In dit boek staat centraal Albert Jan Blijdenstein (1829-1896), president van de Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij (1889-1896). In mijn boek toon ik aan dat hij een essentiële rol speelde in de oprichting en opbouw van de Nederlandsche Heidemaatschappij in haar beginjaren. De bestaande historiografie over deze organisatie wordt hierdoor in een compleet nieuw daglicht geplaatst. Ronald Wilfred Jansen werd in 1964 geboren in Wijster (Drenthe). Na zijn deeltijdstudiegeschiedenis aan de Hogeschool...

Alexander was the hero of the Greeks. He was King of Macedon, a country lying north of Greece proper. He headed an army of his countrymen, and made an excursion for conquest and glory into Asia. He made himself master of all that quarter of the globe, and reigned over it in Babylon, till he brought himself to an early grave by the excesses into which his boundless prosperity allured him.

His fame rests on his triumphant success in building up for himself so vast an empire, and the admiration ...

St. Frideswyde's was a conventual Church, with a Priory attached, and both were burnt down in 1002, but rebuilt by Ethelred. How much of his handiwork survives in the present structure it is not easy to de-termine; but the Norman builders of the twelfth century effected, at any rate, such a transformation that no suggestion of Saxon architecture is obtruded.

Their work went on for some twenty years, under the supervision of the then Prior, Robert of Cricklade, and the Church was consecrated a...