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Whitehaven in the Great War
Whitehaven in the Great War covers Whitehaven's immense contribution to the Great War effort; it is thought that 625 Whitehaven men from a town that, in 1901, had a population of around 21,000 lost their lives fighting in the war. Meanwhile, on the home front, military service deprived many businesses of their established male workers, and women went to work in what had previously been exclusively male areas of employment.Notable people written about include recipient of the Victoria Cross Abraham Acton, an Orangeman in Whitehaven; local hero Robert Curwen Richmond Blair DSO, EM; and close friend to Kaiser Wilhelm II, Lord Lonsdale, the famous Yellow Earl who formed his own Pals battalion, t...
The Forgotten Trade
`I pray people will read this richly detailed and absorbing book, with its vivid renaissance of a matter most of us English seem to have wished into oblivion. ' John Fowles Meticulously kept by Walter Prideaux, the log of the Daniel and Henry provides an astonishing record of a trading venture in the year 1700. Two years earlier, the Guinea trade had been prised loose by an Act of Parliament from the monopoly of the Royal African Company, and respectable burghers in a dozen small provincial ports seized what they saw as an opportunity for quick rewards from the slave trade. Few of these merchants knew anything of trading in Africa, nor of the unscrupulous tribalchiefs who readily offered men, women and children in hard bargaining for beads, alcohol, weapons and gunpowder. In the second part of this book, Tattersfield went in search of long-forgotten documents to chart how small provincial ports fared both economically and morally in the early years of slave trading.
The Cairngorm Gateway
"The Cairngorm Gateway traces the history of Badenoch and Strathspey, from earliest times to the present. The whole area will have a new fascination and special importance with the signalling of the Cairngorms National Park.The Cairngorm Gateway has long been a "transit" zone with forest resources being a prime factor. When the railways came to the region, tourism, very soon became a major source of income for its population, bringing people from far afield to enjoy healthful air and mountain views. Over the centuries not every project has prospered, however, and so this is a story of success and failure, of wealth and poeverty in both war and peace. Now the landscape and natural history of this stunnigly beautiful region have come to the forefront of attention as a valuable part of Scotland's heritage while the new funicular railway on Cairn Gorm has polarised opinions about the mountains, access to them and to their management.
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A London Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Vols. 1-4 include material to June 1, 1929.
