The Britannias

Author : Alice Albinia
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393608565
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Britannias: An Archipelago's Tale written by Alice Albinia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this “island nation.” From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia embarks on a series of journeys that traverse Britain and reach beyond its contemporary borders—from Europe to the Caribbean, Ireland to Scandinavia. She walks the coastlines of Lindisfarne, sails through the Hebrides archipelago, and bikes into Westminster at dawn. As she takes us across extravagantly varied island topographies and surveys centuries of history, Albinia ranges between languages and genres, and through disparate island cultures. She talks to stubbornly independent islanders and searches for archaeological and linguistic traces of island identities, discovering distinct traditions and resistance to mainland control. Trespassing into the past to understand the present, The Britannias uncovers an enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women. Albinia finds female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs. These neglected epics offer fierce feminist countercurrents to mainstream narratives of British identity and shed new light on women’s status in the body politic today. Vivid, perceptive, and disruptive, The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty.

Author : Kathryn A Castle
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526162962
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's children written by Kathryn A Castle and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Phillips Statham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the "Britannia" written by Edward Phillips Statham and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Caroline Shaw
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190200987
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Embrace written by Caroline Shaw and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britannia's Embrace revises current understandings about the origins of refuge, which have focused exclusively on the period post-1914. It argues that the responsibility to protect persecuted foreigners developed in nineteenth-century Britain through a popular movement that equated refugee relief with what it meant to be liberal on a global stage.

Author : Eric Richards
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852854416
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Children written by Eric Richards and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-05-14 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times

Author : Peter G. Tsouras
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1597979902
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia's Fist written by Peter G. Tsouras and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2011 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England's support of the Confederacy triggers war with the Union-and World War I.

Author : Graham M. Simons
Publisher : Air World
ISBN 13 : 1526758792
Total Pages : 695 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Britannia Airways written by Graham M. Simons and published by Air World. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the British airline company, featuring details on the aircrafts, routes, and operations, as well as stories from the crews and staff. Founded in 1961 as Euravia by British businessman Ted Langton and aviation consultant J.E.D. Walker, at a time of considerable turmoil for the independent sector of the British air operators’ industry, Britannia Airways went on to become the world’s largest holiday airline. Just as Court Line evolved from Autair, so Britannia Airways evolved from Euravia. Both UK airlines had strong links with the travel industry; Court Line with Clarksons Holidays, and Britannia with the Thomson Group, in particular the ‘Sky Tours’ brand. Both were innovative in their own ways, and both grabbed the UK travel industry by the scruff of the neck and shook it into the jet age – Court line traveling down the brasher cheap-and-cheerful road, while Britannia took the more staid, upmarket route. By 1972, Britannia had developed to such a degree that it was the biggest of the British independent charter airlines. It was also a groundbreaking operation—during the late 1960s, it became the first charter airline to offer assigned seating, as well as hot in-flight meals. Prior to the mid-1970s, Britannia, much like other British charter airlines of the era, had concentrated upon low-cost flights to Spain and the use of provincial airports to provide its services. The company’s management, however, harbored ambitions to grow beyond this. As a result, for example, Britannia's 767s began regular charter flights between Britain and Australia in 1988, a route to New Zealand being added the following year. Between 1968 and 1984, Britannia carried nearly forty-two million passengers, while the company’s fleet grew to include twenty-nine Boeing 737s and a pair of 767s. Drawing on the author’s in-depth research and knowledge, as well as firsthand interviews with individuals such as Ted Langton, the original tour operator who wanted his own airline, and Jed Williams, who created Britannia, this the full story of one of the most important airlines in the history of civil aviation.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1264 pages
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Download or read book Air University Periodical Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Palmer
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1526777924
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Great Central Railway written by John Palmer and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sets out to address what really happened . . . through its LNER days and into British Railways custodianship . . . A well-researched and presented tome.” —Key Model World For generations of railway enthusiasts and more lately for social historians, the life and times of the former Great Central Railway and in particular its extension towards London in the 1890s and closure seventy years later, have generated considerable interest and controversy. Although many books have been written about the Railway, the majority in recent times have concentrated upon providing a photographic record and a nostalgic look in retrospect to what was generally perceived as happier times for the route. None of the books have presented the outcome from thorough research into the business aspects of the Railway and its successive private (LNER) and public (BR) ownerships through war and peace, and times of industrial, social and political change, that influenced and shaped the demand for a railway service. While retaining a strong railway theme throughout, the book identifies the role played by successive governments, the electricity and coal industries and the effect of social change that, together resulted in a case for closure. The content of the book replaces much supposition with fact and places on record what really happened. The final part of the book acknowledges the fine work over half a century of volunteers dedicated to saving a section of the line in Leicestershire. “A valuable addition to the social and political history of railways.” —The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society