The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape

The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape
Author: Anthony Silson
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
Total Pages: 652
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1783379014

'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is part of the new established 'Making of...' series by Wharncliffe Books. The book holds fascinating and beautiful illustrations that show the West Yorkshire landscape in its entirety. West Yorkshire is a land of great contrast and sudden change. Lonely upland moors rapidly pass into busy valley towns such as Bradford and Halifax. Serene farmland lies close to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield. The cereal lands of the low gently sloping eastern area contrasts sharply with the grasslands of the higher Pennines. 'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is the story of how West Yorkshire's landscape has changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. It reveals how, from prehistoric times onwards, people changed an initially wooded landscape into its contemporary pattern of moors, farms, villages and towns. Have a transitional journey through the landscape, from prehistoric times to the present day, as you read 'The Making of the West Yorkshire landscape'.

Housing in Urban Britain 1780-1914

Housing in Urban Britain 1780-1914
Author: Richard Rodger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 118
Release: 1995-09-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521557863

Why did slums and suburbs develop simultaneously? Did the capitalist system produce these, and were class antagonisms to blame? Why did the Victorians believe there was a housing problem, and who or what created it? What housing solutions were attempted, and how successfully? These are amongst the central questions addressed by social and urban historians in recent years, and their arguments and analyses are reviewed here. The history of housing between 1780 and 1914 encapsulates many problems associated with the transition from a largely rural to an overwhelmingly urban nation. The unprecedented pace of this transition imposed immense tensions within society, with implications for the urban environment and for local and national government. Housing is central to an understanding of the social, economic, political and cultural forces in nineteenth-century history; this book is an ideal introduction to the topic.

The British Building Industry Since 1800

The British Building Industry Since 1800
Author: Christopher G. Powell
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 290
Release: 1996
Genre: Construction industry
ISBN: 0419207309

Powell introduces and describes two centuries of building activity and the building industry, addressing such questions as why and what was built, who decided to build, and how they did so.

Victorian Houses and their Details

Victorian Houses and their Details
Author: Helen Long
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2007-06-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1136349707

'Victorian Houses' presents the architectural detailing of the time in the context of the era - providing a comprehensive understanding of its architecture and design. Pattern books played a vital role in the dissemination of taste between architect, builder and client in the nineteenth and early twentieth century. By focusing on the contribution of the pattern book to the architecture of the Victorian and Edwardian eras, the various trends of the time are documented. The types of publications and other sources of taste available at different points over this period reflected social and economic factors, such as the changing demand or changes in organisation of manufacturing and retail.

The British Building Industry since 1800

The British Building Industry since 1800
Author: Christopher Powell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2013-12-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 113674276X

This scholarly and well-researched study of the building industry documents the interplay of new materials and technologies, costs and the changing social and economic forces that affected the decision-making about our built environment over the last two centuries. The author provides a succinct and readable survey of the growth and development of British building which will be of interest to all building specialists and those training for a career in the construction industry.

The Landscape of Britain

The Landscape of Britain
Author: Michael Reed
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2002-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134728042

The Landscape of Britain has a uniquely rich historical diversity. In this book explains the processes at work in the evolution of the landscape, pointing out examples of surviving evidence from the past. The landscape of late twentieth-century Britain is the end product of some ten thousand years of human effort directed not only towards satisfying basic physical needs for food and shelter, but also towards expressing profound spiritual and intellectual aspirations, whether by means of burial mounds or churches, schools or monasteries. The author shows how each generation makes its own individual contribution without being able entirely to erase those of its predecessors, however remote or distant in time.

The Landscape of Industry

The Landscape of Industry
Author: Judith Alfrey
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 535
Release: 2005-06-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134967640

The Landscape of Industry is an integrated study which establishes a method for the analysis of complex industrial landscapes. Based on a study of the Ironbridge Gorge, the authors consider a range of material evidence, combining archaeological appraisal of the landscape with analysis of its characteristic settlement patterns and built forms. The authors consider the shifting relationship between landscape and industry. Industrialisation is itself shaped and constrained by the landscape in which it occurs, and the authors consider the interaction of environment and industry as the accumulation of an inheritance which in each generation influences the course and content of future development. The Landscape of Industry sets the agenda both for further study and for the integrated management of landscape resources.

The Archaeology of Britain

The Archaeology of Britain
Author: John Hunter
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 786
Release: 2009-12-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1135189579

The Archaeology of Britain is the only concise and up-to-date introduction to the archaeological record of Britain from the reoccupation of the landmass by Homo sapiens during the later stages of the most recent Ice Age until last century. This fully revised second edition extends its coverage, including greater detail on the first millennium AD beyond the Anglo-Saxon domain, and into recent times to look at the archaeological record produced by Britain’s central role in two World Wars and the Cold War. The chapters are written by experts in their respective fields. Each is geared to provide an authoritative but accessible introduction, supported by numerous illustrations of key sites and finds and a selective reference list to aid study in greater depth. It provides a one-stop textbook for the entire archaeology of Britain and reflects the most recent developments in archaeology both as a field subject and as an academic discipline. No other book provides such comprehensive coverage, with such a wide chronological range, of the archaeology of Britain. This collection is essential reading for undergraduates in archaeology, and all those interested in British archaeology, history and geography.

Industry in the Landscape, 1700-1900

Industry in the Landscape, 1700-1900
Author: Peter Neaverson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2002-01-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134832206

Two hundred years of industry have transformed the landscape. This book enables the reader to reconstruct the landscape of past industry and to study the former working conditions of men and women.