Tag: Britain

Free Download The Northmen In Britain (Audiobook)
English | ISBN: 9798875128394 | 2024 | 6 hours and 57 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Eleanor Hull
Narrator: Cole Bolchoz
Two great streams of Northern immigration met on the shores of Britain during the ninth, tenth, and eleventh centuries. The Norsemen from the deep fiords of Western Norway, fishing and raiding along the coasts, pushed out their adventurous boats into the Atlantic, and in the dawn of Northern history we find them already settled in the Orkney and Shetland Isles, whence they raided and settled southward to Caithness, Fife, and Northumbria on the east, and to the Hebrides, Galloway, and Man on the western coast. Fresh impetus was given to this outward movement by the changes of policy introduced by Harald Fairhair, first king of Norway (872-933). Through him a nobler type of emigrant succeeded the casual wanderer, and great lords and kings’ sons came over to consolidate the settlements begun by humbler agencies. Iceland was at the same time peopled by a similar stock. The Dane, contemporaneously with the Norseman, came by a different route.

Free Download Hedgelands: A Wild Wander Around Britain’s Greatest Habitat (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CYNDH5H2 | 2024 | 5 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 291 MB
Author: Christopher Hart
Narrator: Charles Armstrong
In this joyous journey around the wild edges of Britain, Christopher Hart takes us through the life, ecology and history of the humble British hedge, showing us how this much-loved (but somewhat overlooked) feature is inextricably woven into our language, history and culture. Hedges – or hedgerows – have long been an integral part of the British landscape; a bastion of privacy for our gardens, a protective presence on winding country lanes and a vital hiding place for birds and beasts on farmland. This man-made marvel is finally getting its time in the sun.

Free Download The Maurice Burton Way: Britain’s first Black Cycling Champion
by Maurice Burton, Paul Jones
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399407392 | 273 Pages | True PDF | 26 MB

Free Download Maurice Burton, "The Maurice Burton Way: Britain’s first Black Cycling Champion"
English | ISBN: 1399407392 | 2024 | 272 pages | EPUB | 9 MB
‘Maurice has lived a hell of a life. The world needs to hear about it’

Free Download The Great Frontier War: Britain, France, and the Imperial Struggle for North America, 1607-1755 By William Nester
2000 | 344 Pages | ISBN: 0275967727 | PDF | 2 MB
For more than a century and a half, from 1607 to 1763, Britain and France struggled to master the eastern half of North America. They fought five blood-soaked wars and continuously provoked various Indian tribes to raise arms against each other’s subjects for the mastery of the land. The last French and Indian War, from 1754 to 1760, would dwarf all previous conflicts in the number of troops, expense, geographical expanse, and total casualties. Placing the French and Indian War in a broad historical context, this study examines the struggle for North America during the two preceding centuries and includes not only the conflict between France and Britain, but also the parts played by various Indian tribes and the other European powers.The last French and Indian War makes for colorful reading with its array of inept and daring commanders, epic heroism among the troops, far-flung battles and sieges, and creaking fleets of warships. Ironically, America’s most famous founder, George Washington, helped to spark the war, first by trudging through the wilderness in the dead of winter with a message from Virginia Governor Dinwiddie to the French to abandon their forts in the upper Ohio River valley, then a half year later by ordering the war’s first shots when his troops ambushed Captain Jumonville, and finally when he ignominiously surrendered his force at Fort Necessity and unwittingly signed a surrender document in French naming himself Jumonville’s assassin. Topical chapters discuss the economic, political, social, and military attributes of the participants, and narrative chapters examine the campaigns of the war’s first two years.

Free Download Mark Westgarth, "The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects "
English | ISBN: 1032569913 | 2023 | 202 pages | EPUB, PDF | 6 MB + 69 MB
Rather than the customary focus on the activities of individual collectors, The Emergence of the Antique and Curiosity Dealer in Britain 1815-1850: The Commodification of Historical Objects illuminates the less-studied roles played by dealers in the nineteenthcentury antique and curiosity markets.

Free Download Sim Benson, "The Adventurer’s Guide to Britain: 150 incredible experiences on land and water"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1844865193 | EPUB | pages: 192 | 180.3 mb
This exciting, inspiring, and informative guide is perfect for anyone who loves a challenge and an adventure. There are soaring ridgelines to run, exciting river descents to swim, secret coves to explore by boat, and achievable interesting scrambles, all in stunning locations.

Free Download Robert Jackson – Spitfire: The History of Britain’s Most Famous World War II Fighter
Parragon | 2010 | ISBN: 1445406594 | English | 104 pages | PDF | 105.19 MB
The history of Britain’s most famous World Warr II fighter. Book contains specifications, development and with over 110 photographs.

Free Download Janice Carlisle, "Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain "
English | ISBN: 052186836X | 2012 | 290 pages | PDF | 22 MB
How did Victorians, as creators and viewers of images, visualize the politics of franchise reform? This study of Victorian art and parliamentary politics, specifically in the 1840s and 1860s, answers that question by viewing the First and Second Reform Acts from the perspectives offered by Ruskin’s political theories of art and Bagehot’s visual theory of politics. Combining subjects and approaches characteristic of art history, political history, literary criticism, and cultural critique, Picturing Reform in Victorian Britain treats both paintings and wood engravings, particularly those published in Punch and the Illustrated London News. Carlisle analyzes unlikely pairings – a novel by Trollope and a painting by Hayter, an engraving after Leech and a high-society portrait by Landseer – to argue that such conjunctions marked both everyday life in Victorian Britain and the nature of its visual politics as it was manifested in the myriad heterogeneous and often incongruous images of illustrated journalism.

Free Download Muslim Women in Britain, 1850-1950: 100 Years of Hidden History
by Sariya Cheruvallil-Contractor and Jamie Gilham
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0197768296 | 286 Pages | True PDF | 9.91 MB