The history of Northumberland

By Cadwallader John Bates

Book Overview

Northumberland is not a footnote on the map; it is a frontier of faith, fortresses, and hard-won belonging. Stones remember what people forget. In Cadwallader J. Bates's The history of Northumberland, the county speaks in close detail: the rise of northumberland parishes and towns, the traces of medieval Northumbria heritage, and the long drumbeat of English border conflicts across the Anglo Scottish borderlands. Written in the Victorian era with an antiquarian's patience, this victorian local history book gathers tradition, record, and landscape into a county history reference you can return to again and again. Charters, parish traditions, topography, and remembered battle-lines are weighed with care, giving modern readers a grounded sense of how community and conflict shaped the county. Valuable as a northumberland England history narrative and as a local history researchers guide, Bates's antiquarian history volume supports genealogy and family history work while rewarding any reader who loves place. For students of the northern past, it bridges narrative history with reference detail, ideal beside maps and parish notes. Its attentive use of names, sites, and surviving evidence reflects the best of antiquaries and archaeology studies, and it remains a cornerstone in the wider British county histories collection. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For casual browsers, it is a vivid walk along the border; for classic literature and history collectors, a dignified companion to the shelf.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9353700361
• ISBN13: 9789353700362
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"