Westminster Diary: Volume 2 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Westminster Diary: Volume 2 write by Bernard Donoughue. This book was released on 2017-10-30. Westminster Diary: Volume 2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. As New Labour's first period of government picks up steam, we find Bernard Donoughue working as a minister at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food. In this, the second volume of Donoughue's House of Lords diaries, he chronicles his experiences - often frustrating, often hilarious - serving in the early years of Blair's government, as he attempts to modernise MAFF by expanding its interests more broadly in rural affairs. It outlines Donoughue's role in the EU's agricultural policy, including as the UK minister at the Agriculture Council as well as his unofficial role in the lead-up to the Good Friday agreement. As with all Donoughue's diaries, the book sheds a spotlight on the daily trials and tribulations of life in Westminster, told with trademark waspish wit, insight and humour.
A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature
A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature write by Alfred Cotgreave. This book was released on 1900. A Contents-subject Index to General and Periodical Literature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Horses, Power and Place
Horses, Power and Place - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Horses, Power and Place write by Neil Ward. This book was released on 2023-12-05. Horses, Power and Place available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Horses, Power and Place explores the evolution of humanity’s relationship with horses, from early domestication through to the use of the horse as a draught animal, an agricultural, industrial and military asset, and an animal of sport and leisure. Taking an historical approach, and using Britain as a case study, this is the first book-length exploration of the horse in the more-than-human geography of a nation. It traces the role and implications of horse-based mobility for the evolution of settlement structure, urban morphology and the rural landscape. It maps the growth and various uses of horses to the point of ‘peak horse’ in the early twentieth century before considering the contemporary place of the horse in twenty-first century economy and society. It assesses the role of the horse in the formation of places within Britain and in the formation of the nation. The book reflects on the implications of this historical and contemporary equine geography for animal geographies and animal studies. It argues for the study of animals in general in how places are made, not just by humans. Written in a clear and accessible style, this book will be essential reading for students and scholars of animal geography and animal studies more widely.
Fonthill Recovered
Fonthill Recovered - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fonthill Recovered write by Caroline Dakers. This book was released on 2018-05-16. Fonthill Recovered available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.
Electing Our Masters
Electing Our Masters - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Electing Our Masters write by Jon Lawrence. This book was released on 2009-03-26. Electing Our Masters available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An engaging history of electioneering in Britain from the eighteenth century to the present, highlighting how the television age has altered the interaction of politicians and public and asking what the media must now do to reinvigorate public politics.
