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Books Cumbria : History : Lake District History

Lake District History

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*2020 WINNER LAKELAND BOOK OF YEAR The Lake District in 101 Maps and Infographics

*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

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111 Places in the Lake District That You Shouldn't Miss

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

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50 Gems of Cumbria

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

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A County of Refuge: Refugees in Cumbria 1933-1941

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

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A Dictionary of Lake District Place-Names

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

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A Lakeland Boyhood

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

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A Wasdale Lad: A pictorial history of Lakeland farming life

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

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Agitate! Educate! Organise! Political Dissent in Westmorland From 1880 - 1930

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.

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All the world comes to the Lakes

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

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An Excursion to the Lakes in Westmoreland and Cumberland 1773

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

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Beauty in the Lap of Horror - Early Travellers to Borrowdale and Derwentwater

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

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Boundary Markers In Cumbria

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

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Derwentwater - In the Lap of the Gods

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

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Escape to the Lakes - The First Tourists

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

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Friends of the Lake District - The Early Years

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

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Grasmere: A History in 55 1/2 Buildings

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

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Henry Hobhouse's Tour Through Cumbria in 1774

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

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Hows & Knotts: A Guide to Lakeland Views

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

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I Hate the Lake District

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

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I Never Knew That About The Lake District

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

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Images of England: Kendal

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

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Lake District Field-Names: A Guide for Local Historians

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

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Lakeland in the 1830's - Based on the Journal of a Gentleman Traveller Isaac Simpson

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

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Lakeland- A Personal Journey

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

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Lakeland: A Personal Journey

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

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