From Hellgill To Bridge End: Aspects Of Economic And Social Change In The Upper Eden Valley Circa 1840-95: Aspects of Economic and Social Change in the Upper Eden Valley Circa 1840–1895 - Brossura

Shepherd, Margaret; Goose, Nigel

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ISBN 10: 1902806328 ISBN 13: 9781902806327

Casa editrice: Univ of Hertfordshire Pr, 2004

Riassunto

From Hellgill to Bridge End is a comparative study of the effects of local, regional and national change on nine parishes in the Upper Eden Valley in north Westmorland during the Victorian years. From Hellgill to Bridge End is a comparative study of the effects of local, regional and national change on nine parishes in the Upper Eden Valley in north Westmorland during the Victorian years. It is based on a study of the entire population of the parishes of Appleby, Brough and Kirkby Stephen, and six surrounding parishes over six censuses from 1841 plus Marriage and Burial Registers. The analysis of a database of 65,000 records from these sources has given a rare, if not unique insight into a series of rural parishes and has allowed the exploration of themes of continuity and change within and between parishes, setting them in context within regional and national changes during the Victorian years. The book explores culture and social life including religion, education and leisure, transport, education, the local economy, agriculture and migration. Very little work exists about this part of Cumbria and such detailed analysis of a series of parishes in any region is rare and important.

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Recensione:

“Packed with details of local life and written in a style which bowls along... the reader can pick up the book, dip in, and be immediately transported back into the 1800s... Attractive to anyone with roots in North Westmorland” --The Cumberland and Westmorland Herald

“The book is of immense value [to anyone] who wishes to gain an insight into the extent of change in a remote upland rural area during a period of industrial and social upheaval.” --Christine Hallas, The Agricultural History Review

“The book does extremely well both in its purpose of digesting and clearly interpreting an extremely large set of locally-orientated data, and of engaging with some larger debates about the nature of developments in Victorian Britain as experienced by 'ordinary' people.” --David Harvey, The Local Historian

L'autore:

Margaret Shepherd is a historical geographer who has spent many years in the Eden Valley. She was born and educated in Penrith in Cumberland, later in Edinburgh. After teaching in Carlisle she married and moved to Church Brough in the Upper Eden Valley. She graduated with honours from the Open University in 1980. Since 1985 Margaret Shepherd has been a member of Wolfson College, Cambridge and graduated with 1st Class Honours in Geography in 1987 followed by a Ph.D. in 1992. She was elected to a Junior Research Fellowship in Wolfson College in 1993 but then became Tutor and Fellow for seven years before resuming the Research Fellowship in 2001.

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• Editore: Univ of Hertfordshire Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1902806328
• ISBN 13: 9781902806327
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 380