Author : Jean Bradley Anderson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 38,77 MB
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0822349833
This sweeping history of Durham County, North Carolina, extends from the seventeenth century to the end of the twentieth.
Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 45,15 MB
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300095999
The premier monument is Durham Cathedral, greatest of English Norman churches. Lovers of the Middle Ages will also seek out the county's exceptional Anglo-Saxon churches, while many of its great castles - Brancepeth, Raby, Auckland, Lambton - conceal palatial Georgian and Victorian interiors. The landscape varies dramatically, from the wilds of Teesdale and Weardale, in the west, to the pioneering industrial ports of Sunderland and Hartlepool on the coast, including fine gentry houses and stone-built market towns. South Tyneside and northern Cleveland, historically part of County Durham, are also covered.
Author : Dan Jackson
Publisher : Hurst & Company
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1787381943
Why is the North East the most distinctive region of England? Where do the stereotypes about North Easterners come from, and why are they so often misunderstood? In this wideranging new history of the people of North East England, Dan Jackson explores the deep roots of Northumbrian culture--hard work and heavy drinking, sociability and sentimentality, militarism and masculinity--in centuries of border warfare and dangerous and demanding work in industry, at sea and underground. He explains how the landscape and architecture of the North East explains so much about the people who have lived there, and how a 'Northumbrian Enlightenment' emerged from this most literate part of England, leading to a catalogue of inventions that changed the world, from the locomotive to the lightbulb. Jackson's Northumbrian journey reaches right to the present day, as this remarkable region finds itself caught between an indifferent south and a newly assertive Scotland. Covering everything from the Venerable Bede and the prince-bishops of Durham to Viz and Geordie Shore, this vital new history makes sense of a part of England facing an uncertain future, but whose people remain as distinctive as ever.
Author : William Hutchinson
Publisher :
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 1787
Category : Durham (England : County)
ISBN :
Author : Paul Durham
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 48,52 MB
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0062271520
The first in a series with the makings of a modern classic, The Luck Uglies is an irresistible cross between Chris Colfer's Land of Stories series and Kelly Barnhill's The Girl Who Drank the Moon, overflowing with adventure, secrets, friendship, and magic. Rye O'Chanter has seen a lot of strange things happen in Village Drowning: Children are chased through the streets. Families are fined for breaking laws that don't even exist. Girls aren't allowed to read anymore, and certain books—books that hold secrets about Drowning's past—have been outlawed altogether. Now a terrifying encounter has eleven-year-old Rye convinced that the monstrous, supposedly extinct Bog Noblins have returned. Before the monsters disappeared, there was only one way to defeat them—the Luck Uglies. But the Luck Uglies have long since been exiled, and there's nobody left who can protect the village. As Rye dives into Drowning's maze of secrets, rules, and lies, she begins to question everything she's been told about the village's legend of outlaws and beasts . . . and what she'll discover is that it may take a villain to save them from the monsters. This critically acclaimed debut middle grade novel was named an ALA Notable Book and a New York Public Library Title for Reading and Sharing and won the Cybil Award for Middle Grade Speculative Fiction and a Sunshine State Young Readers Award.
Author : James Raine
Publisher :
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1820
Category : Durham (England : County)
ISBN :
Author : William Hutchinson
Publisher :
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1823
Category : Durham (England : County)
ISBN :
Author : ARAF. CHOHAN
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 24,88 MB
Release : 2020
Category :
ISBN : 9781838008604
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,82 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Durham (England : County)
ISBN :
Author : Rob Kirkup
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2010-02-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 075095244X
From reports of haunted castles, hotels, public houses, and even a prisoner of war camp, to heart-stopping accounts of apparitions, poltergeists and related supernatural phenomena, Ghostly County Durham investigates over twenty of the most haunted locations in the area today. Drawing on historical and contemporary sources, this selection includes a club-footed monk at Finchdale Priory, the Singing Lady Cauldron Snout, as well as a collection of spectres that call Durham Castle home — including a shadowy figure which haunts the Black Staircase. Illustrated with sixty photographs, together with access details for each location, this book is sure to appeal all those interested in finding out more about the area's haunted heritage.
