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Author | : Jackson Armstrong |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108472990 |
Explains the history of England's northern borderlands in the fifteenth century within a broader social, political and European context.
Author | : John Cecil Mann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : England, Northern |
ISBN | : 9780950076300 |
Author | : John C. Mann |
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Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : David John Breeze |
Publisher | : Batsford |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
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The northern frontier of Britain was the most distant of the Roman Empire. This book describes the frontiers constructed by the Roman army in north Britain in the first and second centuries AD and looks at their rationale and occupation through to the fifth century. Compte-rendu critique in Classics Ireland, Vol. 15, 2008, p. 81 & sq. : http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20799739?uid=3738016&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102646910177 ; & in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.03.17 : http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2008/2008-03-17.html.
Author | : Douglas Edward Leach |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : History |
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Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1804 |
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Author | : Charles E. Clark |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 480 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Frontier and pioneer life |
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Traces the early cultural and social development of the rough, lawless wilderness settlements of Maine and New Hampshire.
Author | : Alister Farquhar Matheson |
Publisher | : Troubador Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2014-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1783064420 |
The western coastal lands of the Northern Highlands are squeezed between the northern Hebrides and Drumalban, the mountainous spine of Highland Scotland. This is a region justly famed for some of the finest and most unspoilt scenery in the British Isles – but what happened here in times past? Scotland's Northwest Frontier provides the answer. For a long time, this area was a frontier zone between the medieval kingdoms of Norway and Scotland, and then between the Gaelic Lords of the Isles and the Scottish kings. In the 18th century, this remote seaboard was Britain’s ‘Afghanistan’, a dangerous region often beyond the control of London and Edinburgh. It was the last hiding place of Bonnie Prince Charlie before his escape to France after his Jacobite army had been crushed on Culloden Moor. A land of clans and lost causes, this is the story of powerful lords and warrior chiefs, Presbyterian soldiers of the Covenant and Hanoverian redcoats, Highland Clearances, road and railway builders, whisky smugglers and opium traders, from Viking times to the beginning of the 21st century. Scotland's Northwest Frontier is the entertaining story of what was for long a lawless region, followed through eight turbulent centuries. Backed by comprehensive appendices and glossary, this is one for the fireside, a travelling companion and an invaluable reference source for the bookshelf. Scotland's Northwest Frontier will appeal to those interested in Scottish history, and people who descend from Scottish clans and families.
Author | : Ruth Margaret Blakely |
Publisher | : Boydell Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781843831525 |
Survey of the activities of one of the most important cross-Border families, the ancestors of Robert the Bruce. Robert de Brus, the "conquisitor of Cleveland, Hartness and Annandale", who came into England among the followers of Henry I, was also a close companion and mentor of David I, king of Scots. The lands he acquired from bothkings were divided between his sons, from whom two lines descended: the lords of Skelton, influential Northerners who played an active part during the baronial troubles in the reigns of John and Henry III, and the prominent cross-Border lords of Annandale, co-heirs of the substantial Chester and Huntingdon estates and progenitors of King Robert Bruce. This study takes a fresh approach to the Brus family by assessing the achievements of the two lines in parallel while examining the extent of their power and the development of their lordships; it highlights the inter-relations between the barons of England and Scotland during two hundred years of comparative peace between the kingdoms. Of additional interest is the appendix of an extensive handlist of charters of the Brus family of both lines. It will be a welcome addition to the existing body of works on English baronial families and on Anglo-Scottish cross-Border lords of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Author | : Dennis W. Harding |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 113441787X |
The Iron Age in Northern Britain examines the impact of the Roman expansion northwards, and the native response to the Roman occupation on both sides of the frontiers. It traces the emergence of historically-recorded communities in the post-Roman period and looks at the clash of cultures between Celts and Romans, Picts and Scots. Northern Britain has too often been seen as peripheral to a 'core' located in south-eastern England. Unlike the Iron Age in southern Britain, the story of which can be conveniently terminated with the Roman conquest, the Iron Age in northern Britain has no such horizon to mark its end. The Roman presence in southern and eastern Scotland was militarily intermittent and left untouched large tracts of Atlantic Scotland for which there is a rich legacy of Iron Age settlement, continuing from the mid-first millennium BC to the period of Norse settlement in the late first millennium AD. Here D.W. Harding shows that northern Britain was not peripheral in the Iron Age: it simply belonged to an Atlantic European mainstream different from southern England and its immediate continental neighbours.