A Child's History of the World
Author: Virgil Mores Hillyer
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History is presented with a personal viewpoint of how and why it may have happened.
Author: Virgil Mores Hillyer
Publisher:
Published: 1924
Total Pages: 546
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History is presented with a personal viewpoint of how and why it may have happened.
Author: Rob Lloyd Jones
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Limited
Published: 2014-06-01
Total Pages: 16
ISBN-13: 9781409550198
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This lift-the-flap book for older children covers life in Britain from Anglo-Saxon invasions to the 21st century.
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
Published: 1885
Total Pages: 390
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A children's history of Great Britain from the earliest inhabitation to A.D. 1688 accompanied by an assortment of short stories and prose pieces.
Author: A. S. Byatt
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: 2009-11-03
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0307373835
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the renowned author of Possession, The Children’s Book is the absorbing story of the close of what has been called the Edwardian summer: the deceptively languid, blissful period that ended with the cataclysmic destruction of World War I. In this compelling novel, A.S. Byatt summons up a whole era, revealing that beneath its golden surface lay tensions that would explode into war, revolution and unbelievable change — for the generation that came of age before 1914 and, most of all, for their children. The novel centres around Olive Wellwood, a fairy tale writer, and her circle, which includes the brilliant, erratic craftsman Benedict Fludd and his apprentice Phillip Warren, a runaway from the poverty of the Potteries; Prosper Cain, the soldier who directs what will become the Victoria and Albert Museum; Olive’s brother-in-law Basil Wellwood, an officer of the Bank of England; and many others from every layer of society. A.S. Byatt traces their lives in intimate detail and moves between generations, following the children who must choose whether to follow the roles expected of them or stand up to their parents’ “porcelain socialism.” Olive’s daughter Dorothy wishes to become a doctor, while her other daughter, Hedda, wants to fight for votes for women. Her son Tom, sent to an upper-class school, wants nothing more than to spend time in the woods, tracking birds and foxes. Her nephew Charles becomes embroiled with German-influenced revolutionaries. Their portraits connect the political issues at the heart of nascent feminism and socialism with grave personal dilemmas, interlacing until The Children’s Book becomes a perfect depiction of an entire world. Olive is a fairy tale writer in the era of Peter Pan and Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In the Willows, not long after Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. At a time when children in England suffered deprivation by the millions, the concept of childhood was being refined and elaborated in ways that still influence us today. For each of her children, Olive writes a special, private book, bound in a different colour and placed on a shelf; when these same children are ferried off into the unremitting destruction of the Great War, the reader is left to wonder who the real children in this novel are. The Children’s Book is an astonishing novel. It is an historical feat that brings to life an era that helped shape our own as well as a gripping, personal novel about parents and children, life’s most painful struggles and its richest pleasures. No other writer could have imagined it or created it.
Author: Virgil Mores Hillyer
Publisher:
Published: 1951
Total Pages: 492
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Covers painting, sculpture, and architecture from the beginnings of art to the present.
Author: Jessie Childs
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 0199392358
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores the Catholic predicament in Elizabethan England through the eyes of one remarkable family: the Vauxes of Harrowden Hall.
Author: Phil Wilkinson
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 130
ISBN-13: 1465472495
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An original look at history that profiles 30 children from different eras so that children of today can discover the lives of the cave people, Romans, Vikings, and beyond through the eyes of someone their own age. History books often focus on adults, but what was the past like for children? A Child Through Time is historically accurate and thoroughly researched, and brings the children of history to life-from the earliest civilizations to the Cold War, even imagining a child of the future. Packed with facts and including a specially commissioned illustration of each profiled child, this book examines the clothes children wore, the food they ate, the games they played, and the historic moments they witnessed-all through their own eyes. Maps, timelines, and collections of objects, as well as a perspective on the often ignored topic of family life through the ages, give wider historical background and present a unique side to history. Covering key curriculum topics in a new light, A Child Through Time is a perfect and visually stunning learning tool for children ages 7 and up.
Author: Rebecca Fraser
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-06-08
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 1446477290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combining compelling narrative history with helpful chronology, A People's History of Britain tells the story - from the Romans to the present day - of the small northern islands off the coast of Europe which became the world's largest empire. Full of kings, queens and battles and the heroic individuals who created turning points in history, it is packed with anecdotes about British scientists, explorers, soldiers, traders, writers and artists.
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-04-22
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780331683400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from A Child's History of England, Vol. 3 As this reign was principally remarkable for two very curious impostures which have become famous in his tory, we will make those two stories its principal feature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.