About this deal
Along the way Bob Trubshaw introduces ideas about the changing lifestyles and beliefs of the prehistoric people who built the monuments. The variety of such ideas currently being proposed by prehistorians are presented using a unique conversational style of writing. However this is not a book written only for psychotherapists. The stories considered here speak to all of us. McMahon helps us to fully understand these life cycle narratives and thereby helps us to understand ourselves. We need these myths now more than ever before. This book combines a fascinating historical and architectural study with a stunning collection of photographs. Peter Poyntz-Wright's research provides the first thorough account of the hunky punks and gives us a direct insight into the medieval mind. He examines the techniques and influences of the medieval masons, and considers methods of attachment and the effects of weathering.
A life of luxury followed, spent between New York's bright lights, Tuxedo Park (the exclusive up-state enclave built by her father-in-law), Washington DC and Europe. Here she hobnobbed not only with the super-rich whose names still reverberate to this day – the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Harrimans and the J.P.Morgans – but also with the East Coast's elite – senators, ambassadors, even the President's daughter. We take for granted the names we use for places. Yet these names are a valuable part of our cultural heritage, providing a detailed insight into the early history of the region. Place-names reveal the otherwise lost voices of our forebears who settled here. For the fifth edition the Introduction has been fully revised and a selection of representative Old English texts included. These will start you on the path of appreciating a very special literature and the way the language works.
free to download Heart of Albion PDFs
The author does not just cite beliefs about wells uncritically, being unafraid to say when there is no evidence for stories about a particular well. She argues, for example, that there is no real evidence that Holy Wells predated the Romans coming to Britain. Curiosity about railway folklore has created chapters ranging from ghosts and fairies to prophecy and inspiration; commuters' trials; crimes by the Krays, Great Train Robbery and mythical 'Maniac on the Platform'; legends surrounding locos and the strategic steam reserve; fortean phenomena; trainspotters and pedants; traditional folklore and contemporary legends. The Whittlecreek and Eaton St Torpid Heritage Railway employs a General Manager (who does not like being called 'The General'), a formidable Property Manager (who does likes to be referred to as 'The PM'), a witticism-infested Operations Manager who socialises each week with the neophobic Workshop Manager, and a Gift Shop Manager (deemed 'nice but useless'). In Everything is Change Beatrice Walditch shows how contemporary ideas of an ever-emergent cosmos are also part of the traditional worldview in places as far apart as Greece and China. This understanding of how the world works is in complete contrast to Christian concepts and the various successors – including supposedly secular science as well as modern paganism.
The railway staff interact with the somewhat overbearing Curator of the nearby Arts Centre, her talented Curatorial Trainee on a year's placement, and several of the artists exhibiting in the gallery. This PDF 'booklet' is based on an A5 booklet published Midsummer 2001 by the East Leake-based historian David Lazell. Meet the Dragon is a study of how that evolution came about. Central to the development is the major role of the dragon in the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf.
Alternative Albion imprint
The possible significance of the loops and 'S'-bends is also explored, bringing in dragon legends and their Anglo-Saxon precursors, the wyrmas. Literature as diverse as Old English poems and the tales of Scottish Travellers uses the first-person to give a voice, and personality, to a diverse range of non-human artefacts. By using this device for the metaphysical relocation of self, the author's identity may become conflated with the artefact – or even a deity.
Singing Up the Country reveals that Bob Trubshaw has been researching a surprising variety of different topics since his last book six years ago. From Anglo-Saxon place-names to early Greek philosophy – and much in between – he creates an interwoven approach to the prehistoric landscape, creating a 'mindscape' that someone in Neolithic Britain might just recognise. This is a mindscape where sound, swans and rivers help us to understand the megalithic monuments. Although we are accustomed to seeing Romanesque and later medieval carvings as bare stone, this is not how they would have been envisaged by their makers and patrons. Before the nineteenth century Gothic Revival such sculpture would have been painted, often in ways which now might seem rather garish. Medieval Carvings in Colour is a response to requests for information about how Romanesque and later medieval carvings would originally have been painted.I recommend it to anyone interested in archaeology, popular culture, contemporary mythology or "alternative archaeology".' 8/10 Considerable new scholarship in recent decades has shed much light on Anglo-Saxon England. In this pioneering study Bob Trubshaw approaches the history and archaeology of the era from the perspective of the underlying worldviews – the ideas that are 'taken for granted' in a society rather than consciously chosen.
English Holy Wells comprises three volumes. Volume One is supplied with a CD-ROM of Volumes Two and Three to make the complete work available at an affordable price. The second edition adds a preface discussing the influence of the Western zodiac on Chinese divination and ontology about two centuries prior to the era of Heraclitus and early Taoism. The final section of the book lists twenty-five Holy Wells that the author recommends visiting in England and Wales - here each is accompanied by a photo. The addition of a map would have been an added bonus. I have felt stimulated to visit some of those which are closer to me very soon.One of Heart of Albion's earliest booklets, first published in 1991, is now available as a free PDF. Explore Folklore provides a lively introduction to the study of most genres of British folklore, presenting the more contentious and profound ideas in a readily accessible manner. The result is entertaining and erudite, broad and iconoclastic, scholarly but frequently nicely naughty. The range is stunningly eclectic and the style easy, evocative and witty.