Britannia's Dragon
Title | Britannia's Dragon PDF eBook |
Author | J.D. Davies |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 409 |
Release | 2013-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752494104 |
Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy’s suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.
Britannia's Dragon
Title | Britannia's Dragon PDF eBook |
Author | J.D. Davies |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 419 |
Release | 2013-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752494104 |
Based on extensive research, The Naval History of Wales tells a compelling story that spans nearly 2,000 years, from the Romans to the present. Many Welsh men and women have served in the Royal Navy and the navies of other countries. Welshmen played major parts in voyages of exploration, in the navy's suppression of the slave trade, and in naval warfare from the Viking era to the Spanish Armada, in the American Civil War, both world wars and the Falklands War. Comprehensive, enlightening, and provocative, The Naval History of Wales also explodes many myths about Welsh history, naval historian J.D. Davies arguing that most Welshmen in the sailing navy were volunteers and that, relative to the size of national populations, proportionately more Welsh seamen than English fought at Trafalgar. Written in vivid detail, this volume is one that no maritime or Welsh historian can do without.
The Naval History of Wales
Title | The Naval History of Wales PDF eBook |
Author | J D. DAVIES |
Publisher | History Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-10 |
Genre | Wales |
ISBN | 9781803994857 |
A compelling and entertaining history of Welsh naval history
Britannia - The Failed State
Title | Britannia - The Failed State PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart Laycock |
Publisher | The History Press |
Total Pages | 284 |
Release | 2012-05-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0752487655 |
Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British tribal rivalries from the pre-Roman period, through the Roman period and into the post-Roman period. It shows how tribal conflict was central to the arrival of Roman power in Britain and how tribal identities persisted through the Roman period and were a factor in three great convulsions that struck Britain during the Roman centuries. It explores how tribal conflicts may have played a major role in the end of Roman Britain, creating a 'failed state' scenario akin in some ways to those seen recently in Bosnia and Iraq, and brought about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Finally, it considers how British tribal territories and British tribal conflicts can be understood as the direct predecessors of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Anglo-Saxon conflicts that form the basis of early English History.
People, Places and Passions
Title | People, Places and Passions PDF eBook |
Author | Russell Davies |
Publisher | University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | 502 |
Release | 2015-06-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1783162384 |
The first of two volumes on the social history of Wales in the period 1870–1948, People, Places and Passions concentrates on the social events and changes which created and forged Wales into the mid-twentieth century. This volume considers a range of social changes little considered elsewhere by studies in Welsh history, accounting for the role played by the people of Wales in times of war and the age of the British Empire, and in technological change and innovation, as they travelled the developing capitalist and consumerist world in search of fame and fortune.
British place-names in their historical setting
Title | British place-names in their historical setting PDF eBook |
Author | E. McClure |
Publisher | Рипол Классик |
Total Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1177632063 |
The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock: Britannia's pastorals. Book III. The shepherd's pipe. The Inner Temple masque. Miscellaneous poems. Notes. Index of names
Title | The Poems of William Browne of Tavistock: Britannia's pastorals. Book III. The shepherd's pipe. The Inner Temple masque. Miscellaneous poems. Notes. Index of names PDF eBook |
Author | William Browne |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 1894 |
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