The merchant, Paul Brandt, moved from Stettin (now in Poland) to Hamburg in 1686. His business prospered and four generations later, fifteen-year-old Wilhelm Brandt was apprenticed to the merchant Alexander Christian Becker in Archangel.
Brimming with beautiful watercolor art on every page, this calendar features Gooseberry Patch charm in a convenient take-along size. Sprinkled with charming illustrations and inspirational quotes throughout, it's sure to bring a smile to your face each day!
The Period of Yuan dynasty (1279-1368 AD) is an important historic time for both the cultural and material exchange of China and the West Asia, and the ceramic industry of Jingdezhen city. During that period, along with its absorption of outside craftsmanship and culture, Jingdezhen's ceramic technology and products reached their peak and thus ......
The Littlecote House armoury is the most important surviving armoury of the English Civil Wars. This volume describes how the collection was saved for the nation (in part by a sponsored march in original armour from Littlecote to London), and includes a full illustrated catalogue of its contents.
Features ten of Londons most prominent galleries and museums - The British Museum, Victoria and Albert, National Gallery, Dulwich, Wallace Collection, Tate Britain, Courtauld, Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy. Showcases paintings, sculptures and objects from the Ancient world to the 21st Century.
English Intervention in the French Wars of Religion
The aim of this study is to establish the scale and importance of English intervention during the French Wars of Religion of the late sixteenth century. The author looks at why and how Elizabeth I intervened, and what were the consequences of this intervention. Elizabeths sword of intervention was double-edged: both benevolent and exploitative.
Three generations, one family, connected by an historic secret. 1917 - Private Daniel Dawkins fights at Messines Ridge and Passchendaele. He writes home to his true-love Joyce, but reveals little of his extreme bravery, his kindness, his loyalty to his comrades and the horrors they experience on the Western Front. 1920 - Captain Peter ......
Born in Henan Province, China, in 1953, Liu Yuan now lives in Guangzhou. A freelance photographer, he is a member of both the China Photographers Association and the Photojournalism Society of China. He has travelled to more than a hundred
countries, created more than a hundred albums and exhibited more than seventy times. His works are held at ......
The Art of Prowling is one of a series of training booklets written by Colonel G. A. Wade for the newly-recruited Home Guard. This reproduction by the Royal Armouries shows how trainees during the Second World War learned to sneak up on the enemy without being seen.
ISBN-13: 9780948092923
(Hardback)
Publisher: UNICORN PRESS Imprint: TRUSTEE ROYAL ARMOURIES
