Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Matthew Hyde & Nikolaus Pevsner

Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland & Furness, Matthew Hyde & Nikolaus PevsnerNew Hardback The most authoritative guide to the Lake District and surrounding area, this volume covers the outstanding vernacular architecture, unspoiled historic towns, and fine Victorian and Arts and Crafts houses throughout the region, and ranges from the shipbuilding town of Barrow in Furness in the south to the cathedral city of Carlisle in the north. A popular tourist destination, Cumbria inspired the Romantic poets, John Ruskin, and Beatrix

Monday 17 July 1922

the judicial duels between husbands and wives in Early Modern Europe

reveal the truth about this maligned patch of land and result in more than one discovery of major historical significance

shaped by many climates

descriptions with transcriptions of epitaphs

’ writes the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Arthur Clifford Kimber was one of the first Americans on the front line after the entry of the US into the war and

the funeral of Winston Churchill – while revealing in all their variety the experiences of the people living through this history

Jane Stevenson charts the changing fortunes of a city that rose to an astonishingly productive cultural heyday in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries

and admits he has no idea what they're thinking about

a young police officer uncovers a terrifying world of financial crime

Will she choose friendship or conscience