Adam's freight hauling business had spread over 12 territories in England. Keate was in charge of training, hiring and paying the wagon drivers. His accountant was Andrew Tybalt. Tybalt was of immense help to the expansion of the business. Tybolt spent lots of time researching the area almanac's to discover the business owners and the type of freight they would need hauled in each area.

In other words, what matters most for our churches is that we’re together in Christ, not that we’re together in England. Since this novel was originally written in 1970, I assumed it would feel dated, but it really doesn’t. Even its treatment of women is open-minded; Edith remarks that women could rule companies very easily, were they given a chance, and then Henrietta actually does take the reins of leadership and proves herself an astonishingly capable woman both at home and at work. This may be a bit anachronistic for the mid-19th century, but having smart female characters to care about makes this an immeasurably better novel than it would have been otherwise. I felt a little uneasy with the fact that Henrietta’s character changes because Adam pushes it to do so, but as the novel progressed it became clear that he’d just given her an opportunity rather than actually pushing her at all; that was just how he thought of it. Henrietta, as well as being a wife and mother to an ever increasing brood of small Swanns, is the financial wizard who helps Adam to succeed. While the business is essentially a family one, much of its success is due to finding the right staff in the right place and giving them every incentive to perform and develop the business.The novels are concerned with the portrayal 'ordinary, decent folk', striving to 'get on' and become a success, whilst remaining true to themselves and their values. These values include patriotism, decency, integrity, thrift, industriousness, success gained through service and hard work. The novels, now described as 'old fashioned', celebrate English history, humanity, and liberalism while demonstrating little patience with entrenched class differences and snobbery. Life unfolds for Adam and his bride and Adam and his true love, his transport company. This stuff is apex entertainment literature. Nice to pass the time with, but not exactly excitement-filled. RFD is an English(i.e. somewhat more restrained) Nelson DeMille ...

He was, from the beginning of his studies at Balliol College, Oxford, drawn towards the 17th century. His first publication was an article in a 1940 collection, The English Revolution, 1640, which was a no-holds-barred assault on the traditional presentation of the civil war as an aberration in the stately continuity of English history. He would later downplay the essay as the work of an angry young man who expected to die in the war, but it marked the beginnings of his lifelong attempt to revive the energy, ideas, religiosity and politics of the 1600s for an educated 20th-century readership. This is such an interesting read....a little predictable at times, but also surprising and interesting. The great museum: the re-presentation of history. Leichhardt, New South Wales: Pluto Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-86104-788-8.

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The University of Sydney (29 April 2005). "Citation: Doctor of Letters (honoris causa) - Emeritus Professor Donald Richmond Horne AO" (PDF) . Retrieved 20 April 2021. The Australian people: biography of a nation. Sydney, New South Wales: Angus and Robertson. 1972. p.285. ISBN 978-0-207-12845-5.

Over the fearful spring of 1942, as the German Luftwaffe sought to bomb the allies into surrender, William Beveridge worked away on the report set to transform postwar Britain. By nature, Beveridge was a rather dry civil servant and his draft for a new welfare state looked set to be equally austere. Until, that is, his future wife Jessy Mair got hold of it. She urged him to put aside the bureaucratic language and instead insert some "Cromwellian spirit" into the prose. And so the Beveridge report became one of the most inspiring publications of the 20th century, with its call to slay the "Five Giant Evils" of Squalor, Ignorance, Want, Idleness and Disease, and to build a new Jerusalem of social justice. Horne, Donald; Horne, Myfanwy (2007). Dying: a memoir. Ringwood, Victoria: Viking. p.265. ISBN 978-0-670-07102-9. However, the conversation dynamic changed when we talked about the Lord, his Word, and his work in our lives. Suddenly, we had so much to talk about. There was warmth in our conversation as we recognized each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. We were strangers from an earthly standpoint. But because of Christ, we were family. Our love for Jesus outpaced and will outlive our love for our homelands.Delderfield's first published play was produced at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in 1936; the Birmingham Post wrote "more please, Mr Delderfield". [2] :250 One of his plays, Worm's Eye View, had a run at the Whitehall Theatre in London, and was filmed in 1951 with Diana Dors. Following service in the RAF during World War II, he resumed his literary career, while also running an antiques business near Budleigh Salterton, Devon. Having begun with drama, Delderfield decided to switch to writing novels in the 1950s. His first novel, Seven Men of Gascony, a tale of French soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars, was published in 1949 by Werner Laurie. [3] In 1950 he featured in a BBC Newsreel clip of the short-lived The Axminster and Lyme Regis Clarion in Lyme Regis. [4] Autobiography [ edit ] What was 18th century England like for a business man such as Adam Swann. This book is a family saga touching upon every aspect life. Almost every character falls under the scrutiny of our author. We learn who they are: What their ambitions,etc. almost a novel within themselves! I