Tag: Britain

Spectacular Britain A spotter’s guide to the UK’s most amazing natural phenomena


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English | April 16th, 2024 | ISBN: 1844866343 | 288 pages | True EPUB | 137.91 MB
From the Northern Lights to whirling coastal birds, and sunken villages to the annual deer rut, the UK is home to some of the world’s finest natural spectacles. With this guide and a little luck, you too can experience the magic of seeing something truly extraordinary.

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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850


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English | ISBN: 0415222656 | | 280 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation.

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Memory and Desire Painting in Britain and Ireland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century


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English | 2019 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1138720445, 1138720461 | EPUB | 22,8 mb
This title was first published in 2002. ‘Memory and Desire’ is a lavishly illustrated account of the art world in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. It calls upon rich resources of contemporary diaries, letters and art criticism, as well as the analysis of works of art to answer questions about how and why new artistic tendencies emerged and tastes changed. Eschewing the familiar narrative of an inevitable progress towards modernism, Kenneth McConkey considers a broad range of art and critical thinking in the period. Discussing the market for old master paintings, which rivalled those for modern art, and the question of how and why certain genres of art were particularly successful at the time, McConkey explores the detail and significance of contemporary taste. He draws upon the work of commercially successful painters such as John Singer Sargent, William Orpen, George Clausen, Alfred East, John Lavery and Philip Wilson Steer, and their critic-supporters to throw light upon current arguments about training, aesthetics, visual memory and the creation of new art. ‘Memory and Desire’ is a major contribution to our knowledge of this important period in British art.

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DK Eyewitness Great Britain (Travel Guide)


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English | April 26, 2022 | ISBN: 0241559332 | 592 pages | MOBI | 370 Mb
Whether you want to go wild swimming in the Fairy Pools of Skye, take a windswept walk along the Jurassic Coast, or scale the heights of Snowdonia, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that Great Britain has to offer.

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US Wartime Aid to Britain 1940-1946


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English | ISBN: 1032029781 | 2021 | 254 pages | EPUB | 313 KB
This book, first published in 1986, examines the American economic aid that was a vital factor in enabling Britain’s success in the Second World War. Whilst Lend-Lease did keep the British war effort alive, the agreement was always a source of great friction between the two countries. This book argues that although Lend-Lease solved Britain’s wartime supply problems, the price was the acceptance of a series of burdens that seriously aggravated the country’s long-term economic decline.

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The Decline of Magic Britain in the Enlightenment


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2020 | 288 Pages | ISBN: 0300243588 | PDF | 33 MB
A new history which overturns the received wisdom that science displaced magic in Enlightenment BritainIn early modern Britain, belief in prophecies, omens, ghosts, apparitions and fairies was commonplace. Among both educated and ordinary people the absolute existence of a spiritual world was taken for granted. Yet in the eighteenth century such certainties were swept away. Credit for this great change is usually given to science – and in particular to the scientists of the Royal Society. But is this justified?Michael Hunter argues that those pioneering the change in attitude were not scientists but freethinkers. While some scientists defended the reality of supernatural phenomena, these sceptical humanists drew on ancient authors to mount a critique both of orthodox religion and, by extension, of magic and other forms of superstition. Even if the religious heterodoxy of such men tarnished their reputation and postponed the general acceptance of anti-magical views, slowly change did come about. When it did, this owed less to the testing of magic than to the growth of confidence in a stable world in which magic no longer had a place.

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Footnotes A Journey Round Britain in the Company of Great Writers [Audiobook]


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English | September 05, 2019 | ASIN: B07XD51BGF | M4B@64 kbps | 8h 55m | 251 MB
Author and Narrator: Peter Fiennes
Peter Fiennes follows in the footsteps of 12 inspirational writers, bringing modern Britain into focus by peering through the lens of the past.
The journey starts in Dorset, shaped by the childhood visions of Enid Blyton, and ends with Charles Dickens on the train that took him to his final resting place in Westminster Abbey. From the wilds of Skye and Snowdon, to a big night out in Birmingham with J. B. Priestley and Beryl Bainbridge, Footnotes is a series of evocative biographies, a lyrical foray into the past and a quest to understand Britain through the books, journals and diaries of some of our greatest writers.

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