Hidden Wiltshire

Hidden Wiltshire
Author: Glyn Coy
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2018-10-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9780464742302

A photographic journey through some of the hidden parts of the Wiltshire countryside. Wiltshire is well known for its prehistoric places such as Stonehenge and Avebury, but Hidden Wiltshire captures some of the hidden gems in this largely rural, but historic county of England.

The Hidden Jane Austen

The Hidden Jane Austen
Author: John Wiltshire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2014-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1107061873

This book reveals Austen's unique ability to penetrate the hidden inner motives of her characters through compelling new readings of her novels.

Hidden Shakespeare

Hidden Shakespeare
Author: Nicholas Fogg
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 491
Release: 2012-05-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1445610302

Discover the true story behind the greatest writer who ever lived.

The Hidden Places of England

The Hidden Places of England
Author: Peter Long
Publisher: Travel Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 684
Release: 2004
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 9781904434122

England's landscape is as diverse as its culture. It is a country with magnificent landscapes. This guide looks at the more established places of interest throughout the country, but it also focuses on the more secluded and little known visitor attractions and places to stay, eat and drink.

Hidden Treasures

Hidden Treasures
Author: Kathleen Buckley
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2024-09-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1509257861

Allan Everard, an earl's illegitimate son, is dismissed from his employment at his father’s death but inherits a former coaching inn. Needing to make a new life in London, he begins by leasing the inn to a charity. Unexpectedly orphaned, Rosabel Stanbury and her younger sister are made wards of a distant, unknown cousin. Fearing his secretive ways and his intentions for them, Rosabel and Oriana flee to London where they are taken in by a women’s charity. Drawn into Rosabel's problems, with his inn under surveillance by criminals, Allan has only a handful of unlikely allies, including an elderly general, a burglar, and an old lady who knows criminal slang. A traditional romance.

Hidden Patrons

Hidden Patrons
Author: Amy Boyington
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2023-11-02
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1350358630

An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. History states that it was men who owned grand estates and houses, who commissioned famous architects, and who embarked upon elaborate architectural schemes. Hidden Patrons dismantles this myth - revealing instead that women were at the heart of the architectural patronage of the day, exerting far more influence and agency than has previously been recognised. Architectural drawing and design, discourse, and patronage were interests shared by many women in the eighteenth century. Far from being the preserve of elite men, architecture was a passion shared by both sexes, intellectually and practically, as long as they possessed sufficient wealth and autonomy. In an accessible, readable account, Hidden Patrons uncovers the role of women as important patrons and designers of architecture and interiors in eighteenth-century Britain and Ireland. Exploring country houses, Georgian townhouses, villas, estates, and gardens, it analyses female patronage from across the architectural spectrum, and examines the work of a range of pioneering women from grand duchesses to businesswomen to lowly courtesans. Re-examining well-known Georgian masterpieces alongside lesser-known architectural gems, Hidden Patrons unearths unseen archival material to provide a fascinating new view of the role of women in the architecture of the Georgian era.

Secret Britain

Secret Britain
Author: Mary-Ann Ochota
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2024-03-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 0711288852

In Secret Britain, join anthropologist and broadcaster Mary-Ann Ochota for a tour of more than 70 of Britain's most intriguing archaeological sites and artefacts.

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers

Cold War Secret Nuclear Bunkers
Author: Nick McCamley
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2013-05-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1844155080

"Nuclear Bunkers" tells the previously undisclosed story of the secret defence structures built by the West during the Cold War years. The book describes in fascinating detail a vast umbrella of radar stations that spanned the North American continent and the north Atlantic from the Aleutian islands through Canada to the North Yorkshire moors, all centred upon an enormous secret control centre buried hundreds of feet below Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado. This is complemented in the United Kingdom with a chain of secret radars codenamed 'Rotor' built in the early 1950's, and eight huge, inland sector control centres, built over 100' underground at enormous cost. The book reveals the various bunkers built for the U.S Administration, including the Raven Rock alternate war headquarters (the Pentagon's wartime hideout), the Greenbrier bunker for the Senate and House of Representatives, and the Mount Weather central government headquarters amongst others. Developments in Canada, including the Ottawa 'Diefenbunker' and the regional government bunkers are also studied. In the UK there were the London bunkers and the Regional War rooms built in the 1950's to protect against the Soviet threat, and their replacement in 1958 by much more hardened, underground Regional Seats of Government in the provinces, and the unique Central Government War Headquarters at Corsham. Also included in the UK coverage is the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation with its underground bunkers and observation posts, as well as the little known bunkers built by the various local authorities and by the public utilities. Finally the book examines the provision, (or more accurately, lack of provision), of shelter space for the general population, comparing the situation in the USA and the UK with some other European countries and with the Soviet Union.

Distilled

Distilled
Author: Rob DeSalle
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2022-01-01
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0300255152

An imaginative natural history survey of the wide world of spirits, from whiskey and gin to grappa and moonshine In this follow-up book to A Natural History of Wine and A Natural History of Beer, authors Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall yet again use alcoholic beverages as a lens through which to gain a greater appreciation of natural history. This volume considers highly alcoholic spirits in the context of evolution, ecology, history, primatology, molecular biology, physiology, neurobiology, chemistry, and even astrophysics. With the help of illustrator Patricia Wynne, DeSalle and Tattersall address historical and cultural aspects and ingredients, the distillation process, and spirits and their effects. They also call on an international group of colleagues to contribute chapters on brandy, vodka, tequila, whiskies, gin, rum, eaux-de-vie, schnapps, baiju, grappa, ouzo, and cachaça. Covering beverages from across the globe and including descriptions of the experience of tasting each drink, this book offers an accessible and comprehensive exploration of the scientific dimensions of spirits.

Eight Women of Faith

Eight Women of Faith
Author: Michael A. G. Haykin
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016-07-18
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 143354895X

Read the Stories of Eight Remarkable Women and Their Vital Contributions to Church History Throughout history, women have been crucial to the growth and flourishing of the church. Historian Michael A. G. Haykin highlights the lives of eight of these women who changed the course of history, showing how they lived out their unique callings despite challenges and opposition—inspiring modern men and women to imitate their godly examples today. Jane Grey: The courageous Protestant martyr who held fast to her conviction that salvation is by faith alone even to the point of death. Anne Steele: The great hymn writer whose work continues to help the church worship in song today. Margaret Baxter: The faithful wife to pastor Richard Baxter who met persecution with grace and joy. Esther Edwards Burr: The daughter of Jonathan Edwards whose life modeled biblical friendship. Anne Dutton: The innovative author whose theological works left a significant literary legacy. Ann Judson: The wife of Adoniram Judson and pioneer missionary in the American evangelical missions movement. Sarah Edwards: The wife of Jonathan Edwards and model of sincere delight in Christ. Jane Austen: The prolific novelist with a deep and sincere Christian faith that she expressed in her stories.