The Britannias An Archipelago S Tale
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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.
Longlisted for the Ondaatje Prize and the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Stanford Travel Writing Award “A dazzlingly brilliant book.” —Hannah Dawson, editor of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing 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.
The Britannias
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Author : Alice Albinia
language : en
Publisher: Particular Books
Release Date : 2023-10-19
The Britannias written by Alice Albinia and has been published by Particular Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with categories.
The Britannias
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Author : Alice Albinia
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2023-10-19
The Britannias written by Alice Albinia and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with History categories.
SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A dazzlingly brilliant book' Hannah Dawson 'Fascinating, often exhilarating ... Albinia is an intrepid, imaginative guide' TLS The Britannias tells the story of Britain's islands and how they are woven into its collective cultural psyche. From Neolithic Orkney to modern-day Thanet, Alice Albinia explores the furthest reaches of Britain's island topography, once known (wrote Pliny) by the collective term, Britanniae. Sailing over borders, between languages and genres, trespassing through the past to understand the present, this book knocks the centre out to foreground neglected epics and subversive voices. The ancient mythology of islands ruled by women winds through the literature of the British Isles - from Roman colonial-era reports, to early Irish poetry, Renaissance drama to Restoration utopias - transcending and subverting the most male-fixated of ages. The Britannias looks far back into the past for direction and solace, while searching for new meaning about women's status in the body politic. Boldly upturning established truths about Britain, it pays homage to the islands' beauty, independence and their suppressed or forgotten histories.
Island Stories
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Author : Raphael Samuel
language : en
Publisher: Verso
Release Date : 1999-07
Island Stories written by Raphael Samuel and has been published by Verso this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-07 with History categories.
Island Stories looks at the multiplicity of myths that issue from the 4 nations that make up Great Britain. His perspective brings new meaning to the idea of history revealing how nations use their past to give meaning to their present and future.
Coast Our Island Story
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Author : Nicholas Crane
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2010-10-31
Coast Our Island Story written by Nicholas Crane and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-31 with Art categories.
Along our shores, towering cliffs from the age of the dinosaurs rise beside wide estuaries teeming with wildlife, while Victorian ports share waterfronts with imposing fortifications. And the people who have lived, worked and played on this spectacular coast - from Stone Age fishermen to seafarers, chart-makers and surfers - have an incredible tale to tell. Coast: Our Island Story is an enthralling account, sparkling with geography, history, adventure and eccentric characters, told with Nick Crane's trademark charisma and wit.
Our Island Story
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Author : H.E. Marshall
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2008-12-22
Our Island Story written by H.E. Marshall and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-22 with History categories.
Just over a century ago, Our Island Story entranced a nation's children by telling their history in stories. Short, simply written chapters, packed with living characters and thrilling action - and illustrated with vivid colour pictures - illuminate all the main events from Britain's earliest days to the end of Victoria's reign. And its glorious fusion of myth and legend with sober fact - Canute and King Arthur with Cromwell and the Indian Mutiny - is as seductive now as it ever was. 'I was given H.E. Marshall's Our Island Story at Christmas 1936 and I've still got that copy. It was a direct inspiration for me in my career as a historian' Antonia Fraser 'It is written in a way that really captured my imagination and which nurtured my interest in the history of our great nation' David Cameron 'One of the most influential works of history of the 20th century' Times Educational Supplement
The Story Of Holy Island
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Author : Kate Tristram
language : en
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Release Date : 2013-01-03
The Story Of Holy Island written by Kate Tristram and has been published by Canterbury Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-03 with Religion categories.
From its misty beginnings as part of the mainland in the Stone Age, this history covers Lindisfarne's formation as an island, the Roman and Anglo-Saxon eras, the influence of Columba and Iona, Lindisfarne's own apostle, Bede and the monastic tradition, the coming of the Vikings, the Benedictine years and the dissolution of the monasteries.
Empires Of The Indus
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Author : Alice Albinia
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-06-21
Empires Of The Indus written by Alice Albinia and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-21 with History categories.
The Indus rises in Tibet, flows west across India, and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion. Empires of the Indus follows the river upstream and back in time, taking the reader on a voyage through two thousand miles of geography and more than five thousand years of history redolent with contemporary importance.
King Arthur And The Battle For Britannia
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Author : Tony Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Release Date : 2024-07-30
King Arthur And The Battle For Britannia written by Tony Sullivan and has been published by Pen and Sword History this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-30 with Social Science categories.
King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books. The first, King Arthur: Man or Myth, weighed the evidence for and against a historical figure. The second, The Battles of King Arthur, looked in detail at the famous battle list from the Historia Brittonum. Having looked at the questions of whether and where, this final book takes on the different question of who was Arthur? The book is intended to save readers time and money wading through the scores of competing theories. It explains the problems with many of these theories to date, their failure to gain widespread support and why many historians remain sceptical about the existence of a historical Arthur. There is however a reasonable consistency in medieval genealogies and a good reason why Arthur does not appear in any of the list of kings of early kingdoms. Instead he is placed in the context of a fragmenting post-Roman provincial structure, alongside the emergence of petty kingdoms with new cultural identities. A heroic Brythonic culture in the west and north and a Germanic culture in the east and south. The book looks at the evolution of the legend comparing the chivalric French Romances with the Arthur of the darker Welsh tradition. A mythical figure may have emerged from the mead halls and war band culture of the sixth century. However the book describes how a historical figure may have been mythologised and who such a warrior may have been.
Things New And Old Or Stories From English History Standard 1 7 With Scholar S Companion
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Author : Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Things New And Old Or Stories From English History Standard 1 7 With Scholar S Companion written by Hugh Oakeley Arnold-Forster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with categories.