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A Maritime History of Somerset
The Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society (SANHS) have just published the second volume in their series on the Maritime History of Somerset. Edited by local author, Dr Adrian Webb, volume two contains a wide variety of information detailing aspects of Somerset's much neglected maritime past. Covering over a thousand years of history, discover the fate of the men who operated the ferry across the River Avon until the motor car and the Avon Bridge put an end to their livelihood. Or stories of the experiences from a few of the travellers who journeyed down the Bristol Channel, skirting the Somerset coast, many of them to find new lives in the New World. Many travellers were not so lucky and many wrecks were the sad result of their attempts at finding a new life.
Ancient Church Fonts of Somerset
Harvey Pridham's Survey of Somerset Church Fonts has been edited by Adrian Webb, with a foreword by Julian Orbach, and includes descriptions and line drawings made by Pridham of Somerset's ancient church fonts. Between 1886 and 1907 Pridham drew 374 measured line drawings and 49 perspective drawings of Somerset's pre-Victorian fonts, as well as recording fonts he found outside churches. The volume contains over 220 pages and 400 illustrations, with an introduction and index.
An Illustrated History of Watchet and Williton, 1600-1670
This illustrated history focuses on interactions between people, business, authority, landscape and buildings in an attempt to convey a sense of what life was really like for many people living in Watchet or Williton. So many records have been lost for so many parishes that writing a history such as this is usually impossible, but for St Decumans the situation is reversed. The results of an analysis of these records, which has taken over five years, has revealed a complicated web of relationships on all levels of society, as well as in matters of business and governance in their widest sense. At times there were incidents, families, events and individuals that dominated this story of parish ...
Writing the History of Somerset
This volume, inspired by the work of County Historian Robert Dunning, isconcerned broadly with the history of Somerset from the early middle ages to thetwenty-first century. Providing a critical appreciation of Dr Dunning's extensivecontribution to the local and regional historical and historiographical developmentof the county, it seeks also to extend that contribution in a series oforiginal studies drawing on the county's abundant record collections andarchaeological and antiquarian sources. The essays in this fascinating volumeexplore monastic, parochial, religious and heretical themes across the County ofSomerset as well as the cultural, economic, and political lives and interests oflay ...
Somerset Wills II
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Somerset Mapped
Somerset Mapped explores the different depictions of the ancient county of Somerset and its districts as it has been shown by mapmakers and cartographers across the centuries. Arranged chronologically, this volume includes examples of maps, plans and charts showing aspects of Somerset¿s past from the Bronze Age to the present. Maps have been selected from archives, libraries and private collections from across the country. One of the finest collections of maps of the county is owned by the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society, who have published this volume in association with Halsgrove. This book brings together a wide range of cartographic treasures from all periods of Some...
