England S Lost Eden

Author : Philip Hoare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015060644468

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England's Lost Eden by Philip Hoare Pdf

A kaleidoscopic story of myth, Spiritualism, and the Victorian search for Utopia from one of the brightest and most original non-fiction writers at work today. In 1872 there was a bizarre eruption of religious mania in Hampshire's New Forest. Its leader was Mary Ann Girling, a Suffolk farmer's daughter who claimed to be the female Christ and whose sect, the Children of God, lived in imminent anticipation of the Millennium. It was rumoured that Mrs Girling mesmerised her supporters, literally hypnotising them to keep them in her power, other reports claimed that the sect danced naked, and murdered their illegitimate offspring in their Utopian home at 'New Forest Lodge.' Through Mary Ann's story and the spiritual vortex around her, Philip Hoare takes us deeper into the pagan heart of the New Forest.

Author : Lucy Jones
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781524749330

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Losing Eden by Lucy Jones Pdf

A fascinating look at why human beings have a powerful mental, spiritual, and physical need for the natural world—and the profound impact this has on our consciousness and ability to heal the soul and bring solace to the heart, and the cutting-edge scientific evidence proving nature as nurturer. “The connection between mental health and the natural world turns out to be strong and deep—which is good news in that it offers those feeling soul-sick the possibility that falling in love with the world around them might be remarkably helpful.” —Bill McKibben Lucy Jones interweaves her deeply personal story of recovery from addiction and depression with that of discovering the natural world and how it aided and enlivened her progress, giving her a renewed sense of belonging and purpose. Jones writes of the intersection of science, wellness, and the environment, and reveals that in the last decade, scientists have begun to formulate theories of why people feel better after a walk in the woods and an experience with the natural world. She describes the recent data that supports evidence of biological and neurological responses: the lowering of cortisol (released in response to stress), the boost in cortical attention control that helps us to concentrate and subdues mental fatigue, and the increase in activity in the parasympathetic nervous system, slowing the heart and allowing the body to rest. “Beautifully written, movingly told and meticulously researched. An elegy to the healing power of nature. A convincing plea for a wilder, richer world.” —Isabella Tree, author of Wilding

Author : Isaac Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0019723307

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The Cathedral, Or The Catholic and Apostolic Church in England by Isaac Williams Pdf

Author : Isaac Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600097293

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The cathedral, or The catholic and apostolic Church in England [by I. Williams. In verse]. by Isaac Williams Pdf

Author : Benedict Macdonald,Nicholas Gates
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780008333744

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Orchard: A Year in England’s Eden by Benedict Macdonald,Nicholas Gates Pdf

By the Wainwright-Conservation-Prize-winning author of Rebirding Spend a year in an orchard, celebrating its imperilled, overlooked abundance of life.

Author : Gloria Pungetti,Gonzalo Oviedo,Della Hooke
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780521110853

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Sacred Species and Sites by Gloria Pungetti,Gonzalo Oviedo,Della Hooke Pdf

Explores key issues in biocultural diversity, examining species and sites considered to be sacred and their implications for conservation.

Author : Don Chapman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445669519

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Wearing the Trousers by Don Chapman Pdf

The story of women's liberation as told by their changing dress – in the public gaze and in private

Author : B. Bennett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230604865

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Transatlantic Spiritualism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature by B. Bennett Pdf

This book asks about the cultural and political meanings of spiritualism in the Nineteenth century United States. In order to re-assess both transatlantic spiritualism and the culture in which it emerged, Bennet locates spiritualism within a highly technologized transatlantic capitalist culture.

Author : James Gregory
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857716255

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Reformers, Patrons and Philanthropists by James Gregory Pdf

William and Georgina Cowper-Temple were significant figures in nineteenth-century Britain. William Cowper-Temple, later Lord Mount Temple, was private secretary to one Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, and minister in the government of Lord Palmerston. He sought to improve the nation's health and rebuild London, and famously amended the Education Act in 1870. His charismatic wife, Georgina, was also champion of diverse social and moral reforms, and friend to such worthies as John Ruskin, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Frances Power Cobbe and Mrs Oscar Wilde. In the first full-length biography of this distinguished couple, James Gregory explores the Cowper-Temples' roles within Whig-Liberalism, philanthropy and social reform, and provides a fascinating insight into the private lives of two aristocrats dedicated to using their powers of influence to alleviate problems in Victorian society.

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639365142

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Gilded Youth by Tom Quinn Pdf

A colorful, fascinating look at growing up in the royal family over the centuries, from the Plantagenets and Tudors to the Windsors and Cambridges. For as long as the British royal family has existed, their children have been brought up in ways that seem bizarre and eccentric to the rest of us—the royal family’s obsession with making their children tough and independent as early as possible, often by delegating their parental duties to staff, goes back centuries. Gilded Youth looks at centuries of growing up aristocratic and royal—from Edward VII smashing up his schoolroom to Prince Andrew peeing on a stable lad’s shoes; from Princess Margaret putting horse manure in a footman’s pockets to Diana Spencer wearing crop tops, kissing a local village boy, and drinking cider in a bus shelter; from a teenage Prince Harry throwing up in the street to Prince William becoming completely obsessed with doing the right thing regardless of the feelings of his younger brother. Even Queen Elizabeth herself reacted oddly to her upbringing, becoming in many ways obsessively compulsive—as a child she insisted her shoes should always be positioned in the same place, her lunch set out exactly the same way each day, and that for tea she have jam pennies (small rounds of bread and jam), which she was still eating every afternoon into her nineties. The younger generation seem to insist they want a normal or ordinary upbringing for their children—because that goes down well with the public—but this is just window dressing. Gilded Youth looks at how, when it comes to their children, the British royal family is still behaving much as they did in the past.

Author : Tom Quinn
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785907210

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Scandals of the Royal Palaces by Tom Quinn Pdf

George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might have added that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really good scandal, and best of all are the sexual and political scandals that take place behind the gilded doors of Britain's royal palaces. From Edward II's intimate relationship with Piers Gaveston to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's dramatic exit from the royal family, the royal residences have seen it all. This glorious romp of a book contains new information on well-known and not-so-well-known scandals, including those that have only recently been revealed through the release of previously secret official papers. Exploring surviving palaces such as Kensington as well as long‐vanished residences including Whitehall, Scandals of the Royal Palaces is the first in-depth look at the bad behaviour of not just the royals themselves but also palace officials, courtiers, household servants and hangers‐on. Delving into the bitter hatreds that generations of King Georges nursed for their eldest sons, Queen Victoria's opium‐fuelled rages and Edward VII's near-miss perjury conviction, royal expert Tom Quinn reveals that scandal and the royal family have always been bedfellows. And if the behaviour of today's royals is anything to go by, the glittering palaces will continue to house intriguing, embarrassing and outrageous scandals for centuries to come.

Author : Geoffrey A. C. Ginn
Publisher : Apollo Books
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : 1845194926

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Archangels & Archaeology by Geoffrey A. C. Ginn Pdf

John Sebastian Marlow Ward (1885-1949) was an English antiquarian, mystic, occult scholar, and museums' pioneer. Ward's provocative works on Masonic symbolism, secret societies, and spirit communications remain in print, and the innovative social history museum - the Abbey Folk Park - which he founded in New Barnet, north London in the 1930s, was later transplanted to Queensland, Australia, where it continues to flourish. His career demonstrates a remarkable fusion of the esoteric and spiritual pre-occupations of the early 20th century, with the deeper currents of antiquarianism and Christian mysticism. Ward's life of energetic work, spiritual exploration, and public activity presents a compelling narrative. His career moved from Cambridge Freemasonry and Edwardian Britain's occult revival to wartime spirit communications and mystical visions of a Pentecostal apocalypse as World War II approached. His unique and populist history museum fused a passion for Britain's disappearing heritage with his conviction that the collapse of Western civilization was imminent. When Ward was unfairly disgraced in a sensational court case in May 1945, he and his followers departed England for Cyprus in self-imposed exile. Archangels and Archaeology examines Ward's extraordinary life and career, demonstrating how these religious, intellectual, and cultural themes - so often treated in isolation - came together in the turbulent decades of the early 20th century. But, his career also has its own tragic arc: from youthful antiquarian, to the mature scholar, to full-blown mystic and eccentric religious leader, and, finally, to his own fall from public grace, in exile and decline.

Author : Malcolm Gaskill
Publisher : Random House
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781802062007

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Hellish Nell by Malcolm Gaskill Pdf

One of the last criminal trials using the 1735 Witchcraft Act was, improbably, in London in 1944. The accused was Helen Duncan, a middle-aged Scotswoman. This is her extraordinary story. Helen Duncan - known since childhood as 'Hellish Nell', for her uncontainable nature - was one of the most popular mediums of the twentieth century, holding seances around the country where she was believed to manifest the spirits of the dead. What happens when we die? It was the question of the age for a generation which had endured one world war and now was living through another. Mrs Duncan's seances offered an answer. But when she started foretelling naval disasters, she also attracted the unwelcome attention of the secret service. And so just weeks before the Normandy landings, absurdly, anachronistically, she was prosecuted for witchcraft and jailed. Was Nell a conjurer, a martyr or a security risk? Hellish Nell was first published in 2001 to widespread acclaim. It remains in this revised edition a fascinating window into the unsettled spiritual and psychological mood of the times: a sensational tale of spectacle, credulity and cruelty, and of Britain's last witch.

Author : Nicholas Campion
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441107497

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A History of Western Astrology Volume II by Nicholas Campion Pdf

Astrology is a major feature of contemporary popular culture. Recent research indicates that 99% of adults in the modern west know their birth sign. In the modern west astrology thrives as part of our culture despite being a pre-Christian, pre-scientific world-view. Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. It was a subject of high theological speculation, was used to advise kings and popes, and to arrange any activity from the beginning of battles to the most auspicious time to have one's hair cut. Nicholas Campion examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. Spanning the period between the collapse of classical astrology in the fifth century and the rise of popular astrology on the web in the twentieth, Campion challenges the historical convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries. Concluding with a discussion of astrology's popularity and appeal in the twenty-first century, Campion asks whether it should be seen as an integral part of modernity or as an element of the post-modern world.

Author : Antony Edmonds
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781445636467

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Oscar Wilde's Scandalous Summer by Antony Edmonds Pdf

A biography of Wilde’s most turbulent years, including the full story of the summer Oscar Wilde spent writing his masterpiece, when he was at the height of his fame, when his relationships were at their most tangled, and right before his life fell apart.