Author: Charles K. RawdingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wolds, The (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Lincolnshire Wolds in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Charles K. RawdingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wolds, The (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The Lincolnshire Wolds
Author: David N. RobinsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"The chalk-capped Lincolnshire Wolds contain the highest land between Yorkshire and Kent, affording enormous views to Lincoln Cathedral, to the sea and over the fens. Most of the Wolds was designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1973, and this is the first book of its kind to focus on an AONB and its setting as a living and working landscape. It contains a collection of 14 essays and nine vignettes about geology and scenery, landscape history and management, farming, bomber stations, biodiversity, tourism and the Wolds countryside in literature and art. It is illustrated by nearly 100 photographs, paintings, maps and diagrams."--Publisher's description.
The Nineteenth Century
Author: A Lincolnshire Journey
Author: Steve MiddletonPublisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1783062282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Anyone with an interest in Lincolnshire, its landscape and its past and a liking for traditional poetry would enjoy this magical history tour A Lincolnshire Journey is a fictionalised exploration of the history and geography of Lincolnshire. The Lincoln Imp, driven out of the cathedral by an off-key chorister, becomes our tour guide through a landscape both familiar and unfamiliar. There dwell the Corieltauvi tribe and the Roman Ninth Legion, Anglo-Saxons warriors, Viking settlers, Norman lords and the latter day descendants of all of these. Our journey takes us into the gentle chalk wolds and across Lincolnshire’s lonely fenland, along the salt marshes to the banks of the Humber and even out into the North Sea and the Atlantic. The trawling industry, long gone railways, windmills, beautiful and often isolated country churches, delightful minor roads, all are visited. Perhaps most poignantly, Lincolnshire’s role as ‘Bomber County’ is considered. Written in verse form, this book is characterised by historical and geographical detail, humour and rhyme and rhythm. Join the Lincoln Imp for a rich and varied trip around Lincolnshire, in a book which strongly evokes the spirit of the county.
The British Empire in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Edgar SandersonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The Unquiet Countryside
Author: G. E. MingayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000510271
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
First published in 1989 The Unquiet Countryside chronicles rural crime and unrest in the English countryside from seventeenth century down to the end of the Victorian era. The authors highlight some of the most striking aspects of the countryside of the past: the extent and nature of rural crime and protest; riots over food; the Swing riots of 1830; poaching, arson, and animal maiming; the relations between landowners and the rural community; and the eventual new outlet for farmworkers in the growth of labour organizations. The volume expands our understanding of the rural past and directs new light on Britain’s rural heritage. This book is an essential read for scholars and researchers of British history, agricultural history, and history in general.
A Lost Frontier Revealed
Author: Alan FoxPublisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press
ISBN: 1907396365
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A traveller through the length and breadth of England is soon aware of cultural differences, some of which are clearly visible in the landscape. The eminent English historian Charles Phythian-Adams has put forth that England, through much of the last millennium, could be divided into regional societies, which broadly coincided with groups of pre-1974 counties. These shire assemblages in turn lay largely within the major river drainage systems of the country. In this unusual study Alan Fox tests for, and establishes, the presence of an informal frontier between two of the proposed societies astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border, which lies on the watershed between the Trent and Witham drainage basins. The evidence presented suggests a strong case for a cultural frontier zone, which is announced by a largely empty landscape astride the border between the contrasting settlement patterns of these neighbouring counties.
Lord and Peasant in Nineteenth Century Britain
Author: Dennis R. MillsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317221982
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
First published in 1980, this book looks at the social structure of 18th and 19th century rural Britain. It is particularly concerned with the relationship of landlord and peasant in the rural village and examines the open-closed model of English rural social structure in great depth. In doing so, it explores the ways in which the estate system influenced urban development and how the peasant system facilitated the industrialisation of many villages. This book will be of particular interest to students of Victorian and social history, industrialisation and urbanisation.
Mrs. Woolf and the Servants
Author: Alison LightPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1608192423
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
When Virginia Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own in 1929, she established her reputation as a feminist, and an advocate for unheard voices. But like thousands of other upper-class British women, Woolf relied on live-in domestic servants for the most intimate of daily tasks. That room of Woolf's own was kept clean by a series of cooks and maids throughout her life. In the much-praised Mrs. Woolf and the Servants, Alison Light probes the unspoken inequality of Bloomsbury homes with insight and grace, and provides an entirely new perspective on an essential modern artist.
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