Britannia S Daughters
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Britannia S Daughters
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Author : Joanna Trollope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
Britannia S Daughters written by Joanna Trollope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with categories.
Daughters Of Britannia
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Author : Katie Hickman
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2000
Daughters Of Britannia written by Katie Hickman and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Verlagsinfo: In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history. Drawing on letters, private journals, and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history, Katie Hickman explores not only the public pomp and glamour of diplomatic life but also the most intimate, private face of this most fascinating and mysterious world. Touching on the lives of nearly 100 diplomatic wives (as well as sisters and daughters), Daughters of Britannia is a brilliant and compelling account of more than three centuries of British diplomacy as seen through the eyes of some of its most intrepid but least heralded participants.
Britannias S Daughters
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Author : Joanna Trollope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Britannias S Daughters written by Joanna Trollope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Great Britain categories.
Britannia S Daughters
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Author : Ursula Stuart Mason
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Release Date : 2012-06-19
Britannia S Daughters written by Ursula Stuart Mason and has been published by Pen and Sword this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with History categories.
The Womens Royal Naval Service was formed in 1917 when the call was for volunteers to release a man for sea service. At the peak there was over 5,000 women serving in Britain and overseas, but efforts to maintain the service in peace time were unsuccessful, and it was to be 1939, when the Second World War threatened, before the Wrens were reformed. Theirs was a different and altogether more demanding role which involved the carrying out of some highly secret and responsible duties, and many more of them served outside Britain. By 1945 there were over 75,000 officers and ratings and when the War ended, and those who wished were demobilized, a permanent Service was set up, providing a career for women alongside men of the Royal Navy. This is their story, often told in their own words, which mirrors the changing place of women in our society in a century of tremendous social progress.
Britannia S Palette
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Author : Nicholas Tracy
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2007
Britannia S Palette written by Nicholas Tracy and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Britannia's Palette looks at the lives of British artists who witnessed the naval war against the French Republic and Empire between 1793 and 1815. This band of brothers, through their artistic and entrepreneurial efforts, established the images of the war at sea that were central to the understanding their contemporaries had of events - images that endure to this day. In this unprecedented book, Nicholas Tracy reveals the importance of the self-employed artist to the study of a nation at war. He includes lively accounts of serving officers, retired sailors, and academy-trained artists who, often under the threat of debtor's prison, struggled to balance the standards of art with the public desire for heroic, reassuring images. Containing over eighty illustrations, Britannia's Palette explores a varied and exciting collection of paintings that reveal the poignancy of the human experience of war.
The Britannias An Archipelago S Tale
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Author : Alice Albinia
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2024-02-27
The Britannias An Archipelago S Tale written by Alice Albinia and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-27 with History categories.
A revelatory portrait of Britain through its islands, The Britannias weaves history, myth, and travelogue to rewrite the story of this “island nation.” From Neolithic Orkney, Viking Shetland, and Druidical Anglesey to the joys and strangeness of modern Thanet, The Britannias explores the farthest reaches of Britain’s island topography, once known by the collective term “Britanniae” (the Britains). This expansive journey demonstrates how the smaller islands have wielded disproportionate influence on the mainland, becoming the fertile ground of political, cultural, and technological innovations that shaped history throughout the archipelago. In an act of feminist inquiry, personal adventure, and literary quest, Alice Albinia embarks on a series of journeys that traverse Britain and reach beyond its contemporary borders—from Europe to the Caribbean, Ireland to Scandinavia. She walks the coastlines of Lindisfarne, sails through the Hebrides archipelago, and bikes into Westminster at dawn. As she takes us across extravagantly varied island topographies and surveys centuries of history, Albinia ranges between languages and genres, and through disparate island cultures. She talks to stubbornly independent islanders and searches for archaeological and linguistic traces of island identities, discovering distinct traditions and resistance to mainland control. Trespassing into the past to understand the present, The Britannias uncovers an enduring and subversive mythology of islands ruled by women. Albinia finds female independence woven through Roman colonial reports and Welsh medieval poetry, Restoration utopias and island folk songs. These neglected epics offer fierce feminist countercurrents to mainstream narratives of British identity and shed new light on women’s status in the body politic today. Vivid, perceptive, and disruptive, The Britannias boldly upturns established truths about Britain while revealing its suppressed and forgotten beauty.
Britannia S Children
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Author : Eric Richards
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2004-05-14
Britannia S Children written by Eric Richards and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-14 with History categories.
The stories behind the mass exodus from Great Brittan from 1600 to modern times
Britannia S Navy On The West Coast Of North America 1812 1914
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Author : Barry Gough
language : en
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
Release Date : 2016
Britannia S Navy On The West Coast Of North America 1812 1914 written by Barry Gough and has been published by Heritage House Publishing Co this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with History categories.
"[Gough's] research...has been thorough, his presentation is scholarly, and his case fully sustained."--The Times Literary Supplement The influence of the Royal Navy on the development of British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest was both effective and extensive. Yet all too frequently, its impact has been ignored by historians, who instead focus on the influence of explorers, fur traders, settlers, and railway builders. In this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of his classic 1972 work, naval historian Barry Gough examines the contest for the Columbia country during the War of 1812, the 1844 British response to President Polk's manifest destiny and cries of "Fifty-four forty or fight," the gold-rush invasion of 30, 000 outsiders, and the jurisdictional dispute in the San Juan Islands that spawned the Pig War. The author looks at the Esquimalt-based fleet in the decade before British Columbia joined Canada and the Navy's relationship with coastal First Nation over the five decades that preceded the Great War.
Britannia S Glory
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Author : Emily Hamer
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2016-10-06
Britannia S Glory written by Emily Hamer and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-06 with Social Science categories.
This title traces the lives of individual lesbians against the background of the politics and history of the 20th century, and shows the infinite variety of ways in which lesbians made their lives in Britain. This history has relevance to contemporary life and politics within the lesbian community. British lesbians have a long tradition of diversity, of action, of success and of pride, which is documented here.
Gender Religion And The Heathen Lands
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Author : Maina Chawla Singh
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-31
Gender Religion And The Heathen Lands written by Maina Chawla Singh and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-31 with Political Science categories.
Seeking to extend existing scholarship on gender and colonialism and on women and American religion, this cross-cultural study examines the work of American missionary women in South Asia at several levels. A primary concern of the study is to historicize the interventions of these women and situate them within the dual contexts of the sending society and the receiving culture. It focuses on missionaries Isabella Thoburn and Ida Scudder, who founded some of the premier women's colleges and hospitals in British colonial India. The book also draws upon the narratives and reminiscences of South Asian women, now in their seventies, who attended such institutions in the 1940s, and whose voices texture our understanding of American women's missionary work in "Other" cultures.