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An engaging exploration of the hidden history of the Yorkshire Dales including its people and places.
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON DEBUT FOOD BOOK AWARD 2021 WINNER OF 2021 LAKELAND BOOK OF THE YEAR ‘Extraordinary. Vivid, irreverent, heartbreaking.’ NIGEL SLATER ‘So funny and so delicious. I could eat it.’ DAWN O’PORTER ‘Delicious.’ THE OBSERVER
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Mike Hand gets caught up in the rivalry between two music festivals which is threatening to upset the idyllic rural harmony of his adopted Dentingdale.A host of well-drawn characters from the Dale and from Mike's former life play out an absorbing tale that moves effortlessly between the bar of 'The Sun' and the glorious landscape beyond.As the plot unfolds, Mike becomes the innocent victim of a hit-and-run accident that develops into an excellent 'whodunit' and ultimately a surprising denouement involving his friends, his son Tom, a clever Mancunian copper and even a former lover.This tale cannot fail to fascinate and enthral its readers, even one who doesn't keep up with the latest rumours circulating in 'The Sun'.Bob PontefractGawthrop, Dentdale
Because the poor lacked land of their own, public spaces were needed for their sports and pastimes.
This fascinating selection of photographs traces some of the many ways in which Barrow-in-Furness has changed and developed over the last one hundred and fifty years.
Charlotte Mason (1842-1923) orphaned and poor at the age of sixteen, nonetheless developed into an inspiring and original educational reformer of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century, a period of great intellectual vitality and cultural change. Enabled through the help of friends and colleagues she founded the Parents’ National Educational Union (PNEU) in 1887 and established the ‘The House of Education’, the Teacher Training College for women in Ambleside in 1892. The clarity and coherence of her applied philosophy of education established the foundation for a simple, stimulating and deeply satisfying enjoyment of learning for children of all ages in countless homes and schools in Britain and the world. In her biography, Essex Cholmondeley draws on her own experiences of Mason’s teaching, as well as her extensive literary output, to unfold her life and work. Whilst she and Elsie Kitching lacked full details of Mason’s family history, a warm and lively personality emerges, able to inspire other people with her own splendid vision.
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An American Family: Four Centuries. Two Continents By: S. Frederick Starr This book recounts the history of an American family that was formed in the 1930s by the marriage of seeming opposites from the two sides of the ethnic divide that separated descendants of earlier Anglo-Saxon and German settlers from the millions of newcomers from Central Europe and Italy who arrived after 1900. Its immediate geographical focus is the American Midwest, the areas surrounding Cleveland and Cincinnati, Ohio. Its deeper geography extends to Maryland’s Eastern Shore, Lancastershire and Cumbria in northern England and Southampton on England’s south coast, to the Rhineland-Palatinate region of Germany, to...