Tag: Isles

Free Download Richard Platt, "Smuggling in the British Isles: A History Ed 2"
English | ISBN: 0752463594 | 2011 | 224 pages | EPUB | 302 KB
The term smuggling conjures up images of a sailor in long boots and a striped jersey, rolling barrels of brandy up a moonlit Cornish beach and into a hidden cave, while the excise men fruitlessly search in the wrong places. Although romanticised, this picture is not entirely inaccurate, and, because of high and unpopular taxes, smuggling was quite common in Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indeed, it is estaimated that at one point import duty had been paid on only 20% of the tea drunk here, and there was so much illegally imported gin in Kent that people were using it to clean their windows. In Smuggling in the British Isles, maritime history specialist Richard Platt tells the story of the smuggling trade, from who the smugglers were and why they did it to how contraband was transported and how they avoided detection. This compelling book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the sea and its history.

Free Download Ned Palmer, "Cheesemonger’s History of the British Isles"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1788161173, 1788161181 | EPUB | pages: 384 | 16.8 mb
The Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller. For history nerds and food lovers, the curious and the hungry, an entertaining journey stretching across the British Isles. Packed with the story of British cheese from an expert storyteller and master cheesemonger.

Free Download Brian P. Levack, "Witchcraft in the British Isles and New England "
English | ISBN: 0815336721 | 2001 | pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Witchcraft and magical beliefs have captivated historians and artists for millennia, and stimulated an extraordinary amount of research among scholars in a wide range of disciplines. This new collection, from the editor of the highly acclaimed 1992 set, Articles on Witchcraft, Magic, and Demonology , extends the earlier volumes by bringing together the most important articles of the past twenty years and covering the profound changes in scholarly perspective over the past two decades. Featuring thematically organized papers from a broad spectrum of publications, the volumes in this set encompass the key issues and approaches to witchcraft research in fields such as gender studies, anthropology, sociology, literature, history, psychology, and law. This new collection provides students and researchers with an invaluable resource, comprising the most important and influential discussions on this topic. A useful introductory essay written by the editor precedes each volume.

Free Download The Jacobite Rebellions of the British Isles
by Andrew Jackson;
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399089072 | 242 pages | True PDF EPUB | 22.67 MB

Free Download Walking in the Isles of Scilly: 11 walks and 4 boat trips exploring the best of the islands (British Walking) by Paddy Dillon
English | April 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1786311046 | PDF | 9.59 Mb
This guidebook to walking on the Scilly Isles includes 11 day walks and 4 boat trips. The walks are between 1.5 and 10 miles long (2.5km and 16km), and explore the larger islands such as Tresco, St Martin’s, St Mary’s, St Agnes and Bryher as well as smaller islands in the archipelago.

Free Download RSPB Birds of the British Isles (RSPB) by Rebecca Nason
English | April 11th, 2024 | ISBN: 1399400835 | 272 pages | True EPUB | 65.15 MB
A pocket-friendly photographic field guide to 290 birds of the British Isles.

Free Download Divided Isles: Solomon Islands and the China Switch by Edward Acton Cavanough
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1760644196 | 304 pages | PDF | 5.20 Mb
A pacy must-read analysis of one of the most consequential geopolitical events in Australia’s region.

Free Download Michael Brown, "Bannockburn: The Scottish War and the British Isles 1307-1323"
English | ISBN: 0748633324 | 2008 | 216 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The battle of Bannockburn, fought on the fields south of Stirling at midsummer 1314, is the best known event in the history of Medieval Scotland. It was a unique event. The clash of two armies, each led by a king, followed a clear challenge to a battle to determine the status of Scotland. As a key point in the Anglo-Scottish wars of the fourteenth century, the battle has been extensively discussed, but Bannockburn was also a pivotal event in the history of the British Isles. This book analyses the road to Bannockburn, the campaign of 1314 and the aftermath of the fight. It demonstrates that in both its context and legacy the battle had a central significance in the shaping of nations and identities in the late Medieval British Isles.

Free Download Rosemary Parslow, "The Isles of Scilly"
English | 2012 | pages: 450 | ISBN: 0007448996 | EPUB | 7,7 mb
About 30 miles south-west of Land’s End is the low group of rocks and islands that form the Isles of Scilly. Mysterious, romantic and beautiful, they have long exercised the imagination of story tellers and historians. This edition is produced from an original copy by William Collins.