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1 de may. de 2024 · The six-book shortlist for this year’s Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been revealed, with the winner due to be announced at the Borders Book Festival in Melrose on June 13. This year’s shortlist features authors from England, Ireland, Trinidad, Canada and Malaysia, and includes one debut novelist in Tom Crewe alongside a ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · Near fine copy in the original printed boards. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Description: 43 pages : illustrations, map, portrait. Notes: Ms. note on LC copy's fly-leaf: Only 100 copies of this ed. have been printed. Summary: Buckler's Hard was founded by John, 2nd duke of Montagu, in ...
9 de may. de 2024 · Dalton Castle will not open to visitors for the foreseeable future. The Grade I-listed 14th century pele tower at Market Place in Dalton-in-Furness is owned by the National Trust.
7 de may. de 2024 · Apart from its role as the Sovereign's bodyguard, the Royal Company of Archers still functions as an archery club - the purpose for which it was originally formed in 1676. In return for being endowed with "perpetual access to all public butts, plains and pasturages legally allotted for shooting arrows", including the grounds at the Palace at ...
27 de abr. de 2024 · At the age of 22, Macmillan served as an assistant to Walter Scott, the fifth Duke of Buccleuch, at Drumlanrig. He later left to assist his father with his work. Kirkpatrick Macmillan’s Career. Employed as a blacksmith Macmillan encountered a hobbyhorse being ridden on a nearby road by coincidence. He decided to create one for himself after ...
1 de may. de 2024 · Charmian Campbell (née Charmian Rachel Montagu Douglas Scott; 18 July 1942 – 5 April 2009) was a British socialite and artist. She was born at Selkirk in the Scottish Borders to portrait painter Mary Winona Mannin "Molly" Bishop and Lord George Montagu Douglas Scott, the youngest son of the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, Scotland's largest landowner (making her a niece to Princess Alice ...
25 de abr. de 2024 · Lady Louisa Stuart. Born in 1757, Lady Louisa Stuart was one of the children of John, Earl of Bute, the then Prime Minister to George III. From an early age, she took more interest in intellectual accomplishments, reading and writing poetry, and thus developed a distinctly critical mind. Though weary of the conventional gaieties of London’s ...
