Items matching castles taken from Castles (1926)
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castles: A fortified defensive building or structure. Strictly speaking, a castle was also a home, whereas a fort was purely defensive, but I have used castle for any fortified place. A castle may also have had a dungeon or donjon, a sort of prison for offenders and captured soldiers.
Synonyms: fort, keep, garrison
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Pictures from Castles by Charles Oman, K.B.E., M.A., All Souls College, Chichele Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford; Member of Parliament for the University; Hon. LL.D. (Edin) and Fellow of the British Acadamy, etc. Published by the Great Western Railway, Paddington Station, London, 1926.
Sir Charles Oman appears not to be regarded today as a good historian; see, for example, R. Allan Brown’s comments quoted at the soc.history.mediaeval web site maintained by Paul Gans.
Photographs in this collection are out of copyright, because they were taken in the UK and published before 1945, but I am uncertan about the copyright of the other items, and they should not be used commercially. The copyright may have been held by the Great Western Railway, or by Sir Charles Oman (1860 – 1946). Most likely it was the Great Western Railway, in which case I think coyright expired 70 years after publication. But it is far too complicated for me to be certain, and Web sites seem to contradict one another about it.
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| Plan of Ludlow Castle Castles (1926)
“This is by far the most important castle of the whole Welsh border, surpassing Chepstow in size and Raglan in historic interest.” (p. 135) The site is mentioned in the Domesday Book, and thus predate [...] Keywords: plans, castles Places shown: Ludlow; Shropshire; England Added: 2005-04-30 + S K L R N |
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| | Penrice Castle: The Gate-House. Castles (1926)
“This is the largest, but not [according to Sir Charles Oman] the most interesting, of the three castles of Gower. For though its enciente, round keep and gate-house are standing, it as as mere masses [...] Keywords: castles, ruins Places shown: Penrice; Gower Peninsula; Glamorgan; Wales Added: 2006-03-15 + S K L R N |
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| Plan of Kenilworth Castle Castles (1926)
There has been a castle at this site since at least the first half of the 12th century, although the oldest of the present buildings could be as late as the 1260s according to Sir Charles Oman. The pl [...] Keywords: castles, plans Places shown: Kenilworth; Warwickshire; England Added: 2005-04-27 + S K L R N |
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Items matching castles taken from Castles (1926)
