The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, Preserved at Welbeck Abbey: Harley letters and papers (vol. 4)

The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland, Preserved at Welbeck Abbey: Harley letters and papers (vol. 4)
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 442
Release: 1901
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Vol. 1 is a calendar of twenty-two volumes of the collection of state papers, 1628-1660, formed by Dr. John Nalson, canon of Ely; v.3-10 are calendars of the Harley manuscripts, mainly private and official papers and letters of Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford; v. 7 is a calendar of the letters written from 1710 to 1720 to Edward Harley, 2d earl of Oxford, by Dr. William Stratford, canon of Christ's Church, Oxford.

The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland

The Manuscripts of His Grace the Duke of Portland
Author: Great Britain. Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1907
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN:

Vol. 1 is a calendar of twenty-two volumes of the collection of state papers, 1628-1660, formed by Dr. John Nalson, canon of Ely; v.3-10 are calendars of the Harley manuscripts, mainly private and official papers and letters of Robert Harley, 1st earl of Oxford; v. 7 is a calendar of the letters written from 1710 to 1720 to Edward Harley, 2d earl of Oxford, by Dr. William Stratford, canon of Christ's Church, Oxford.

Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714

Opera and Politics in Queen Anne's Britain, 1705-1714
Author: Thomas McGeary
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2022-07-26
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: 1783277157

Explores the political meanings that Italian opera - its composers, agents and institutions - had for audiences in eighteenth-century Britain.

Noble Brutes

Noble Brutes
Author: Donna Landry
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 0801890284

This radical reinterpretation of Ottoman and Arab influences on horsemanship and breeding sheds new light on English national identity, as illustrated in such classic works as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and George Stubbs's portrait of Whistlejacket.