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The Lake District - A Rare Insight
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Add to cartQuick ViewThe Lake District – A Rare Insight
£12.99by Simon Reed
See the changing face of the Lake District.
See popular locations such as Keswick, Bowness, Hawkshead, Rydal, Penrith, Kendal, Grange-over-Sands, Grasmere, Ambleside along with all of the lakes and mountains which make up the Lake District.
The perfect local history book for anyone with an interest in the Lake District s past, and an ideal souvenir for the many tourists who visit each year.
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Women of York
£12.99by Claire Shaw
Claire Shaw been seeking out the women of York. The odd plaque on the wall of a significant building gives a tantalising clue from time to time, but now through variety of research to uncover more about the life of the aristocrat Anne Fairfax and the letters of Elizabeth Montagu, Claire has pieced together an overview of the lives of many more women.
Some of these women were extremely talented and deserve to be more well-known than they actually are. The book looks at Cartimandua, queen of Brigantia, which encompasses modern-day York, the lives of Roman women through investigation of their burials, Queen Ethelburga and Elizabeth of York, the Naughty Nuns of the Priory of St Clements, Catholic martyr Margaret Clitherow, persecuted witch Jennet Preston, rebel entrepreneurs Mary Tuke and Mary Ann Craven, secret lovers Anne Lister, Marianna Belcombe and Ann Walker, plus York’s female artists, benefactors, and the last woman to be hanged in York.
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York – A Rare Insight
£14.99by Paul Chrystal & Ian Drake
The Evelyn Collection has been in the safekeeping of the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society (YAYAS), and offers a glimpse of the unique and unequalled heritage of the City of York.
Illustrating all aspects of York life, its buildings, industry and heritage rarely, if ever, seen before, York – A Rare Insight features a wide selection of images from the Collection which are published for the first time.
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Yorkshire Literary Landscapes
£12.99by Paul Chrystal
Yorkshire Literary Landscapes celebrates the lives and works of writers and authors who have been influenced by the towns and countryside of Yorkshire.
This book, by renowned Yorkshire writer and historian Paul Chrystal, looks at the lives and works of these authors and many more, describing the Yorkshire landscapes and locations which coloured and influenced their writing and characters, and which can still be visited today.
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