Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: Daly-Dewar
Author: Henry Colin Gray MatthewPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2002.
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Author: H. C. G. MatthewPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198614111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 61472
Book Description
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of British history, from the explorer Pytheas of the fourth century BC to modern figures (such as Malcolm Bradbury) who died up to 31 December 2000. The stories of these lives - told in substantial, authoritative, and readable articles - have been published simultaneously in 60 print volumes and online. The DNB was published in its earliest form in 1885. For this new Oxford DNB all the original lives have now been rewritten or revised. A special project, completed in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery in London, has enabled the Oxford DNB to publish the largest ever selection of national portraiture. It is an essential work of reference which makes quite fascinating reading.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2084
Book Description
Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 2090
Book Description
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Dictionary of National Biography: Faed-Muybridge
Author: Sir Sidney LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 702
Book Description
Prolonging the Agony
Author: Jim MacgregorPublisher: TrineDay
ISBN: 1634241576
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
The fact that governments lie is generally accepted today, but World War I was the first global conflict in which millions of young men were sacrificed for hidden causes. They did not die to save civilization; they were killed for profit and in the hopes of establishing a one-world government. By 1917, America had been thrust into the war by a President who promised to stay out of the conflict. But the real power behind the war consisted of the bankers, the financiers, and the politicians, referred to, in this book, as The Secret Elite. Scouring government papers on both sides of the Atlantic, memoirs that avoided the censor's pen, speeches made in Congress and Parliament, major newspapers of the time, and other sources, Prolonging the Agony maintains that the war was deliberately and unnecessarily prolonged and that the gross lies ingrained in modern "histories" still circulate because governments refuse citizens the truth. Featured in this book are shocking accounts of the alleged Belgian "outrages," the sinking of the Lusitania, the manipulation of votes for Herbert Hoover, Lord Kitchener's death, and American and British zionists in cahoots with Rothschild's manipulated Balfour Declaration. The proof is here in a fully documented exposé—a real history of the world at war.
The Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Dictionary of National Biography
Author: Leslie StephenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 992
Book Description
Common Ground
Author: David FairhallPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857711520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
When a small group of women set out to march to Greenham one summer day at the end of August 1981, none of them could have imagined that this outing would change their lives forever. Nor did they dream that their gesture that day would spark off a feminist protest movement that would last for decades spreading its influence across the world. This highly entertaining and evocative history of the common traces the development of the protests from the summer of that year through the climax of the Cold War to the present day. It is a quintessentially English tale in which a disparate group of dedicated and sometimes fractious women confront the full military might of the United States, not only to raise their voices against nuclear weapons but also to safeguard the ancient customs and rights of common ground. As alive to the women's concerns as to the wider political implications, Fairhall paints a vivid picture of life at Greenham, from the challenges and frustrations of the night time raids and appearances in court to the exuberant self-expression of the camps at the various rainbow-coloured Gates. More recently, he shows how the respectable residents of Newbury, where the women were often given such a hostile reception, have used the same laws exploited by the women in their own fight to restore the ancient rights of public access to the common and protect it as open heathland for future generations. The protests at Greenham Common are a powerful symbol of the 20th century which still arouse strong feelings today. There are many 'Greenham women' still around. But what did they really achieve? As public concern focuses both on the proliferation of modern weapons of mass destruction and the need to preserve the threatened British landscape, this is a timely moment to consider their legacy.