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The Social Life of Coffee
Author | : Brian Cowan |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2008-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300133502 |
What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.
The Great Post Office Scandal
Author | : Nick Wallis |
Publisher | : Bath Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 511 |
Release | : 2021-11-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1838439056 |
The Great Post Office Scandal is the extraordinary story behind the recent ITV drama series Mr Bates vs The Post Office. This gripping page-turner recounts how thousands of subpostmasters were accused of theft and false accounting on the back of evidence from Horizon, the flawed computer system designed by Fujitsu, and how a group of them, led by Alan Bates, took their fight to the High Court. Their eventual victory in court vindicated their claims about the defects of the software and exposed the heavy handed attempts by the Post Office to suppress them. The book also chronicles how successive senior managers, business leaders, lawyers, civil servants and Government ministers, at best failed to expose the injustice or, even worse, sought to cover it up, resulting in one of the largest miscarriages of justice in UK history. The author, Nick Wallis, is a journalist and broadcaster who has been reporting on the scandal for over ten years and who acted as script consultant on Mr Bates vs The Post Office, the ITV drama that brought the affair into the national consciousness. As the public inquiry reaches its climax, and senior figures such as Paula Vennells come to be questioned, The Great Post Office Scandal reveals the full scale of what happened and will leave you enraged at how so many of our trusted institutions allowed the saga to go on for nearly a quarter of a century, shattering the lives of thousands of innocent people.
Julia Margaret Cameron's Women
Author | : Sylvia Wolf |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 0300077815 |
Profiles the life and work of a nineteenth century pioneer of photography and offers a selection of her portraits of women
Memoirs of the Embassy of the Marshal de Bassompierre to the Court of England in 1626
Author | : François de Bassompierre |
Publisher | : London : J. Murray |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : France |
ISBN | : |
The Red Cockade
Author | : Stanley John Weyman |
Publisher | : London Longmans, Green 1895. |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : |
Adventures during the French Revolution as related by an aristocrat in sympathy with the people.
Defenders of the Norman Crown
Author | : Sharon Bennett Connolly |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword History |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2021-07-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526745305 |
A history of one of medieval England’s most powerful families, from its origins in Normandy to its demise during the reign of Edward III. In the reign of Edward I, when asked Quo Warranto—by what warrant he held his lands—John de Warenne, the 6th earl of Surrey, is said to have drawn a rusty sword, claiming “My ancestors came with William the Bastard, and conquered their lands with the sword, and I will defend them with the sword against anyone wishing to seize them.” John’s ancestor, William de Warenne, 1st Earl of Surrey, fought for William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. He was rewarded with enough land to make him one of the richest men of all time. In his search for a royal bride, the 2nd earl kidnapped the wife of a fellow baron. The 3rd earl died on crusade, fighting for his royal cousin, Louis VII of France . . . For three centuries, the Warennes were at the heart of English politics at the highest level, until one unhappy marriage brought an end to the dynasty. The family moved in the highest circles, married into royalty and were not immune to scandal. Defenders of the Norman Crown tells the fascinating story of the Warenne dynasty, of the successes and failures of one of the most powerful families in England, from its origins in Normandy, through the Conquest, Magna Carta, the wars and marriages that led to its ultimate demise in the reign of Edward III. Praise for Defenders of the Norman Crown “In this book Sharon not only provides the reader with a deep insight into the whole Warenne dynasty, but also opens a window into a turbulent period of English history.” —Aspects of History “A riveting insight into the rise and fall of the most influential family you’d otherwise never have heard of. . . . 5/5.” —HistoriaMag “Sharon Bennett Connolly’s detailed, meticulous research brings together a wealth of sources to give the reader a fascinating view of one of the powerful families on which the Crown depended for centuries. Politics and power, Marriages and mistresses, Lordship and land, Defenders of the Norman Crown has it all. [Connolly] has written a very fine book indeed—I loved it.” —Elizabeth Chadwick, bestselling author of historical fiction “A vivid portrayal of a powerful aristocratic family. . . . A highly readable and well-illustrated survey.” —Michael Jones, author of The Black Prince
Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author | : John Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 46 |
Release | : 1776 |
Genre | : Constitutional history |
ISBN | : |