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Author: J. H. Bettey
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-17
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1317871847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe prehistory and early history of Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Hampshire, Berkshire, Avon, and the city of Bristol.
Author: Norman Mccord
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-10-08
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 1317871375
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInformative, vivid and richly illustrated, this volume explores the history of England's northern borders – the former counties of Northumberland, Cumberland, Durham, Westmorland and the Furness areas of Lancashire – across 1000 years. The book explores every aspect of this changing scene, from the towns and poor upland farms of early modern Cumbria to life in the teeming communities of late Victorian Tyneside. In their final chapters the authors review the modern decline of these traditional industries and the erosion of many of the region's historical characteristics.
Author: C. B. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-22
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 1317871707
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landcape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found within the region as well as common characteristics which illustrate the local peculiarities of the area. The works in the series offer a synthesis of both historical and archaeological work in local areas. Each region is covered in two linked but independent volumes, the first covering the period up to AD 1000 and necessarily relying on archaeological data, and the second bringing the story up to modern times. It aims to portray life as it was experienced by the majority of people of South Britain or England as it was to become. The authors look at the major historical events which have an impact on the reagion - wars, plagues, technological changes and socio-cultural trends amongst them - but they also stress the underlying continuity of rural and urban life.
Author: Malcolm Todd
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 355
ISBN-13: 1317871642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA unique and detailed history of the south-west of England written in a clear and accessible style. A wondeful resource for any local historian.
Author: Barry Cunliffe
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0199609330
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe story of the origins of the British and the Irish peoples, from the end of the last Ice Age around 10,000BC to the eve of the Norman Conquest - who they were, where they came from, and how they related to one another.
Author: Hadrian Cook
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 1803275367
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWessex is famous for its coasts, heaths, woodlands, chalk downland, limestone hills and gorges, settlements and farmed vales. This book provides an account of the physical form, development and operation of its landscape as it was shaped by our ancestors. Major themes include the development of agriculture, settlements, industry and transport.
Author: Sue Harrington
Publisher: Oxbow Books
Published: 2014-07-31
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1782976124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic and social realities of the communities documented. Sue Harrington and the late Martin Welch have adopted a new approach to these issues, based on archaeological information from 12,000 burials and 28,000 objects of the period AD 450_650. The nature, distribution and spatial relationships of settlement and burial evidence are examined over time against a background of the productive capabilities of the environment in which they are set, the availability of raw materials, evidence for metalworking and other industrial/craft activities, and communication and trade routes. This has enabled the identification of central areas of wealth that influenced places around them. Key within this period was the influence of the Franks who may have driven economic exploitation by building on the pre-existing Roman infrastructure of the south-east. Frankish material culture was as widespread as that of the Kentish people, whose wealth is evident in many well-furnished graves, but more nuanced approaches to wealth distribution are apparent further to the West, perhaps due to ongoing interaction with communities who maintained an essentially ïRomano-BritishÍ way of life.
Author: Barry W. Cunliffe
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780582492790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeological artefact as eloquent, and as imposing in its own way, as Avebury and Stonehenge themselves.
Author: Peter F. Brandon
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England. The authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found within the region as well as common characteristics which illustrate the local peculiarities of the area.
Author: C. B. Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-23
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1317871677
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis series, fully illustrated with maps and half-tones, is written for general readers as well as the student. In illuminating the anonymous lives of our predecessors it will, when complete, substantially enrich our understanding of the many histories which together make up the history of England. This authoritative volume surveys the modern history of the counties of Lancashire, Merseyside, Greater Manchester and Cheshire. In 1540 this was a backward area, poor, underpopulated and conservative. During the seventeenth and early eighteenth century the spread of the first cottage industries to the mills and the mines transformed the region into one of the engines of Britain's nineteenth-century greatness. The causes, the costs and the consequences of that transformation are vividly portrayed in this very readable text. Offers a succinct account and analysis of the first region to experience the developed factory system. Discusses the rise, dominance and decline of the region which has parallels across the country and the world. Provides essential background text for the students of local history. Assumes no previous knowledge of the region.
