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Author | : Caroline Taggart |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2011-06-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1409034984 |
Download The Book of English Place Names Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the meanings behind the names of England's towns and villages. From Celtic farmers to Norman conquerors, right up to the Industrial Revolution, deciphering our place names reveals how generations of our ancestors lived, worked, travelled and worshipped, and how their influence has shaped our landscape. From the most ancient sacred sites to towns that take their names from stories of giants and knights, learn how Roman garrisons became our great cities, and discover how a meeting of the roads could become a thriving market town. Region by region, Caroline Taggart uncovers hidden meanings to reveal a patchwork of tall tales and ancient legends that collectively tells the story of how we made England.
Author | : Tom Aitken |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2008-10-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Download One Hundred & One Beautiful Towns in Great Britain Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"This book is a unique photographic tour of the most beautiful towns in every region of England, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales. The towns of Britain's countryside are among the most charming and unchanged in Europe's history. From the Norman castle towns of the southeast to the spectacular Roman architecture of Bath and St. Albans, and from Celtic cottage farms in the Scottish lowlands to the stone and iron towns of the Welsh borders and the north, it is as much about the history of the Isles as it is about their beauty today"--Global Books in Print.
Author | : David Fée |
Publisher | : Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2020-11-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 183909432X |
Download Lessons from the British and French New Towns Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book explores the evolution of New Towns in France and the UK in a number of areas (governance, planning and heritage) and assess whether their legacy can inspire current planned settlements.
Author | : Sam Jordison |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan Adult |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 9780752215822 |
Download The Idler Book of Crap Towns Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Crap Towns started life on the website of The Idler magazine when readers were asked to write short pieces on awful places they knew and despised. This title is an irreverent guide to the 50 worst towns in Britain.
Author | : Patrick Ottaway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2005-08-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134761708 |
Download Archaeology in British Towns Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Over the last twenty-five years archaeology has revolutionised our knowledge of the early history of British towns. Based on his day-to-day involvement in urban archaeology, Patrick Ottaway reviews the important discoveries and research themes of this period, and considers how long-term urban research projects have revealed new information about towns and the lives of their inhabitants. The work of the urban archaeologist is examined in close detail, and attention is given to the critical problems of preserving our urban past, especially when the interests of archaeology and property development clash.
Author | : Gavin Speed |
Publisher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 205 |
Release | : 2014-07-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1784910058 |
Download Towns in the Dark Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The focus of this book is to draw together still scattered data to chart and interpret the changing nature of life in towns from the late Roman period through to the mid-Anglo-Saxon period. Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders?
Author | : Alex Johnson |
Publisher | : Quarto Publishing Group USA |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2018-04-05 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1781012423 |
Download Book Towns Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This ultimate travel guide for bibliophiles explores the most literary towns across the globe—full of charming bookshops, fairs, festivals, and more. The so-called “Book Towns” of the world are dedicated havens of literature, and the ultimate dream of book lovers everywhere. Book Towns takes readers on a richly illustrated tour of the forty semi-officially recognized literary towns around the world and outlines the history and development of each community, and offers practical travel advice. Many Book Towns have emerged in areas of marked attraction, such as Ureña in Spain or Fjaerland in Norway, where bookshops have been set up in buildings including former ferry waiting rooms and banks. While the UK has the best-known examples at Hay, Wigtown and Sedbergh, author and dedicated book collected Alex Johnson visits such far-flung locations as Jimbochu in Japan, College Street in Calcutta, and major unofficial “book cities” such as Buenos Aires.
Author | : Matthew Green |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039363535X |
Download Shadowlands: A Journey Through Britain's Lost Cities and Vanished Villages Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2022 A “brilliant London historian” (BBC Radio) tells the story of Britain as never before—through its abandoned villages and towns. Drowned. Buried by sand. Decimated by plague. Plunged off a cliff. This is the extraordinary tale of Britain’s eerie and remarkable ghost towns and villages; shadowlands that once hummed with life. Peering through the cracks of history, we find Dunwich, a medieval city plunged off a cliff by sea storms; the abandoned village of Wharram Percy, wiped out by the Black Death; the lost city of Trellech unearthed by moles in 2002; and a Norfolk village zombified by the military and turned into a Nazi, Soviet, and Afghan village for training. Matthew Green, a British historian and broadcaster, tells the astonishing tales of the rise and demise of these places, animating the people who lived, worked, dreamed, and died there. Traveling across Britain to explore their haunting and often-beautiful remains, Green transports the reader to these lost towns and cities as they teeter on the brink of oblivion, vividly capturing the sounds of the sea clawing away row upon row of houses, the taste of medieval wine, or the sights of puffin hunting on the tallest cliffs in the country. We experience them in their prime, look on at their destruction, and revisit their lingering remains as they are mourned by evictees and reimagined by artists, writers, and mavericks. A stunning and original excavation of Britain’s untold history, Shadowlands gives us a truer sense of the progress and ravages of time, in a moment when many of our own settlements are threatened as never before.
Author | : John Wacher |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2020-08-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1000117316 |
Download TOWNS OF ROMAN BRITAIN Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book aims to examine and define the functions of towns in Roman Britain and to apply the definition so formed to Romano-British sites; to consider the towns' foundation, political status, development and decline; and to illustrate the town's individual characters and their surroundings.
Author | : James Nixon |
Publisher | : Let's Explore Britain |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2019-06-27 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1474759041 |
Download Villages, Towns and Cities Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle