A chapter from the equally excellent and lucid “The Pilgrimage of Grace” by Geoffrey Moorhouse was also very helpful. The landowners and gentry of the day had the unenviable task of trying to defuse the situation and prevent the rebels ...
With additional information about the history of the cemetery and Memorial, along with maps, historic photos, lore, a complete index of burials, and advice about how to respectfully document these sites, this book is ideal for visitors, ...
If Stones Could Speak: Echoes from the Past
These stories, including dozens of oral histories, consecrate the collected lives of a minority Black community in a predominantly White region, a pattern of community that reflects a larger, deeply important but typically overlooked ...
If this book enthuses just one person to forge ahead to uncover new information to allow “The Stones to Speak,” then I will be satisfied.
Past 64: 4-5. Lynch, F. 1975. Excavations at Carreg Samson, Mathry, Pembrokeshire. Archaeologia Cambrensis 124: 15-35. Lynch, F. and Musson, C. 2004. A prehistoric and early medieval complex at Llandegai, near Bangor, north Wales.
In exploring the stories of these buildings that are still so much a part of the landscape, the details of their design, the treasured objects that are housed within them, the people who once stood in their pulpits and those who sat in ...
Stonehenge—A New Understanding rewrites the story. From 2003 to 2009, author Mike Parker Pearson led the Stonehenge Riverside Project, the most comprehensive excavation ever conducted around Stonehenge.
"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world." — Kirkus Reviews Here, in this compelling ...
This amazing true story about problem-solving, community, and real-life heroes is made kid-friendly by veteran nonfiction writer Elaine Scott. It will inspire for years to come.
This book looks at the ancient Egyptian leaders the pyramids were built for, the challenges that the designers and builders would have faced, and modern theories of the construction methods that might have been used.