Watling Street

Author : John Higgs
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 9781474603485
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Watling Street written by John Higgs and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A journey along one of Britain's oldest roads, from Dover to Anglesey, in search of the hidden history that makes us who we are today. Long ago a path was created by the passage of feet tramping through endless forests. Gradually that path became a track, and the track became a road. It connected the White Cliffs of Dover to the Druid groves of the Welsh island of Anglesey, across a land that was first called Albion then Britain, Mercia and eventually England and Wales. Armies from Rome arrived and straightened this 444 kilometres of meandering track, which in the Dark Ages gained the name Watling Street. Today, this ancient road goes by many different names: the A2, the A5 and the M6 Toll. It is a palimpsest that is always being rewritten. Watling Street is a road of witches and ghosts, of queens and highwaymen, of history and myth, of Chaucer, Dickens and James Bond. Along this route Boudicca met her end, the Battle of Bosworth changed royal history, Bletchley Park code breakers cracked Nazi transmissions and Capability Brown remodelled the English landscape. The myriad people who use this road every day might think it unremarkable, but, as John Higgs shows, it hides its secrets in plain sight. Watling Street is not just the story of a route across our island, but an acutely observed, unexpected exploration of Britain and who we are today, told with wit and flair, and an unerring eye for the curious and surprising.

Author : Bill Naughton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1448203724
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Late Night on Watling Street written by Bill Naughton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-09-28 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of stories, Bill Naughton portrays a selection of characters, including truck drivers, Irish itinerants and lamp lighters, in his inimitable pithy style. While each tale can be enjoyed on its own, together they provide a wonderful picture of post-war and a bygone era. With descriptions so graphic the characters could be based on real people, the lives, loves, hopes and disappointments of Naughton's characters will keep you gripped till the last.

Author : Henry MacLauchlan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.YK/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memoir Written During a Survey of the Watling Street written by Henry MacLauchlan and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Authoress of The red rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twelve Churches; Or, Tracings Along the Watling Street written by Authoress of The red rose and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to church architecture between St. Albans and London on Watling Street.

Author : Omer Roucoux
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950840628
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Watling Street from London to High Cross written by Omer Roucoux and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1004 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dublin Almanac and General Register of Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret McGoverne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781520676401
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Battle of Watling Street written by Margaret McGoverne and published by . This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical science fiction novella set in 1st century Roman-occupied Britain, The Battle of Watling Street re-imagines the disappearance of the rebellious Iceni Queen Boudicca, and introduces the resourceful Celtic hero Dedo, attendant to the doomed warrior queen. Historians still dispute the end of Boudicca and the Iceni; did they escape to Wales or Ireland? Or did they stumble across a very different kind of deadly foreign occupier of their native lands?

Author : Joseph Lemuel Chester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Parish Registers of St. Mary Aldermarry, London, Containing the Marriages, Baptisms, and Burials from 1558 to 1754 written by Joseph Lemuel Chester and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Antiquary written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. W. Hutchings
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
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Download or read book and 2 written by W. W. Hutchings and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: