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The Fens

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Author : Francis Pryor
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786692236
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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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.

A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire

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Author : William Henry Wheeler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108066410
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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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.

Through Great Britain and Ireland with Cromwell

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Author : Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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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.

The Draining of the Fens

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Author : H. C. Darby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107402980
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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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.

GREAT FEN

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Author : ALAN. BOWLEY
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781874357964
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (579 download)

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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:

The Story of the Fens

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Author : Frank Meeres
Publisher : Phillimore
ISBN 13 : 9781860776977
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Fens written by Frank Meeres and published by Phillimore. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thousands of years of history in one richly illustrated volume

The Fight for Beauty

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Author : Fiona Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780748760
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Fight for Beauty written by Fiona Reynolds and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-05-12 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a world where the drive for economic growth is crowding out everything that can’t be given a monetary value. We’re stuck on a treadmill where only the material things in life gain traction and it’s getting harder to find space for the things that really matter but money can’t buy, including our future. Fiona Reynolds proposes a solution that is at once radical and simple – to inspire us through the beauty of the world around us. Delving into our past, examining landscapes, nature, farming and urbanisation, she shows how ideas about beauty have arisen and evolved, been shaped by public policy, been knocked back and inched forward until they arrived lost in the economically-driven spirit of today. A passionate, polemical call to arms, The Fight for Beauty presents an alternative path forward: one that, if adopted, could take us all to a better future.

The History of the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, Called Bedford Level

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Author : Esq. Samuel Wells
Publisher : London, Published for the author
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 862 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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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:

The Lost Fens

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Author : Ian D. Rotherham
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492683
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Fens written by Ian D. Rotherham and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The loss of the great fenlands of eastern England is the greatest single removal of ecology in our history. So thorough was the process that most visitors to the regions, or even people living there, have little idea of what has gone. For many, the Fenlands are the vast expansive flatlands of intensive farming, the 'breadbaskets' of Britain. Lost are the vast flocks of wetland birds that filled the evening skies in winter, the frozen wetlands and the fen skaters of the winter, and the abundant black terns or breeding wading birds of the summer months. However, pause a while off main roads and consider place names and road names: Fenny Lane, The Withies, Commonside, Reed Holme, Fen Common, Turbary Lane, Wildmore, Adventurers' Fen, Wicken Fen, and more; they tell a story of a landscape now gone but once hugely important. The Fens bred revolution and civil war and paid the penalty. They nurtured religious non-conformism with global impact. After 1066, the Saxons withheld the Normans' onslaught, and in the 1970s, unting's Beavers took action against twentieth-century invaders. The fenscapes, neither water nor land but something in-between, breed independence and, if necessary, dissention. This story is of politically and economically driven ecological catastrophe and loss. So much has gone, but we do not even know fully what was there before. With global environmental change, and especially climate change, fenlands once again have major roles in our sustainable futures.

Fenland Notes & Queries

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Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fenland Notes & Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fenland Riots and the English Revolution

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Author : Keith Lindley
Publisher : Heinemann Educational Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Fenland Riots and the English Revolution written by Keith Lindley and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1982 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

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Author : Susan Oosthuizen
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188097
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (111 download)

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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 304 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.

Shadowbreaker

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Author : Joy Ellis
Publisher : Robert Hale
ISBN 13 : 9780709093060
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Shadowbreaker written by Joy Ellis and published by Robert Hale. This book was released on 2011 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As DI Nikki Gelena struggles to come to terms with the tragic death of her friend, a man is found on a piece of wasteland in Greenborough town. The manner of his death, a cold-blooded and professional execution, bothers her deeply, but not nearly as much as it bothers her sergeant, DS Joseph Easter.

Murder in the Fens

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Author : Clare Chase
Publisher : Bookouture
ISBN 13 : 9781838880446
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Murder in the Fens written by Clare Chase and published by Bookouture. This book was released on 2019-06-24 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the body of twenty-year-old Julie Cooper is found - her pockets stuffed full of wilting flowers - in an iron-age hill fort on the edge of the fens, Detective Tara Thorpe and her team are called in to investigate. The evidence points to an illicit affair gone wrong... but is there more to the story? As always at the Cambridge Constabulary, the case turns personal. Detective Blake is exhausted after the arrival of a new baby with wayward wife Babette, and Tara is keen to put as much distance between herself and Blake as she can - both at the station and on the hunt for the killer. Charming rookie officer Jez is the perfect distraction... but is he a little too good to be true? Then Tara makes a startling breakthrough when she finds an unsettling family heirloom hidden in the late victim's bedroom - a golden statue of a sinister-looking cat with emerald eyes. As she traces its origins, Tara begins to realise that Julie's murder is no one-off crime, but a sinister plot with its roots in a terrible secret that was covered up decades earlier. An unputdownable page-turner, perfect for fans of Faith Martin, Agatha Christie and Joy Ellis. Can be read as a standalone. The Tara Thorpe Mystery Series: Book 1 - Murder on the Marshes Book 2 - Death on the River Book 3 - Death Comes to Call Book 4 - Murder in the Fens Readers absolutely love Clare Chase: 'Literally couldn't put it down!! This was an excellent thriller with well-developed characters and great twists!! From the first page until the end... a great ride of mystery, suspense and murder... Excellent thriller and crime read!!' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'Wow what a book! One of the best mysteries I have read! Loved it from start to finish and couldn't put it down! A masterpiece! Plotting perfection! The writing is brilliant and flows off the page, the characters stay with you. A thoroughly satisfying, absolutely stunning book! I cannot wait to read more by this amazing author!' Renita D'Silva 'Fast-paced, twisty... I just ripped right through this book.' Goodreads reviewer, 5 stars 'I have to say that I loved this book.'Jen Med's Book Reviews, 5 stars 'I absolutely loved this book... grabbed me by the throat from the opening chapter and refused to let go until the very end... The story was a fantastic puzzle... all set against the beautiful backdrop of Cambridge and the menacing emptiness of the surrounding Cambridgeshire fens.' A Little Book Problem, 5 stars 'Clever, twisty stories, with great characters.' Kate Rhodes, author of Hell Bay 'You'll enjoy her books including this one if you like Joy Ellis, L. J. Ross, and Faith Martin... I absolutely adored the setting here. It reminds a little of the sort of setting in Midsomer Murders - quaint and idyllic with some very shady characters. The twists in the plot were plentiful and I liked the relationship and dynamic between Thorpe and Blake.' Goodreads reviewer 'A tense, exciting read with plenty of twists... an addictive read.' Goodreads reviewer

The Great Level

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Author : Stella Tillyard
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0701183195
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Great Level written by Stella Tillyard and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I am an engineer and a measured man of the world. I prefer to weigh everything in the balance, to calculate and to plan. Yet my own heart is going faster than I can now count.’ In 1649, Jan Brunt, a Dutchman, arrives in England to work on draining and developing the Great Level, an expanse of marsh in the heart of the fen country. It is here he meets Eliza, whose love overturns his ordered vision and whose act of resistance forces him to see the world differently. Jan flees to the New World, where the spirit of avarice is raging and his skills as an engineer are prized. Then one spring morning a boy delivers a note that prompts him to remember the Fens, and confront all that was lost there. The Great Level is a dramatic and elemental story about two people whose differences draw them together then drive them apart. Jan and Eliza’s journeys, like the century they inhabit, are filled with conflict, hard graft and adventure – and see them searching for their own piece of solid ground.

Cambridgeshire

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Author : John Charles Cox
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Cambridgeshire written by John Charles Cox and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Natural History of Cambridgeshire

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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