Clockmakers of Britain, 1286-1700

Clockmakers of Britain, 1286-1700
Author: Brian Loomes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014-09
Genre: Clock and watch makers
ISBN: 9780955446078

This important new biographical reference source details all the known information about every recorded clockmaker, watchmaker and others working in the horological trades in the British Isles born before 1700. This book includes 6,230 makers, as well as their known apprentices or journeymen. Much of this information is presented for the first time and is not available elsewhere. References are given to detailed articles about particular clockmakers.

Wales

Wales
Author: William Linnard
Publisher:
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2003
Genre: Clock and watch makers
ISBN: 9780954052553

Potts of Leeds

Potts of Leeds
Author: Michael S. Potts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: Clock and watch makers
ISBN: 9780952327080

When Scotland Was Jewish

When Scotland Was Jewish
Author: Elizabeth Caldwell Hirschman
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2015-05-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786455225

The popular image of Scotland is dominated by widely recognized elements of Celtic culture. But a significant non-Celtic influence on Scotland's history has been largely ignored for centuries? This book argues that much of Scotland's history and culture from 1100 forward is Jewish. The authors provide evidence that many of the national heroes, villains, rulers, nobles, traders, merchants, bishops, guild members, burgesses, and ministers of Scotland were of Jewish descent, their ancestors originating in France and Spain. Much of the traditional historical account of Scotland, it is proposed, rests on fundamental interpretive errors, perpetuated in order to affirm Scotland's identity as a Celtic, Christian society. A more accurate and profound understanding of Scottish history has thus been buried. The authors' wide-ranging research includes examination of census records, archaeological artifacts, castle carvings, cemetery inscriptions, religious seals, coinage, burgess and guild member rolls, noble genealogies, family crests, portraiture, and geographic place names.