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Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368877811
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : London : C. Knight & Company
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : England
ISBN : SRLF:E0000377838
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1015461239
Author : Nigel Blundell,Kate Farrington
Publisher : Salamander Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : England
ISBN : 1902616243
Examining the story of Britain from Paleolithic Man through the Bronze and Iron Ages, the Dark Ages, the Medieval Period, the Tudor Age to Restoration and beyond, Ancient England depicts it all through full color photographs and illustrations. Whether it is the mystery of Stonehenge or the tales of Henry VIII, the history of England is an exciting and interesting one for Europeans and Americans alike.
Author : Peter Hampson Ditchfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11803610
Author : John Betjeman
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781781311004
John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 and continued to do so for a quarter of a century. During that time Britain underwent profound social and cultural changes. In architecture, grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future. In literature, a new generation of angry young men (and women) challenged convention head on. In music, pomp and circumstance gave way to the electric guitar. And in fashion, hemlines crept up. Amongst much of the population, however, such rapid change met with disquiet: a nagging sense that the New had displaced much that was wonderful in the Old. By turns eccentric, wistful and polemical, Betjeman’s writing for the Telegraph gave voice to this unease. From contemporary reviews – often refreshingly caustic – of novelists such as Ian Fleming, Nancy Mitford and J.D. Salinger, through prescient warnings about the threat posed to the English skyline by office blocks, motorways and concrete lamp-standards, to elegiac paeans to Norman churches and, of course, the gothic majesty of St Pancras station, Lovely Bits of Old England collects the very best of Betjeman’s contributions to the Telegraph for the first time. Taken together they offer a eulogy for what was lost and an impassioned defence of the past in the face of progress’s relentless onward march.
Author : Hana Videen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691232751
An entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakers Old English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith. The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations. Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.
Author : Armand Francis Lucier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0788403842
Inside this wonderful book is a collection of news items, stories, commentaries and depositions that were published under English datelines from 1720-1730 in Colonial American newspapers. All articles were originally published in English newspapers brought to the colonies by travelers. The articles are presented here verbatim. So, have a seat in your favorite easy chair, imagine you're in a tavern in London, (the Rose and Crown, the Halfmoon and Rummer, or maybe, the Queen's Head Alehouse) and let yourself get lost in the stories of Jolly Old England.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1879
Category : English wit and humor
ISBN : WISC:89072344179
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Yorkshire (England)
ISBN : UOM:39015064376075
Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-02
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780349421346
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey? The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the time, many of these cures were often useless and often resulted in the death of the patient. But strange and alarming though many of the cures may seem, some of them did in fact work and provide the basis of much of the medicine we take for granted nowadays. The use of herbs by medieval monks was remarkably effective - and still is today. This highly entertaining and informative book will fascinate anyone who has ever wondered whether doctors really know what they are talking about - just don't try any of the cures mentioned at home! Or that weak eyes can be cured by the application of chicken dung - or alternatively be large draughts of beer taken in the morning? Or that the juice extracted from a bucketful of snails covered in brown sugar and hung over a basin overnight was once used to cure a sore throat?
Author : Chris Mccully,Sharon Hilles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317876984
The Earliest English provides a student-friendly introduction to Old English and the earliest periods of the history of the English Language as it evolved before 1215. Using non-technical language, the book covers basic terminology, the linguistic and cultural backgrounds to the emergence and development of OE, and the OE vocabulary that students studying this phase of the English language need to know. In eight carefully structured units, the authors show how the vocabulary of Old English contains many items familiar to us today; how its characteristic poetic form is based on a beautiful and intricate simplicity; how its patterns of word building and inflectional structure are paralleled in several present day languages and how and why the English language and its literature continued to change so that by the mid-12th century the English language looks more like the 'English' that we are familiar with in the 21st century. Features of the book include: the provision of accessible guides to some important 'problem topics' of classical OE stimulating cross-linguistic comparisons, e.g. the pronoun system of OE as compared with the pronoun system of present day Dutch cleverly laid out translation exercises, with structural help in the form of selective glossaries careful division into eight units, designed for both classroom use and self-study Written in a clear and accessible manner, The Earliest English provides a comprehensive introduction to the evolution of Old English language and literature, and will be an invaluable textbook for students of English Language and Linguistics.
Author : Thomas R. Cleary
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1984-05-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889201316
An accurate and comprehensive study of the political aspects of Fielding’s art has been sorely needed. As a result of decades of work by literary scholars and a series of great historians, such a study is finally possible. This volume addresses that need, and, in the light of a recent revival of interest in Fielding’s work, it arrives most opportunely. The author offers here a wide-ranging focus and a firm grip on the shifting complexities of Fielding’s political situations—the loyalties and enmities, factional alignments and fractious rhetoric—that allow a satisfactory understanding of Fielding’s political writing. Political writing in Fielding’s day, as in ours, was topical, concerned with evanescent problems and day-to-day needs that were familiar to contemporaries, but that are now recaptured only with greatest difficulty. This study constitutes a thorough reconstruction of Fielding’s political context and extricates from the context Fielding’s own political endeavours. Cleary’s work will make many of Felding’s previously unstudied work accessible to students and scholars of eighteenth-century English literature. A necessary point of reference to both literary specialists and historians concerned with eighteenth-century England.
Author : Pat Thane
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191542176
At the end of the twentieth century more people are living into their seventies, eighties, nineties and beyond, a process expected to continue well into the next millennium. The twentieth century has achieved what people in other centuries only dreamed of: many can now expect to survive to old age in reasonably good health and can remain active and independent to the end, in contrast to the high death rate, ill health and destitution which affected all ages in the past. Yet this change is generally greeted not with triumph but with alarm. It is assumed that the longer people live, the longer they are ill and dependent, thus burdening a shrinking younger generation with the cost of pensions and health care. It is also widely believed that 'the past' saw few survivors into old age and these could be supported by their families without involving the taxpayer. In this first survey of old age throughout English history, these assumptions are challenged. Vivid pictures are given of the ways in which very large numbers of older people lived often vigorous and independent lives over many centuries. The book argues that old people have always been highly visible in English communities, and concludes that as people live longer due to the benefits of the rise in living standards, far from being 'burdens' they can be valuable contributors to their family and friends.
Author : National Art Library (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1042 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015034635220