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Recent acquisitions from England part 7:

📖 Lyveden (National Trust)
📖 Hatfield House: Over 400 Years of History
📖 Bodleian Library Souvenir Guide

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Recent acquisitions from England part 6:

📖 Saints, Shrines & Pilgrims (Pitkin Guides)
📖 Britain's Pilgrim Places by Nick Mayhew-Smith and Guy Hayward
📖 Life in a Monastery (Pitkin Guides)

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Recent acquisitions from England part 5:

📖 The Little Book of Corbyn: In His Own Words
📖 The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
📖 This is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright by Emma Smith
📖 Pocket Magna Carta

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Recent acquisitions from England part 4:

📖 Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross
📖 Cathedrals & Abbeys of England by Stephen Platten
📖 Cathedral Architecture (Pitkin Guides)

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Recent acquisitions from England part 3:

📖 Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
📖 Historical Atlas of Britain: Prehistoric and Medieval edited by Nigel Saul
📖 Most Wise and Valiant Ladies: Remarkable Lives: Women of the Middle Ages by Andrea Hopkins

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Recent acquisitions from England part 2:

📖 The English Resistance: The Underground War Against the Normans by Peter Rex
📖 Cnut: England's Viking King 1016-1035 by M. K. Lawson
📖 Winters in the World: A Journey Through the Anglo-Saxon Year by Eleanor Parker

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Recent acquisitions:

For Father's Day, Amy gave me two newer books by Peter Ackroyd, one of my favorite authors!

📖 The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern
📖 Colors of London: A History

Recent acquisitions:

📖 O Lady, Speak Again: Poems by Dayna Patterson
📖 Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland

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'The rivalrous nature of [England's] politics - Whig versus Tory, Labour versus Conservative - is only one manifestation of the nation's either/or tendency. Other nations accommodate many voices and conduct their politics through many parties. England, impatient with such nuances, prefers a stark, polar opposition: yes/no, rich/poor, private/public, north/south, in/out.'

'Medieval outlaws were a genuine menace - England's woods were full of poachers, few of them friendly - yet Robin [Hood] is invariably polite, merrily tweaking the noses of the rich as he tosses their purses to the poor.'

'The most dedicated chronicler of England's weather and the way it shaped English people was Thomas Hardy. The labourers in Tess of the d'Urbervilles are not just in the countryside; they are part of it, tuned to the natural worldas if they were musical instruments.'

'And though he had seen tropical storms with his own eyes, [Joseph Conrad] drew a typically English axiom from the central incident of "Typhoon", written the same year: "Facing it, always facing it. That's the way to get through."'

Recent acquisitions 3/3:

📖 The No-Nonsense Guide to World History by Chris Brazier
📖 The Oxford Book of Short Poems chosen and edited by P.J. Kavanaugh and James Michie
📖 Lady Susan, The Watsons and Sanditon (Penguin Classics) by Jane Austen
📖 Stories of King Arthur by Blanche Winder

Recent acquisitions 2/3:

📖 Katherine: A Novel by Anya Seton
📖 The Second Century: Latter-day Saints in Great Britain Volume I: 1937-1987 by Derek A. Cuthbert
📖 Your Faith Your Life: An Invitation to the Episcopal Church by Jennifer Gamber and Bill Lewellis

Recent acquisitions 1/3:

📖 The Religious Speeches of Bernard Shaw edited by Warren H. Smith
📖 Pictures Past: A Centennial Celebration of Utah State University by A.J. Simmonds
📖 Education and the Good Life by Bertrand Russell

'Satan can be summoned by running backwards seven times around the mounds.' 🏃

This book is full of folkloric helpful hints like this. I'm really enjoying it.

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Hitchens: 'The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural.'

LibraryThing has a cool little feature that shows you, once you've catalogued your books, how tall they would be if stacked. My family's collection (in black) is apparently taller than even the tallest stone structure ever made (the Washington Monument)!

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'"No man is an island, entire of itself" wrote John Donne in middle age, making a point historians must remember. All histories are congregations of biographies, and all biographers track their subjects through public spaces.'

I agree, and this is why I have always intershelved the histories and biographies in our home library.

[Regarding the English colonisers of Australia]:
'Some were scurrilous, some high-minded; some were crooks, some saints. Either way, they were all drawn to distant horizons. If Victorian England sometimes seems staid and ultra-conservative, it might be because its racier children could not wait to leave. It was a land peopled by stay-at-homes.'

[Regarding the English colonisers of Australia]:
'Some were scurrilous, some high-minded; some were crooks, some saints. Either way, they were all drawn to distant horizons. If Victorian England sometimes seems staid and ultra-conservative, it might be because its racier children could not wait to leave. It was a land peopled by stay-at-homes.'

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Recent acquisitions:
📖 Courtly Culture: Literature & Society in the High Middle Ages, given to me by @ShawnFromUtah
📖 Somerset Bedside Book: A Collection of Prose & Poetry
📖 The First 100 Years: A History of The Salt Lake Tribune 1871-1971
📖 The Willows at Christmas

'Many factors contributed to the emergence of [England's] canals.... But nothing would have been possible without the water that fell from the sky. Now it was carrying goods around the country.... By the middle of the 19th century, a single drop of rain that fell in Seathwaite could trickle down the Shires until, one day, it passed beneath London Bridge and out to sea.'

'[Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper] was burnt to death for heresy in 1555. A man who would not compromise, he undoubtedly approved of the punishment even if he knew that the wrong people were being burned.'

'[Desmond Tutu] talked about the philosophy behind truth and reconciliation-- his deep belief that they have to happen in that order, that we need to see ourselves before we can be redeemed. Only after the truth has its way can a clenched fist become an open hand.'

'It was part reverie and part revelry, part rosary and part rosé. The day I fell asleep in the Chapelle du Rosaire de Vence, the mesmerizing little church designed and constructed by Henri Matisse just after World War II. Was it an excess of humidity or a lack of humility?'

I love his wordplay.

'The past is never simple. We need to pack at least two minds when we travel into England's history, and prepare to contemplate it with mixed feelings. That is certainly the case with the medieval spirit that lingers on in the nation's cathedrals, castles, [etc.]. These are now England's top visitor attractions, but we cannot forget that those knights... carried cruel swords, and were not afraid to use them.'