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History of the County of Durham
G Cookson
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Description for History of the County of Durham
Hardcover. Full and authoritative history of Sunderland, from its origins to the present day. Editor(s): Cookson, Gillian. Series: Victoria County History. Num Pages: 346 pages, 55 black & white illustrations, 25 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYD; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 312 x 30. Weight in Grams: 1624.
Full and authoritative history of Sunderland, from its origins to the present day. Famed across Europe during Bede's time and the heyday of Wearmouth monastery, Sunderland found a less celebrated renown in the twentieth century with the distress of its heavy industries between the wars, and their final extinction in the 1980s. Between those very contrasting eras, its story is one of re-invention and of a growing industrial and commercial might. The coal trade transformed the town during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; shipbuilding came to the fore in the nineteenth, and Wearside became the nation's, and the world's, ... Read more
Full and authoritative history of Sunderland, from its origins to the present day. Famed across Europe during Bede's time and the heyday of Wearmouth monastery, Sunderland found a less celebrated renown in the twentieth century with the distress of its heavy industries between the wars, and their final extinction in the 1980s. Between those very contrasting eras, its story is one of re-invention and of a growing industrial and commercial might. The coal trade transformed the town during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; shipbuilding came to the fore in the nineteenth, and Wearside became the nation's, and the world's, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
Number of Pages
346
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904356448
SKU
V9781904356448
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Ref
99-1
About G Cookson
GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian. She is the author of The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, published by The Boydell Press in 2018.
Reviews for History of the County of Durham
A capable survey of Sunderland's history over a long timespan, supported by an impressive research effort.
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
I would wholeheartedly recommend this volume to anybody interested in the rise and decline of industrial NE England.
THE SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
The present volume with its scrupulous referencing offers scope for future researchers to look into ... Read more
LANDSCAPE HISTORY
I would wholeheartedly recommend this volume to anybody interested in the rise and decline of industrial NE England.
THE SOCIETY FOR MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY
The present volume with its scrupulous referencing offers scope for future researchers to look into ... Read more