Echoes of Old Lancashire

Echoes of Old Lancashire
Author: William Edward Armytage Axon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 294
Release: 1899
Genre: History
ISBN:

Preface This volume is intended for those who find it pleasant, at times, to wander in the byways of topography and local literature. The development of Lancashire, especially in its relation to modern industrial life, has been told by more than one able historian, and all that is here attempted is to glean in the ample harvest fields. The bygone customs, forgotten worthies, outworn superstitions, historical episodes and travellers' tales here recorded, will, it is hoped, not be without interest. If some of the articles seem more modern than the title would strictly justify, it must be remembered that the changes in the condition of the County Palatine have been so rapid that many things have become obsolete in the life time of the existing generation.

Echoes of Old Lancashire

Echoes of Old Lancashire
Author: William Edward Armytage Axon
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1899
Genre: History
ISBN:

Preface This volume is intended for those who find it pleasant, at times, to wander in the byways of topography and local literature. The development of Lancashire, especially in its relation to modern industrial life, has been told by more than one able historian, and all that is here attempted is to glean in the ample harvest fields. The bygone customs, forgotten worthies, outworn superstitions, historical episodes and travellers' tales here recorded, will, it is hoped, not be without interest. If some of the articles seem more modern than the title would strictly justify, it must be remembered that the changes in the condition of the County Palatine have been so rapid that many things have become obsolete in the life time of the existing generation.

The Magical Imagination

The Magical Imagination
Author: Karl Bell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2012-02-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107002001

Innovative history of the popular magical imagination and ordinary people's experience of urbanization in nineteenth-century England.

Lancastrians

Lancastrians
Author: Paul Salveson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2023
Genre: History
ISBN: 1787389332

A landmark new history of the great English county of Lancashire, exploring its people's impact on Britain and beyond.

Pearls of Poesy

Pearls of Poesy
Author: Charles Frederick Forshaw
Publisher:
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1911
Genre: Anniversaries
ISBN:

The Devil and the Victorians

The Devil and the Victorians
Author: Sarah Bartels
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2021-03-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000348040

In recent decades, there has been a growing recognition of the significance of the supernatural in a Victorian context. Studies of nineteenth-century spiritualism, occultism, magic, and folklore have highlighted that Victorian England was ridden with spectres and learned magicians. Despite this growing body of scholarship, little historiographical work has addressed the Devil. This book demonstrates the significance of the Devil in a Victorian context, emphasising his pervasiveness and diversity. Drawing on a rich array of primary material, including theological and folkloric works, fiction, newspapers and periodicals, and broadsides and other ephemera, it uses the diabolic to explore the Victorians' complex and ambivalent relationship with the supernatural. Both the Devil and hell were theologically contested during the nineteenth century, with an increasing number of both clergymen and laypeople being discomfited by the thought of eternal hellfire. Nevertheless, the Devil continued to play a role in the majority of English denominations, as well as in folklore, spiritualism, occultism, popular culture, literature, and theatre. The Devil and the Victorians will appeal to readers interested in nineteenth-century English cultural and religious history, as well as the darker side of the supernatural.