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Handy guide-book to Chester and its vicinity; with brief notices of its civil…
ALTHOUGH there is no historic record of the fact, yet there is every reason to believe that long before the Roman invasion the site of Chester was occupied as a stronghold by the original inhabitants. The site of Chester in early times was one well suited for the growth of a great and strong city. Its strength as well as its fitness for commerce, mainly lay in the river itself, which washed the…
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- 74109096
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- cdl; americana
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- SRLF:LAGE-1545469
England and Portugal in Africa
THE attention of Europe has increasingly of late years been turned in the direction of Africa, and there has been an endeavour on the part of Powers, hitherto careless of colonial possessions, to secure some part of the rich continent of Africa for themselves. Thus Germany and Italy have acquired large territories in that part of the world, while England, France and Spain, especially the two fo…
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- 92746784
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- cdl; americana
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- srlf_ucla:LAGE-1986432
The City in the city :architecture and change in London's financial district
"This book charts the development of London's financial district, the City of London, in the decades following the Second World War, investigating the relationship between economic and built change"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262375856
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The Napoleon of Notting Hill
"In an alternate-history version of England, monarchs are selected at random instead of inheriting the title. When Auberon Quin, a man who aspires to live life like a medieval adventurer, becomes king, he mandates that each of London's neighborhoods become an independent state, complete with unique local costumes. Everyone goes along with the conceit until young Adam Wayne, a born military tact…
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- 9780262376037
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Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, 1990-1999
Romantic rock-perched sea-girt Tintagel is a magical place that resonates with Arthurian associations - and the archaeological reality is no less intriguing than the legend. Investigation of the site began in the 1930s, when Dr Ralegh Radford uncovered remains of buildings with significant volumes of eastern Mediterranean and North African pottery of fifth- to seventh-century date, suggesting a…
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- 9780854312863
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Life and economy at early medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000 : the artefact…
Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an Anglo-Saxon rural settlement, six main periods of occupation have been identified, dating from the seventh to the …
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- 978-1-84217-310-7
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- Excavations at Flixborough ; v. 2
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- 942.832 LIF
Shakespeare's History Plays Rethinking Historicism
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way…
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- 9781474423540
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The right ordering of souls' : the parish of All Saints' Bristol on the eve o…
The relationship between people and parish in the late medieval ages illuminated by this study of a remarkable survival from the period
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- 9781787442276
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Economic Ethics in Late Medieval England, 1300–1500
Drawing on an array of archival evidence from court records to the poems of Chaucer, this work explores how medieval thinkers understood economic activity, how their ideas were transmitted and the extent to which they were accepted. Moving beyond the impersonal operations of an economy to its ethical dimension, Hole’s socio-cultural study considers not only the ideas and beliefs of theologian…
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- 978-3-319-38859-5
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- XII, 300
Pacific Missionary George Brown: 1835-1917 : Wesleyan Methodist Church
George Brown (1835-1917) was many things during his long life; leader in the Wesleyan Methodist Church in Australasia, explorer, linguist, political activist, apologist for the missionary enterprise, amateur anthropologist, writer, constant traveller, collector of artefacts, photographer and stirrer. He saw himself, at heart, as a missionary. The islands of the Pacific Ocean were the scene of h…
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- 9781921862984
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- 266.719 509 2 REE p
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