Samuel Pepys And The Strange Wrecking Of The Gloucester

Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781639363216

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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester by Nigel Pickford Pdf

A true story of royal intrigue—with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist—as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? Nigel Pickford’s compelling account of the catastrophe draws on a richness of historical material including letters, diaries and ships’ logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain.

Author : Nigel Pickford
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1639363203

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Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester by Nigel Pickford Pdf

A true story of royal intrigue—with famed diarist Samuel Pepys as the main protagonist—as a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain sparks a mystery that now may finally be solved. In 1682, Charles II invited his scandalous younger brother, James, Duke of York, to return from exile and take his rightful place as heir to the throne. To celebrate, the future king set sail in a fleet of eight ships destined for Edinburgh, where he would reunite with his young pregnant wife. Yet disaster struck en route, somewhere off the Norfolk coast. The royal frigate carrying James and his entourage sank, causing some two hundred sailors and courtiers to perish. The diarist Samuel Pepys had been asked to sail with James but refused the invitation, preferring to travel in one of the other ships. Why? What did he know that others did not? Religious and political tensions were rife in the years leading up to the wreck of the Gloucester. James was a Catholic, as was his wife, and there was a large constituency who wished them dead. Plots and conspiracies abounded. The Royal Navy was itself in disarray, badly equipped and poorly organised. Could someone on board be to blame for the sinking, either from malice or incompetence? Nigel Pickford’s compelling account of the catastrophe draws on a richness of historical material including letters, diaries and ships’ logs, revealing for the first time the full drama and tragic consequences of a shipwreck that shook Restoration Britain.

Author : Jacky Colliss Harvey
Publisher : Haus Publishing
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781913368296

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Walking Pepys's London by Jacky Colliss Harvey Pdf

Brings to life the world of Samuel Pepys with five walks through London. Samuel Pepys, the seventeenth century's best-known diarist, walked around London for miles, chronicling these walks in his diary. He made the two-and-a-half-mile trek to Whitehall from his house near the Tower of London on an almost daily basis. These streets, where many of his professional conversations took place while walking, became for him an alternative to his office. With Walking Pepys’s London, we come to know life in London from the pavement up and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist. The city was a key character in Pepys’s life, and this book draws parallels between his experience of seventeenth-century London and the lives of Londoners today. Bringing together geography, biography, and history, Jacky Colliss Harvey reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of Pepys’s time. Full of fascinating details, Walking Pepys’s London is a sensitive exploration into the places that made the greatest English diarist of all time.

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : IOWA:31858062357474

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, 1660-1661 by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Author : David Loades,C S Knighton
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781803990743

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Letters from the Mary Rose by David Loades,C S Knighton Pdf

'The authors are to be congratulated on a book which merits usage in the national curriculum.' - International Journal of Nautical Archaeology The raising of the Tudor warship Mary Rose in 1982 has made her one of the most famous ships in history, though there is a good deal more to her story than its terminal disaster. She served successfully in the Royal Navy for more than thirty years before sinking, for reasons still uncertain, during a battle off Portsmouth in 1545. There have been many books published about Mary Rose but this is the only one written largely by those who sailed with her. It is based around original documents, including all the known despatches written aboard Mary Rose by the commanding admirals. Extracts from accounts and other papers illustrate the building, equipping and provisioning of the ship. Although this is primarily a view from the quarter-deck, there are occasional glimpses of life below. The collection concludes with reports of the sinking, and of the first attempts to salvage the ship and her ordnance. The documents are presented in modern spelling and are set in context through linking narratives. Technical terms are explained, and the principal characters introduced. The texts are supplemented by contemporary images, and by photographs of the preserved ship and recovered objects. A new range of illustrations has been added to this edition, published forty years on from the raising of the hull.

Author : Linda Collins,Siobhan Clarke
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781803990927

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Gloriana by Linda Collins,Siobhan Clarke Pdf

In a Reformation kingdom ill-used to queens, Elizabeth I needed a very particular image to hold her divided country together. The 'Cult of Gloriana' would elevate the queen to the status of a virgin goddess, aided by authors, musicians, and artists such as Spenser, Shakespeare, Hilliard, Tallis and Byrd. Her image was widely owned and distributed, thanks to the expansion of printing, and the English came to surpass their European counterparts in miniature painting, allowing courtiers to carry a likeness of their sovereign close to their hearts. Sumptuously illustrated, Gloriana: Elizabeth I and the Art of Queenship tells the story of Elizabethan art as a powerful device for royal magnificence and propaganda, illuminating several key artworks of Elizabeth's reign to create a portrait of the Tudor monarch as she has never been seen before.

Author : David Alff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812294453

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The Wreckage of Intentions by David Alff Pdf

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in Britain saw the proposal of so many endeavors called "projects"—a catchphrase for the daring, sometimes dangerous practice of shaping the future—that Daniel Defoe dubbed his era a "Projecting Age." These ideas spanned a wide variety of scientific, technological, and intellectual interventions intended for the betterment of England. But for all the fanfare surrounding them, few such schemes actually materialized, leaving scores of defunct visions, from Defoe's own attempt to farm cats for perfume, to Mary Astell's proposal to charter a college for women, to countless ventures for improving land, streamlining government, and inventing new consumer goods. Taken together, these failed plans form a compelling alternative history of a Britain that might have been. The Wreckage of Intentions offers a comprehensive and critical account of projects, exploring the historical memory surrounding these concrete yet incomplete efforts to advance British society during a period defined by revolutions in finance and agriculture, the rise of experimental science, and the establishment of constitutional monarchy. Using methods of literary analysis, David Alff shows how projects began as written proposals, circulated as print objects, spurred physical undertakings, and provoked responses in the realms of poetry, fiction, and drama. Mapping this process discloses the ways in which eighteenth-century authors applied their faculties of imagination to achieve finite goals and, in so doing, devised new ways of seeing the world through its future potential. Approaching old projects through the language, landscapes, data, and personas they left behind, Alff contends this vision was, and remains, vital to the functions of statecraft, commerce, science, religion, and literature.

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520226976

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 6 by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633, the son of a tailor. He was educated at St Paul's School, London, and Magdalene College, Cambridge. In 1655 he married, and the following year he entered the household of his cousin Admiral Edward Montagu. In 1660 he began writing his Diary. With his unquenchable joy in life and his endless curiosity, Pepys gave a vivid first-hand account of the 1660s -- the colourful years of the Restoration, the Plague and the Great Fire of London -- interwoven with a richly diverting record of his eventful private and domestic life. After just ten years, in May 1669, he closed his Diary, never realizing the historical and literary importance it would attain.

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HWWKBN

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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S.: June 1st, 1663-Oct. 30th, 1666 by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Author : James D. Long,Ben Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015077632704

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The Plot Against PepysThe Thrilling Untold Story of Espionage and Intrigue in Th by James D. Long,Ben Long Pdf

Part history, part bone-rattling suspense, this work tells the forgotten story of two of the most dangerous years in the life of legendary diarist Samuel Pepys, who, in 1679, was charged with treason and imprisoned in the Tower of London.

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000221862

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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S. by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : HARVARD:HWWJ9G

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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F. R. S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II, Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith ... from the Original Short-hand Ms. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OCLC:1348909157

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The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Author : Samuel Pepys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00062278

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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, from the Original Short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence by Samuel Pepys Pdf

Author : Peter J. Hotez
Publisher : er
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781421440385

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Preventing the Next Pandemic by Peter J. Hotez Pdf

Touching on a range of disease, from leishmaniasis, schistosomiasis, and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS) to COVID-19, Preventing the Next Pandemic has always been a timely goal, but it will be even more important in a COVID and post-COVID world.