Books Cumbria : History : Lake District History Lake District History General history of the Lake District, including early guides 1 | 2 | next>> *2020 WINNER LAKELAND BOOK OF YEAR The Lake District in 101 Maps and Infographics David Felton £14.90 134 pages of maps, illustrations and infographics celebrating the unique culture, landscape, history, humour, dialect, wildlife and people of the Lake District and Cumbria. Publisher : Inspired by Lakeland Published : December 2019 Pages : 144p Format : Paperback; 280 x 240mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  111 Places in the Lake District That You Shouldn't Miss Solange Berchemin £12.99 The Lake District delights its visitors with a series of superlatives: England's largest national park, highest mountain, deepest lakes and now a new World Heritage status. Publisher : Emons Verlag Published : February 2019 Pages : 240p Format : Paperback; 205 x 138mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  50 Gems of Cumbria Beth & Steve Pipe £14.99 Famous for the Lake District, one of the country's most astounding areas of natural beauty, Cumbria is a county with huge appeal. From the wild and windswept Irish Sea coast to the towering Scafell Peak, England's highest point, this book takes the reader on fascinating journey through timeless villages, vast landscapes and special places of historic interest. Publisher : Amberley Published : April 2017 Pages : 96p Format : Paperback; 234 x 165mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  A County of Refuge: Refugees in Cumbria 1933-1941 Rob David £17.00 This well-illustrated book examines Cumbria's response to the refugee crisis of the 1930s and early 1940s. Drawing on a wealth of archive material and oral testimony the author demonstrates that at that time many Cumbrians welcomed refugee groups from Spain, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Publisher : CWAAS Published : June 2020 Pages : 133p Format : Paperback; 245 x 174mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names Diana Whaley £20.00 This book is a guide to the place names of the English Lake District from the earliest times to the twentieth century. It is based on previous scholarship and fresh research and combines detail and authoritative commentary on the names with insights onto the setting, languages and history which gave rise to them. Publisher : English Place Name Society Published : 2006 Pages : 423 Format : Small Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  A Lakeland Boyhood David Clark, Lord Clark of Windermere £12.00 David Clark has always believed the Lake District is a special place. His memoirs of the forties and fifties give a unique insight into a thriving rural community of working people which is now long gone. His warm style brings to life his happy years growing up in a family struggling to make ends meet; including facing eviction, which made a lasting impression on him. Working on the land meant the family lived close to nature and he learned the names of all the local flora and fauna. Publisher : Hayloft Published : May 2020 Pages : 182p Format : Paperback; 200 x 130mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  A Wasdale Lad: A pictorial history of Lakeland farming life Rob Steele £10.00 After setting the scene by introducing some forbears, "A Wasdale Lad" tells the story of growing up in West Cumberland in the late 1950s and 1960s. Publisher : TR Publishing Published : September 2020 Pages : 127p Format : Paperback; 210 x 148mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Agitate! Educate! Organise! Political Dissent in Westmorland From 1880 - 1930 Roger Smalley £15.00 In his examination of fifty years of Westmorland's history Roger Smalley focuses on the role of dissent. Publisher : CWAAS Published : April 2013 Pages : 112p. Format : Paperback; 245 x 175mm. Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  All the world comes to the Lakes Mark Flinn £10.00 Tourists have prized the lake District for over two hundred years. The eighteenth century traveller was followed by the tourist coming by rail and then by motor car. The first guide to the Lakes was published by Thomas West, in 1778. Countless others, from Wordsworth to Wainwright, followed. Publisher : Bookcase Published : March 2015 Pages : 120p Format : Paperback; 210mm x 148mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland 1773 William Hutchinson £12.00 William Hutchinson's spirited account of his 'summer's excursion' to the Lakes in 1773 has a good claim to be the first published guidebook to the district. It is essentially a picturesque tour, varied with detailed accounts of the ruined castles, stone circles and other antiquities to be found en route. A solicitor from Barnard Castle, County Durham, Hutchinson was a versatile man of letters who could turn his hand with equal facility to poetry, fiction, playwrighting, and historical research as well as sketching out the illustrations for his books. Publisher : Bookcase Published : March 2016 Pages : 166p Format : Paperback; 209 x 146mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Beauty in the Lap of Horror - Early Travellers to Borrowdale and Derwentwater Stephen Matthews £12.00 Few places have been described so ecstatically and so frequently as Derwentwater and Borrowdale. Between 1750 and 1780 ten writers felt the power of this landscape. Their accounts transformed the way we look at the lakes and the fells. Publisher : Bookcase Published : March 2016 Pages : 312p Format : Paperback; 209 x 146mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Boundary Markers In Cumbria Colin Smith £16.00 Dotted around the Cumbrian landscape are hundreds of small artefacts with big histories. In their day they were important boundary markers both in terms of land ownership and legal responsibilities. Some remain so. Publisher : Bookcase Published : 17 November 2020 Pages : 164p Format : Paperback; 210 x 150mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Derwentwater - In the Lap of the Gods Ian Hall £10.00 2019 sees the 250th Anniversary of the beginnings of the tourist industry in Keswick and Borrowdale. Between October 2rd-7th 1769 the poet Thomas Gray, author of 'Elegy written in a country churchyard', stayed in the Queen's Head and travelled round the lake, writing enthusiastically to his friend and later publishing his journal. Six months later Wordsworth was born. A mere twelve years later Peter Crosthwaite opened his museum in Keswick Main Street and held the first Derwentwater Regatta with his crony Joseph Pocklington. Tourism was up and running. Publisher : Orchard House Books Published : March 2019 Pages : 191p Format : Paperback; 150 x 228mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Escape to the Lakes - The First Tourists Robert Gambles £10.00 In 1800 Coleridge complained that the Lakes were 'alive and swarming with tourist'. Publisher : BOOKCASE Published : February 2012 Pages : 134 Format : 148mm x 210mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Friends of the Lake District - The Early Years John Cousins £12.95 Established in 1934, Friends of the Lake District is one of the most influential conservation groups in England. Publisher : CNWRS Published : June 2009 Pages : 148 Format : 170mm x 242mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Grasmere: A History in 55 ½ Buildings Grasmere History Group £10.00 This book present a unique illustrated history of Grasmere village and vale through a selection of its buildings, from old mills and smithys with their foundations in the Middle Ages, to twenty-first century affordable housing schemes. Publisher : Grasmere History Group Published : December 2019 Pages : 151p Format : Paperback; 236 x 156mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Henry Hobhouse's Tour Through Cumbria in 1774 Edited by Christopher Donaldson, Robert W. Dunning and Angus J. L. Winchester £10.00 In the summer of 1774 three young men from Somerset embarked on a tour of England and part of Scotland which included a ten-day visit to Cumbria. Henry Hobhouse and his companions travelled from Kirkby Lonsdale via Kendal and Ambleside to Keswick, from which they made a detour to Penrith and Ullswater. Publisher : CWAAS Published : March 2018 Pages : 64p Format : Paperback; 210 x 148mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Hows & Knotts: A Guide to Lakeland Views Guy Richardson £20.00 In 2017 the English Lake District was awarded World Heritage status by UNESCO as a cultural landscape of global significance; a landscape gifted by Nature and modified by the activities of humankind to create a very distinctive and special place. Publisher : Middlesex University Press Published : July 2019 Pages : 224p Format : Paperback; 244 x 170mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  I Hate the Lake District Charlie Gere £12.99 I Hate the Lake District offers a different vision of the rural environment from those found in much contemporary nature writing. Based on the author's trips around North West England, the book engages with nuclear power and nuclear war, slavery, imperialism, ghosts, love, God, cockroaches, and the sheer violence and contingency of "nature" itself--of which the human presence is merely a part. Each chapter starts with an account of a visit to a place in this remote part of England, the deep north, but digresses and wanders through multifarious themes and subjects. Publisher : Goldsmiths Press Published : July 2019 Pages : 181p Format : Paperback; 130 x 197mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  I Never Knew That About The Lake District Christopher Winn £12.99 Bestselling author Christopher Winn takes us on a fascinating journey through the Lake District, that majestic landscape beloved of poets and tourists, hill walkers, seekers of scenic beauty and those who mess about in boats. Publisher : Ebury Published : April 2010 Pages : 150 Format : 140mm x 206mm hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Images of England: Kendal Arthur Nicholls and Trevor Hughes £12.99 A collection of over 200 archive images that provide an insight into the changing history of Kendal. Publisher : The History Press Published : September 2006 Pages : 128p Format : Paperback; 233 x 167mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Lake District Field-Names: A Guide for Local Historians Angus J.L. Winchester POA The names of individual fields can help us to understand how the rural landscape has evolved over the centuries. Publisher : Regional Heritage Centre Published : 2017 Pages : 60p Format : Paperback; 149 x 210mm Click here to read the reviews Please phone for more details. Lakeland in the 1830's - Based on the Journal of a Gentleman Traveller Isaac Simpson Wendy M Stuart £14.00 From the faded ink of the Lake District journal of a pre-Victorian gentleman traveller Isaac Simpson, direct descendant Wendy Stuart has brought to life a fascinating and charming account of the changing Lakes of the 1830s. Publisher : Hayloft Published : March 2009 Pages : 164 Format : 230mm x 160mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Lakeland- A Personal Journey Hunter Davies £16.99 'I don't know any tract of land in which in so narrow a compass may be found an equal variety of sublime and beautiful features'. So said the poet Wordsworth of England's Lake District, an area as rich in cultural associations as it is in beautiful scenery. Hunter Davies, who has spent every summer in the Lake District for nearly half a century, takes the reader on an engaging, informative and affectionate tour of the lakes, fells, traditions, denizens and history of England's most popular tourist destination. Publisher : Head of Zeus Published : June 2016 Pages : 319 Format : Hardback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Lakeland: A Personal Journey Hunter Davies £9.99 'I don't know any tract of land in which in so narrow a compass may be found an equal variety of sublime and beautiful features'. So said the poet Wordsworth of England's Lake District, an area as rich in cultural associations as it is in beautiful scenery. Hunter Davies, who has spent every summer in the Lake District for nearly half a century, takes the reader on an engaging, informative and affectionate tour of the lakes, fells, traditions, denizens and history of England's most popular tourist destination. Publisher : Head of Zeus Published : April 2020 Pages : 324p Format : Paperback; 197 x 128mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  1 | 2 | next>> Back to Top