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You can find the Open study area by continuing straight ahead from the moving walkway and crossing the Kirkeby bridge. You can work in groups here. What makes the book particularly good is that as the years pass the focus varies, even if the common denominator is the family’s wealth from the mining of coal. A book just on the nationalization of the British coal industry could easily be boring and dry. Here there are exciting events, personal tales and intriguing questions about the family to be investigated. Here follows one example. The father of the seventh earl, Lord Milton, died before the death of the sixth. So the grandson, not the son, of the sixth became the seventh earl. Am I confusing you? Don’t worry, it is very clear in the book. Circumstances under which the seventh was born are extremely peculiar. He was born in Canada in 1872 in an Indian settlement on Lake Superior. His father had epilepsy which made him an unacceptable heir; there was need for a male heir without the taint of epilepsy. The more you learn the more your interest is piqued. Has the baby who was to become the seventh earl been exchanged for a healthy male child? Something fishy was certainly going on! We are given the known facts; they certainly make for an intriguing mystery. Each reader must decide for them self. The story is engagingly told. My point is that as the years pass we encounter not one but several such captivating episodes. History comes in between so you have a solid base on which to stand, but the book does not put you to sleep. For the record Bailey does not cover the rise of the Fitzwilliams. She takes great liberties assuming the reader is already familiar with the family and entirely omits the early chapters of their history without so much as a footnote of explanation. The title was created in 1716, but Bailey's chronicle doesn't begin until 1902 with the death of the 6th Earl Fitzwilliam leaving much of the family, not to mention the origins of their wealth and influence, shrouded in mystery. I cannot praise this book enough. I enjoyed this book so much. I found myself not being able to put it down from the moment I started reading it.
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This is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of English society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth century.
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So how does this extensive fortune and massive house end up on the real estate market in 2014 in need of mass repairs? I can highly recommend this book. It’s now one for my favourites shelf and I will source a hard copy for my real life book shelf to sit alongside Fey's war. To me the problem is that towards the beginning there’s a perfect balance of family “gossip” and contextual history but the more you do into the book the “gossip” element gets less and the history part increases. Now obviously I’d expect and indeed enjoy some history/setting for all this but for me it just tips too far that way. There are a lot of ‘just’ history books about this period I could buy after all. I do know the author struggled from a lot of the documentation being destroyed but I would have rather had a shorter book than what feels at times like padding. Pre WW1 the British aristocracy would do whatever was necessary to protect themselves. Post WW1 they all came home to a very different Britain and so begins a slow and painful demise of one the most powerful families in Britain. Add to that the incredible links and direct connections to an incredibly rich, young, up and coming American Dynasty called The Kennedy's and you have an absolute must read book!
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Kathleen Kennedy was featured in the book as well. There was a lengthy section on her romance with, and marriage to, a non-family member. After her husband’s death, she fell in love with Peter Fitzwilliam and died with him in a plane crash. I’d head for years about her tragic death (part of the famous Kennedy tragedies) but I had no idea that her story was part of Wentworth’s saga. I'm amazed at the obsession with having a male heir, as well as the apparent extraordinary difficulty in producing one. But when all possible male descendants are extinct, the Earldom disappears. The male Wentworth line ran dry and the title passed matrilineally to the FitzWilliams. Ludicrously rich, the money came from coal. The 'Estate' employed and housed the people who worked the coal; most boys went 'down't' pit'. I recall slag heaps and mine shafts scarring the countryside and an almost feudal mentality. The class system was alive and thriving. Wentworth in Yorkshire was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain and belonged to the Fitzwilliam family.The upbringing of Lord Milton and his purposed and continued separation from the entire huge group of his siblings and central family because of his illness? And that journey to the wilderness of Canada for that birth! Also Billy's "eyes" of perceptions during the King and Queen home visit to Wentworth House in 1912 at the exact time of the horrendous mining implodes. And also the photographs in this book- awesome. I had only recently finished reading Mda's memoir Sometimes there is a Void and so was aware that a lot of the book is based on his own real-life experiences. It is social satire, and the story is rather sad, but Mda also sees the funny side of it.
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The book covers the lingering smell of apartheid, small-time gangsters, big-time corrupt business, the reaction to a mixed race relationship, and how ex-freedom fighters find they are on the scrape heap and have gained little from all of their sacrifices. The student reading room is found on your right hand when going up the moving walkway in the atrium of the library. The reading room is open to everyone who needs a place to read. The reason I didn't give it five stars is because I needed to take notes to keep up with all the Williams, since the family kept naming all their sons William... This is a book which actually took my breath away as I had not expected it to be remotely as interesting as it ended up being. Not only does the work concern itself with the story of the 19th and 20th century doings of the FitzWilliam tragedy (which in themselves are enough for the old adage that one needs not invent fiction but only look into history for a good, if tragic, story), but also the history of mining in that time and the related politics. At first I was really excited about this book, but just over half way I got quite fed up with it and found finishing it a struggle. Considering how I started with it I am left feeling quite disappointed.The staggeringly rich are different from you and me: they are just as prone to making egregious errors in every aspect of their lives, but they are rather more protected from the consequences. So good I had requested Baily's other book, The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery, before I ever finished this one. I can't remember why I got this book from the library - I think another goodreader mentioned it in a review and it sounded interesting. And it was. I have a bit of a fascination with mining, coal in particular - try reading "Rose" by Martin Cruz Smith - excellent book - and the peculiarities of the English aristocracy. A fascinating book for fans of Downton Abbey, it's also a mystery: how can one of the wealthiest families in the UK die out over the course of 50 years? It is a social history of the time, as well as a history of a place, and the specific characters who inhabit it, While not evenly divided between storylines focusing on the Dukes and the locals, it does have the fresh voices of former employees adding color to the narrative. And it is an engrossing story. Kristin Uys is a tough Roodepoort magistrate who lives alone with her cat. She is on a one-woman crusade to wipe out prostitution in the town for reasons that have personal significance for her. Although she is unable to convict the Visagie Brothers, Stevo and Shortie, on charges of running a brothel, she manages to nail Stevo for contempt of court and gives him a summary six-month sentence. Besides common office supplies and books, the shop also offers unique products with quotes and motifs from the collections, such as tote bags, notebooks, and fridge magnets.
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