Topographical Writers in South-West England

Topographical Writers in South-West England
Author: Mark Brayshay
Publisher: University of Exeter Press
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1996
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780859894241

A collection of essays concerned with topographical writers who published work on the west country between c. 1600 and 1900. It provides an assessment of some famous writers such as Leland, a guide to the sources for the west Country and an analysis of the development of the genre.

Cragg Family Origins (England 1770-1859)

Cragg Family Origins (England 1770-1859)
Author: David Cragg
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2016-03-23
Genre: History
ISBN: 0994519214

The history of the Cragg family, who lived in England until 1859 before emigrating to Sydney Australia. The story commences in the heart of England's Lake District in a Keswick poor house and moves to the towns of Workington and Cockermouth. The majority of the family, while in Cockermouth, enter the woollen mills in the midst of a socially tumultuous time where mass rallies call for significant political change and widespread enfranchisement. Hunger, disease, imprisonment and the hint of rebellion.