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  • The Great Flood of 1607
    Barb Drummond
    On the morning of 20 January 1607, huge areas of South Wales and South West England were flooded. In the wake of the Asian disaster of 2004, the disaster was thought to be a tsunami, but this has been disproved. Contemporary prints show humans clinging to trees, and with animals, struggling in the waters.Broadsheets survive which show people and animals bobbing about in the wat...
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    22,76 €

  • Bristol History Walks
    Barb Drummond
    This book is both an introduction to the history of the city and a guide to exploring its many historic sites. Much of the history described is unusual and all is clearly explained.Each chapter covers a specific theme, with instructions and maps. Each walk can be done as a single walk, but many can be done in series to extend the range. Instructions are provided on access and t...
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    15,72 €

  • The Midas of Manumission
    Barb Drummond
    Samuel Gist was born in Bristol in the early eighteenth century. He was soon orphaned and educated in Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, a local charity school. Apprenticed to a former mayor, he was sent to Virginia to learn the tobacco trade. He was involved with George Washington and Anthony Bacon in the Great Dismal Swamp Company, formed to drain the region but was the only one...
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    23,62 €

  • Mr Bridges’ Enlightenment Machine
    Barb Drummond
    In 1733 Mr Henry Bridges announced his Microcosm or Little World was on display in Waltham Abbey then toured Britain and the American colonies. It was a giant four tiered machine which demonstrated his world at the time, with the finest art, technology, architecture, music and astronomy. Henry’s story shows the links between religion, magic, science and cabinets of curiosities....
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    23,92 €

  • The Midas of Manumission
    Barb Drummond
    Samuel Gist was born in Bristol in the early eighteenth century but was soon orphaned and sent to Virginia as an apprenticed. Despite this unpromising start, he returned to Britain already a successful merchant, a tobacco trader and owned ships and slaves; when he returned to Britain he thrived as insurance broker. When he died in 1815 he left legacies to many charities, but al...
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    21,02 €

  • Frolicksome Women & Troublesome Wives
    Barb Drummond
    In the late 18th century, the French claimed an Englishman tired of his wife could dispose of her at Smithfield’s beast market. Examples can be found scattered through press records. Some were, as often claimed, brutal, sometimes drunken affairs. But they varied widely over time, place, and practice. England was the only Protestant nation to retain its pre-reformation marriage ...
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    20,70 €