Saddleworth Sketches
Author : Joseph Bradbury
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Saddleworth (England)
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Author : Joseph Bradbury
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 1871
Category : Saddleworth (England)
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Author : John Radcliffe
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Page : 574 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Registers of births, etc
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Author : William Atkins
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 28,42 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 057129006X
In this deeply personal journey across our nation's most forbidding and most mysterious terrain, William Atkins takes the reader from south to north, in search of the heart of this elusive landscape. His account is both travelogue and natural history, and an exploration of moorland's uniquely captivating position in our literature, history and psyche. Atkins may be a solitary wanderer across these vast expanses, but his journey is full of encounters, busy with the voices of the moors, past and present: murderers and monks, smugglers and priests, gamekeepers and ramblers, miners and poets, developers and environmentalists. As he travels, he shows us that the fierce landscapes we associate with Wuthering Heights and The Hound of the Baskervilles are far from being untouched wildernesses. Daunting and defiant, the moors echo with tales of a country and the people who live in it - a mighty, age-old landscape standing steadfast against the passage of time.
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Page : 512 pages
File Size : 25,35 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Geology
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Author : Robert D. Storch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 32,7 MB
Release : 2016-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1317215222
First published in 1982, this book is concerned with the tensions between continuity and change in customs, rituals, beliefs of artisans, factory workers and sections of the lower middle classes in the nineteenth century. It explores a range of factors which contributed to changes in custom, including the effects of urbanisation, conflict over the use of public land, new conceptions of public order, the decline of the oral tradition and the growth of a new recreational nexus in the larger cities. Drawing on material from all parts of the British Isles, the book demonstrates the enormous variety and diversity of popular tradition. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history.
Author : Alfred Burton
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Page : 234 pages
File Size : 17,88 MB
Release : 1891
Category : England
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"Rushbearing is an old English ecclesiastical festival in which rushes are collected and carried to be strewn on the floor of the parish church. The tradition dates back to the time when most buildings had earthen floors and rushes were used as a form of renewable floor covering for cleanliness and insulation. The festival was widespread in Britain from the Middle Ages and well established by the time of Shakespeare, [1] but had fallen into decline by the beginning of the 19th century, as church floors were flagged with stone. The custom was revived later in the 19th century and is kept alive today as an annual event in a number of towns and villages in the north of England."--Wikipedia
Author : Blackburn (England). Public Library, Museum and Art Gallery
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 16,7 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 1576 pages
File Size : 15,62 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Bibliography
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Page : 1714 pages
File Size : 50,66 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Bibliography
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Vols. for 1871-76, 1913-14 include an extra number, The Christmas bookseller, separately paged and not included in the consecutive numbering of the regular series.
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Page : 1708 pages
File Size : 34,94 MB
Release : 1886
Category : Bibliography
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Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.