Charles Watkins – författare & böcker

Trees, Woods and Forests

A Social and Cultural History

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

240 kr

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Forests and woods have always been central to the development of human technology and culture and our expansion as a species. Trees, Woods and Forests shows how for thousands of years, woodland has been managed by humans using ancient practices such as coppicing and pollarding trees for fuel and as fodder for animals. In the early Middle Ages royal forests were established across Europe as the hunting grounds of kings. In the seventeenth century European enthusiasts collected, named, catalogued and acclimatized trees from all over the world in arboreta, while in the eighteenth century the cult of the Picturesque transformed attitudes to trees in the landscape.Trees can live to a great age, and some woods appear timeless and ancient, yet they are prone to sudden death through fire and storm. Human activity has led to the clearance and destruction of enormous areas of woodland and has also brought about the rapid spread across continents of potent diseases such as chestnut blight and ash dieback. In recent years, anxiety about the environmental impact of humans on trees has led to the establishment of national parks and reserves, as well as the practice of ‘rewilding’ landscapes.This book, now available in paperback, draws on the most recent work of historians, archaeologists, geographers, botanists and foresters, and explores forests in Britain, the us, Greece, Italy and France. It is a comprehensive and fascinating overview of humankind’s interaction with these most valuable resources.

Lost Endeavour

A survivor's account of the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign

AvCharles Watkins,Michael Cranem. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

427 kr

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Lost Endeavour

A survivor's account of the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign

AvCharles Watkins,Michael Cranem. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

310 kr

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Lost Endeavour

A survivor''s account of the ill-fated Gallipoli Campaign

AvCharles Watkins,Bernard de Brogliom. fl.

E-bok

Engelska, 2023

211 kr

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Charles Watkins sailed for the Dardanelles with the 1/6th Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers in 1915. War, he said, was a welcome escape from hard labour in a Lancashire cotton mill. Fifty years later, he wrote his memoir, a ''hotch-potch of Gallipoli memories.''

"In perpetrating this literary outrage, some apology is due. I could give many plausible excuses for recording moments of this disastrous campaign, but the real truth is the selfish pleasure I find in recalling one crowded hour of glorious life. It was my very good fortune to serve with a Lancashire Territorial Division. To the memory of those contumacious, argumentative, sentimental and lovable Lancashire lads - ''Salud.'' No better comrades ever trod the field of battle..."

"Students of military strategy and tactics had best throw this book away for they''ll learn nothing from it. In fact, I know even less of strategy and tactics than did the High-Ups who conducted the campaign. What''s more, a lowly private soldier sees very little of the larger picture of war - his own grubby little nose is always buried too deeply in his own particular patch of the dung-heap..."

The campaign is not short of operational histories, but few accounts get into the mind of the private soldier so successfully.

"The trouble," says Watkins, "is that most old soldiers develop a reluctance to talk - except perhaps after a few drinks, and when we seem, then, to get a little boastful and silly. At best, and when we are stone-sober, we feel we are merely a little boring to a new and unsympathetic generation.

"So we clam-up. We leave it to the cold, clinical dissection of historians to record the battles, the victories... and the defeats. The live and vivid experiences of the soldiers themselves are seldom, if ever, recorded - which is a pity, for without these how can the atmosphere of the times themselves ever be made to come to life."

Lost Endeavour was published for ''limited and private circulation'' in 1970, then again in 1982.

For this modern edition, the editors have added a short biography of Watkins as an appendix, alongside several articles he wrote for the Gallipoli Association''s journal, ''The Gallipolian''. For background and context, the editors include their notes on individuals, places and events mentioned by Watkins in the text.

The reader will also find detail on the 6th Lancs Fusiliers at Helles - the battalion''s establishment, drafts and battle casualties, a timeline for May to December 1915, eight maps, and a Gallipoli roll of honour.

British Arboretum

Trees, Science and Culture in the Nineteenth Century

AvPaul A. Elliott,Charles Watkinsm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

494 kr

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This study explores the science and culture of nineteenth-century British arboretums, or tree collections. The development of arboretums was fostered by a variety of factors, each of which is explored in detail: global trade and exploration, the popularity of collecting, the significance to the British economy and society, developments in Enlightenment science, changes in landscape gardening aesthetics and agricultural and horticultural improvement.Arboretums were idealized as microcosms of nature, miniature encapsulations of the globe and as living museums. This book critically examines different kinds of arboretum in order to understand the changing practical, scientific, aesthetic and pedagogical principles that underpinned their design, display and the way in which they were viewed. It is the first study of its kind and fills a gap in the literature on Victorian science and culture.

Ecological History of European Forests

AvKeith Kirby,Charles Watkinsm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 1998

1 968 kr

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Forest is the natural vegetation of most of Europe. Although the majority has been destroyed by human activity over the centuries, a considerable amount remains and has been managed to varying degrees and for a wide variety of reasons. This has resulted in a large number of natural and semi-natural landscapes and habitat types over the region and a high diversity of plant and animal communities adapted to them. The growing interest in natural history and the environment in recent years has resulted in a greater demand for information on the complex ecological history of European forest. This book is unique in providing wide ranging and detailed case studies on specific aspects, including grazing, management practices and conservation and overviews, from recognised authorities, of the latest research on the ecological history of forests and woodland in Europe. It consists of selected papers given at an international conference of forest historians organised in association with the British Ecological Society and the International Union of Forest Research Organizations at Nottingham University in September 1996. Contributions come from the UK, Ireland, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and Turkey. This book is essential reading for ecologists, conservationists, landscape historians, foresters and geographers. It will also be of interest to advanced students in these areas.

Principles of Conveyancing

Designed for the Use of Students: With an Introduction on the Study of That Branch of Law.

Charles Watkins – författare

Trees, Woods and Forests

Lost Endeavour

Lost Endeavour

Lost Endeavour

British Arboretum

Ecological History of European Forests

Principles of Conveyancing

An Essay on the Law of Descents: With an Appendix on the Distribution of the Personal Effects of Intestates.

The Principles of Conveyancing: Designed for the Use of Students: With an Introduction on the Study of That Branch of Law.

treatise on copyholds. Volume 1 of 2

treatise on copyholds. Volume 2 of 2

treatise on copyholds. Volume 1 of 2

Treatise on Copyholds. Volume 2 of 2

Principles of Conveyancing: With an Introduction on the Study of That Branch of Law: With the Author's Last Corrections, and with Very Considerabl

Principles of Conveyancing

Principles of Conveyancing

Principles of conveyancing

An Essay Towards the Further Elucidation of the Law of Descents: With an Appendix on the Distribution of the Personal Effects of Intestates.

An Essay Towards the Further Elucidation of the Law of Descents.

Principles of conveyancing

Principles of conveyancing

Principles of Conveyancing

Principles of Conveyancing

principles of conveyancing

Treatise On Copyholds, Volume 1

Law of Tenures

Crystals

Trees in Art

Europe's Changing Woods and Forests

Europe's Changing Woods and Forests