Download or read book The Cragg Vale Coiners Walk written by Christopher Goddard and published by . This book was released on 2018-03 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Gallows Pole written by Benjamin Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ____________________ The inspiration for the BBC TV series, directed by Shane Meadows and starring Tom Burke, George MacKay and Thomas Turgoose WINNER OF THE 2018 WALTER SCOTT PRIZE ____________________ 'Powerful, visceral writing, historical fiction at its best. Benjamin Myers is one to watch' - Pat Barker 'Phenomenal' - Sebastian Barry 'Superb' - The Times ____________________ From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is 'clipping' – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death. When an excise officer vows to bring them down and with the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, Hartley's empire begins to crumble. Forensically assembled, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance and a rarely told alternative history of the North. ____________________ 'One of my books of the year ... It's the best thing Myers has done' - Robert Macfarlane, Big Issue Books of the Year
Download or read book The Yorkshire Coiners 1767 1783 written by Henry Ling Roth and published by Halifax, England : F. King & Sons, Limited. This book was released on 1906 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Discovering Yorkshire s History written by Len Markham and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries Yorkshire, the largest and most varied country in England, has helped to shape the history of the nation. From the barrier of the Pennines in the west to the bastion of Falmborough in the east, the region has seen war, insurrection, invention, industrial expansion, political and social development and pioneering achievements in literature, art and science. In this unconventional guide to the people and the places that played parts in this extraordinary story, author Len Markham takes the reader across the country and down the years. He retells the stories of many of the well-known sites and uncovers the intriguing, sometimes secret history of places that are rarely remembered and visited. Along the way he describes the careers and achievements of an exceptional cast of characters- monarchs, bishops, generals, industrialists, inventors, artists, renegades, rogues, eccentrics, murderers and otherwise ordinary men and woman who made a mark for good or ill on the heritage of the country. Over 150 evocative sites are described and illustrated in this invaluable handbook to the intense, sometimes bizarre and always revealing history of Yorkshire.
Download or read book Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds written by Brian Levison and published by Pavilion. This book was released on 2018-01-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the success of Remarkable Cricket Grounds, author Brian Levison focuses his attention on the amazing variety of grassroots cricket venues throughout the British Isles. In the original book he covered some of the largest stadia where cricket is played throughout the world. In Remarkable Village Cricket Grounds he concentrates on the smallest. The inventory of beautiful and atmospheric grounds includes those played by the seaside, at the edge of moorland, in front of grand country houses or on wind-blasted hillsides. Village cricket is played next to windmills, thatched cottages, trout streams, in the heart of Cotswold stone hamlets, and on many of the country's verdant village greens. There are some classic cricketing pubs included along with lavish teas, ancient pitch rollers, equally ancient club secretaries and a variety of warning signs for those wishing to park their car within slogging distance. Almost all of the venues are located in the kind of set-piece British landscape that will have the tourist boards begging for copies. It is a treasury of British life featuring clubs from: Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Hampshire, Sussex, Kent, Wiltshire, Bedfordshire, Surrey, Essex, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Worcestershire, Yorkshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, Northumberland, Leicestershire, Wales and Scotland.
Download or read book Two Degrees West written by Nicholas Crane and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1999 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining examination of England and the English. Crane walked the length of the country, along the Meridian, to discover what it means to be English, with his life on his back and his tongue in his cheek. Illustrated in colour.
Download or read book The Yorkshire Coiners written by Steve Hartley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-04-15 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sensational true story of the infamous 18th century Cragg Vale Coiners gang in Yorkshire and their eventual fate.
Download or read book West Yorkshire Moors written by Christopher Goddard and published by Exhibit A. This book was released on 2013 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Philosopher Kings written by Jo Walton and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From acclaimed, award-winning author Jo Walton: Philosopher Kings, a tale of gods and humans, and the surprising things they have to learn from one another. Twenty years have elapsed since the events of The Just City. The City, founded by the time-traveling goddess Pallas Athene, organized on the principles espoused in Plato's Republic and populated by people from all eras of human history, has now split into five cities, and low-level armed conflict between them is not unheard-of. The god Apollo, living (by his own choice) a human life as "Pythias" in the City, his true identity known only to a few, is now married and the father of several children. But a tragic loss causes him to become consumed with the desire for revenge. Being Apollo, he goes handling it in a seemingly rational and systematic way, but it's evident, particularly to his precocious daughter Arete, that he is unhinged with grief. Along with Arete and several of his sons, plus a boatload of other volunteers--including the now fantastically aged Marsilio Ficino, the great humanist of Renaissance Florence--Pythias/Apollo goes sailing into the mysterious Eastern Mediterranean of pre-antiquity to see what they can find—possibly the man who may have caused his great grief, possibly communities of the earliest people to call themselves "Greek." What Apollo, his daughter, and the rest of the expedition will discover...will change everything. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Good Beer Guide 2018 written by Roger Protz and published by CAMRA Ltd. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CAMRA's Good Beer Guide is fully revised and updated each year and features pubs across the United Kingdom that serve the best real ale. Now in its 45th edition, the guide is completely independent, with listings based entirely on evaluation and nomination by CAMRA members. The unique Breweries section contains a full listing of Britain's breweries - from national to micro - with information about their core beers.
Download or read book South Pennines and the Bronte Moors written by Andrew Bibby and published by Frances Lincoln. This book was released on 2005-02 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Wainwright-sized guide to the walking opportunities in the South Pennines focuses on land opened up to walkers by the recent Right to Roam legislation. It is part of a series of Freedom to Roam guides published in partnership with Ramblers' Association, long-time campaigner for greater public access to the countryside. The guide includes: an introduction to the area: its landscape, history and natural history; 12 free-range rambles, graded for difficulty, that allow walkers to choose their own route; a full-page 4-colour OS map for each walk; special features on points of interest chosen to add to walkers' enjoyment of the countryside; practical information for visitors; a guide to public rights of access.
Download or read book The Tunnel written by Anthony Browne and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scornful of his younger sister's fears, a young boy decides to explore a tunnel forcing her to go after him when he doesn't return. Suggested level: junior, primary.
Download or read book Halifax 1842 written by Catherine Howe and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1842 was a year of crisis in Britain, and no more so than in the West Riding town of Halifax. A great strike of all trades took place across England in 1842. It reached its zenith in the industrial towns of the north, starting in the small communities of Lancashire and quickly spreading to the West Riding of Yorkshire as Lancashire marchers poured across the Pennines. In hand with its neighbouring town of Huddersfield, Halifax was noted for its opposition to the New Poor Law which, in 1834, attempted to abolish outdoor relief for the poor, for its support of a maximum ten-hour working day and the Chartists' call for workers' voting rights. When Bradford publican 'Fat Peter' Bussey attended the first Chartist Convention in London in 1839, he took with him the West Riding petition bearing 52,800 signatures, 25 percent of which had been given at Halifax. This book discusses the efforts made by the men and women of Halifax in these early years of organised agitation for social reform, their 'clandestine meetings and nightly drilling', their 'determination, resilience and militancy' to gain a say in the laws under which they lived. It tells of the fight for the legislative rights of workers like seventeen-year-old Patience Kershaw, who dragged loads of coal for twelve hours each day along narrow and dangerous passages under the hills of Halifax. When the Lancashire marchers arrived at Halifax in the hot summer of 1842, the cavalry attempted to clear the streets with their sabres and a violent response was inevitable, arrests quickly followed. The climax came when many hundreds of the men and women of Halifax fought against British soldiers on 16th August 1842, an event which led to the humiliation of a proud platoon of Prince Albert's Own and to the death of at least six men of Halifax.
Download or read book Country Life Illustrated written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-06 with total page 1098 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Good Beer Guide written by Roger Protz and published by CAMRA Ltd. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 2722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's best-selling and fully independent beer & pub guide is back with updated listings for 2012.
Download or read book Turning Blue written by Benjamin Myers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Ben Myers is the master of English rural noir, and with Turning Blue, he has created a whole new genre: folk crime ... this is by turns gripping, ghastly and unputdownable' PAUL KINGSNORTHIn the depths of winter in an isolated Yorkshire hamlet, a teenage girl, Melanie Muncy, is missing.The elite detective unit Cold Storage dispatches its best man to investigate. DI Jim Brindle may be obsessive, taciturn and solitary, but nobody on the force is more relentless in pursuing justice. Local journalist Roddy Mace has sacrificed a high-flying career as a reporter in London to take up a role with the local newspaper. For him the Muncy case offers the chance of redemption.Darker forces are at work than either man has realised. On a farm high above the hamlet, Steven Rutter, a destitute loner, harbours secrets that will shock even the hardened Brindle. Nobody knows the bleak moors and their hiding places better than him.As Brindle and Mace begin to prise the secrets of the case from the tight-lipped locals, their investigation leads first to the pillars of the community and finally to a local celebrity who has his own hiding places, and his own dark tastes.
Download or read book Under the Canopy of Heaven written by Georgina Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2018-05-25 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Those men don't make cloth; they make money."So says George Mellor's stepfather of the rich manufacturers swelling their beloved textile town and sucking the life from the cloth dressing shops.As the stranglehold of the profiteers tightens, how far will Mellor go to save the way of life he loves? And what price will the young cropper - and those he cares for - be forced to pay?A haunting and evocative account of Huddersfield's Luddite rebellion of 1812, from the author of Cartimandua and Daughters Of Lac.
