Author: Charles KnightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336887781X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities
Author: Charles KnightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 336887781X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.
Lovely Bits of Old England
Author: John BetjemanPublisher: Aurum
ISBN: 1781311005
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
John Betjeman began writing for the Telegraph in 1951 and continued to do so for a quarter of a century. During that time Britain underwent profound social and cultural changes. In architecture, grand Victorian edifices were pulled down to make way for gleaming brutalist monuments to the Future. In literature, a new generation of angry young men (and women) challenged convention head on. In music, pomp and circumstance gave way to the electric guitar. And in fashion, hemlines crept up. Amongst much of the population, however, such rapid change met with disquiet: a nagging sense that the New had displaced much that was wonderful in the Old. By turns eccentric, wistful and polemical, Betjeman’s writing for the Telegraph gave voice to this unease. From contemporary reviews – often refreshingly caustic – of novelists such as Ian Fleming, Nancy Mitford and J.D. Salinger, through prescient warnings about the threat posed to the English skyline by office blocks, motorways and concrete lamp-standards, to elegiac paeans to Norman churches and, of course, the gothic majesty of St Pancras station, Lovely Bits of Old England collects the very best of Betjeman’s contributions to the Telegraph for the first time. Taken together they offer a eulogy for what was lost and an impassioned defence of the past in the face of progress’s relentless onward march.
Old England: a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipal, and Popular Antiquities ...
Author: Charles KnightPublisher: London : C. Knight & Company
ISBN:
Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Old England, our Queen and her people: occasional pieces, comprising rural, pastoral, national and other poems, including an elegy on the ... death of the ... Prince Consort
Author: William GARRARD (Minister of Zoar Chapel, Leicester.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Jolly Old England
Author: Armand Francis LucierPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788403842
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Inside this wonderful book is a collection of news items, stories, commentaries and depositions that were published under English datelines from 1720-1730 in Colonial American newspapers. All articles were originally published in English newspapers brought to the colonies by travelers. The articles are presented here verbatim. So, have a seat in your favorite easy chair, imagine you're in a tavern in London, (the Rose and Crown, the Halfmoon and Rummer, or maybe, the Queen's Head Alehouse) and let yourself get lost in the stories of Jolly Old England.
Old English Customs Extant at the Present Time
Author: Peter Hampson DitchfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Old England
Author: Charles KnightPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Olds (Old, Ould) Family in England and America
Author: Edson Baldwin OldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A guide to Old English
Author: Bruce MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Norman Balliols in England, Comp. in Part from Mr. Wentworth Huyshe's Harold and the Balliols, with Illustrations and Additional Matter, Including Two Introductory and Two Concluding Chapters and a Pedigree
Author: Benjamin J. ScottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Families of royal descent
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description