TORRE, LILLIAN DE LA.

The Heir of Douglas

London: Michael Joseph Ltd, 1953. 1st edition. Being a New Solution to the old Mystery of The Douglas Cause. A Notorious 18th Century Scandal over the disputed Birthright of Archie Douglas. Heir, or Imposter? To which is added, the Secret History of Andrew Stuart and his Detections in Foreign Parts; with a candid Character of Lady Jane Douglas, The whole bas'd upon Secret Records now first made Publick; with serious Reflexions on the Whirligig of Fortune. "In simple terms, the mystery of the Heir of Douglas is: Was Archibald Stuart really a son of Lady Jane Douglas and Colonel John Stuart, and therefore the legal heir to the vast fortune of the Duke of Douglas?" Pp.246, 5 black & white plates, slight toning to endpapers. Red/brown cloth, dustwrapperrubbed with edge wear and chips to top of spine and top corner tips. VG/G+.

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Boeknummer: 50103

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Lillian de la Torre Heir Douglas 18th Century Scandal Birthright Dispute Archie Archibald Stuart Lady Jane Douglas Imposter Rightful Heir Boswell Scotland Feuds Intrigues Walpole Johnson 51622 History: : British

TOWNEND, MATTHEW.

Viking Age Yorkshire.

Pickering: Blackthorn Press, 2014. 9781906259396. 1st edition. "In 866, the city of York was captured by a 'Great Army' of Viking warriors. Ten years later, according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, the Viking army made the transition from warfare to settlement, as their leader 'shared out the land of the Northumbrians, and they proceeded to plough and to support themselves'. This book offers the first full-length study of Yorkshire's Viking centuries, from the fall of York to the Norman Conquest of 1066." Pp.xii/308, 2 maps + 28 figure illustrations. Paperback. VG.

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Boeknummer: 46176

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Townend Viking Age Yorkshire York History Kings Raegnald Eric Bloodaxe Scandinavian Settlement Conversion 47758 History: : British

WALSHAM, ALEXANDRA.

Providence in Early Modern England.

Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. 0198208871. An extensive study of the sixteenth and seventeenth century belief that God actively intervened in human affairs to punish, reward, warn, try and chastise. "Explores a range of dramatic events and puzzling phenomena in which contemporaries detected the divine finger at work: tragic accidents and sudden deaths, strange sights and mysterious portents, monstrous births and popular prophets, terrible disasters and raging epidemics. [Walsham} shows how providence helped forge a powerful myth of Protestant nationhood and how, simultaneously, it exacerbated the political and ecclesiastical tensions which culminated in the outbreak of the civil wars in 1642." Pp.xviii/387, 46 black & white plates. Paperback. VG.

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Boeknummer: 48400

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Walsham Providence Early Modern England Protestant History Theology Puritan Piety Print Sudden Deaths Punishments Prodigies Portents Prophets Credulity Scepticism Sectarian Conflict Politics 49836 History: : British

WEDGWOOD, C.V.

Civil War Battlefields. 1642-6.

London: BBC. (circa 1966). This pamphlet introduces a series of six programmes in Network Three." 23.5cm x 18cm, some b/w illustrations and sketch maps. P/b, illustrated cover, small spot to front cover. G+.

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Boeknummer: 11938

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Wedgwood CIVIL War Battlefields Bbc A5027 History: : British

WICKS, BEN.

The Day They Took the Children.

Toronto: Stoddart Publishing Co. Ltd, 1989. 1st ed. Illustrated personal memories of Britain's 3,500,000 evacuees. "This vivid collection of memories recreates the whole traumatic story." 25cms. x 19.5cms. Pp. 175, b/w photographs throughout. Sage green cloth, gilt title to spine, illustrated d/w. VG/G+.

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Boeknummer: 22614

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Wicks Day They Took Children Illustrated Personal Memories British Evacuees Noamzcouk A18736 History: : British

WINBOLT, S.E.

Britain under the Romans.

Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1945. 1st ed. The story of the Roman occupation of Britain, from the first landing of Julius Caesar in 55 B.C. until the abandonment of the islands. Pp. 144, 15 b/w photos, 17 figs. Toning to pages. P/b. G.

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Boeknummer: 9923

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Winbolt Britain Under Romans Julius Caesar 55 Bc Claudius Hadrian A2548 History: : British

WRIGHT, THOMAS.

Some Habits and Customs of the Working Classes by a Journeyman Engineer. (1867)

New York: Augustus M. Kelley, 1967. Reprints of Economic Classics series. Pp.12/276/12(blanks). Blue cloth, minor bump to top of spine. VG.

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Boeknummer: 29019

Catalogus: History: : British

Trefwoorden: Wright Habits Customs Working Classes Journeyman Engineer Social History 26989 History: : British