Maps And Plans For The Local Historian And Collector

Author : David Smith
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780713451924
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maps and Plans for the Local Historian and Collector written by David Smith and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Smith's painstaking survey details all kinds of historic British maps from estate, enclosure and tithe plans to those of the Ordinance Survey and reveals their value to the historian and collector. Over 100 illustrations include the work of the great map-makers - Saxton, Speed, Rocque, Jefferys, Greenwood. The author also studies the methods of surveyors and the various elements of map design, and concludes with bibliographies and notes to each chapter and an extensive county-by-county bibliography.

Author : Helen Wallis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521551526
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historian's Guide to Early British Maps written by Helen Wallis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-04-06 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Britain and Ireland enjoy a rich cartographic heritage, yet historians have not made full use of early maps in their writings and research. This is partly due to a lack of information about exactly which maps are available. With the publication of this volume from the Royal Historical Society, we now have a comprehensive guide to the early maps of Great Britain. The book is divided into two parts: part one describes the history and purpose of maps in a series of short essays on the early mapping of the British Isles; part two comprises a guide to the collections, national and regional. Now available from Cambridge University Press, this volume provides an essential reference tool for anyone requiring to access maps of the British Isles dating back to the medieval period and beyond.

Author : David Smith
Publisher : B. T. Batsford Limited
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maps and Plans for the Local Historian and Collector written by David Smith and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1988 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Brian Paul Hindle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maps for Historians written by Brian Paul Hindle and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old maps provide a rich source of information for all those interested in their local history and they are also a popular field for collectors. Dr. Hindle's describes the different types of map produced, explains what they were intended to show and where to find them.

Author : Robert John Duckett
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856046524
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Know it All, Find it Fast written by Robert John Duckett and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a queue, the phone is ringing, the photocopier has jammed and your enquirer is waiting for a response. You are stressed and you can feel the panic rising. Where do you go to find the information you need to answer the question promptly and accurately? Answering queries from users is one of the most important services undertaken by library and information staff. Yet it is also one of the most difficult, least understood subjects. There are still very few materials available to help frontline staff - often paraprofessional - develop their reader enquiry skills. This award-winning sourcebook is an essential guide to where to look to find the answers quickly. It is designed as a first point of reference for library and information practitioners, to be depended upon if they are unfamiliar with the subject of an enquiry - or wish to find out more. It is arranged in an easily searchable, fully cross-referenced A-Z list of around 150 of the subject areas most frequently handled at enquiry desks. Each subject entry lists the most important information sources and where to locate them, including printed and electronic sources, relevant websites and useful contacts for referral purposes. The authors use their extensive experience in reference work to offer useful tips, warn of potential pitfalls, and spotlight typical queries and how to tackle them. This new edition has been brought right up-to-date with all sources checked for currency and many new ones added. The searchability is enhanced by a comprehensive index to make those essential sources even easier to find - saving you valuable minutes! Readership: Offering quick and easy pointers to a multitude of information sources, this is an invaluable reference deskbook for all library and information staff in need of a speedy answer, in reference libraries, subject departments and other information units.

Author : Keith Robbins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198224969
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Bibliography of British History, 1914-1989 written by Keith Robbins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing over 25,000 entries, this unique volume will be absolutely indispensable for all those with an interest in Britain in the twentieth century. Accessibly arranged by theme, with helpful introductions to each chapter, a huge range of topics is covered. There is a comprehensiveindex.

Author : T.A. Hose
Publisher : Geological Society of London
ISBN 13 : 1862397244
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Appreciating Physical Landscapes written by T.A. Hose and published by Geological Society of London. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geotourism, as a form of sustainable geoheritage tourism, was defined and developed, from the early 1990s, to contextualize modern approaches to geoconservation and physical landscape management. However, its roots lie in the late seventeenth century and the emergence of the Grand Tour and its domestic equivalents in the eighteenth century. Its participants and numerous later travellers and tourists, including geologists and artists, purposefully explored wild landscapes as‘geotourists’. The written and visual records of their observations underpin the majority of papers within this volume; these papers explore some significant geo-historical themes, organizations, individuals and locations across three centuries, opening with seventeenth century elite travellers and closing with modern landscape tourists. Other papers examine the resources available to those geotourists and explore the geotourism paradigm. The volume will be of particular interest to Earth scientists, historians of science, tourism specialists and general readers with an interest in landscape history.

Author : John Rowlands
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806316192
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Second Stages in Researching Welsh Ancestry written by John Rowlands and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1999 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone who has had any success in researching their Welsh ancestry will know that a grasp of specialized Welsh genealogical methods and sources is only one of several factors that contributed to that success. They will know, for example, how important it is in Welsh research to have some understanding of the social, cultural, religious, and economic background of the communities in which those ancestors lived. This book attempts to broaden that understanding, especially for the period prior to 1800 when most researchers begin to experience difficulties. In addition, it aims to make readers more aware of some little-known sources and the special uses that may be applied to the information found in these sources.

Author : Geoff King
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349244279
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mapping Reality written by Geoff King and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-04-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original and wide-ranging study of the mappings used to impose meaning on the world, Mapping Reality argues that maps create rather than merely represent the ground on which they rest. Distinctions between map and territory questioned by some theorists of the postmodern have always been arbitrary. From the history of cartography to the mappings of culture, sexuality and nation, Geoff King draws on an extensive range of materials, including mappings imposed in the colonial settlement of America, the Cold War, Vietnam and the events since the collapse of the Soviet bloc. He argues for a deconstruction of the opposition between map and territory to allow dominant mappings to be challenged, their contours redrawn and new grids imposed.

Author : John Brian Harley
Publisher : Freedom Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maps for the Local Historian written by John Brian Harley and published by Freedom Press. This book was released on 1972 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: