Edge of England : landfall in Lincolnshire / Derek Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Derek, 1964- author.

Contributor:

Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lincolnshire (England)--History.

Lincolnshire (England).

England--Lincolnshire.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xxi, 446 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Hurst & Company, 2022.

Summary:

Lincolnshire is England's second-largest county - and one of the least well-known. Yet its understated chronicles, unfashionable towns and undervalued countryside conceal fascinating stories, and unique landscapes: its Wolds are lonely and beautiful, its towns characterful, its marshlands and dynamic coast metaphors of constant change. From plesiosaurs to Puritans, medieval ghosts to eighteeneth-century explorers, poets to politicians, and Vikings to Brexit, this marginal county is central to England's identity. Cnut, Henry IV, John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford all called Lincolnshire home. So did saints, world-famed churchmen and reformers - Etheldreda, Gilbert, Guthlac and Hugh, Robert Grosseteste, John Wycliffe, John Cotton, John Foxe and John Wesley - as well as Isaac Newton, Joseph Banks, John Harrison and George Boole. Lincolnshire explorers went everywhere: John Smith to Jamestown, George Bass and Matthew Flinders to Australia, and John Franklin to a bitter death in the Arctic. Artists and writers have been inspired - including Byrd, Taverner, Stukeley, Stubbs, Eliot and Tennyson - while Thatcher wrought neo-liberalism. Extraordinary architecture testifies to centuries of both settlement and unrest, from Saxon towers to sky-piercing spires, and evocative ruined abbeys to the wonder of the Cathedral. And in between is always the little-known land itself - an epitome of England, awaiting discovery.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-423) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

1787386988

9781787386983

OCLC:

1276933654