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Exploring the influence of an Anglican parson, the book delves into the origins of Welsh Methodism and its impact on contemporary Evangelicalism. It highlights the parson's contributions to revitalizing the Welsh language, emphasizing its significance in both spoken and written forms. The narrative underscores the cultural and religious transformations that shaped Welsh identity and resilience through faith and language.

The book traces the lineage of the Rounds and Pfeffer families, encompassing several related families such as Ballard, Cooper, and Whitaker. It highlights the Pfeffer ancestry, which extends back an impressive 39 generations to Duke Bernard Nase Narbonne, who was born in 795 AD in Jutland, Denmark. This extensive genealogical exploration provides a detailed account of familial connections and historical roots.

Frank Barson's story is one of hardship and hard-won fame. His strength in the tackle and prowess in controlled aggression earned him a reputation that lives on today. Rising from the factory floor to become a footballing giant, Barson lifted the fortunes of Aston Villa and Manchester United while earning more cautions than anyone before or since.

Jack Kid Berg dominated boxing in the early 1930s like no other British-born boxer before or since. The Whitechapel Whirlwind features exclusive interviews with Berg in the years before his death in 1991, and makes deft use of eyewitness accounts, newspaper cartoons, statistics and photos of Jack's 200-plus fights.

"In 1907 Annie Horniman arrived in Manchester from Ireland intent on establishing the country's first genuine 'repertory' company. A middle-aged heiress with money to spend on the arts, she bought the run-down Gaiety Theatre in Peter Street, renovated it, recruited the gifted Iden Payne as manager and challenged the people of Lancashire to produce new and exciting work to rival that of Ireland's Celtic Twilight. The Gaiety soon became the most progressive theatre in the country, the first of its kind to create an identifiably local school of playwrighting while simultaneously attracting a new audience excited by seeing real life characters in real life situations presented on stage ... Stanley Houghton's Hindle Wakes shocked Edwardian sensibilities. Harold Brighouse's Hobson's Choice delighted British and American audiences. Allan Monkhouse's The Conquering Hero brought the horror of the trenches to the serious stage for the first time."--Publisher's website

Originally published in 1845 as The Principles & Practice of Art: With Illustrations Drawn and Engraved by the Author, this enduring guide is the work of an English painter and lithographer. J. D. Harding wrote several popular books on art instruction, and this volume constitutes one of his finest. A comprehensive manual geared toward practicing artists, the book features 24 black-and-white plates of illustrations by Harding that elucidate his observations and instructions. Topics include: • Imitation as Applied to Art • The Distinction Between the Judgment and the Feelings with Respect to Art • Beauty and Form • Composition • Light and Shade • Color • Drawing from Nature Art historians and students—especially those of nineteenth–century art—will prize this book for its philosophical theory of beauty and its abundant supply of illustrative examples, rendered in various styles of engraving and lithography.

A curious collection of true stories from the stranger side of sailing, featuring the sailors forever lost in the Bermuda triangle, the poor family who were encircled by a school of sharks, and the spooky tales of the lighthouse haunted by drunkard lightship keeper John Herman.

In Distant Snows, mountaineer John Harding recollects his worldwide adventures spanning sixty years across Europe, Iran, East Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and the Arctic. He climbed many classic peaks including Mont Blanc, Mount Kenya, and Mount Cook, and pioneered ski mountaineering expeditions in Turkey, Spain and Greece.

A sinister Gothic tale in the tradition of The Woman in Black and The Fall of the House of Usher