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This book draws on the long and unique heritage of the county of Somerset, bringing to life seventy of the little known but fascinating and unusual aspects of a much-loved county. It tells, in a single volume, tales of body-snatchers and bewitchment; crime and conflict; lepers and lighthouses; songs...

Short visits to Laugharne,Tenby, Pontardawe, Pembrokeshire, and Glamorgan respectively. This is my short memoir of a truncated visit to the aforementioned towns and counties of South Wales in December 2013.

   An invitation to visit South Wales during a warm week in the middle of the winter for a free holiday was too much an offer to refuse. A hike about the small town of Neyland, situated dead opposite Pembroke Dock, was a great relief from the rat race that is Birmingham. This a short journal of my visit on the south coast of the magnificent country that is Wales. 

A short journal of an early September week that I spent at the Lizard Peninsula on the Southern Coast of Cornwall, the most southerly point on British mainland. Here I make visits to Falmouth, Helston, and many more nearby places of interest that are close to 'Sea Acres Holiday Park where I was visiting.  

A week in the pleasant village of St Minver, Cornwall in September 2013. As a hardened rambler, I found the public footpaths and bridleways a plethora in abundance for my feet to get carried away with expansive scenery that I find emotionally breath taking. Visits to Port Isaac, Port Quin, Padstow...

A travel guide on where to go and what to do if you are on a vacation on the North West Coast of the English Riviera. Like most of rural Britain, Cornwall is a ramblers paradise, and the coastal views are a tremendous and welcomed break from the dilapidation of the concrete jungles of a metropolitan...

This volume advances scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period through a series of interlocking essays on single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates key themes in the history of the Catholic...

Franklin was first established in 1796 as a sleepy collection of cabins along the beautiful Great Miami River. When the Miami Canal came through the village in 1829, and the railroad followed in the 1870s, many new industries came to the area, and the downtown filled with fine brick and stone residences,...

Striking the Hornets’ Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy’s most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world’s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy’s aviation activities...

A study of the aesthetics of the masculine novel of saction and the romance form in the period 1875- 1905

This novel is a work of ‘faction’, that means it is a combination of fact and fiction.  Any similarity to incidents, events, famous personalities, or places in this book is either intentional, or otherwise haphazardly the product of the author’s imagination, so to speak.  Resemblances to actual...

A survey of the history of musical theater in the United States. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

In the heart of the Hamptons, located on the South Fork of eastern Long Island, is the community of Hampton Bays, which was founded long ago as Good Ground. As the name implies, the area was settled because of the fertile land and the plentiful fish and shellfish found in the surrounding bays and inlets....

Initially settled in 1777 within the town of Gilmanton, Gilford became incorporated on June 16, 1812. Gilford is different from surrounding towns because it originated as a farming settlement, with pastures being cleared as early as 1762. The construction of the Lake Shore Railroad brought many tourists,...