Brunt Boggart

Brunt Boggart
Author: David Greygoose
Publisher: Pushkin Children's Books
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 178269210X

A unique novel comprised of a cycle of beautiful and mysterious fantasy folk tales which combine to tell an unforgettable story This is a book like no other: a magical tapestry of folk tales, woven together to build a world that is as strange yet familiar as a half-remembered dream. It is an old world, a world of enchanted corn dollies and wild dances in poppy fields, a world of tricksters, lovers and fools. Through this world, Greychild must journey in search of his mother: from the village of Brunt Boggart, down the treacherous Pedlar Man's track, all the way to distant Arleccra, a city of treasures and temptation. If you follow him, a part of you will never come back.

Black Angel

Black Angel
Author: Conrad Jones
Publisher: Andrews UK Limited
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-10-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1783333324

When Conrad Jones helps the police identify an occultist symbol carved into the chest of a murder victim, he attracts the attention of a Satanic cult who believe themselves to be human vampires. He writes a book about them exposing how far reaching their influence is and they desperately want to silence him. Hunted by the cult and by the law, he has no choice but to become the hunter…. A gritty, violent thriller based on recent true events.

Liverpool: A Landscape History

Liverpool: A Landscape History
Author: Martin Greaney
Publisher: The History Press
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2013-06-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0752493868

The landscape has had a huge impact on the history of Liverpool and Merseyside. The ice age glaciers carved out the Rivers Mersey and Dee; the Sefton coast provided a perfect place for the earliest humans to hunt and gather food; and the Pool and the Mersey, and England’s position on the coast gave King John the perfect base from which to launch his Irish campaigns.This book explores the landscapes from these earliest times, and charts the changing city right through to the present day. It explains why Liverpool looks the way it does today, and how clues in the modern landscape reveal details of its long history. You’ll see how the landscape created Liverpool, and how in turn Liverpool recreated the landscape.

In Search of Vikings

In Search of Vikings
Author: Stephen E. Harding
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2014-12-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482207591

The Viking Age lasted a little over three centuries, but has left a lasting legacy across Europe. These dynamic warrior-traders from Scandinavia, who fought and interacted with peoples as far apart as North America, Russia, and Central Asia, are some of the most recognizable historical figures in the western world. In the modern imagination they re

Feeding the Roman Army

Feeding the Roman Army
Author: Richard Thomas
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2008-04-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1782975268

These ten papers from two Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference (2007) sessions bring together a growing body of new archaeological evidence in an attempt to reconsider the way in which the Roman army was provisioned. Clearly, the adequate supply of food was essential to the success of the Roman military. But what was the nature of those supply networks? Did the army rely on imperial supply lines from the continent, as certainly appears to be the case for some commodities, or were provisions requisitioned from local agricultural communities? If the latter was the case, was unsustainable pressure placed on such resources and how did local communities respond? Alternatively, did the early stages of conquest include not only the development of a military infrastructure, but also an effective supply-chain network based on contracts? Beyond the initial stages of conquest, how were provisioning arrangements maintained in the longer term, did supply chains remain static or did they change over time and, if so, what precipitated those changes? Addressing such questions is critical if we are to understand the nature of Roman conquest and the extent of interaction between indigenous communities and the Roman army. Case studies come from Roman Britain (Alchester, Cheshire, Dorset), France, the Netherlands and the Rhine Delta, looking at evidence from animal products, military settlements, the size of cattle, horses, pottery and salt. The editors also provide a review of current research and suggest a future agenda for economic and environmental research.

Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest

Lancashire: Liverpool and the Southwest
Author: Richard Pollard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 842
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780300109108

This book is based on sections of Nikolaus Pevsner's 'South Lancashire' and 'North Lancashire', both published in 1969"--acknowledgements.

Coal in Roman Britain

Coal in Roman Britain
Author: John Robert Travis
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN:

Coal has often been considered unimportant to the economy of Roman Britain, and not something that was deliberately mined. This study, based on growing archaeological evidence aims to overturn this view. Travis centres his research on Yorkshire, Derbyshire and Lancashire, tracing coal from these coalfields further afield, and finding that, in the case of Yorkshire and Derbyshire it was transported much further than has often been assumed. Lancashire presents a different case, and Travis posits that the coal was used primarily locally in industry controlled by the military.