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| Author | : Anthony Silson |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 605 |
| Release | : 2003-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783379014 |
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'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is part of the new established 'Making of...' series by Wharncliffe Books. The book holds fascinating and beautiful illustrations that show the West Yorkshire landscape in its entirety. West Yorkshire is a land of great contrast and sudden change. Lonely upland moors rapidly pass into busy valley towns such as Bradford and Halifax. Serene farmland lies close to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield. The cereal lands of the low gently sloping eastern area contrasts sharply with the grasslands of the higher Pennines. 'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is the story of how West Yorkshire's landscape has changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. It reveals how, from prehistoric times onwards, people changed an initially wooded landscape into its contemporary pattern of moors, farms, villages and towns. Have a transitional journey through the landscape, from prehistoric times to the present day, as you read 'The Making of the West Yorkshire landscape'.
| Author | : Anthony Silson |
| Publisher | : Pen & Sword Books |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Land use |
| ISBN | : 9781903425312 |
Download The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is part of the new established 'Making of...' series by Wharncliffe Books. The book holds fascinating and beautiful illustrations that show the West Yorkshire landscape in its entirety. West Yorkshire is a land of great contrast and sudden change. Lonely upland moors rapidly pass into busy valley towns such as Bradford and Halifax. Serene farmland lies close to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield. The cereal lands of the low gently sloping eastern area contrasts sharply with the grasslands of the higher Pennines. 'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is the story of how West Yorkshire's landscape has changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. It reveals how, from prehistoric times onwards, people changed an initially wooded landscape into its contemporary pattern of moors, farms, villages and towns. Have a transitional journey through the landscape, from prehistoric times to the present day, as you read 'The Making of the West Yorkshire landscape'. KEY SELLING POINTS * A well illustrated book, with nostalgic transitions from the past to the present day. * The information has been taken from local sources. * It is part of a new established series, by Wharncliffe Books. AUTHOR Anthony Silson was born in Horsforth, West Yorkshire. He was educated at West Leeds Boys' High School and then moved on to gain his BSc at the University of Liverpool. Before reaching retirement he was a geography teacher at GCSE level in Barnsley, Bradford and Leeds. The majority of Anthony's publications have been based on geography and history. He has contributed to 'Aspects of Leeds' published by Wharncliffe Books.
| Author | : George Redmonds |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 287 |
| Release | : 2003-05-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783378999 |
Download The Making of Huddersfield Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Making of Huddersfield' is not a systematic and chronological account of Huddersfield's growth but a series of illuminating snapshots which bring to life numerous aspects of the town and its surrounding area.Just 200 years ago Huddersfield was still a village. In a short time it was to become one of the most dynamic and vibrant towns in the north of England and this book traces the history of that development, from the early Middle Ages, through important changes in Tudor and Stuart times and into the exciting years of the Industrial Revolution. 'The Making of Huddersfield' tells the story of ancient bridges and highways, inns, mills and private dwellings, and it looks at ordinary people as they appear in early court records, identifying individuals and families as they thronged the market place or relaxed in the ale houses. Take a transitional journey, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as you read 'The Making of Huddersfield'.
| Author | : Melvyn Jones |
| Publisher | : Wharncliffe |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2004-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1903425425 |
Download The Making of Sheffield Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Covering thousands of years and a multitude of topics, the book tells the story of the development from a group of small agricultural settlements into a town and then a modern city. It covers success, disappointments, miserable periods and glorious episodes that have marked the city's evolution.
| Author | : Mike Fletcher |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 312 |
| Release | : 2004-04-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1783408162 |
Download The Making of Liverpool Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Discover the fascinating history of this coastal English city from its Medieval origins to its status today as a world-renowned cultural destination. In The Making of Liverpool, Mike Fletcher tells the story of this historic city and highlights the significant changes that have made it what it is today. It all begins with King John’s 1207 charter and the construction of Liverpool castle to protect this new town. Liverpool’s development throughout the medieval period was slow, and even through the reigns of the Tudors and Stuarts, the town was confined to the waterfront area. Through the English Civil Wars, Liverpool endured three brutal sieges. But during the Georgian period, it embraced the transport revolution by investing in river navigations and building the first passenger railway. By the nineteenth century, Liverpool was a thriving port, yet life in the city was beset by poverty and disease. Even as the twentieth century brought the devastation of two world wars and the Toxteth Riots, Liverpool found international fame during the swinging sixties. More recently, it has enjoyed a significant resurgence and was named European Capital of Culture in 2008.
| Author | : Francis Pryor |
| Publisher | : Penguin UK |
| Total Pages | : 754 |
| Release | : 2010-06-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 014194336X |
Download The Making of the British Landscape Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the changing story of Britain as it has been preserved in our fields, roads, buildings, towns and villages, mountains, forests and islands. From our suburban streets that still trace out the boundaries of long vanished farms to the Norfolk Broads, formed when medieval peat pits flooded, from the ceremonial landscapes of Stonehenge to the spread of the railways - evidence of how man's effect on Britain is everywhere. In The Making of the British Landscape, eminent historian, archaeologist and farmer, Francis Pryor explains how to read these clues to understand the fascinating history of our land and of how people have lived on it throughout time. Covering both the urban and rural and packed with pictures, maps and drawings showing everything from how we can still pick out Bronze Age fields on Bodmin Moor to how the Industrial Revolution really changed our landscape, this book makes us look afresh at our surroundings and really see them for the first time.
| Author | : Kate Taylor |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : 1903425727 |
Download Not So Merry Wakefield Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Talks about the life and times of a Wakefield woman in the late twentieth century with substantial local historical information. This book aims to echo Henry Clarkson's memories of Merry Wakefield (1887), but with more sombre overtones reflecting experiences of single parenthood, and the trauma of a fatal car accident, but with good times too.
| Author | : Keith Henson |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2004-07-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1903425549 |
Download Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Pontefract and Castleford Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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| Author | : Stephen Wade |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 169 |
| Release | : 2004-02-29 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1783037865 |
Download Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in & Around Halifax Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Calderdale has gone down in the annals of crime in England as the birthplace of Christie of Rillington Place, and as the haunt of the Yorkshire Ripper. But there is much more in the criminal history of the Halifax area to interest the reader with a taste for true crime. As a town with a shifting population of labour for the new mills of the Industrial Revolution, Halifax in the nineteenth century was a focus for urban disorder and lawbreaking. This book tells some of the tales from this period of social history, and from earlier times, when feuds and brutal punishment for crime were the order of the day.Here are the accounts of murders within the family, but also sad suicides and tragic assaults, public riots and violent vendettas. Every northern town has its darkunderbelly beneath the visible civic progress and commercial achievements Halifax and the cluster of towns nearby have had plenty of this nasty side of history, and these pages recount some of the most heinous and vicious crimes recorded between the anarchy of the Middle Ages and the dark twentieth century. The author, a graduate of Leeds University, is a social historian with a special interest in the chronicles of law and crime in the north. He has been a lecturer at the University of Huddersfield and has edited a number of books on literature and history with a regional context. He is currently working on Unsolved Yorkshire Murders, also published by Wharncliffe Books. He is planning to teach a course on the writing of crime in local history at the University of Nottingham.
| Author | : Kate Taylor |
| Publisher | : Casemate Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2003-10-30 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 1783379030 |
Download More Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A historic account of the Northern England city’s crimes, including misdeeds that shed light on past ways of life—from death by neglect to police killings. How the body of a Wakefield murder victim was exhibited for a fee in 1853, the odd story of a Normanton miner attacked by a prosperous Crofton gentleman in 1875, the tragic death of a twenty-one-year old woman on what should have been her wedding day in 1909, and the case of the Sandal dental lecturer who killed his adopted daughter in 1966 are among the many foul deeds recounted in More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield. In a companion volume to Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield (2001), Kate Taylor has assembled more than fifty further accounts of horrific deaths in or near Wakefield. Some killings reflect the tensions and resentment of domestic life but there are mysteries too like the case of a man found dead in 1860 in a shallow beck with no marks of violence on him. In an incident in Horbury involving the death of a baby in 1849 it was the assistant constable pursuing the inquiries who died. The book shows something of the cultural context that can promote murder—the stigma of illegitimacy in the past and the more recent risks of glue sniffing and the appalling bullying of immigrants. Take a journey into the darker and unknown side of your area as you read More Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Wakefield.
