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Author : Hugh Clayton,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0500012873
Describes the lives and presents portraits of kings and queens of Great Britain ranging from William the Conqueror to Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Charles
Author : National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain),Dana Bentley-Cranch
Publisher : Stationery Office Books (TSO)
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035126221
What did he or she actually look life? A question that has been asked throughout the ages, and never with more interest than when the face is a royal one. But putting faces to names is only one facet of the story of 900 years of British monarchy. In this book, portraits of the kings and queens are accompanied by brief accounts of their lives, showing how they attained the throne and how the line of succession was maintained or overthrown. It also traces the history of the Crown itself and tells how the absolutist rule of the early kings evolved into our constitutional monarcy.
Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : University of North Carolina Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0807830658
King's Three Faces: The Rise and Fall of Royal America, 1688-1776
Author : Dilip Sarkar
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781399062367
On 14 October each year, a White Ensign is placed on the stern of an upturned warship by Royal Navy divers. This act commemorates the 835 men of HMS Royal Oak who died in 1939 when the battleship was sunk at anchor in Scapa Flow by the German U-boat U-47. The sinking of the veteran First World War Revenge-class Royal Oak shocked not only the Admiralty, but the whole nation. Though Scapa Flow was far from being impregnable as a base for the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet, it was surrounded by a ring of islands separated by shallow channels subject to fast-racing tides. While it was recognized that it was not impervious to enemy submarines, measures had been put in place to minimize any such threat. Blockships had been sunk at potentially vulnerable points and anti-submarine booms deployed across the wider channels. The outbreak of war in September 1939 saw additional anti-submarine measures put in hand. Despite these increased precautions, German aerial reconnaissance had spotted weaknesses which were exploited on the night of 13/14 October 1939, by Kapitänleutnant Günther Prien in U-47. The German submarine was able to slip into Scapa Flow undetected and fire three torpedoes towards Royal Oak. Only one torpedo found its mark. A second salvo was fired and this time all three hit the battleship, igniting a magazine causing massive damage. Within thirteen minutes, HMS Royal Oak had turned over and sank. In Faces of HMS Royal Oak, Dilip Sarkar not only reveals the tragic and moving stories of many of those who died, but also some of the 399 who survived the sinking of the first Royal Navy battleship lost in the Second World War. Through their photographs, and in some cases words, the horrors of those fateful few minutes as Royal Oak rolled and slid into the cold, dark waters of Scapa Flow, are relived in startling clarity.
Author : Helen Metella,Pamela Cowan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988783526
Author : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Anthropology
ISBN : UOM:39015027598294
Author : Brendan McConville
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807838860
Reinterpreting the first century of American history, Brendan McConville argues that colonial society developed a political culture marked by strong attachment to Great Britain's monarchs. This intense allegiance continued almost until the moment of independence, an event defined by an emotional break with the king. By reading American history forward from the seventeenth century rather than backward from the Revolution, McConville shows that political conflicts long assumed to foreshadow the events of 1776 were in fact fought out by factions who invoked competing visions of the king and appropriated royal rites rather than used abstract republican rights or pro-democratic proclamations. The American Revolution, McConville contends, emerged out of the fissure caused by the unstable mix of affective attachments to the king and a weak imperial government. Sure to provoke debate, The King's Three Faces offers a powerful counterthesis to dominant American historiography.
Author : Suzanne Weyn
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780545633635
When Marie-Therese, daughter of Marie Antoinette, slips into the streets of Paris at the height of the French Revolution, she finds a world much darker than what she's ever known. When Marie-Thérèse Charlotte of France learns of the powerful rebellion sweeping her country, the sheltered princess is determined to see the revolution for herself. Switching places with a chambermaid, the princess sneaks out of the safety of the royal palace and into the heart of a city in strife. Soon the princess is brushing shoulders with revolutionaries and activists. One boy in particular, Henri, befriends her and has her questioning the only life she's known. When the princess returns to the palace one night to find an angry mob storming its walls, she's forced into hiding in Paris. Henri brings her to the workshop of one Mademoiselle Grosholtz, whose wax figures seem to bring the famous back from the dead, and who looks at Marie-Thérèse as if she can see all of her secrets. There, the princess quickly discovers there's much more to the outside world - and to the mysterious woman's wax figures - than meets the eye.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1840
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z17808940X
Author : Joyce Tyldesley
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674983755
Little is known about Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen whose name means “a beautiful woman has come.” She was the wife of Akhenaten, the pharaoh who ushered in the dramatic Amarna Age, and she bore him at least six children. She played a prominent role in political and religious affairs, but after Akhenaten’s death she apparently vanished and was soon forgotten. Yet Nefertiti remains one of the most famous and enigmatic women who ever lived. Her instantly recognizable face adorns a variety of modern artifacts, from expensive jewelry to cheap postcards, t-shirts, and bags, all over the world. She has appeared on page, stage, screen, and opera. In Britain, one woman has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on plastic surgery in hope of resembling the long-dead royal. This enduring obsession is the result of just one object: the lovely and mysterious Nefertiti bust, created by the sculptor Thutmose and housed in Berlin’s Neues Museum since before World War II. In Nefertiti’s Face, Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley tells the story of the bust, from its origins in a busy workshop of the late Bronze Age to its rediscovery and controversial removal to Europe in 1912 and its present status as one of the world’s most treasured artifacts. This wide-ranging history takes us from the temples and tombs of ancient Egypt to wartime Berlin and engages the latest in Pharaonic scholarship. Tyldesley sheds light on both Nefertiti’s life and her improbable afterlife, in which she became famous simply for being famous.
Author : National Museum of Wales (Cardiff),Welsh Arts Council,National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain),Roy C. Strong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973*
Category : Portrait painting, British
ISBN : OCLC:272523242
Author : Royal Society of Edinburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822033868415
List of fellows for 1908- in v. 25.
Author : Royal Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : UOM:39015005458198
Author : Royal Microscopical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Microscopy
ISBN : NYPL:33433062757996
... containing its transactions and proceedings and a summary of current researches relating to zoology and botany (principally Invertebrata and Cryptogamia), microscopy, &c.
Author : Troy Denning
Publisher : Wizards of the Coast
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786962051
Guided by the goddess of beauty, an ugly nobleman ventures to the Utter East in search of a cure for his facial deformities Atreus of Erlkazar has always been hidden from his powerful family's enemies, concealed behind the hideous mask of his own face. The result of a wayward spell that distorted his features, Atreus’ ugliness is a curse he has borne since he was just a child—and one he has spent his entire life trying to break. He is driven to find a way past his own flesh, into a soul torn between destiny and love. In an ironic twist of fate, he becomes an acolyte of Sune, the goddess of beauty. Under her command, he embarks on an impossible mission to the mysterious country of Langdarma, where the magical waters of the Fountain of Infinite Grace await him. Deep in these ancient valleys of the enigmatic Utter East, Atreus will finally look into . . . the faces of deception.