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The only investigation ever undertaken into the building of the first pre-Conquest Norman castle in England
Fifty generations of Harper and Robinson families are represented in this volume. Travel back through time from the hills of Bath County, Kentucky to ancient England and Wales in 800 AD. Discover the names of your ancestors and learn about the time periods in which they lived. Scenes of mid-Wales where Druids ruled and ancient castles would have dotted the land and would have been familiar landscape for your ancestors. Enjoy the journey.
"This volume contains the family group sheets for 50 generations of the Harper and Robinson families of Bath County, KY. These two families reach back to almost 800 AD in ancient England and Wales ..."--Back cover
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Fifty generations traces the Robinson family of Bath Co., Kentucky back to the hills where Druids roamed in ancient Wales and Londonium. Surnames such as Robinson, Walpole, Sexton, Hunt, Tincher, Lowe, Ishmael, White, McGlothin, Staton, Plank, and Burk dominate the landscape. Stonehenge (front cover photo) and the land of mid-Wales would have been familiar scenes for the ancestors of Christine Robinson.
Medieval castles were not just showcases for the royal and powerful, they were also the centerpieces of many people's daily lives. A travel guide as well as a historical text, this volume looks at castles not just as ruined buildings, but as part of the cultural and scenic landscape. The 88 photographs illustrate the different architectural concepts and castle features discussed in the text. The book includes glossaries of terminology, an appendix listing all the castles mentioned and their locations, notes, bibliography and index.
From the pastrues of Hampshire, England and castles of Bayern, Germany to the hills of North Carolina, the Franks and Hill families sought out new beginnings as they came to the Americas in the 1700s. They fought in every battle in their new home; the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Korean War and WWI andWW2. Amongst them was John Sevier, originally Xavier from France, his father and uncle stowed away on board a ship and came to the Americas before the Revolution. John Sevier became a leading member of the new westward movement and in 1784 petitioned Congress to create the State of Franklin out of property in western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee.
Classic work assessing the impact of the Norman Conquest in European context. The introduction of Brown's book should be made compulsory reading- LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKSThe `English' who faced the forces of William duke of Normandy on 14 October 1066 were by no means a pure-bred and unified race, norwas the flower of England's manhood laid low by an army of self-seeking Norman opportunists. R. Allen Brown traces the forces and influences that shaped both England and Normandy in the decades before 1066, and shows how the new order, emerging from the aftermath of the battle of Hastings, produced a degree of political unity and social dynamism previously unknown in England, bringing a reinvigorated nation fully into the mainstream of the dynamic expansion of western Latin Christendom.R. ALLEN BROWN was professor of History at King's College, London and founder of the annual Battle Conference on Anglo-Norman studies.