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Victoria Crosses on the Western Front

Autor: Paul Oldfield

Número de Páginas: 338

In the past, while visiting the First World War battlefields, the author often wondered where the various Victoria Cross actions took place. He resolved to find out. In 1988, in the midst of his army career, research for this book commenced and over the years numerous sources have been consulted. Victoria Crosses on the Western Front: Second Battle of Bapaume is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A thorough account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It will allow visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close to, where each VC was won. Photographs of the battle sites richly illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient, covering every aspect of their lives warts and all: parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. A host of other information, much of it published for the first time, reveals some fascinating characters, with numerous links to many famous people and events.

Derbyshire parish registers: Marriages

Autor: W.p.w. Phillimore

Número de Páginas: 178

The Private Life of William Shakespeare

Autor: Lena Cowen Orlin

Número de Páginas: 447

A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that...

The London Gazette

Número de Páginas: 1212

Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, Haleakalā, Maui

Número de Páginas: 642

The Parish Register of Kensington, Co. Middlesex

Autor: Kensington, Eng. (parish)

Número de Páginas: 196

The Publications of the Harleian Society

Autor: Harleian Society

Número de Páginas: 546

Summary of Meeting

Autor: Depository Library Council To The Public Printer (u.s.)

Número de Páginas: 50

The church heraldry of Norfolk

Autor: Edmund Farrer

Número de Páginas: 370

The Church Heraldry of Norfolk: pt. VIII. Part of the Norwich churches. pt. IX. Remainder of the Norwich churches, with those of Lynn, Thetford, and Great Yarmouth, and index, &c., to v. 3

Autor: Edmund Farrer

Número de Páginas: 374

Family Records

Autor: John Littell

Número de Páginas: 530

A History of East Boston

Autor: William Hyslop Sumner

Número de Páginas: 888

The Registers of Ledbury, Co. Hereford

Autor: Ledbury, Eng. (parish)

Número de Páginas: 196

Publications

Autor: Parish Register Society, London

Número de Páginas: 458

Publications

Número de Páginas: 656

New biographical series [afterw.] Biographical series

Autor: Religious Tract Society

Número de Páginas: 1062

Miscellanea genealogica et heraldica

Autor: Joseph Jackson Howard

Número de Páginas: 508

The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America

Número de Páginas: 420

The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America

Autor: John Ward Dean , George Folsom , John Gilmary Shea , Henry Reed Stiles , Henry Barton Dawson

Número de Páginas: 484

Laws of the State of Maryland

Autor: Maryland

Número de Páginas: 1216

Laws for some of the extra sessions include Journals of the Senate and House of Delegates of the General Assembly for that Session.

Inventing the Working Parent

Autor: Sarah E. Stoller

Número de Páginas: 299

The first historical examination of working parenthood in the late twentieth century—and how the concepts of “family-friendly” work culture and “work–life balance” came to be. Since the 1980s, families across the developed West have lived through a revolution on a scale unprecedented since industrialization. With more mothers than ever before in paid work and the rise of the middle-class, dual-income household, we have entered a new era in the history of everyday life: the era of the working parent. In Inventing the Working Parent, Sarah E. Stoller charts the politics that shaped the creation of the phenomenon of working parenthood in Britain as it arose out of a new culture of work. Stoller begins with the first sustained efforts by feminists to mobilize politically on behalf of working parents in the late 1970s and concludes in the context of an emerging national political agenda for working families with the rise of New Labour in the 1990s. She explores how and why the notion of working parenthood emerged as a powerful new political claim and identity category and addresses how feminists used the concept of working parenthood to advocate for new organizational...

Collections

Autor: New-york Historical Society

Número de Páginas: 588

The Publications of the Harleian Society

Número de Páginas: 574

Includes reports, etc., of the Society.

Hampshire Allegations for Marriage Licences Granted by the Bishop of Winchester. 1689 to 1837

Autor: William John Charles Moens

Número de Páginas: 570

The English Reports: Common Pleas

Número de Páginas: 1416

V. 1-11. House of Lords (1677-1865) -- v. 12-20. Privy Council (including Indian Appeals) (1809-1865) -- v. 21-47. Chancery (including Collateral reports) (1557-1865) -- v. 48-55. Rolls Court (1829-1865) -- v. 56-71. Vice-Chancellors' Courts (1815-1865) -- v. 72-122. King's Bench (1378-1865) -- v. 123-144. Common Pleas (1486-1865) -- v. 145-160. Exchequer (1220-1865) -- v. 161-167. Ecclesiastical (1752-1857), Admiralty (1776-1840), and Probate and Divorce (1858-1865) -- v. 168-169. Crown Cases (1743-1865) -- v. 170-176. Nisi Prius (1688-1867).

Ten Generations

Autor: David More

Número de Páginas: 66

TEN GENERATIONS is a family saga that follows the Watt family, generation by generation, from Edinburgh in the late 1500s to colonial New York, through the American Revolution, back to the Channel Islands, and then to Canada, where the family settles in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. The family rises to prominence in Edinburgh, then emigrates to colonial New York in the early 1700s. There, they are at the pinnacle of society, but are torn apart by Revolution and war. Forced into exile in Britain, the descendants of one branch return to the continent and settle near Montreal, where they once again become important in the cultural and political life of Quebec and Canada in the 1800s and 1900s. The author uses primary source materials such as personal letters, anecdotes, and illustrations from family collections and fits these expertly into the historical context of the times to provide a dramatic, readable and entertaining account of the family's history -- of fortunes made and lost, of war and revolution, of personal tragedy and triumph. Ten Generations provides an intriguing personal window into the real history of the times and into the lives of this interesting family.