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The Fens

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Author : Francis Pryor
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2019-07-11

The Fens written by Francis Pryor and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-11 with History categories.

A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. 'Francis Pryor brings the magic of the Fens to life in a deeply personal and utterly enthralling way' TONY ROBINSON. 'Pryor feels the land rather than simply knowing it' GUARDIAN. Inland from the Wash, on England's eastern cost, crisscrossed by substantial rivers and punctuated by soaring church spires, are the low-lying, marshy and mysterious Fens. Formed by marine and freshwater flooding, and historically wealthy owing to the fertility of their soils, the Fens of Lincolnshire and Cambridgeshire are one of the most distinctive, neglected and extraordinary regions of England. Francis Pryor has the most intimate of connections with this landscape. For some forty years he has dug its soils as a working archaeologist – making ground-breaking discoveries about the nature of prehistoric settlement in the area – and raising sheep in the flower-growing country between Spalding and Wisbech. In The Fens, he counterpoints the history of the Fenland landscape and its transformation – from Bronze age field systems to Iron Age hillforts; from the rise of prosperous towns such as King's Lynn, Ely and Cambridge to the ambitious drainage projects that created the Old and New Bedford Rivers – with the story of his own discovery of it as an archaeologist. Affectionate, richly informative and deftly executed, The Fens weaves together strands of archaeology, history and personal experience into a satisfying narrative portrait of a complex and threatened landscape.

Spirit Of The Fens

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Author : Edward Storey
language : en
Publisher: Robert Hale
Release Date : 1985

Spirit Of The Fens written by Edward Storey and has been published by Robert Hale this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with History categories.

The Draining Of The Fens

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Author : Eric H. Ash
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2017-05-29

The Draining Of The Fens written by Eric H. Ash and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-29 with History categories.

"This book is a political, social, and environmental history of the many attempts to drain the Fens of eastern England during the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, both the early failures and the eventual successes. Fen drainage projects were supposed to transform hundreds of thousands of acres of wetlands into dry farmland capable of growing grain and other crops, and also reform the sickly, backward fenland inhabitants into civilized, healthy farmers, to the benefit of the entire commonwealth. Fenlanders, however, viewed the drainage as a grave threat to their local landscape, economy, and way of life. At issue were two different understandings of the Fens, what they were and ought to be; the power to define the Fens in the present was the power to determine their future destiny. The drainage projects, and the many conflicts they incited, illustrate the ways in which politics, economics, and ecological thought intersected at a time when attitudes toward both the natural environment and the commonwealth were shifting. Promoted by the crown, endorsed by agricultural improvement advocates, undertaken by English and Dutch projectors, and opposed by fenland commoners, the drainage of the Fens provides a fascinating locus to study the process of state building in early modern England, and the violent popular resistance it sometimes provoked. In exploring the many challenges the English faced in re-conceiving and re-creating their Fens, this book addresses important themes of environmental, political, economic, social, and technological history, and reveals new dimensions of the evolution of early modern England into a modern, unitary, capitalist state"--

The Story Of The Fens

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Author : Frank Meeres
language : en
Publisher: The History Press
Release Date : 2019-03-29

The Story Of The Fens written by Frank Meeres and has been published by The History Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-29 with History categories.

Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk, as well as Peterborough City Council, all lay claim to a part of the Fens. Since Roman times, man has increased the land mass in this area by one third of the size. It is the largest plain in the British Isles, covering an area of nearly three-quarters of a million acres and is unique to the UK. The fen people know the area as marsh (land reclaimed from the sea) and fen (land drained from flooding rivers running from the uplands). The Fens are unique in having more miles of navigable waterways than anywhere else in the UK. Mammoth drainage schemes in the seventeenth and eighteenth changed the landscape forever – leading slowly but surely to the area so loved today. Insightful, entertaining and full of rich incident, here is the fascinating story of the Fens.

The Draining Of The Fens

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Author : H. C. Darby
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-18

The Draining Of The Fens written by H. C. Darby and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-18 with Nature categories.

The text is ambitious in scope, reflecting the author's position as a historical geographer, and covers a broad range of disciplinary perspectives, ranging from geology to socio-economic analysis. Numerous illustrative figures are contained, including maps, diagrams and photographs of the area, and a bibliography is also provided.

The Story Of The Fens

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Author : Valerie Gerrard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

The Story Of The Fens written by Valerie Gerrard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.

Once known as the 'drowned lands', the Fens have been transformed from a flooded area, with only small islands habitable throughout the year, into one of the most productive and fertile regions of the country. Deeply attached to the Fens, Valerie Gerrard weaves an intricate tapestry of the history and people of the area.