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Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

By: John Rule

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Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

By: John Rule

Southern England has been studied considerably less than the industrializing north and midlands in the debate on the standard of living in the period up to 1850. Yet it is becoming clear that it was in the south and in the countryside that the greatest poverty and deprivation was to be found. These essays examine responses to the struggle to live. The responses ranged from, at the most extreme, sheep-stealing and incendiarism to joining in food riots in an attempt to impose a "moral economy". More sustained protest is to be seen in passive and sometimes active resistance to authority, and in particular in the opposition to the introduction of the New Poor Law of 1834. Finally the appeal yet limitations of Chartism in the south is demonstrated.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0826462286

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9780826462282

Ask a Policeman

By: The Detection Club,Agatha Christie,Martin Edwards,John Rhode,Helen Simpson,Gladys Mitchell,Anthony Berkeley,Dorothy L. Sayers,Milward Kennedy

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By: The Detection Club,Agatha Christie,Martin Edwards,John Rhode,Helen Simpson,Gladys Mitchell,Anthony Berkeley,Dorothy L. Sayers,Milward Kennedy

With “a touch of genius,” this round-robin mystery follow-up to The Floating Admiral features famous detectives including Lord Peter Wimsey (The Times Literary Supplement). Following the success of The Floating Admiral, in which certain members of the Detection Club—including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, and G. K. Chesterton—collaborated on a whodunit, six writers pooled their talents to create another coauthored mystery. This time the premise had an added twist: authors would swap their detective characters, allowing for some extremely entertaining parodies of one another’s sleuths. When a ruthless British newspaper tycoon is shot dead in his home, the high-level suspects include the assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, casting doubt on the impartiality of a formal police investigation. As a solution, the home secretary brings in four brilliant detectives to solve the murder: Mrs. Bradley, Sir John Saumarez, Lord Peter Wimsey, and Roger Sheringham. Featuring a preface by inaugural Detection Club member Agatha Christie, this playful tour de force gathers together half a dozen Golden Age Mystery masters: John Rhode, Helen Simpson, Gladys Mitchell, Anthony Berkeley, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Milward Kennedy.

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305

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Open Road Media

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1504058283

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9781504058285

Castles of Kent Through Time

By: John Guy

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Castles of Kent Through Time

By: John Guy

This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which the castles of Kent have changed and developed over the last century.

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186

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398110884

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9781398110885

Robert Adam

The Search for a Modern Classicism

By: Richard John

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Robert Adam

The Search for a Modern Classicism

By: Richard John

This addition to the 'New Classicists' series features the work of Robert Adam Architects Ltd, one of the leading practitioners of of traditional design in the UK. The practice manages a broad portfolio of work including house conversions and additions.

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263

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Images Publishing

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1920744541

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9781920744540

Battleground Sussex

By: John Grehan,Martin Mace

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Battleground Sussex

By: John Grehan,Martin Mace

From its south-eastern tip Sussex is little more than sixty miles from continental Europe and the countys coastline, some seventy-six miles long, occupies a large part of Britains southern frontier. Before the days of Macadam and the Turnpike, water travel could prove more certain than land transportation and the seas that define the borders of our nation aided, rather than deterred, the invader.

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241

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Casemate Publishers

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1848846614

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9781848846616

Castles of England

By: John Paul Davis

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Castles of England

By: John Paul Davis

In 1051, a monk of Canterbury Cathedral made a bizarre observation in what would eventually form part of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. In his chronicling of the year’s events, he described the establishment of a new fortification in Herefordshire by French members of the king’s party. More sophisticated than the typical Saxon burh, the word provided was alien to his vocabulary. In Latin, its builders had christened it: castellum. Little did anyone at the time know, this unique building would mark a drastic change in the direction of England’s history. For almost a thousand years, the castles of England have stood proudly over her landscape. While many bear the scars of centuries of warfare, others continue to enjoy a far more comfortable existence. They are the sites of bloody sieges. The windswept ruin. The royal palace. The home of knights and nobility. The local museum. The posh hotel. Though we all recognise a castle when we see one, no two are ever exactly alike. By digging deep into the history of England’s mighty castles, the purpose of this book is to throw light on those who lived there. For as long as there have been castles in England, there have been mysteries within their walls: murders that were never solved, treasures that remain unfound, prisoners left to rot in the ghastliest pits or executions worthy of lasting infamy. From unfortunate victims to long lost legends, infamous owners to ladies in grey, Castles of England offers a fresh investigation into many of those tales that will forever be the cause of intrigue for visitors. To understand who they were is to understand the story of the castle in England. To understand the castle in England is to understand England.

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Pen and Sword History

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1526749920

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9781526749925

Blindfold and Alone

By: John Hughes-Wilson,Cathryn M Corns

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Blindfold and Alone

By: John Hughes-Wilson,Cathryn M Corns

Three hundred and fifty-one men were executed by British Army firing squads between September 1914 and November 1920. By far the greatest number, 266 were shot for desertion in the face of the enemy. The executions continue to haunt the history of the war, with talk today of shell shock and posthumous pardons. Using material released from the Public Records Office and other sources, the authors reveal what really happened and place the story of these executions firmly in the context of the military, social and medical context of the period.

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469

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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147460319X

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9781474603195

The Picturesque

Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

By: John Macarthur

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The Picturesque

Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

By: John Macarthur

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century how visual values such as ‘irregularity’ become the basis of modern architectural planning; how the concept of appropriating a view moves from landscape design into urban design why movement is fundamental to picturing the stillness of buildings, cities and landscapes. Drawing on examples from architecture, art and broader culture, John Macarthur's account of this key topic in cultural history, makes engaging reading for all those studying architecture, art history, cultural history or visual studies.

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Routledge

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1134956975

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9781134956975

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Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

Crime, Protest and Popular Politics in Southern England, 1740-1850

Ask a Policeman

Ask a Policeman

Castles of Kent Through Time

Castles of Kent Through Time

Robert Adam

Robert Adam

Battleground Sussex

Battleground Sussex

Castles of England

Castles of England

Blindfold and Alone

Blindfold and Alone

The Picturesque

The Picturesque

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