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In 2004 Chambers Harrap published a new Book of Days.Rosalind Fergusson wrote for the Chambers Harrap website that: Like its illustrious predecessor, Chambers Book of Days (2004) is a compendium of information relating to the days, months, and seasons of the year, selected and presented with the personal touch of the author. ...
Chambers Book of Days, by Robert Chambers; The Wicca Book of Days by Gerina Dunwich; Gorillas Among Us: A Primate Ethnographer's Book of Days by Dawn Prince-Hughes; Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus Book of Days by John Gray; Book of Days by China Bayles; The diary of Stanislaus Joyce that he called his "Book of Days” Book of Days, a ...
Robert Chambers, summing up the invention and abolition of "Gildas the Albanian" in Chambers Book of Days (1883), observed: Such is the outline of the story of St Gildas, which, in its details, is so full of inconsistencies and absurdities, that many writers have tried to solve the difficulty by supposing that there were two or several saints ...
Illustration from Chambers Book of Days depicting a sow and her piglets being tried for the murder of a child. The trial allegedly took place in 1457, the mother being found guilty and the piglets acquitted. In legal history, an animal trial is a trial of a non-human animal.
Material from it was afterwards broadly incorporated into William Hone's Every Day Book, Year Book, etc., and in Chambers' Book of Days, which had wide popular circulation. The Popular Antiquities were further revised and enlarged by Sir Henry Ellis.
This manor house is mentioned in Chambers Book of Days under June 23: [8] While Creslow pastures continued in possession of the Crown, they were committed to the custody of a keeper. In 1596, James Quarles, Esq. Chief Clerk of the Royal Kitchen, was keeper of Creslow pastures.
St George and other dragon tales from Chambers' Book of Days; Helps to Hereford history, civil and legendary, in an account of ... The Mordiford Dragon and other subjects by James Dacres Devlin - 1848; The Hereford guide: containing a concise history of the city by William Jenkins Rees - 1808; Picturesque views on the river Wye by Samuel ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 10:35, 14 February 2016: 766 × 595 (448 KB): MichaelMaggs: B&W for better screen visibility and consistency with other Father Christmas images