ERMINE STREET

Saxon name for the Roman road in Britain that ran from London to Lincoln and York. It was one of the four main highways of Saxon England. The name is derived from the Earningas, a group of people who inhabited an area in Cambridgeshire through which the road passed. The road from Silchester to Gloucester was also called Ermine Street.

See I. D. Margary, Roman Roads in Britain (3d ed. 1973).

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books on: Ermine Street  - 203 results

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Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations
Book by Ronald Gray, Derek Stubbings; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Cambridge (England)--Gazetteers, Street Names--England--Cambridge, Streets--England--Cambridge
...continued across HUNTINGDON Road to CLARE Street and back down the line of MAGRATH...medieval castle. A Roman road from Ermine Street near Wimpole passed through Barton...of the camp. It is called AKEMAN Street, but the street that now has this...
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Wall Street: A History : from Its Beginnings to the Fall of Enron
Book by Charles R. Geisst; Oxford University Press, 2004
Subjects: New York Stock Exchange, Wall Street--History
...Davis, Raskob, Shouse, Winthrop Aldrich, Jay Cooke II, Wall Street lawyer Frederic Coudert, and many members of the du Pont family...characterized it as pure politics, given the black-tie, ermine, and emeralds ambience of the event, although some labeled...
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Wall Street: A History
Book by Charles R. Geisst; Oxford University Press, 1999
Subjects: United States--Economic Conditions, Wall Street--History
...Davis, Raskob, Shouse, Winthrop Aldrich, Jay Cooke II, Wall Street lawyer Frederic Coudert, and many members of the du Pont family...characterized it as pure politics, given the black-tie, ermine, and emeralds ambience of the event, although some labeled...
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The Street I Know
Book by Harold E. Stearns; Lee Furman, Inc., 1935
Subjects: Journalists--United States--Biography, Stearns, Harold--1891-1943
...Veblen once called "conspicuous display," something like an ermine coat. I doubt if she ever looked -- at least attentively...about five-thirty or so," said Jim. When we got on the street, I couldnt help laughing, for Bouboule had his noisy fox terrier...
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The Street of Seven Stars
Book by Mary Roberts Rinehart; Houghton Mifflin, 1914
Subjects: Fiction
...there were no cats! So the little chorus had made good. Le Grande was a good advertiser. Each day she walked in the Prater, ermine from head to foot, and behind her two by two trailed twelve little Southern darkies in red-velvet coats and caps, grinning...
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journal articles on: Ermine Street  - 27 results

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Foxhunting Folkways under Fire and the Crisis of Traditional Moral Knowledge
Journal article by Eric A. Eliason; Western Folklore, Vol. 63, 2004
Subjects: Ethnology, Folklore, Foxes, Hunting, Traditions
...February 2002, the Belvoir met at Chris Irelands home on Ermine Street, a section of old Roman road in Lincolnshire. The...Lincolnshire operation and field master for the day at Ermine Street. Each hunt may have from a handful to over ten Masters...
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The Religious Poetry of Ruth Pitter (1)
Journal article by Don King; Christianity and Literature, Vol. 54, 2005
Subjects: Pitter, Ruth--Achievements and awards, Pitter, Ruth--Competitions, Poetry, Poets--Achievements and awards
...through: Standing at midnight in the street I saw the sun between my feet, Shining...apocalyptic nightmare: Dark valley, or dark street: arches or trees Or rocks? Shadow of...final four lines of this poem and of The Ermine as a whole: "Christs face struck me...
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The Dunciad and the City: Pope and Heterotopia
Journal article by Brean S. Hammond; Studies in the Literary Imagination, Vol. 38, 2005
Subjects: Cities and towns--Portrayals, English poetry--Criticism and interpretation, Human geography, London, England--Portrayals, Pope, Alexander--Criticism and interpretation, The Dunciad (Poem)--Criticism and interpretation
...houses erected on existing sites, and street plans, dictating widths of streets so as to eliminate alleys impassable...An infancy spent just off Lombard Street, one of the key streets in the rebuilding because it housed...the areas of Piccadilly, St. Jamess Street, the Haymarket, and Pall Mall that...Nicholas Barbon for conversion into new streets. Restoration theater--through the...
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"The Most Blatant of All Our American Myths": Masculinity, Male Bonding, and the Wilderness in Sinclair Lewis's Mantrap
Journal article by Caren J. Town; The Journal of Men's Studies, Vol. 12, 2004
Subjects: American literature--Criticism and interpretation, Lewis, Sinclair--Criticism and interpretation, Mantrap (Book)--Criticism and interpretation, Novels--Criticism and interpretation
...is less carefully constructed than Main Street or Babbitt, the novel better highlights...characters--think of Will Kennicott in Main Street, Terry Pickett in Arrowsmith, and...The wilderness convention in Main Street, Babbitt and Arrowsmith. The Gypsy Scholar...
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Moonshine and Magnolias: the Story of Temple Drake and the Birth of a Nation
Journal article by Deborah Barker; The Faulkner Journal, Vol. 22, 2006
Subjects: Lynchings, Middle class, Motion pictures, Novels, Race, Violence
...soot from the fireplace to create the effect of ermine. The intertitle reads "Southern ermine, from raw cotton, for the grand occasion...Jekyll as he leaves the room and walks down the street. Later, of course, the same setting of seduction...
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Roman Holidays
Magazine article by Simon Thurley; History Today, Vol. 50, December 2000
Subjects: Archaeology--Personal narratives, Godmanchester, United Kingdom--Antiquities, Roman walls--United Kingdom
...where the great Roman north road, Ermine Street, had to cross the river Ouse and...or inn was built for travellers on Ermine Street. Next door was built a bathhouse...trench in our garden not far away. Ermine Street actually ran beneath the old...
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Listings: All Listings Correct at Time of Going to Press
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
...correct at time of going to press The Ermine Street Guard Chris Haines, Oakland Farm...Association Ed Parker, Tithe Barn, Main Street, Chackmore, Buckinghamshire, MK18...Kevin MacDonald, 6 Great Northern Street, Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, PE16...
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Roman Roads
Magazine article by Logan Thompson; History Today, Vol. 47, February 1997
Subjects: Roads, Roman--Design and construction, Rome (Ancient)--Transportation
...Britain. Keith Branigan explains; the routes were Watling Street from Richborough via Canterbury, London, St Albans, Dunstable, Towcester to Wroxeter; Ermine Street from York and thereafter Scotland. From London to the...
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History in Action
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 51, August 2001
Subjects: Historical reenactments--United Kingdom
...cultures has branched out far beyond the traditional confines of the popular English and American Civil War periods. The Ermine Street Guard, founded in 1972, were the first group in Europe seriously to attempt to recreate the life of Roman legionaries...
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History and Recreation: Re-enactment and Living History in Britain 2002
Magazine article by Neil Bell; History Today, Vol. 52, April 2002
Subjects: Historical reenactments--England, United Kingdom--History
...Roman units take part, some from as far afield as Holland and Germany, centre-stage is traditionally taken by the Ermine Street Guard, who usually carry the insignia of the 1st-century AD Legio XX Valeria. Because there are around forty members...
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Lordly Affairs of Stoat; Tale of Tails: The Black Spots in Lordly Ermine Came from the Tail of the Stoat (Inset)
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 14, 2008
...lace. The number of bars of ermine and gold reveal the wearers...House of Lords no longer use ermine, but miniver (rabbit) or...dots remain to represent the ermine or stoat tail. Jon Miller...earlier answer, though the street scenes of Deep End were filmed...
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Plea for Pope to Drop Fur; Ermine Trim: Campaigners Are Opposed to the Pontiff Wearing Fur
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), August 14, 2008
...Plea for Pope to Drop Fur; Ermine Trim: Campaigners Are Opposed...born pontiff to stop wearing ermine, the white winter fur of the stoat. Ermine has been used to trim the crowns...another cat, found on the street, and kept it in his apartment...
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The Accidental Peer? Resplendent in His Ermine, the Former M&S Executive Who - It's Whispered in the Lords - Was Wrongly Ennobled in a Very Embarrassing Case of Mistaken Identity
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 12, 2009
Subjects: Blair, Tony
...The Accidental Peer? Resplendent in His Ermine, the Former M S Executive Who - Its Whispered...desperate to know the identity of the ermine-clad impostor on the red benches who...accidental peer had been circulating in Downing Street - and that Lord Stones name had come up...
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Dig beneath the Ermine and You Find the Whiff of Sleaze
Newspaper article; Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England), February 1, 2009
Subjects: United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Lords
Dig beneath the Ermine and You Find the Whiff of Sleaze. Byline: GEORGE TYNDALE DAY after...Labour majority behind it, and with a whistle of contempt from Downing Street which has demonstrated mounting scorn for the opinions of the elected...
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Will Meyer Ever Swap His Red Socks for Ermine?
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 28, 2009
Subjects: Meyer, Christopher, United Kingdom. Parliament. House of Lords
Will Meyer Ever Swap His Red Socks for Ermine? Byline: QUENTIN LETTS ON SATURDAY WHY IS Sir Christopher Meyer...during the Major years, was Press Secretary at 10 Downing Street. That last job is not the stuff of putative Lords, perhaps...
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encyclopedia articles on: Ermine Street  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Ermine Street
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ERMINE STREET Saxon name for the Roman road in Britain that ran from London to Lincoln...road passed. The road from Silchester to Gloucester was also called Ermine Street. See I. D. Margary, Roman Roads in Britain (3d ed. 1973...
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Roman Roads
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Romans in Britain, mainly for military purposes. The best-known British roads were Ermine Street , Fosse Way , Watling Street , and the pre-Roman Icknield Street . See T. Ashby, The Roman Campagna in Classical Times (1927, repr. 1970); I...
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Northamptonshire
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...specialization in boot and shoe production has also withered in the face of competition. The Roman roads Ermine Street and Watling Street crossed the county. In Anglo-Saxon times the area was part of the kingdom of Mercia and was probably organized...
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Lincoln , City and District, England
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Lincolnshire, E England, in the Parts of Kesteven, on the Witham River. Located at the junction of the Roman Fosse Way and Ermine Street, the city is a center of road and rail transportation. Manufactures include heavy machinery, light-metal products...


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