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Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia
This is a comprehensive study of the early history and inhabitants of Isle of Wight County. It begins with a graphic description of the early settlers--including accounts of Quakers and Cavaliers--and is followed by detailed histories of the various Isle of Wight families. Nearly 200 pages of this voluminous work are devoted to abstracts of deeds, land records, and quit rents. Besides a place and subject index, the work further includes a 38-page name index of several thousand entries.
Alston Moor, Cumbria
Alston Moor is a large rural parish in Cumbria which historically both depended upon and provided important services for the agricultural and mineral industries of the North Pennines.Much of the area's settlement is dispersed among hamlets and single farmsteads. Isolated from major northern cities such as Carlisle and Newcastle by the surrounding hills and moors, the parish's wild upland landscape provides a conditioning influence on a distinctive tradition of vernacular building types, ranging from the bastle to its later 18th- and 19th-century derivatives and 'mine shops' providing lodgings for miners close to their place of work. Found across the parish, and with urban variants present in...
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Whitfield Records of United States, 1620-1995
This resource investigates Whitfield lines in each of the 48 contiguous United States, utilizing various sources.
Unfamiliar Journeys Continued
"Liverpool is going through the most significant period of change in its recent history, and the evidence is clear to see in the evolving cityscape. In this book, photographer Alan McKernan documents this process in his characteristically dramatic style, capturing the clutter and upheaval of reconstruction, the confidence of the glittering new skyscrapers, and the stubborn persistence of an architectural past that refuses to be swept away by the tide of the modern. With illuminating commentary by architectural historian Matthew Whitfield, these photographs mark a time of gathering strength, of deep breaths and diggers. Unfamiliar Journeys Continued is a compelling exploration of the contest between light and shade in a re-forming city."--BOOK JACKET.
