The Little History of Lincolnshire

Paul Sullivan (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2025
The History Press Ltd (Verlag)
9781803998992 (ISBN)

Artikel merken

This book charts the county’s amazing history, with strange-but-true anecdotes and characters from the last 2,000 years, and tales from all the county’s major towns, villages, fens, wolds and fields.

From civil wars to cod wars, Lincolnshire is no stranger to historical upheaval. The stories in this book follow the pre-Roman, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Norman and Dutch people who carved a manageable landscape from a wild county of wetlands and wolds.

The Little Book of Lincolnshire recounts the events that made Lincolnshire the jewel in England’s agricultural crown, relating how a colourful procession of pirates, monarchs, artists, engineers and hucksters brought wealth and despair in equal measure. The story begins with Neolithic burial mounds and ends with the Humber Bridge, even tackling the vexed question of why Lincolnshire people are called Yellowbellies along the way.

PAUL SULLIVAN has been a writer and editor since graduating in English language and literature. He works with websites and blogs to popular books and academic papers, local history and folklore being his specialist areas. He compiled and presented festivals and customs weekly guides for BBC Radio in the 1990s, leading to the acclaimed book Maypoles, Martyrs and Mayhem (Bloomsbury). He has written thirteen books in total, including nine for The History Press.

Title
Copyright
Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 From Prehistory to the Romans
2 Anglo-Danish Lincolnshire
3 The Normans: From Conquest to Anarchy
4 The Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Wool and Guilds
5 The Plantagenets at War
6 Tudor Lincolnshire: Religious Turmoil
7 The Stuarts: War, Poverty and Puritans
8 The Eighteenth Century: Jacobites and Georgians
9 The Nineteenth Century: Feasts, Farms and Ferries
10 The Twentieth Century: War and Change
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2025
Reihe/Serie	Little History of
Zusatzinfo	30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Stroud
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
ISBN-13	9781803998992 / 9781803998992
Zustand	Neuware