Bloody Old Britain

Author : Kitty Hauser
Publisher : Granta Books
ISBN 13 : 1783782471
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Old Britain written by Kitty Hauser and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2015-06-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: O. G. S. Crawford (1886-1957) thought history held the answers to everything. A field archaeologist, he later became a photographer flying over the Western Front during the First World War - an experience that made him a pioneer of aerial archaeology. An impassioned Marxist, it seemed to him that 1930s Britain would soon disappear, conquered by history's inevitable march to world socialism, and he made a photographic study of everyday things - churches and advertising hoardings - as future evidence of how unenlightened British society had once been. Later there came angry disillusionment and a book, too bitter to be published, called Bloody Old Britain. In recounting Crawford's extraordinary story, Kitty Hauser uses many of his photographs and penetrates neglected but fascinating aspects of British life and belief that have themselves become history.

Author : Geoff Holder
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750958111
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody British History: Britain written by Geoff Holder and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain has an incredible history, steeped in all manner of blood, death, disease and horror. From cannibals to concentration camps, Geoff Holder covers events both great and gory from Britain’s terrible past, with kings, queens and pretenders to the throne; sea battles, massacres and attacks from the air. This collection explores it all, with hundreds of amazing true stories, including seven ill-judged attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria and the Gestapo’s secret plans to bring a conquered Britain to its knees. There will be blood . . .

Author : Kitty Hauser
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191525650
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadow Sites written by Kitty Hauser and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-03-29 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At certain times of the day - at sunrise, and sunset - the outlines of prehistoric fields, barrows and hill-forts in the British landscape may be thrown into relief. Such 'shadow sites', best seen from above, and captured by an airborne camera, are both examples of, and metaphors for, a particular way of seeing the landscape. At a time of rapid modernisation and urbanisation in mid-twentieth-century Britain, an archaeological vision of the British landscape reassured and enchanted a number of writers, artists, photographers, and film-makers. From John Piper, Eric Ravilious and Shell guide books, to photographs of bomb damage, aerial archaeology, and The Wizard of Oz, Kitty Hauser delves into evocative interpretations of the landscape and looks at the affinities between photography as a medium to capture traces of the past as well as their absence.

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780099219422
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Very Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1997 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101601078
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Ways written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of The Wild Places and Underland, an exploration of walking and thinking In this exquisitely written book, Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge, England, home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove roads, and sea paths that crisscross both the British landscape and its waters and territories beyond. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Told in Macfarlane’s distinctive voice, The Old Ways folds together natural history, cartography, geology, archaeology and literature. His walks take him from the chalk downs of England to the bird islands of the Scottish northwest, from Palestine to the sacred landscapes of Spain and the Himalayas. Along the way he crosses paths with walkers of many kinds—wanderers, pilgrims, guides, and artists. Above all this is a book about walking as a journey inward and the subtle ways we are shaped by the landscapes through which we move. Macfarlane discovers that paths offer not just a means of traversing space, but of feeling, knowing, and thinking.

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Publisher : Cambria Press
ISBN 13 : 1621968243
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English Journeys written by and published by Cambria Press. This book was released on with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Isla Forsyth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474222625
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second World War British Military Camouflage written by Isla Forsyth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second World War British Military Camouflage offers an original approach to the cultures and geographies of military conflict, through a study of the history of camouflage. Isla Forsyth narrates the scientific biography of Dr Hugh Cott (1900-1987), eminent zoologist and artist turned camoufleur, and entwines this with the lives of other camouflage practitioners, to trace the sites of camouflage's developments. Moving through the scientists' fieldsite, the committee boardroom, the military training site and the soldiers' battlefield, this book uncovers the history of this ambiguous military invention, and subverts a long-dominant narrative of camouflage as solely a protective technology. This study demonstrates that, as camouflage transformed battlefields into unsettling theatres of war, there were lasting consequences not only for military technology and knowledge, but also for the ethics of battle and the individuals enrolled in this process.

Author : John Farman
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780099417774
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Very Bloody History of Britain written by John Farman and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A factually accurate and fabulously funny look at the history of Britain from the dawn of civilization to the end of the Second World War. You’ve never had a history lesson like it!

Author : Michael Dawson
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789698324
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spectacle and Display: A Modern History of Britain’s Roman Mosaic Pavements written by Michael Dawson and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antiquarian interest in the Roman period mosaics of Britain began in the 16th century. This book is the first to explore responses and attitudes to mosaics, not just at the point of discovery but during their subsequent history. It is a field which has received scant attention and provides a compelling insight into the agency of these remains.

Author : J. T. Petty
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1596431008
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bloody Chester written by J. T. Petty and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-07-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1870 Dakota Territory, "Bloody" Chester Kates is in for some surprises when he agrees to burn down the town of Whale, believed to be inhabited by something wicked, in order for the Union Pacific to continue construction of the railroad.