Wharncliffe imprint: 191 books

Durham Executions

From 1700 to 1900

by Maureen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2007

Widespread poverty continued to exist in Durham at the start of the twentieth century. Improvement in working and housing conditions was a slow. Wages in dominant industries associated with iron and coal were higher than those who still worked on the land, in service and elsewhere but, for most families,...
by Maureen Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009

Part One includes an overview of early disasters, multiple fatalities, from 1710. Part Two, 1806-1841 concerns disasters, under the theme of ‘Pit Children’. Part Three, 1844-1888, covers a variety of accidents including explosions and floodings and is called ‘Fire, Air and Water’....
by Warwick Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2001

The last 150 years has been the most tumultuous in the industrial history of South Yorkshire, and at the heart of this has always been mining and its allied industries. South Yorkshire Pits takes us from the beginnings of the industry, where land ownership brought wealth from what lay beneath it....

The Romford Outrage

The Murder of Inspector Thomas Simmons 1885

by Kathryn Abnett, Linda Rhodes
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009

Following the success of their prize-winning account of the infamous killing of PC George Clark - The Dagenham Murder - Linda Rhodes and Kathryn Abnett now reconstruct, in vivid detail, another sensational Victorian murder case. Inspector Thomas Simmons was shot and fatally wounded near Romford in...

Denby & District IV

Chronicles of Clerics, Convicts, Corn Millers and Comedians

by Chris Heath
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2009

What connects the Murder of Maria Marten, the Luddites, Baring’s Bank, the Castlemaine Gold Rush, the Marquiss of Normandy, Knutsford Prison, the Archibishop of York Wentworth Woodhouse, the Earl of Mulgrave, W B Yeats and a Ghost of Denby Dale? They all feature in this fourth addition to the influentialand...
by Penelope Worsley
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2010

Born in Cairo in 1942, Penelope married Oliver Worsley and went to live in Yorkshire, where they had four children. ‘Footsteps to the Jungle’ traces Penelope’s earlier life, the discovery of Huntington’s Disease, the death of her son Richard and what led her to set up an international charity...

The 1984-85 Miners Strike in Nottinghamshire

If Spirit Alone Won Battles: The Diary of John Lowe

by Jonathan Symcox
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2011

John Lowe was at the forefront of the fight for jobs during the twelve months of the miners’ strike from 1984-5 as the elected chairman of Clipstone Colliery’s strike committee in the largely working county of Nottinghamshire. The dirty war fought by the Thatcher Government to defeat the formidable...

Skelmanthorpe, Clayton West & District

A Denby & District Archive Photography Album

by Chris Heath
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2007

Utilising the very best archive photographs that have survived the ravages of time, Ye Olde Townships is a unique record of the changing face of the district. This book provides an historical window into the landscape and lives of the people who created the villages we know today.

Lord Mason

Barnsley Pitlad to Peer - An Illustrated Life

by Brian Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2008

Now in his mid-eighties but still active on the Labour benches in the House of Lords, Lord Mason has had a glittering career in politics. He has had first-hand knowledge of all Prime Ministers from Atlee and Churchill to Blair (and Brown); and has had numerous meetings with royalty and world leaders....
by Ian D. Rotherham
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010

Yorkshire’ Forgotten Fens’ is a history of the cultural landscape of the wetlands of the Humber basin and the entire county of Yorkshire stretching from the Humber and north Lincolnshire through the Vale of York, through South Yorkshire and Holderness, to Pickering and beyond. The book draws together...
by Chris Heath
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2006

This latest edition in the Denby & District series opens up in its own unique and in depth style. It begins with a chronicle of the area dating from Medieval times to the 18th century. Most of the documents utilised have never before been published and include a transcription of a petition signed...
by Stewart Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011

Written by a man who was at the heart of the Sheffield steel industry throughout its most turbulent years. Crashing Steel gives us triumphs and disasters, heroes and villains, peace and war. Above all it gives us the story of a great industry in a great city. This is a tale which is intertwined with the lives of the people of Sheffield.rnrnThe men and women who made it all possible.

Aspects of Lincoln

Discovering Local History

by Andrew Walker
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2002

Aspects of Lincoln, is the first in the widely acclaimed Aspects series to feature the City of Lincoln. However the Aspects series now extends from the east and west Midlands, up to Lancaster in the north-west and the north Yorkshire coast in the east.Aspects of Lincoln, is a multi author book containing...

A Derby View - The Best of Anton Rippon

From the popular Derby Telegraph columnist and author of the highly acclaimed A Derby Boy

by Anton Rippon
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2010

Anton Rippon is a Derby boy, born and bred. He is also one of the city's best-known writers and personalities, with a string of highly acclaimed books to his name. For the past eight years, he has written a popular weekly column in the Derby Telegraph in which he takes a whimsical, often sideways,...
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