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The Fens

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.

Cambridge

Author : Nicholas Chrimes
Publisher : Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9780956238214
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (382 download)

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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:

Cambridgeshire

Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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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:

A History of the Fens of South Lincolnshire

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.

The Draining of the Fens

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.

Cambridgeshire

Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (633 download)

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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:

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

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:

Cambridgeshire and the Fens

Author : Jarrold Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780711720800
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (28 download)

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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:

Fenland Notes & Queries

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:

Through Great Britain and Ireland with Cromwell

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.

Cambridgeshire and the Fens

Author : Lucy Grewcock
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides (Slow Travel series)
ISBN 13 : 9781784777456
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (774 download)

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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.

Cambridgeshire

Author : Arthur Mee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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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:

GREAT FEN

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 Fight for Beauty

Author : Fiona Reynolds
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780748760
Total Pages : 336 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 336 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 Draining of the Fens

Author : Eric H. Ash
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 142142200X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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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"--

The Anglo-Saxon Fenland

Author : Susan Oosthuizen
Publisher : Windgather Press
ISBN 13 : 1911188119
Total Pages : 160 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 160 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.

The Lost Fens

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.