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Author : Jarrold Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711720800
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire and the Fens written by Jarrold Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2002-04-26 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francis Pryor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786692236
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)
Download or read book The Fens written by Francis Pryor and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive, neglected and extraordinary regions of England. Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist – making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area – and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation – from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers – with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist. Affectionate, richly informative and deftly executed, The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology, history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.
Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Chrimes
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9780956238214
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (382 download)
Download or read book Cambridge written by Nicholas Chrimes and published by Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2012 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lucy Grewcock
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides (Slow Travel series)
ISBN 13 : 9781784777456
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (774 download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire and the Fens written by Lucy Grewcock and published by Bradt Travel Guides (Slow Travel series). This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Holiday advice and tourist information covering walking, wildlife, accommodation, restaurants, towns, stately homes and more. Includes Cambridge, Ely, St Ives, Godmanchester, Huntingdon, Wisbech and St Neots, plus Grantchester, Wicken Fen and Duxford Imperial War Museum and narrowboat cruising.
Author : William Henry Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108066410
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)
Download or read book A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire written by William Henry Wheeler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expanded 1896 second edition gives a detailed history of the reclamation and drainage of the Fens of South Lincolnshire.
Author : H. C. Darby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107402980
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by H. C. Darby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.
Author : Esq. Samuel Wells
Publisher : London, Published for the author
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level written by Esq. Samuel Wells and published by London, Published for the author. This book was released on 1830 with total page 862 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire written by Arthur Mee and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Through Great Britain and Ireland with Cromwell written by Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a biography of Oliver Cromwell.
Author : Eric H. Ash
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142200X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Draining of the Fens written by Eric H. Ash and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a political, social, and environmental history of the many attempts to drain the Fens of eastern England during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both the early failures and the eventual successes. Fen drainage projects were supposed to transform hundreds of thousands of acres of wetlands into dry farmland capable of growing grain and other crops, and also reform the sickly, backward fenland inhabitants into civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth. Fenlanders, however, viewed the drainage as a grave threat to their local landscape, economy, and way of life. At issue were two different understandings of the Fens, what they were and ought to be; the power to define the Fens in the present was the power to determine their future destiny. The drainage projects, and the many conflicts they incited, illustrate the ways in which politics, economics, and ecological thought intersected at a time when attitudes toward both the natural environment and the commonwealth were shifting. Promoted by the crown, endorsed by agricultural improvement advocates, undertaken by English and Dutch projectors, and opposed by fenland commoners, the drainage of the Fens provides a fascinating locus to study the process of state building in early modern England, and the violent popular resistance it sometimes provoked. In exploring the many challenges the English faced in re-conceiving and re-creating their Fens, this book addresses important themes of environmental, political, economic, social, and technological history, and reveals new dimensions of the evolution of early modern England into a modern, unitary, capitalist state"--
Author : Enid Porter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000155978
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore (RLE Folklore) written by Enid Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-26 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enid Porter spent many years collecting and recording from Cambridgeshire people the folk beliefs and customs held and observed in the country, both past and present. The subjects covered in the book, first published in 1969, range from the folklore of courtship, marriage, birth and death, of trees and plants and the whole world of nature to traditional Cambridgeshire food and drink; from ghosts and witchcraft and the cure of disease to charity and land-letting customs. The traditional occupations of the county, as well as the dress worn by the workers in the various crafts and the tools and implements they used, are also recorded, and there are accounts of various Cambridgeshire sports and pastimes. There is a section on University customs, ranging from the ancient procedure observed at examinations and degree ceremonies, through College Stamps and Mock Funerals, to the appointment made formerly of a Christmas Lord in the Colleges. Miss Porter spent most of her life in Cambridge and her mother’s family have lived there since the sixteenth century, so she includes information based on her own observations and on those of members of her family. The Fenland material has largely been provided by W. H. Barrett, well known through his collections of Fen Tales.
Author : Dennis Kelsall
Publisher : Pathfinder
ISBN 13 : 9780711749801
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (498 download)
Download or read book Cambridgeshire and the Fens written by Dennis Kelsall and published by Pathfinder. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often dismissed as flat and featureless, the waterlands of East Anglia offer great, and largely undiscovered, opportunities for any walker. With the tranquil riverside scenery, charming towns, villages and country houses, and the mesmerising beauty of the Fens, the area is rich in heritage, wildlife and history.
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Publisher : Pathfinder
ISBN 13 : 9780319090794
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (97 download)
Download or read book CAMBRIDGESHIRE & THE FENS written by and published by Pathfinder. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : ALAN. BOWLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874357964
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)
Download or read book GREAT FEN written by ALAN. BOWLEY and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Oosthuizen
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188119
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)
Download or read book The Anglo-Saxon Fenland written by Susan Oosthuizen and published by Windgather Press. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeologies and histories of the fens of eastern England, continue to suggest, explicitly or by implication, that the early medieval fenland was dominated by the activities of north-west European colonists in a largely empty landscape. Using existing and new evidence and arguments, this new interdisciplinary history of the Anglo-Saxon fenland offers another interpretation. The fen islands and the silt fens show a degree of occupation unexpected a few decades ago. Dense Romano-British settlement appears to have been followed by consistent early medieval occupation on every island in the peat fens and across the silt fens, despite the impact of climatic change. The inhabitants of the region were organised within territorial groups in a complicated, almost certainly dynamic, hierarchy of subordinate and dominant polities, principalities and kingdoms. Their prosperous livelihoods were based on careful collective control, exploitation and management of the vast natural water-meadows on which their herds of cattle grazed. This was a society whose origins could be found in prehistoric Britain, and which had evolved through the period of Roman control and into the post-imperial decades and centuries that followed. The rich and complex history of the development of the region shows, it is argued, a traditional social order evolving, adapting and innovating in response to changing times.
