londoners and visitors alike.

Spanning 150 years of South Shields changing fortunes, A Tyneside Heritage is a pioneering work of interwoven local and family history. After the nineteenth-century boom years of coal exporting and shipbuilding for global markets came the First World War, then the mass unemployment and political turbulence of the 1930s. Luftwaffe bombing in the Second World War was followed by the peacetime challenge of attracting new industrial development. Against this background, four generations of the Chapman family played a leading role in the town and in County Durham as businessmen, soldiers, borough councillors, sportsmen, philanthropists and representatives of royalty.

Em A vida é um sonho – uma história de amor, o autor mostra como homens e mulheres, que hoje fazem parte do grupo da "melhor idade", tiveram a vida sentimental e a emocional afetadas pelo desenvolvim

___________A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2022A New Statesman Book of the Year 2022Fascinating Youll learn more about the psychological workings of Nazism by reading this superbly researched chronicle than you will by reading a shelf of wider-canvas volumes on the rise of Nazism.Daily MailAn utterly absorbing insight into the full spectrum of responses from ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances.The TimesBoyd is an outstanding micro-historian.iNews___________ Hidden deep in the Bavarian mountains lies the picturesque village of Oberstdorf a place where for hundreds of years people lived simple lives while history was made elsewhere.Yet even this remote idyll could not escape the brutal iron grip of the Nazi regime.From the author of the Sunday Times bestselling Travellers in the Third Reich comes A Village in the Third Reich: an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Germany under Hitler, shining a light on the lives of ordinary people. Drawing on personal archives, letters, interviews and memoirs, it lays bare their brutality and love; courage and weakness; action, apathy and grief; hope, pain, joy and despair. Within its pages we encounter people from all walks of life foresters, priests, farmers and nuns; innkeepers, Nazi officials, veterans and party members; village councillors, mountaineers, socialists, slave labourers, schoolchildren, tourists and aristocrats. We meet the Jews who survived and those who didnt; the Nazi mayor who tried to shield those persecuted by the regime; and a blind boy whose life was judged not worth living. This is a tale of conflicting loyalties and desires, of shattered dreams but one in which, ultimately, human resilience triumphs. These are the stories of ordinary lives at the crossroads of history.___Exceptional... Boyds book reminds us that even the most brutal regimes cannot extinguish all semblance of human feelingMail on SundayMasterly [an] important and gripping book [Boyd is] a leading historian of human responses in political extremis.The OldieGripping vividly depicted [a] humane and richly detailed book SpectatorVivid, moving stories leave us asking "What would I have done?" Professor David Reynolds, author of Island Stories"An absorbing, thoroughly recommended read"Family Tree magazine Laying bare the tragedies, the compromises, the suffering and the disillusionment. Exemplary microhistory. Roger Moorehouse, author of First to FightCompelling and evocativeAll About HistoryThe rise of Nazi Germany through the prism of one small village in Bavaria. [] Astonishing Jane Garvey on Fortunately with Fi and Janeincredibly engagingHistory of War magazine Intensely detailed, exhaustively researched and rendered in almost cinematographic detail, Julia Boyds A Village In The Third Reich is deeply evocative, redolent of those times and truly revelatory. I learned so much. This is a book I will need to return to again and again, to relearn, refresh and remember. A triumph. Damien Lewis, author of The Flame of Resistance

A guide to over 60 of Britains most notable abbeys and monasteries.Taking you on a journey that has inspired pilgrims and visitors for centuries, Abbeys and Priories of Britain is the perfect introduction to some of the countrys oldest and most beautiful religious centres.The guide will take you from the wilds of the Isle of Iona in Scotland and Iona Abbey to Tintern Abbey in the beautiful Wye Valley in Wales, to the pomp and circumstance of Westminster Abbey, shining regally in Englands capital. While many of the entries are now ruins due to Henry VIIIs Dissolution of the Monasteries period, a visit still reveals the rich influence and legacy they have had on Britains history.Beautifully illustrated with over 130 stunning colour images, and with concise and accessible history for each entry, this is both a perfect guide and a much-cherished souvenir of a visit.Includes extended entries on Binham Priory, Blanchland Abbey, Buckfast Abbey, Dryburgh, Fountains Abbey, Glastonbury Abbey, Hexham Abbey, Holyrood Abbey, Jedburgh Abbey, Lindisfarne Priory, Melrose Abbey, Mountgrace Priory, Rievaulx Abbey, Selby Abbey, Strata Florida Abbey, Tewkesbury Abbey, Tintern Abbey, Westminster Abbey, Whitby Abbey and St Georges Windsor.

15th August 1903 - On this day Aberdeen Football Club played its first match, holding Stenhousemuir to a 1-1 draw. 21st April 1943 - Luftwaffe bombers dropped 130 bombs on Aberdeen, killing ninety-seven civilians and twenty-seven soldiers. 15th August 1963 - On this day Henry John Burnett was hanged at Craiginches Prison, Aberdeen the last execution to take place in Scotland. Experience 100 key dates that shaped Aberdeens history, highlighted its peoples genius (or silliness) and embraced the unexpected. Featuring an amazing mix of pivotal, social, criminal and sporting events, this book reveals a past that will fascinate, delight and even shock both residents and visitors to this Scottish city.

Edward Thomas never left the train that stopped briefly at a Cotswold station, Adlestrop, just before World War I, but what he saw resulted in one of the best known and loved English poems, Adlestrop. Generations of literary pilgrims have visited the village which inspired the poem, while many of todays writers have composed their own tributes to the poet and the place where, after the closure of the station, the nameboard was lovingly retained. This anthology explores Adlestrops literary, topographical and railway associations. Anne Harvey investigates the origins of the poem: did the train really stop unwontedly? Was it an express? Was Thomas travelling alone? His fascination with the railways began in boyhood and is seen in two of his little-known short stories, A Third-Class Carriage and Death by Misadventure.The book also examines the connection with Jane Austen, who visited her Leigh relatives at Adlestrop Park and Rectory, and there are poems from Peter Porter, Alan Brownjohn, P.J. Kavanagh, Dannie Abse and Brian Patten. A wide selection of illustrations includes facsimiles of Edward Thomass original manuscript and notebook entries, photographs and fine wood engravings by well-known artists. This engaging anthology will appeal to all who have read and loved this classic poem.

En julio de 2008, por decisión de la presidente Cristina Kirchner, Aerolíneas Argentinas fue expropiada por ley del Congreso Nacional y volvió al control estatal después de diecisiete años en manos privadas. Estos dos mil dias de gestion de la linea aerea de bandera y su subsidiaria Austral le costaron al Estado argentino aproximadamente cuatro mil millones de dolares, mas de diecisiete mil millones de pesos. Sin embargo, tal gasto no solo no incluyo el incremento de destinos internos solo se agregaron dos en el exterior, sino que ademas se corto un vuelo emblematico y unico en el mundo que unia Buenos Aires con Sydney. ¿Como es que la autoproclamada administracion publica sigue empeñandose en vender la imagen de una compañia en recuperacion, y a veces inclusive prospera, si despues de invertir cuatro mil millones de dolares la empresa continua virtualmente quebrada, con un patrimonio negativo que supera su capital social y con la incorporacion de apenas dos Boeing 737 y un credito por veinte Embraers que financia un banco de Brasil? ¿Como se explica que, mientras Latinoamerica mantenia una de las tasas de crecimiento dentro de la industria aerocomercial mundial mas importante, Aerolineas Argentinas permanecio en su situacion de una compañia hundida en el descontrol? ¿Cual es el efecto sobre otras compañias y sobre los pasajeros que desean volar dentro de, desde y hacia la Republica Argentina? Franco Rinaldi ha reconstruido con precision y crudeza una trama que revela como Aerolineas Argentinas incurrio en incomprensibles fallas empresariales, desde la contratacion descontrolada de empleados hasta importantes diferencias en sus estimaciones financieras, con resultados de perdidas que siempre superaron sus previsiones de deficit. Por primera vez, se desnudan los errores de calculo economico de Kicillof como gerente financiero. La verdad detras del gesto emocional, nacional y popular.

Este libro de fotografías es una exaltación a la preservación de las tradiciones de nuestro pueblo y un homenaje a todas las personas que, a lo largo de un tiempo que traspasa nuestros propios recuerdos, han celebrado con gozo y pasion las fiestas patronales en honor a la patrona de villa y tierra de Agreda, Ntra. Sra. la Virgen de los Milagros. Ademas en el mismo, se juntan las visiones que dos fotografos coetaneos pero pertenecientes a diferentes generaciones, han plasmado de los momentos mas especiales de esta festividad en la segunda mitad del siglo XX y en la segunda decada del XXI, festividad que arranca con la celebracion y jubilo del Jueves del Corpus Cristi, que continua el Viernes con la multitudinaria ofrenda floral y posterior Rosario de Cristal a nuestra patrona, y culmina la celebracion de las mismas, el Sabado con la procesion que recorre las principales calles de la villa y que preside la imagen de la Virgen de los Remedios, cariñosa pero respetuosamente denominada "la Criada", puesto que la imagen de la Virgen de los Milagros, solo sale de su basilica con motivo de causas excepcionales, siendo la ultima vez en el año 1.997 con motivo de la celebracion del 50ª aniversario de su Coronacion.El lector gozara al percibir a traves de esas imagenes, la profunda devocion que todos los que participamos en estas fiestas, gentes sencillas y humildes de Agreda y de muchos otros pueblos que hasta aqui peregrinan, profesamos a la Virgen de los Milagros, devocion y amor que permanece invariable a lo largo del tiempo.

In Aintree Days, Alexander Tulloch recounts his life in Liverpool from 1945 to 1962, when he was growing up with his sister, parents and grandparents in a small terraced house in Aintree. It is also accompanied by an atmospheric selection of photographs, reflecting the England of yesteryear.