Yorkshire, A Very Peculiar History电子书

Cover

Front Matter

Title Page

Publisher Information

Dedication

Yorkshire

Quotes

Putting Yorkshire on the Map

Introduction: Where The ‘eck Is Yorkshire?

Location, location, location

Ridings of Yorkshire

CHAPTER ONE: Prehistoric Yorkshire

Living by a lake

Stonehenge of the North, in Yorkshire

Bring on the Bronze Age

Ferriby boat number 1

Tribes and chariots

Ten things you didn’t know about Prehistoric Yorkshire

CHAPTER TWO: Roman Yorkshire

Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes

The Romans conquer Yorkshire

York under the Romans

Eboracum

Roman emperors connected with York

The end of Roman Yorkshire

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Roman Yorkshire

CHAPTER THREE: Between the Romans & the Vikings

The kingdom of Deira

The kingdom of Northumbria

The rise of Eoforwic

CHAPTER FOUR: Viking Yorkshire

An army on the move

Jorvik under the Vikings

Kings of Jorvik

Drink like a Viking

The end of Viking Yorkshire

Signposts to the past

Five Things You Didn’t Know About Viking Yorkshire

CHAPTER FIVE: Norman Yorkshire

In the year 1066 . . .

Rivals for the crown

Battlefield Yorkshire

Here come the Normans!

The Harrying of the North

Domesday Book Yorkshire

Ten things you didn’t know about Norman Yorkshire

CHAPTER SIX: Castles & cathedrals

Castles made of earth

Massacre at the castle

Castles made of stone

Secret tunnels under Richmond Castle

Five things you didn’t know about Yorkshire castles

Cathedrals

York Minster

Ten things you didn’t know about York Minster

CHAPTER SEVEN: Poor peasants & mean monks

Britain’s baddest years

The Black Death in Yorkshire

Vanished villages

Wharram Percy - top DMV

Five things you didn’t know about the Black Death in Yorkshire

Robin Hood - a Yorkshire outlaw

Yorkshire’s Robin Hood (and Little John) places

Magnificent monasteries

In date order

Five things you didn’t know about Yorkshire’s Monasteries

CHAPTER EIGHT: The bloody roses

So what’s with the roses?

Which way up?

Let battle commence!

The Yorkshire battles

The Battle of Wakefield

Which side were they on?

Off with his head!

The Battle of Towton

The first Yorkist king

Ten things you didn’t know about the Wars of the Roses in Yorkshire

CHAPTER NINE: Oi, Henry! Hands off!

Pilgrimage of Grace

Hanged holy men

Adam Sedbergh woz ere

Going, going, gone!

The end of Roche Abbey

Closed until further notice

The Dissolution in Yorkshire year by year

CHAPTER TEN: Rebels, Royalists & Roundheads

Council of the North

Gunpowder, treason and plot

St Margaret of York

York – capital of England

War in our own backyard

Battle of Seacroft Moor

Battle of Adwalton Moor

The Siege of York, 1644

Battle of Marston Moor

Ten things you didn’t know about the Civil War in Yorkshire

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Made In Yorkshire and proud of it!

The population boom

Where they lived in 1851

The textile industry

A handweaver’s life

Trouble at t’mill

Yorkshire slavery

Five things you didn’t know about Yorkshire’s textile industry

The steel industry

The coal industry

Yorkshire pit disasters

Yorkshire pits of the past

CHAPTER TWELVE: Yorkshire Factfile

Christmas tusky

The Cawood Feast

Fortune-teller

Claims to fame

Yorkshire inventors

Stainless steel

Famous sons and daughters

The Brontë sisters

On the farm

Counting sheep

Where to see sea birds

Fur and feather

Cricket

Rugby

Football

Yorkshire dictionary

Some Yorkshire sayings

Highest, longest, deepest

Yorkshire Day – 1 August

Acknowledgements

Timeline of Yorkshire History

Glossary

End matter

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