Defiance: The Life and Choices of Lady Anne Barnard by Stephen TaylorRequirements: .ePUB reader, 1.9 MBOverview: The first major biography of eighteenth-century writer and socialite Lady Anne Barnard. Born in Scotland in 1772, Lady Anne Barnard lived at the heart of Georgian society. She wrote one of the most popular ballads of her day, captivated […]
The Secrets of Elloughton Park by Stephen TaylorRequirements: epub, mobi, azw3 reader, 355 KBOverview: After two centuries, a Georgian maid’s shocking story has finally come to light…Historian James Postlethwaite comes across a series of journals started in the 18th century belonging to Lord and Lady Carlisle of Elloughton Park in Nottinghamshire. Among the archives, he […]
Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy by Stephen R. TaylorRequirements: .PDF reader, 23 MBOverview: Nanohertz Gravitational Wave Astronomy explores the exciting hunt for low frequency gravitational waves by using the extraordinary timing precision of pulsars. The book takes the reader on a tour across the expansive gravitational-wave landscape, from LIGO detections to the search for polarization patterns […]
Storm and Conquest: The Battle for the Indian Ocean, 1808-10 by Stephen TaylorRequirements: .ePUB, .MOBI/.AZW reader, 6.7 MbOverview: The Indian Ocean was the final battleground for Nelson’s navy and France. At stake was Britain’s commercial lifeline to India—and its strategic capacity to wage war in Europe. In one fatal season, the natural order of maritime […]
Caliban’s Shore: The Wreck of the Grosvenor and the Strange Fate of Her Survivors by Stephen TaylorRequirements: .ePUB, .PDF reader, 7.1 MbOverview: The ‘Grosvenor’ was one of the finest East Indiamen of her day, a grand three-masted square-rigger of 741 tons bristling with 26 cannon. When she ran aground on the treacherous coast of south-east […]