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A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire

By: Egerton Leigh,Roger Wilbraham

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A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire

By: Egerton Leigh,Roger Wilbraham

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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3385533449

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9783385533448

Airfields Of 8th

Then And Now

By: Roger Freeman

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A unique, nostalgic look at the airfields used by the Eighth in the United Kingdom during the Second World War. Conceived in war, the airfields experienced their moments of glory and, when the war ended, were left empty and derelict to die. The few which remain virtually intact have only survived because some private or public concern has formed a practical use for them, although not always as airfields. Some of the more remote airfields still dot the countryside the same as when the last plane left their runways and the last truck departed through the main gate. They are bleak, windswept and moldering but they retain the atmosphere of the fine, high endeavors of the people who inhabited them and the aura of ineffable sadness that hangs over memorials to fighting men. For such they are.

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242

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After the Battle

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1399076868

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9781399076869

The Little Book of Cheshire

By: Roger Stephens

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The Little Book of Cheshire

By: Roger Stephens

Did You Know? In medieval times, Cheshire was a County Palatine with its own independent parliament. The village of Willaston hosts the annual World Worm Charming Championships. With 86,000 ponds, Cheshire claims to be the pond capital of Europe. Cheshire cheese is the oldest named cheese in England. The Little Book of Cheshire is a fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information no one will want to be without. Here we find out about the most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters and hundreds of other facts, plus some authentically bizarre bits of historical trivia. This is an ideal book to have by your bedside or to while away the hours on a long train journey. And if you like to take part in pub quizzes – or set them – then you will find this book a veritable treasure trove of useful information.

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194

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The History Press

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0750989637

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9780750989633

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,Richard R. Oliver

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The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

A Cartographic Analysis and County-by-County Catalogue

By: Roger J. P. Kain,Richard R. Oliver

A reference work on the tithe maps of England and Wales for historians, geographers and lawyers.

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1050

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Cambridge University Press

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0521441919

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9780521441919

Silent Fields

The Long Decline of a Nation's Wildlife

By: Roger Lovegrove

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Silent Fields

The Long Decline of a Nation's Wildlife

By: Roger Lovegrove

Since time immemorial mankind has taken it upon himself to wage war against nature -- against those species of birds and mammals which he believes conflict with his livelihood. This remarkable book documents the history of that battle in England and Wales from the Middle Ages, shedding a new light on the history of our much-loved wildlife.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198520719

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9780198520719

Pictorial Archaeology

Modernity and the Muse of Antiquity

By: Roger Balm

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Pictorial Archaeology

Modernity and the Muse of Antiquity

By: Roger Balm

This book explores the expressly pictorial type of visual archaeology, the transcribing of three-dimensional materiality into two-dimensional depictions, and its influential history within the discipline. The picturing of ancient sites and artifacts to convey information links visual reporting with the workings of the imagination and indicates that the study of antiquity has always had a hybrid identity: part artistic and part scientific. In examining expressly pictorial forms of visual story-telling about the past, this book looks beyond certain supposed "creative turns" and focuses instead on creative continuities, answering key questions about the power of picturing and its ability to not only inform documentary practices but actively structure those practices. How are prints, drawings, paintings and photographs able to collapse the three-dimensional world of the ancient past onto a flat page but also convey a sense of material reality? In contemporary practice, how do pictorial ways of seeing enable the interpretation of material remains but also shape the recognition of digital traces on a computer screen? Published illustrations, both historical and contemporary, are primary sources of evidence for answering such questions and identifying common patterns of pictorial information. This book provides a framework for scholars researching the visual culture of archaeology as well as the history of archaeology. It is also recommended for professionals in the fields of heritage studies, conservation and community archaeology.

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290

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Taylor & Francis

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100385057X

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9781003850571

Eccentric Kansas

Tales from Atchison to Winfield

By: Roger L. Ringer

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Eccentric Kansas

Tales from Atchison to Winfield

By: Roger L. Ringer

Kansas has tales as extraordinary as its plains, although the stories behind the legends are sometimes lost to time. Discover the history of the state's world-class violinist, homemade airplane and alleged volcano. Iola's Mad Bomber blew up the town's saloons after a hangover. The bulletproof and most "extinctest" creature lurked in sinkholes outside Inman. Hunters in Stafford County learned to leave out enormous quantities of food for local hermit Pelican Pete. Join author Roger Ringer as he delves into these and other facts behind the myths of the Sunflower State.

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176

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439668493

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9781439668498

All Behind You, Winston

Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45

By: Roger Hermiston

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All Behind You, Winston

Churchill's Great Coalition 1940-45

By: Roger Hermiston

All Behind You, Winston tells the story of the most remarkable gathering of leaders in modern British history: the War Ministry that saw the country through its darkest - and finest - hour. When Winston Churchill became Prime Minister on 10 May 1940, it was not with the unanimous support of Westminster or the country. For many, Lord Halifax was the obvious choice to succeed Neville Chamberlain, and Churchill's grasp of the Home Front appeared uncertain at best. He assembled around him, however, a Cabinet of 'all the talents'; which would variously mobilise, arm, feed, fund, shelter, evacuate, heal and, ultimately, save Britain. Among these remarkable men - and women - were Churchill's rivals Lord Halifax and Sir Stafford Cripps, the loyal and dogged Clement Attlee, titanic egos such as Lord Beaverbrook and John Reith, the popular department store owner Lord Woolton (the man who kept the nation fed), the propagandist and playboy Duff Cooper, and many of the statesmen who would go on to build the New Jerusalem in peacetime. By 1945 they had not only steered the country to victory, they had also ensured Churchill's inviolable position in our national myth - an outcome that had seemed far from likely five years earlier. In a series of character-driven chapters, Roger Hermiston, a former deputy editor on Radio 4-s Today and the author of The Greatest Traitor, tells the behind-closed-doors story of the key figures and key ministries, delving deep into the archives to bring to life a Cabinet that was both the brain and the conscience of the nation.

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316

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Aurum

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1781314845

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9781781314845

Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

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Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

This biographical dictionary catalogs the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Missouri and the western States and Territories during the Civil War. The seventh volume in a series documenting Union army colonels, this book details the lives of officers who did not advance beyond that rank. Included for each colonel are brief biographical excerpts and any available photographs, many of them published for the first time.

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250

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McFarland

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1476636850

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9781476636856

Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601

By: Michael A.R. Graves,Roger Lockyer

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Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601

By: Michael A.R. Graves,Roger Lockyer

Michael Graves provides a clear summary of conflicting interpretations of Elizabethan parliaments and presents a new perspective, striking a balance between business and politics.

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151

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Routledge

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1317887360

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9781317887362

Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football

By: Roger R Tamte

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Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football

By: Roger R Tamte

Walter Camp made the development of football—indeed, its very creation—his lifelong mission. From his days as a college athlete, Camp's love of the game and dedication to its future put it on the course that would allow it to seize the passions of the nation. Roger R. Tamte tells the engrossing but forgotten life story of Walter Camp, the man contemporaries called "the father of American football." He charts Camp's leadership as American players moved away from rugby and for the first time tells the story behind the remarkably inventive rule change that, in Camp's own words, was "more important than all the rest of the legislation combined." Trials also emerged, as when disputes over forward passing, the ten-yard first down, and other rules became so public that President Theodore Roosevelt took sides. The resulting political process produced losses for Camp as well as successes, but soon a consensus grew that football needed no new major changes. American football was on its way, but as time passed, Camp's name and defining influence became lost to history. Entertaining and exhaustively researched, Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football weaves the life story of an important sports pioneer with a long-overdue history of the dramatic events that produced the nation's most popular game.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252050274

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9780252050275

The Age of Innocence

Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars

By: Roger H. Stuewer

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The Age of Innocence

Nuclear Physics between the First and Second World Wars

By: Roger H. Stuewer

The two decades between the first and second world wars saw the emergence of nuclear physics as the dominant field of experimental and theoretical physics, owing to the work of an international cast of gifted physicists. Prominent among them were Ernest Rutherford, George Gamow, the husband and wife team of Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie, John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton, Gregory Breit and Eugene Wigner, Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch, the brash Ernest Lawrence, the prodigious Enrico Fermi, and the incomparable Niels Bohr. Their experimental and theoretical work arose from a quest to understand nuclear phenomena; it was not motivated by a desire to find a practical application for nuclear energy. In this sense, these physicists lived in an 'Age of Innocence'. They did not, however, live in isolation. Their research reflected their idiosyncratic personalities; it was shaped by the physical and intellectual environments of the countries and institutions in which they worked. It was also buffeted by the political upheavals after the Great War: the punitive postwar treaties, the runaway inflation in Germany and Austria, the Great Depression, and the intellectual migration from Germany and later from Austria and Italy. Their pioneering experimental and theoretical achievements in the interwar period therefore are set within their personal, institutional, and political contexts. Both domains and their mutual influences are conveyed by quotations from autobiographies, biographies, recollections, interviews, correspondence, and other writings of physicists and historians.

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Oxford University Press

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0192562908

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9780192562906

Book's by Roger Wilbraham

A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire

A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire

Airfields Of 8th

Airfields Of 8th

The Little Book of Cheshire

The Little Book of Cheshire

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

The Tithe Maps of England and Wales

Silent Fields

Silent Fields

Pictorial Archaeology

Pictorial Archaeology

Eccentric Kansas

Eccentric Kansas

All Behind You, Winston

All Behind You, Winston

Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories

Colonels in Blue--Missouri and the Western States and Territories

Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601

Elizabethan Parliaments 1559-1601

Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football

Walter Camp and the Creation of American Football

The Age of Innocence

The Age of Innocence

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