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  • The author—as Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, a peer of the realm—has had considerable experience of public life, which helps to inform his depiction of character and motivation.

    His Wealth of Nations Brendan Simms 2011

  • Manchester Art Gallery has this to say about the Swynnerton on display: Montagna Mia means 'My Mountain'.

    Heteronormative phallocentric piffle Jes 2008

  • EMUSESSID=eeb6690341ca67e575aba7014dbe44de&irn=3904 Above is a Swynnerton painting I do like.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Jes 2008

  • Manchester Art Gallery has this to say about the Swynnerton on display: Montagna Mia means 'My Mountain'.

    Archive 2008-11-01 Jes 2008

  • EMUSESSID=eeb6690341ca67e575aba7014dbe44de&irn=3904 Above is a Swynnerton painting I do like.

    Heteronormative phallocentric piffle Jes 2008

  • As Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) wrote in A History of the World (1979), "From the sixteenth century, it was usually possible for the successful merchant to buy a title or otherwise make his way into the aristocracy."

    To the Manor Bought 2001

  • As Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) wrote in A History of the World (1979), "From the sixteenth century, it was usually possible for the successful merchant to buy a title or otherwise make his way into the aristocracy."

    To the Manor Bought 2001

  • Swynnerton at the opposite side of Staffordshire, where they succeeded the Swynnerton family as owners of the estate.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • War, but holes in the exact shape of arrow heads were still to be seen in the walls at Swynnerton, the different heights showing some of the archers to have been very tall men.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • The black image of that grim crusader Swynnerton of Swynnerton still remained in the old chapel there, and as usual in ancient times, where the churches were built of sandstone, they sharpened their arrows on the walls or porches of the church, the holes made in sharpening them being plainly visible.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

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