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5 days ago · Price: £17.50. Dr Joanna Bourke, review of The Image of Man. The Creation of Modern Masculinity, (review no. 23) George L. Mosse's book exemplifies the best in a new wave of histories focusing on masculinity in Europe since the second half of the eighteenth century.
1 day ago · Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( / ˈkoʊlərɪdʒ / KOH-lə-rij; [1] 21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian who was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets with his friend William Wordsworth. He also shared volumes and collaborated with Charles Lamb ...
3 days ago · He sold it in 1590 to his brother-in-law, George More, afterwards Sir George More, from whom it was purchased in 1599 by John Austen, who built Shalford House on a place called the Timber Yard, on the rectory manor, 1608–10. The rectory still remains in the possession of his descendants. George Austen died at Shalford in 1621, leaving a son ...
3 days ago · George's mother was Blanche (1837–1875), the daughter of Joseph Pocklington Senhouse of Netherhall in Cumberland. He was born at Kedleston Hall, built on the site where his family, who were clergyman and priests, had lived since the 12th century. His mother, exhausted by childbirth, died when George was 16; her husband survived her by 41 years.
5 days ago · Queen Elizabeth granted the manor to Edward Wymarke, who appears to have sold it to George Austen of Shalford. (fn. 59) George Austen died seised of it in 1621. (fn. 60) From that time it descended with the rectory manor of Shalford (q.v.).
3 days ago · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe [a] (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a profound and wide-ranging influence on Western literary, political, and philosophical thought from the late 18th century to the present day.
3 days ago · Lloyd James Austin III (born August 8, 1953) is a retired United States Army four-star general who has served as the 28th and current United States secretary of defense since January 22, 2021. Before retiring from the military in 2016, Austin served as the 12th commander of United States Central Command (CENTCOM), beginning in March 2013. [1]
