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Cragg Family Origins (England 1770-1859)
The history of the Cragg family, who lived in England until 1859 before emigrating to Sydney Australia. The story commences in the heart of England's Lake District in a Keswick poor house and moves to the towns of Workington and Cockermouth. The majority of the family, while in Cockermouth, enter the woollen mills in the midst of a socially tumultuous time where mass rallies call for significant political change and widespread enfranchisement. Hunger, disease, imprisonment and the hint of rebellion.
Rodolpho's Revenge David Cragg
Winter has descended on the land of the Cathars, sealing the few garrisons resisting Simon de Montfort's crusaders in their lonely hilltop fortresses. Their only hope of relief is from the Aragon King Peter and Raymond of Toulouse, should they renounce their neutrality and ally themselves to the Cathar cause.Etienne, Alonso, Rodolpho and Jacques de Massigny are among those hoping for reinforcements before the Cathar cause is crushed by the church.
Cragg Family Origins
The history of the Cragg family, who lived in England until 1859 before emigrating to Sydney Australia. The story commences in the heart of England's Lake District in a Keswick poor house and moves to the towns of Workington and Cockermouth. The majority of the family, while in Cockermouth, enter the woollen mills in the midst of a socially tumultuous time where mass rallies call for significant political change and widespread enfranchisement. Hunger, disease, imprisonment and the hint of rebellion.
The Gallows Pole
____________________ The inspiration for the BBC TV series, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ 'Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' - Pat Barker 'Phenomenal' - Sebastian Barry 'Superb' - The Times ____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North. ____________________ 'One of my books of the year ... It's the best thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year
Starfist: Kingdom's Swords
The Marines were told it was a simple peasant rebellion–but the mission proved to be far deadlier. . . . Gunny Charlie Bass isn’t the only Marine mystified by the order sending the entire 34th to put down a few seditious serfs on planet Kingdom. Rumors swirl of a deadly alien invasion. But few believe that such sentient beings exist. Except Gunny Bass and the Marines of the 3rd platoon, who once fought enemy aliens called Skinks–fierce, fanatical fighters with hideous weapons who attack for no other reason but to kill. Then, while slogging through Kingdom’s fetid swamps, the Marines are attacked by awesome unseen weapons that could destroy half a platoon with one shot. Clearly they are facing no normal enemy. And if their adversaries are Skinks, one FIST isn’t enough. Third platoon’s orders are to penetrate deeper into the bloody jungle hell–and find out what happens when a few good men bite the bullet. . . .
Tony Cragg
The sculptures of Tony Cragg are exhibited throughout summer of 2011 in Lucca at the church of San Cristofero (both inside and out), and in the town's two piazzas - Piazza Anfiteatro.The exhibition It is, it isn't curated by Jon Wood, concentrates on Cragg's fascination for accumulation and stratification through a rigorous selection of important sculptures, including some from the Early Forms and Rational Beings series.In a show that takes place both indoors and out in Lucca, these sculptures have the opportunity to shine and show their magic in an ancient city that is itself a stratification of history, cultural life and material significance.In the catalogue, Wood discusses these 'layers ...
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I am a Government Man to Mr Scott of Glendon
With the judgement of death, for horse theft in Wales, hanging over his head Hugh Hughes is mercifully transported to New South Wales in 1830 for 14 years. His journey to freedom in the Hunter Valley on the Glendon Estate places him in the midst of a tumultuous time in colonial history. Influential squatters, such as the Scott family, wrestle for power and land against indigenous tribes, the scourge of bushrangers and the attempts by the Governor of New South Wales to establish authority and discipline on the colony's boundaries. Hugh Hughes struggles with his own temptations and the lash is not far from his back. Crossing paths with murderous escaped convicts and the infamous Hall family, death and misfortune continue to stalk him.As a ticket of leave holder and well known horse breeder, he meets the indefatigable Frances Fox, an orphaned immigrant girl who made her way to Sydney in the hope of claiming a better life than famine struck Ireland could offer. Together they scratch out an existence and raise a family.
Rodolpho's Lament
AS freedom flourishes in Southern France in 1208, Pope Innocent threatens a Crusade to crush the Cathars of Occitania, the people he sees as threatening the church's authority.Fearful of the Cathar sect's rising influence among the Languedoc's population, he dispatches one last emissary, the devout but ambitious Dominic, to try to turn the rebels back to the Catholic Church and so reassert feudal authority.But death will stalk Dominic's every move as others unconnected with his mission are drawn into the dangerous web his presence creates, and their fates will be sealed as the loyalty and ambitions of Pope and nobles clash in a cataclysmic battle for power between the Crusaders and the Catha...
