This book is a guide to over eighty remarkable and curious sights to be found in Greater Manchester - for example, Manchester's smallest pub, the least interesting Roman remains in Britain, a church clock that strikes thirteen, a pig's gravestone, a 'lucky' postbox, the world's widest bridge, a glacial boulder, a Chinese arch and an observatory. Numerous illustrations are included, together with ...

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd
Written By: Robert Nicholls

Manufacturer: Printed for private circulation [by] Phillimore
Written By: Edward Ralph Serocold Skeels

Comprising a full historical and genealogical account of all peerages created in England, Scotland and Ireland between the Conquest and the early 20th century, the text includes details of every peer's birth, parents, honors, offices, marriage, death and burial. Footnotes include additional detail, dealing with individual's wills, incomes, royal charters, rent rolls, illegitimate children, ...

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing
Written By: G.E. Cokayne

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd
Written By: Brian Bonnard

This second volume of the collected academic papers of Roy Strong, the distinguished scholar and art historian of the Tudor and early Stuart eras, covers the Elizabethan period. Included here are over twenty articles he has written over thirty-five years on subjects which he has pioneered, the serious study of pageantry, painting, miniatures, gardening and iconography. Each articles is reprinted ...

Manufacturer: Boydell Press
Written By: Roy Strong

Manufacturer: Greenwood Press Reprint
Written By: Adam Wandruszka

This addition to the "Britain in Old Photographs" series brings together a collection of black-and-white pictures spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from family albums, local collections and professional photographers, they show the way things were and how they have changed. Every photograph is captioned, providing names and dates where possible, revealing historical and ...

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd
Written By: David McGrory

Towards the middle of the thirteenth century, the proliferation of heraldic devices gave rise to the first rolls of arms, or lists of names with accompanying descriptions in formulaic language (blazon) or painted shields. Some 350 rolls of arms (130 for England alone) survive from the middle ages, and often provide the only means of identifying individuals and their possessions. This third ...

Manufacturer: Boydell Press
Written By: Gerard J. Brault

Manufacturer: Sutton Publishing Ltd
Written By: Ian Norrie

Manufacturer: J. Parker
Written By: Samuel Barfield