Narrow your search
Listing 1 - 9 of 9
Sort by

Book
Elizabeth Gaskell : a habit of stories
Author:
ISBN: 0571151825 Year: 1993 Publisher: London Faber and Faber


Book
George Eliot
Author:
ISBN: 0860684008 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Virago Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

A little history of British gardening
Author:
ISBN: 0701169281 Year: 2004 Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This lively 'potted' history of gardening in Britain takes us on a garden tour from the thorn hedges around prehistoric settlements to the rage for decking and ornamental grasses today. It tracks down the ordinary folk who worked the earth - the apprentice boys and weeding women, the florists and nursery gardeners - as well as aristocrats and grand designers and famous plant-hunters. Coloured by Jenny Uglow's own love for plants, and brought to life in the many vivid illustrations, it deals not only with flowery meads, grottoes and vistas, landscapes and ha-has, parks and allotments, but tells you, for example, how the Tudors made their curious knots; how housewives used herbs to stop freckles; how the suburbs dug for victory in World War II. With a brief guide to particular historic or evocative gardens open to the public, this is a book to put in your pocket when planning a summer day out - but also to read in your deckchair with a glass of cold wine, when dead-heading is simply too much.


Book
The Macmillan dictionary of women's biography
Author:
ISBN: 0333453034 0333565568 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Macmillan

The lunar men : five friends whose curiosity changed the world
Author:
ISBN: 0374194408 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
Nature's engraver : a life of Thomas Bewick.
Author:
ISBN: 0571223745 9780571223749 Year: 2006 Publisher: London Faber

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract


Book
The Macmillan dictionary of women's biography
Authors: ---
ISBN: 033336595X 0333309871 9780333309872 9780333365953 Year: 1984 Publisher: London Macmillan Reference Books

The lunar men : the friends who made the future, 1730-1810.
Authors: ---
ISBN: 0571216102 0571196470 9780571196470 9780571216109 Year: 2002 Publisher: London Faber and Faber

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Keywords

Inventors --- Engineers --- Discoveries in science --- Inventeurs --- Ingénieurs --- Découvertes scientifiques --- Biography. --- History --- Biographie --- Biographies --- Histoire --- Boulton, Matthew, --- Watt, James, --- Wedgwood, Josiah, --- Darwin, Erasmus, --- Lunar Society of Birmingham (England) --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- -Inventions --- -62 <09> --- 929 <41> --- -Engineering. Technology in general--Geschiedenis van ... --- Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- 929 <41> Biografie. Genealogie. Heraldiek--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- -Scientists --- -Science --- 942.07 --- 942.07 Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1714-1837) --- Geschiedenis van Engeland--(1714-1837) --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Creative ability in technology --- Research, Industrial --- Professional employees --- Persons --- Biography --- Scientists --- Inventions --- Prior art (Patent law) --- Natural sciences --- -Engineering. Technology in general--Geschiedenis van .. --- Inventors - Great Britain - Biography --- Engineers - Great Britain - Biography --- Discoveries in science - Great Britain - History - 18th century --- Boulton, Matthew, - 1728-1809 --- Watt, James, - 1736-1819 --- Wedgwood, Josiah, - 1730-1795 --- Darwin, Erasmus, - 1731-1802 --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 18th century --- -Engineering. Technology in general--Geschiedenis van --- -Biography --- -Inventors --- History -


Book
Walter Crane
Authors: --- ---
ISBN: 9780500022627 0500022623 Year: 2019 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson Ltd.

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broadly. Uglow expertly weaves a fascinating study of how Crane's art and politics developed from his childhood love of Pre-Raphaelite painting to the influences of Morris and William Blake on the journals, books, banners, pamphlets and postcards he went on to create as he forged a new style for the international socialist movement. Comprising a staggering range of visual material, Crane's images became a symbolic code that leapt over linguistic boundaries. This book is a brilliant record of an artist who blended styles and influences like no one before him.

Listing 1 - 9 of 9
Sort by