Books Cumbria : History : Social Social Social History <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Thomas Smith 1614-1702 David W.V. Weston £10.00 Thomas Smith, bishop of Carlisle from 1614 to 1702, is worthy of particular attention. Born in 1614, he lived through a tumultuous period that included nine years of Civil War, the abolition of both the monarchy and the Church of England, and eleven years of republican government. He died aged 87. Publisher : Bookcase Published : February 2020 Pages : 107p Format : Paperback; 210 x 148mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Timbertown Girls: Borders Women and the First World War Chris Brader £10.00 In 1916, young women did essential and dangerous war work. They poured into the vast munitions factory at Gretna from all parts of the country. And they also poured out onto the streets, into the pubs and cinemas and, controversially, onto the football fields. Publisher : Bookcase Published : March 2015 Pages : 141p Format : Paperback; 210mm x 145mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Voices of the Lake District Jane Renouf & Rob David £12.99 "Voices of the Lake District" is the unique and fascinating result of many conversations and interviews with local people in the Lakeland community, recalling life in the area over the past century. Publisher : History Press Published : March 2011 Pages : 128 Format : 235mm x 165mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Walking Class Heroes : Pioneers of the Right to Roam Roly Smith £9.99 The twentieth anniversary of the Countryside & Rights of Way (CRoW) Act in 2020 provides a good opportunity to look back on the doughty band of campaigners who fought for so long to give ramblers their cherished right to roam. This century-old battle brought to the fore a number of larger-than-life characters who were prepared to go to extreme lengths--in some cases even imprisonment--to reclaim the right of access which were taken from the people by the hated Enclosure Acts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. This book describes the life and work of twenty of these "wilderness warriors", retelling the battles they fought against seemingly intractable politicians and the Establishment and includes memories of personal encounters by the author with many of them. Publisher : Signal Books Published : November 2020 Pages : 162p Format : Paperback; 215 x 138mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  Watching Over Carlisle - 140 Years of the Carlisle City Police Force 1827-1967 Bob Lowther £15.00 Early nineteenth century Carlisle - a city which is suffering indescribable poverty; a desperate, starving population with many housed in insanitary sparsely furnished slums, deprived of the necessities of life and dependent upon charitable donations of food and clothing. Publisher : P3 Publications Published : August 2011 Pages : 242 Format : 210mm x 296mm paperback Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  When the War is Over Barbara Fox £8.99 Gwenda and Douglas Brady were among the millions of British children sent to live with new families for their own safety during the Second World War, leaving behind their parents, their friends and all that felt familiar and safe. Publisher : Little, Brown Book Group Published : July 2016 Pages : 334p Format : Paperback; 199 x 131mm Click here to read the reviews Quantity:  <<prev | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 Back to Top