Carnegie's catalogue for Spring 2010

Carnegiecatalogue Spring 2010

including Crucible Books and Palatine Books

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new and recent titles 2–11

general history 12–14

town and city histories 14–19

county histories 20

countryside, rural and wildlife 21–22

business and industrial history 23–25

architecture and buildings 26

birdwatching walks books 27

walking books 28

local interest 28–29

light reading and humour 30

murder and crime 31

contacts and information 32

photograph:equestrian statue of Charles I, c.1633, by Hubert Le Sueur, now at Charing Cross, London, facing down Whitehall, as featured in Jeremy Black’s new London: a history (see pages 2–3)photograph : carneg ie , 2009

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London is at the centre of the nation’s attention, and has been, on and off, for two thousand years. Yet familiarity does not necessarily bring enlightenment. The very size of the city has the power to obscure as well as to mesmerise; the unparalleled tangle of experience over such a long period becomes impossible to unravel, at least in one telling or from one perspective.

London was a capital city, a port, an economic powerhouse, a magnet for talent. Two hundred and fifty years ago London was the first modern city, with the world’s highest wages and best standard of living, at least for those in settled employment.

Yet it could just as easily be portrayed (and often was) as a sink of depravity, a slum of despair with some of the worst death rates in the world, in which urban expansion and population explosion outstripped the city’s capacity to provide even the basic means of life to ordinary citizens.

To those from the furthest corners of the land it could appear to be a seething snakepit of avarice, prostitution, corruption and vice … yet one that could be seductively attractive, full of opportunity for fortune, advancement, or salvation.

To political commentators, or scheming courtiers, London was the heart of the nation state and of empire; to economists and financiers it was where you had to be to do real business; to lawyers there was nowhere else like it for their particular trade; to lightermen, sailors and watermen who worked the river or sailed the world it was their home port, the city on the most important artery of world trade; to socialites it was the tiny, febrile centre of their universe; to social reformers it was, and seems destined always to be, a den of the worst iniquity, inequality, inequity.

London was wealthy, populous, central to the nation, cosmopolitan yet self-absorbed and inward-looking. When young, enterprising provincials of foreigners made their way to London – as they did in their thousands – they knew that they would find everything they needed there – financial institutions, the law and all its multifarious (or nefarious) practitioners, a huge potential market, contacts, networks, the court – all in one place – along with coffee-houses, fine restaurants and gentlemen’s clubs, salacious entertainments, fashionable assemblies and a cult of celebrity.

Many who migrated to London did become disillusioned. They found that the city failed to provide an easy route to riches and security. The filth, the squalor, the misery and the poverty: these were as much the real London as the elegant squares of

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Belgravia and the fine villas of Kensington. The stews of Southwark, the opium dens of Limehouse, the child prostitution of Stepney … a walk and a world away from the heaths of Hampstead and the shops of Regent Street.

What we have, then, is a complex, bedevilling place whose history has been enacted upon so many different fields of play that it is hard to encompass in a single survey. This book cannot be other than a general overview. It attempts no more than to distil, from an immense mountain of information, historical memory and experience, an account which tries to explain why London developed in the particular, fascinating way that it did.

If you want to find out about two thousand years of London’s past – the people, the events and the broad sweep of history – in one

beautifully illustrated volume, look no further than Jeremy Black’s masterly new book.

448 pages, packed with colour illustrations.

Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-172-6hardback, 448 pages, 246 × 189 mm £25.00

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‘A general plague of madness’: the civil wars in Lancashire, 16�0–1660Stephen Bull

Carnegie 512 pages, 234 × 156 mm Nov. 2009ltd edn hard ISBN 978-1-85936-105-4 £�0.00softback ISBN 978-1-85936-191-7 £18.99

It was Lord Derby, Lancashire’s highest-ranked nobleman and its principal royalist, who once said that the English civil wars had been a ‘general plague of madness’. Seeing the conflict as both complex and bewildering, the earl defied anyone to tell the complete story of ‘so foolish, so wicked, so lasting a war’.

The impact and significance of the wars in Lancashire can hardly be over-stated: the conflict involved our ancestors fighting one another, on and off, for almost a decade; most parts of Lancashire witnessed warfare of some kind, and several towns saw bloody sieges. Lancaster was burned, Liverpool was stormed, and Preston changed hands several times. In 1651 the Earl of Derby himself was executed for his alleged role in the ‘massacre’ of Bolton in 1644.

Lancashire’s role in the civil wars was quite distinctive, and particularly important. Lancashire lay right at the centre of the fighting, for the conflict did not just encompass England, but Ireland and Scotland too, and Lancashire’s position on the coast facing Catholic, royalist Ireland was seen as critical from the very first months. And being on the main route

south from Scotland meant that the county suffered a good deal from pillaging armies from the north. In 1648 perhaps the most important battle ever on British soil took place when Cromwell defeated Scots and royalists at Preston.

In this, the first full history of the Lancashire civil wars for almost a century, Stephen Bull makes extensive use of new discoveries to narrate and explain the exciting, terrible events that our ancestors witnessed in the cause either of king or parliament. Based around a readable and lucid narrative of the main events, this book also contains a vast amount of information

about seventeenth-century Lancashire, its people and what prompted them to take up arms against each other.

Only �00 hardbacks have been printed; this important book is also available in great value softback.

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Belfast: a historyWilliam A . Maguire

Carnegie 288 pages, 246 × 189 mm Nov. 2009softback ISBN 978-1-85936-189-4 £17.99

Understanding the past – where we have come from and what has moulded us – is important everywhere, and nowhere more so than in Northern Ireland’s largest city.

For 250 years Belfast, though quite unlike anywhere else in Ireland, was similar to many of the other great industrial cities of the United Kingdom. It embraced the industrial revolution wholeheartedly, and witnessed enormous economic success and expansion as a result. In its heyday it was a great port, a powerhouse of linen manufacturing, ship-building, and engineering, and a truly dominant force in the northern Irish economy. As the iconic shell of RMS Titanic was taking shape high above her Queen’s Island birthplace, Edwardian Belfast was near the peak of her economic might.

But within the city there developed patterns of community division and conflict – based on religion – which in their severity and seeming permanence have rendered it unique among the cities of the British Isles. From the seventeenth-century Ulster plantations to Catholic migration from elsewhere in Ireland, the particular mix of people in Belfast has always been different from everywhere else and has fundamentally shaped the city’s identity and history over successive centuries.

Much of the industry has now gone, and for many years the city had to struggle with the pain of adjustment, at the same time as it was being scarred by a generation of the Troubles. Now, with a hard-won peace, investment and renewed hope, it is an excellent time to stand back and make a new assessment of the history that has brought Belfast to where it is today.

William Maguire, who has lived in Belfast for most of his life, succeeds here in painting an accurate, authentic and above all a balanced picture of the city, its events and its people.

This is a fascinating and readable new insight into the capital city of Northern Ireland. This large-format paperback is sumptuously produced and great value at just £17.99.

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Wicked enchantments: a history of the Pendle witches and their magicJoyce Froome(inassociationwithTheMuseumofWitchcraft)

Palatine ISBN 978-1-874181-62-0softback, 416pp, 240 × 170 mm £16.99

The Pendle witchcraft case is a compelling human story, which also provides a dramatic insight into the importance of magic in the lives of our ancestors. This new book offers a detailed account of the extraordinary events that took place in Lancashire in 1612, focusing on James and Alizon Device, the teenage brother and sister at the centre of the case.

It draws on a wide range of sources to evoke a world of magicians and cunning folk, of charms, divination and familiar spirits. It is illustrated with photographs of magical objects, and of a modern re-creations of seventeenth-century spells and rituals.

Magic and witchcraft were very real phenomena at the time of the Lancashire witch trials, and this book brings the whole subject vividly to life for a modern audience.

London stage in the nineteenth centuryRobert Tanitch(inassociationwithWestminsterCityArchives)

Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-208-2hardback, 320pp, 246 × 189 mm £25.00

Just like Robert Tanitch’s critically acclaimed book on the London stage in the twentieth century, this wonderful new book is ‘fascinating … absolutely wonderful for finding what you aren’t looking for …’

Presented chronologically, the concise and well-crafted entries describe all of the major new plays and revivals, great actors, famous performances and spectacular productions, with a wicked sprinkling of acerbic reviews and spicy criticism. Over 250 contemporary illustrations of theatres, actors, playbills and productions help evoke the dramatic atmosphere of a period in which the lavish was expected – including erupting volcanoes, one performance with a cast of 650, and a reconstruction of Henley Regatta, complete with real boats and 200 tons of water.

A joyous celebration of 100 years of all things theatrical. A total pleasure to dip into – and a real feast for the eye – this book is a must for theatre-lovers the world over.

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Ribble, river and valley: a local and natural historyMalcolm Greenhalgh

In this unique and important book, Malcolm Greenhalgh combines local history with a wealth of information about the area’s wildlife and how it has changed over time. The result is a book which explains how the countryside we know and love came to be as it is today, as well as how human intervention has impacted on it over the centuries, right up to the present day.

320 pages, with over 260 mostly colour illustrations.

This book is available in two bindings: a great value softback, but also a stunning limited edition hardback, of which only 100 copies will ever be produced. Each numbered copy has marbled endpapers and cloth slipcase, and each is signed by the author. Presented in a gold box, each book is accompanied by a special Ribble fishing fly hand-tied by the author. Telephone 01524 840111 to check availability and to order.

Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-181-8limited edition hardback £100.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-135-1softback £17.99

June 2010A history of SheffieldDavid Hey

Carnegie third edn, ISBN 978-1-85936-198-6softback, 320pp, 243 × 169 mm £16.99

Sheffield was the city of cutlery and steel: 350 years ago three out of every five men worked in the cutlery trades; local innovations included Old Sheffield Plate, crucible steel and stainless steel and during the mid-nineteenth century the region manufactured nearly half of European steel. The city’s factories produced iron plate for battleships, thousands of miles of railway tracks and a staggering range of cutlery items and edge tools such as knives and scythes.

Yet, as David Hey shows, the city’s history is much older and broader than this. By the twelfth century William de Lovetot had built a castle by the river, and it is likely that it was he who founded the town of Sheffield alongside his residence.

This is a fine, up-to-date overview of the history of Sheffield. The text is complemented by over 300 illustrations, many in full colour.

‘… A fascinating account of the special alloy which is Sheffield … Highly recommended.’

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The Oddfellows, 1810–2010: 200 years of making friends and helping peopleDan Weinbren(inassociationwithTheOddfellows)

On 10 October 1810, 27 men came together to form the Independent Order of Oddfellows, Manchester Unity. It was to be the beginning of an organisation which for the last 200 years has appealed to the best in people, treated them as capable of exercising responsibility, and empowered them to face the challenges of life. All the principles and practices of Oddfellowship developed from these core values, which still characterise the Society today.

The story of the last two centuries, including many dramatic changes, is chronicled in this well-researched, readable and lively history, lavishly illustrated with many wonderful photographs, documents and commemorative memorabilia.

384 large pages, 120 illustrations, many in colour.Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-207-5hardback, 384pp, 243 × 169 mm £25.00

Palatine ISBN 978-1-874181-67-5softback, 192pp, 234 × 156 mm £8.95


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Birdwatching walks in the Lake DistrictDavid Hindle and John Wilson

Carnegie’s ‘Birdwatching walks’ books have proved immensely popular and have been received with acclaim by birders, walkers and book reviewers alike. This, the fourth book in the series, is a wonderful collection of walks combining the spectacular and beautiful scenery of the Lake District with excellent opportunities to see some of the area’s birds and other wildlife. Each walk is designed for all ages and abilities, and for both keen and casual bird watchers.

With helpful guide maps, interesting bird and habitat information, travel hints and a bird reference section, Birdwatching walks in the Lake District should ensure that walkers really can get the best out of this stunning National Park and its rich and varied bird population.

Includes a 32-page colour bird/wildlife reference section to help walkers identify and learn more about the species that might be encountered during the walks.

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Garstang: a pictorial historyJohn Askew

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A collection of 100 high-quality old photographs of this Lancashire market town that depict a way of life that has now changed for ever.

Together with an excellent introduction that tells the early history of Garstang, including accounts of the manor, market and fairs, this pictorial tour makes a unique, beautifully produced little book and will be fascinating reading for anybody interested in the history of the Garstang area.

80 pages, 100 illustrations. Great value. ISBN 978-1-874181-61-3softback £8.95

The Staffordshire oatcake: a historyPamela Sambrook

newly published and reprinted within a month!

Throughout the Potteries and beyond the Staffordshire oatcake has iconic status. True, it has come a long way from its origins as humble, cheap and filling sustenance for the poor, and nowadays all manner of exotic fillings are added, though purists will tell you that cheese and bacon are still the best, and anything else is wrong!

Pamela Sambrook, Potteries born and bred, packs all there is to know into one superb, best-selling little book! A gem of a book.

128 pages, 100 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-874181-63-7softback £7.95

An Oldham velvet dynasty: the Mellodews of MoorsideWilliam M. Hartley

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The history of Thomas Mellodew & Company Ltd is part of the history of Oldham. For over 100 years, the family-owned firm was an important local business and employer, spinning cotton and producing high quality cotton velvet – a material much sought after in Victorian England.

This is the fascinating biography of the company and its owners, from its origins in the 1830s until its demise in 1956. A great mix of local, family and business history.

288 pages, 100 illustrations. Great value.ISBN 978-1-874181-64-4softback £1�.00

Float: Pilkington’s glass revolutionDavid J . Bricknell

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A highly readable account of the invention, development and exploitation of the float glass process, a British innovation that has transformed the built environment worldwide, bringing light and drama to offices, homes and landmark buildings. Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the invention, David Bricknell’s book is a wonderful celebration of Pilkington endeavour.

256 pages, illustrated. Hardback.

ISBN 978-1-905472-11-6hardback £20.00

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A history of Haworth from earliest timesMichael Baumber


A history of PrestonDavid Hunt

Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-171-9softback, 368pp, 243 × 169 mm £16.99

For a century and a half Preston was the archetypal Lancashire cotton town, with mills and terraced houses for the workers. Behind the economic might of firms such as Horrockses, however, there was considerable hardship and squalor: Charles Dickens used Preston as the darkest face of Victorian industry in his novel Hard Times.

Yet Preston had been an important market town, administrative centre and transport hub for hundreds of years before the first mill was opened in the 1770s, and since the demise of cotton in the middle of the twentieth century the town has resumed these ancient roles with renewed vigour. With city status recently gained, and the 2012 Guild fast approaching, now is the time to re-evaluate Preston’s unique and important place in the nation’s history.

368 pages, around 150 illustrations, including colour.

Haworth village and its parsonage will forever be linked with the Brontës, who lived at Haworth parsonage. Indeed, some of the characters in the Brontë sisters’ novels were based upon real Haworth folk, while the moors above the village figure prominently and famously as the haunt of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights.

Yet this book shows that there is much more to the story of Haworth. From the arrival to the area of the first settlers 15,000 years ago, the author narrates a long and fascinating history, through the Norman and medieval periods, on to the Civil Wars and the Industrial Revolution. The book is particularly strong on the textile industry, which became such a dominant force in the district’s economy.

This is a wide-ranging, well-written and accessible narrative about one very interesting and attractive Yorkshire village, which sets the Brontë phenomenon in its proper context.

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Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-154-2hardback, 384pp, 246 × 189 mm £2�.99


The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths is one of the ancient livery companies of the City of London. With origins dating back to 1299, the company regulated many aspects of smithing within the City and its immediate environs, including who was allowed to practise the trade, their hours of work and the quality of their goods and workmanship. Ranked 40th in the order of precedence, it was a solid, middle-ranking livery company of some consequence.

Professor David Hey has had unique access to the company’s records as well as the extensive knowledge of present-day liverymen to distil a fascinating 700-year story of continuity and change. Illustrated with almost 60 colour photographs and maps, this book acts as an important record of the Blacksmiths’ Company, as well as being an interesting case study of one of the great survivors of London’s medieval past, the City livery company.

The Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths: a historyDavid Hey

Cheltenham is the perfect Regency town, its wide green spaces offering splendid, airy vistas of perfectly proportioned stucco terraces and grand public buildings. The town still exudes the impression of being, fundamentally, a gentle and polite early nineteenth-century spa, maintaining its strong appeal for residents and visitors alike.

Yet, as this new history of the town clearly shows, Cheltenham is much more than this. Before the gentry followed George III and arrived en masse to take the waters, the town had been a significant country market town. And more recently Cheltenham has changed considerably, economically and socially. Even at the height of the Regency period, there were plenty of less affluent areas and rural or suburban districts.

This major new book is wide-ranging and informative, as well as being beautifully illustrated.

Cheltenham: a new historyAnthea Jones

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Preston cotton martyrs: the millworkers who shocked a nationJ .S. Leigh

This well-received book by local author J.S. Leigh is a powerful indictment of the industrial system of the early years of the nineteenth century that caused enormous suffering to Preston’s many thousands of cotton industry workers.

‘… an excellent, painstakingly researched local history. Leigh brings to life the stories of working people who strove for something better and does indeed do justice to the thousands of millworkers “whose memories were never written down”.’

128 pages, around 40 illustrations and maps.ISBN 978-1-874181-45-3softback £9.99

‘A general plague of madness’: The civil wars in Lancashire, 16�0–1660Stephen Bull

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The English civil wars of the seventeenth century tore at the heart of local communities, dividing families as well as towns and villages. In Lancashire these wars were hugely important to the wider conflict, extremely disruptive and occasionally very bloody. Sieges, massacres and set-piece battles are vividly described in this major new book, but all are set firmly within the context of the social, political, economic and religious divides that tore the county and the country apart.

512 pages, 100 illustrations. Choice of bindings.

ISBN 978-1-85936-105-4ltd edn hard £�0.00ISBN 978-1-85936-191-7softback £18.99

The Oddfellows, 1810–2010: 200 years of making friends and helping peopleDaniel Weinbren

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In 2010 the Oddfellows celebrate the 200th anniversary of the day in 1810 when 27 men founded the Manchester Unity.

The important new book was specially commissioned to relate the story of The Oddfellows since the society’s birth, and is an extremely valuable record not only of the Oddfellows but of the broader friendly society movement that grew up so strongly in the industrial North as a means of self-help and mutual support for working people.

384 large pages, 120 illustrations, including colour.ISBN 978-1-85936-207-5hardback £25.00

The casualties of PeterlooMichael Bush

The events in Manchester in August 1819 – when a huge crowd that had met to listen to speeches about parliamentary reform was brutally dispersed by police and military – aroused immediate condemnation and controversy. Some claimed that many of the 17 dead and over 600 wounded were merely injured in the crush, but this new analysis of casualty lists demonstrates definitively that most injuries were deliberately inflicted. ‘Peterloo’, it appears, was, indeed, a ‘massacre’.

176 pages, 15 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-85936-125-2hardback £15.00

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Researching and writing history: a guide for local historiansDavid Dymond(inassociationwiththeBritishAssociationforLocalHistory)

Published in association with the British Association for Local History, this useful book is a practical guide to all budding historians. Written by one of our most eminent and experienced local historians, it provides clear, wise and always practical advice about the processes of research and writing. Written with humour and understanding, and attractively illustrated.

‘[an] outstanding work … the text is … clear, readable and suffused with the fruits of a lifetime’s experience.’

240 pages, illustrated with a colour section.ISBN 978-1-85936-196-2softback £12.00

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The Lancashire witch-craze: Jennet Preston and the Lancashire Witches, 1612Jonathan Lumby

Almost 400 hundred years have passed since a dozen or so people – many from Pendle – were accused, tried and hanged in what became known as the Lancashire Witch Trials, one of the most famous of English witch-hunts of the seventeenth century.

In this best-selling account, Jonathan Lumby presents a remarkable series of new insights. By placing the events in their wider European context, he explains far more satisfactorily than ever before exactly why these disturbing events occurred.

240 pages, 55 illustrations.ISBN 978-1-85936-025-5softback £7.50

The Roman Frontier in BritainDavid Shotter

An historical study of the northern Roman frontier in Britain. Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall are just two elements in a story which took a great deal longer to evolve and which, if taken in isolation, tend to mask a clear appraisal of the way in which the frontier in Britain actually developed. What did the Romans want to achieve in Britain? How did the idea for a physical barrier evolve? This important and readable book aims to set Hadrian’s Wall into the context of Roman military plans.

192 pages, with approximately 100 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-85936-015-6softback £9.95

Tudor and Stuart SuffolkB.G. Blackwood

Dr Blackwood’s readable book about Tudor and Stuart Suffolk takes in a wide range of subjects in social, political and economic history.

‘This superb new book makes a very important contribution to the body of literature on English history. The research is excellent and the writing clear and readable, so Tudor and Stuart Suffolk will be equally appealing to both the serious historian and the general reader. Throughout, the text is complemented by carefully chosen illustrations and informative maps.’

368 pages, 76 illustrations and 21 maps.ISBN 978-1-85936-078-1hardback £20.00


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Church life in Hereford and Oxford: A study of two sees, 1660–1760William Marshall

Cardus: Celebrant of BeautyRobin Daniels

Triumphant Rider: the Lancaster Roman cavalry tombstoneStephen Bull

Over 120 years some 800 foreign consuls have served in Manchester. This is the first ever detailed history of consuls and their activities for any region of the United Kingdom.

The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of LancasterThomas Potts

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An interesting new book on the Church of England and its place within society in the century after the civil wars.

304 pages, 234 × 156 mm.

A memoir of Neville Cardus, music critic, a most evocative writer on cricket, and one of the great English essayists of the twentieth century.

480 pages, 234 × 156 mm.

This little book tells the story of a hugely important massive stone, showing a Roman horseman and his fallen foe, that was found in Lancaster in 2005.

64 pages, 243 × 169 mm.

Manchester ConsulsDavid John Fox

ISBN 978-1-85936-100-9softback £6.95

Potts’ famous book of 1612 is the only contemporary record of the Lancashire witch trials, including intriguing witness accounts.

224 pages, 155 × 115 mm.

‘A place of great importance’: Scarborough in the civil warsJack Binns

A superb account of Tudor and Stuart Scarborough – centred on the civil wars – that really brings the history of the period to life.

320 pages, 216 × 138 mm.

A history of SheffieldDavid Hey

third edition, now better than ever!

This is a new and updated edition of David Hey’s brilliant overview of the history of Sheffield, the cutlery and steel capital of Britain. Widely praised for its readability and clarity, the book is brought up to date and contains new illustrations.

‘This substantial volume … is an authoritative work, for its author draws on his own deep knowledge of the city’s past and shows himself well able to distil and present the researches of professional scholars … in a text both sound and readable.’

320 pages, flapped softback, mostly in full colour.ISBN 978-1-85936-198-6softback £16.99

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Belfast: a historyW.A. Maguire

newly published; over 200 illustrations, mostly in colour

Belfast is unique. Its beginnings and early history made it the most important Protestant town in a Catholic country; then it became the most industrial city in Ireland, with strong economic links to the UK and powerful industries such as linen, ship-building, rope-making and cotton.

Bill Maguire traces Belfast’s entire history in this well-illustrated and very readable book.

288 pages, flapped softback, mostly in full colour.ISBN 978-1-85936-189-4softback £17.99

London: a historyJeremy Black

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Jeremy Black’s wide-ranging new history of London takes us from the capital of Roman Britannia right through to the present day. A breathless narrative puts the city in its widest possible context.

Jeremy Black MBE is Professor of History at the University of Exeter.

448 pages, 290 illustrations, mostly in colour.

A stunning book.ISBN 978-1-85936-172-6hardback £25.00

Liverpool: a people’s historyPeter Aughton

‘a fascinating history … an excellent book’

Peter Aughton’s brilliantly readable and beautifully illustrated history of Liverpool has become a classic: constantly in print for over twenty years, but recently completely updated to include Liverpool as Capital of Culture and Liverpool FC’s famous 2005 Champions League triumph.

352 large pages, over 300 illustrations, mostly in full colour.

An enthralling read about one of the world’s truly great maritime cities.

ISBN 978-1-85936-161-0hardback £20.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-168-9softback £1�.95

Manchester: a historyAlan Kidd

‘… excellent, clear, thorough, comprehensive and concise.’

Every town and city has its story, but few have a history which belongs to the world. By the 1840s, over half a century of revolutionary change had made Manchester into the ‘shock city’ of the industrial age. The core of this excellent book tells this story, a-tale of factories, utilitarian entrepreneurs, Peterloo, and the emergence of a politicised working class, but also of the people and their culture.

An important overview of Manchester’s history, accessibly written yet scholarly. ISBN 978-1-85936-128-3

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St Albans: a historyMark Freeman

new in 2008 over 200 illustrations

This book covers more than 2,000 years of history. St Albans – Verulamium – was one of the largest and most important towns in Roman Britain, and the site of Britain’s first Christian martyrdom, with the shrine of St Alban at the heart of its abbey.

Dr Mark Freeman takes the story on, right up to the present day, emphasising social and economic factors, the ‘London effect’ and the importance of heritage in the city today.

368 pages, over 200 illustrations, most in colour. ISBN 978-1-85936-190-0softback £15.95

St Anne’s on the Sea: a historyPeter Shakeshaft

St Anne’s is a traditional quiet nineteenth-century seaside resort with up-market hotels, a small pier and ice-cream stalls. Before 1875 the town did not exist at all: only a small farming hamlet known as Heyhouses occupied this part of the Fylde coast before the Clifton family decided to build a new genteel seaside town.

This important book tells the story of both communities: the original Heyhouses and modern St Anne’s. Well illustrated.

352 pages, 180 illustrations, many in colour.

ISBN 978-1-85936-159-7hardback £20.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-182-5softback £1�.95

Bristol: a people’s historyPeter Aughton

The hardback edition is now out of print; still available in softback

A full history of one of the UK’s most important maritime cities. The author skilfully weaves fascinating first-hand accounts of the city through the ages into a lively, readable narrative history. From the simple wooden bridge across the Avon that gave Bristol (‘Bridge Place’) its name, through it maritime heydey, up to the present day, this is local history at its best.

Well illustrated and beautifully produced.

280 pages, 130 illustrations with a colour section. ISBN 978-1-85936-097-2softback £1�.00

A history of Bath: image and realityGraham Davis and Penny Bonsall

available in beautiful hardback edition

ISBN 978-1-85936-112-2hardback £20.00

More than four million visitors each year visit the Roman Baths, marvel at the World Heritage city, or simply meander through its now carefully conserved eighteenth-century streets. Bath has always tried to present itself in a favourable light.

This book goes beyond the narrow, popular image of Bath to explore 2,000 years of extraordinary change, variety and interest, focusing on the lives of ordinary residents, and seeking to explain as well as to chronicle Bath’s truly unique historical legacy.

336 pages, 275 illustrations, most in colour

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A history of PrestonDavid Hunt

newly published

see page 10 for fuller details

Market town, administrative centre and until the late eighteenth century genteel place of residence for the county set, Preston grew steadily if undramatically right at the centre of Lancashire. Then it became an industrial boom town, transformed in size and nature by the arrival of the cotton industry.

Dr David Hunt’s magisterial narrative relates this amazing story from prehistory right up to the present day.

368 pages, 150 illustrations, some in colour. ISBN 978-1-85936-171-9softback £16.99

A history of Haworth from earliest timesMichael Baumber

newly published


Haworth village and its parsonage will for ever be linked inextricably with the Brontës, whose literary achievements and depiction of the Haworth district – and some of its residents who found their way into the sisters’ novels – cast a long shadow over all else.

Yet there is so much more to the story of Haworth. This well-written and stimulating new book looks at all aspects of the area’s long and varied history, including the Brontë legacy.

336 pages, 170 illustrations and maps.ISBN 978-1-85936-156-6hardback £20.00

Blackburn: a historyDerek Beattie

over 350 illustrations complement this lively text beautifully

Above all else – and despite many centuries of history before the arrival of industry – Blackburn was the archetypal Lancashire cotton town, confident of its place and purpose in the world. This book explains how and why Blackburn was so successful, looking at every aspect of life in the town before, during and after the great cotton centuries. Packed with insight and colourful detail.

368 pages, 350 illustrations and maps, many in colour ISBN 978-1-85936-113-9

hardback £20.00

HalifaxJohn A . Hargreaves

price now reduced to an unbelievable £10.00.

ISBN 978-1-85936-109-2hardback now £10.00

From remote Pennine settlement to thriving commercial centre … this is a masterful book about Halifax’s rich historical legacy.

Enthusiastically welcomed, the first edition quickly went out of print. Now fully revised to take account of Halifax’s continuing development in the twenty-first century, the vastly augmented text has been supplemented by many additional illustrations.

304 pages, 275 illustrations.

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BlackpoolJohn K. Walton

new unbelievable value at just £7.95

As the world’s first and most important working-class seaside resort, Blackpool has been a powerful generator of myths, tall stories, stereotypes and novelties. Professor Walton sets the myths against the evidence and charts the rise of the real Blackpool, warts and all, with due attention to the social problems and conflicts associated with a pioneering, popular resort. He also looks at the wider significance of Blackpool for the wider world.

As always with J.K. Walton, beautifully written.

208 pages, softback, 25 illustrationsISBN 978-1-85331-215-1softback £7.95

Georgian Liverpool: a guide to the city in 1797Dr William Moss and David Brazendale

In 1797 Dr William Moss wrote a detailed guide book to Liverpool. That text provides a truly fascinating window on Liverpool’s past. With the addition of contemporary illustrations and background information, David Brazendale has ensured that today’s readers have an excellent insight into the town at that critical time in its history.

‘… purchase of [this] book, at its very reasonable price, cannot be too highly recommended.’

208 pages, softback, illustrated. ISBN 978-1-874181-46-0softback £7.95

Liverpool in the sixteenth century: a small Tudor townJanet E. Hollinshead

Today Liverpool is famous as a hugely important port city, yet in the sixteenth century it could only really be classed as a rather small Tudor town on the fringes of Lancashire. Janet Hollinshead describes the fabric of the town, its people, their occupations and their lives in vibrant detail.

‘a superb book … accessible at many levels … There is only one possible conclusion to this review – go and buy it …’

192 pages, illustrated. ISBN 978-1-85936-149-8softback £11.99

Harrogate Great Chronicle, 1��2–18�1Malcolm Neesam

available in beautiful hardback edition

ISBN 978-1-85936-145-0hardback £20.00

A complete history of ‘the English Spa’ from its earliest documentary reference in 1332 to the Harrogate Improvement Act of 1841. Malcolm Neesam’s fascinating text brings unrivalled detail and insight to the reader.

‘[this book] … has made available an extraordinarily detailed and innovatory resource for local and family historians. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this book will prove a rich quarry for future researchers.’

448 pages, 140 illustrations, including some colour.


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Life in Georgian LancasterAndrew White

now an unbelievable bargain at just £5.00

A lively, yet authoritative account of social life and conditions, for rich and poor alike, in this important provincial town in the eighteenth century. In some ways the age was more akin to our own than the intervening stuffy and pious Victorian era; it appears to us an age filled with humanity, common sense and enlightenment.

‘Anyone with an interest in Lancaster or the north of our county must be impressed by the research and authoritative style of this book.’

112 pages, softback, 96 illustrationsISBN 978-1-85936-102-3softback now £5.00

Poverty amidst prosperity: the urban poor in England, 18��–191�Carl Chinn MBE

In the heart of every city of the most prosperous country of the world could be found pockets of great poverty and distress. In this insightful book, the urban poor are revealed to be hard-working, resourceful, supportive of each other, dogged, determined and imbued with the belief that sharing and helping out were the right things to do. The urban poor fought back wherever they could against poverty and their dreadful urban environment.

Highly readable and powerful social history.ISBN 978-1-85936-126-9softback £8.95

They worked all their lives: women of the urban poor, 1880–19�9Carl Chinn MBE

ISBN 978-1-85936-119-1softback £8.95

Often strong physically, women of the urban poor worked from when they were toddlers until they died, cooking, washing, cleaning and planning how to get by; they worked at cleaning the clothes and houses of a middle class arrogant and condescending towards working-class women; they worked in factories, shops, mills and workshops; they worked in their neighbourhoods providing vital services for their neighbours.

This is pioneering social history from one of the country’s most readable authors.

Cheltenham: a new historyAnthea Jones

available summer 2010


The latest addition to Carnegie’s city history series, this is a wide-ranging narrative about Cheltenham by widely published local author Dr Anthea Jones. Published at Crown Quarto size (246 × 189 mm) in hardback, and packed with colour illustrations, this book describes every aspect of Cheltenham’s long and varied history.

Known as the most complete Regency town in Britain, there is much more to Cheltenham than meets the eye.

384 pages, 200 illustrations, most in colourISBN 978-1-85936-154-2hardback £2�.99

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Derbyshire: a historyDavid Hey

Derbyshire’s past is extremely varied, of great interest and wider significance. The county lies at the very heart of England and in many respects it can be seen to reflect almost every aspect of England’s historical experience, including agriculture, mining, textiles, poverty, plague and prosperity. Derbyshire is now a tourist destination for millions, attracted by its spectacular scenery, its industrial heritage, its castles, parish churches and its great country houses.

‘If you are looking for a comprehensive, readable and attractive history of the county you need to look no further than this beautifully presented volume. Highly recommended.’

‘A splendid overview … A fine, scholarly work which will be widely welcomed and is astonishingly good value.’

Almost 500 pages packed with information, insight and colour illustrations with informative captions.


A history of Yorkshire: ‘County of the Broad Acres’David Hey

David Hey’s magisterial history of the great county of Yorkshire is one of the most important regional books of recent years. The author’s intimate local knowledge, built up over 40 years, has been woven into the wider context of English history with a sure touch. Readable, accessible and visually stunning, this book has been widely praised and enthusiastically reviewed:

‘A triumph of local history writing … This book is magnificent (there is no other word for it), fitting both in scale and quality its subject … a bravura performance that sets a new standard for popular county and regional histories. The book is also visually ravishing. Hey’s text is graced by around 500 carefully chosen illustrations, many of them high-definition colour photographs specially taken for the volume …’


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Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-187-0hardback, 288pp, 246 × 189 mm £25.00or ISBN 978-1-85936-188-7softback £1�.95

Ingleborough: landscape and historyDavid Johnson(inassociationwithYorkshireDalesMillenniumTrust)

Carnegie ISBN 978-1-85936-181-8hardback, 320pp, 243 × 169 mm £100.00or ISBN 978-1-85936-135-1softback £17.99

Ribble, river and valley: a local and natural historyMalcolm Greenhalgh

The influence of people on the natural world is a topical theme. In this marvellous new book Malcolm Greenhalgh examines the ecology and landscape of the Ribble valley and estuary and how they have changed over the millennia during which humans have been living, farming and working in the area.

The Ribble and its tributaries form one of the most beautiful river valley networks in the country, yet hardly any part of what we see today could be described as completely natural. Human activity, both ancient and more recent, can be seen everywhere, both in the landscape itself and also in the effect they have had on the ecosystems of the rivers, their floodplains, drainage areas and banks.

A unique combination of local and natural history.

‘… I predict this book is going to be a classic.’

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Ingleborough is the most iconic of the Three Peaks, probably the most recognisable hill in the Yorkshire Dales. For more than two centuries it has been a magnet for visitors, who came to marvel at its majestic profile, to experience the challenges it offered, or to explore the remains of the ancient, 15-acre ‘hillfort’ on its summit.

This beautiful book, available either in hardback or great value softback, explores Ingleborough and its immediate surroundings in all its varied aspects. The author adopts a holistic approach to describe how people and landscape have interacted over the centuries.

‘The entire work … comprises a large amount of information, well marshalled, clearly presented and based on an impressive range of sources …’

‘… clearly organised and engagingly and lucidly written, well referenced and illustrated …’


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About Scout Scar: looking into a Cumbrian landscapeJan Wiltshire

In the tradition of nature writing, About Scout Scar is a detailed portrait of a beautiful and important landscape. It is about the thrill of making discoveries through the seasons: of looking, listening, seeing. The theme of how we relate to the natural world is at the heart of it. Farming and conservation are integral, and underpinning this book are the voices of the custodians of this landscape.

This book was a run-away success when it was first published. It has now been reprinted.

128 pages, packed with colour illustrations.ISBN 978-1-874181-57-6softback £7.95

Wildlife of Lancashire: exploring the natural history of Lancashire, Manchester and North MerseysideG. Morries and M. Edmunds (eds)inassociationwithLancashireWildlifeTrust

A spectacular guide to the myriad forms of wildlife that can be found in the moors, rivers, marshes, fields and fells of the old Lancashire.

“Wow! This is a real classic. Every sort of living thing is here, whether it swims, slithers, walks, creeps, crawls, flies or stands resolutely rooted to its appointed spot, safe in the county of the red rose. This is your personal guide to a wonderland overflowing with fascinating, really wild life …” David Bellamy

352 pages, 276 × 219 mm, over 550 illustrationsISBN 978-1-85936-118-4hardback £20.00

Our hunting fathers: field sports in England since 1850R.W. Hoyle (ed.)

Surprisingly, perhaps, this book is the first major attempt to offer a proper historical perspective on the subject of field sports in England. Ranging widely through a variety of distinct sports dedicated to the pursuit of all sorts of wildlife – from foxes, deer, hares and otters to game birds, wildfowl and salmon – it discusses the involvement and participation of royalty, industrial plutocrats, the middle classes and even the working classes in field sports over 150 years.

336 pages, 243 × 169 mm, 40 photographs. ISBN 978-1-85936-157-3softback £18.99

Rivers and the British landscapeColin Pooley (ed.)

ISBN 978-1-85936-120-7hardback £18.00

This beautiful book provides the first integrated analysis of British rivers, exploring the physical formation of rivers; the characteristics of fluvial environments; analysis of the social, economic and cultural uses of rivers; and an examination of the problems of river management. These themes are explored through historical and contemporary examples, with case studies drawn from all parts of Britain. The book is lavishly illustrated and includes an appendix of key facts about British rivers.

256 pages, 243 × 169 mm, 170 illustrations.

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‘Iron harvests of the field’: the making of farm machinery in Britain since 1800Peter Dewey

Peter Dewey’s book is a landmark in the history of British business and enterprise. Beginning with the pre-modern world of the horse-drawn plough and the flail, it tells the story of the British agricultural engineering industry, and how it has revolutionised British farming.

368 pages, almost 100 illustrations. Hard cover or soft.

‘… a remarkable portrait of the development of the entire farm machinery industry ... Information flows from every page … This is a book of solid academic quality, but which will also fascinate the general reader who has an enquiring mind … Mr Dewey deserves enormous praise for his landmark publication.’

‘… a tour de force which is unlikely to be bettered in the near future. His beautifully illustrated and scholarly book is a major achievement.’

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Crucible ISBN 978-1-905472-08-6softback, 240pp, 243 × 169 mm £1�.95

‘Factory of Dreams’: a history of Meccano LtdKenneth D. Brown

Meccano – few other names are so calculated to mist the eyes of the (mainly but by no means exclusively) male generations reared in Britain or its imperial territories during the twentieth century, and whose childhood leisure hours were so happily passed in playing with the outputs of Binns Road, Hornby’s Liverpool factory. For enthusiasts, this book provides the context to understand why particular products evolved as they did. For business historians, Meccano seems to typify the ‘British disease’ within manufacturing: financial mismanagement and deteriorating industrial relations. Deals not only with Meccano itself, but Hornby trains and Dinky cars too.

240 pages, over 120 illustrations, most in colour.

‘[Professor] Brown skilfully combines detailed, factual analysis with plenty of anecdotes that bring the personalities to life and give the reader an insight into what he describes as “the culture of Meccano”. This is certainly no dry, academic textbook …’


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King Cotton: a tribute to Douglas A. FarnieJohn F. Wilson (ed.)(inassociationwiththeChethamSociety)

A wide-ranging collection of articles relating to both the local and the international. The cotton textile industry provides an important focus, but many other aspects are also to be found in these pages.

All of the articles would have been close to the heart of Professor Farnie, in whose honour they are published. From early mills and handloom weavers to international trade, from Manchester to Japan, from Wigan to mountaineering on the slopes of Everest.

‘… a fitting tribute to one of the best economic historians of his generation.’

ISBN 978-1-905472-09-3hardback £2�.95

The Leeds & Liverpool Canal: a history and guideMike Clarke

A magnificent, illustrated history and guide of Britain’s longest and arguably most important canal. The author actually lived on a traditional canal boat on the Leeds and Liverpool for five years, and his knowledge and in-depth understanding of the subject have led him to produce a wonderful book.

‘An enjoyable, readable book. Much commended.’

‘Mr Clarke is an expert guide. Not for him the dry stacking of one fact on top of another. Each page has its reminder of the human involvement.’ ISBN 978-1-85936-013-2

softback £12.00

Sharing the risk: fire, climate and disaster. Swiss Re, 186�–1906Eleonora Rohland

Re-insurance is the business of spreading the risk of major insurance claims, such as following catastrophic natural or fire disasters. A great fire that destroyed much of the Swiss town of Glarus in 1861 was the direct spur for the creation of Swiss Re, now one of the world’s largest re-insurers, and another great disaster, the earthquake and fire of San Francisco of 1906, provides the end point for a book that evaluates the first forty years of the company’s history as it strove to perfect its business model.

160 pages, 234 × 156 mm, illustrated. ISBN 978-1-905472-13-0softback £17.99

CNS: Cooperation, innovation and servicePatrizia Battilani(inassociationwithCNS)

ISBN 978-1-905472-12-3hardback £�5.00

The ‘Consorzio Nazionale Servizi’ is a consortium of around 200 Italian cooperatives, most of which operate within a broad spectrum of service sectors. CNS acts on behalf of its constituent cooperatives, and has expanded considerably since its formation in the mid-1970s. CNS fits into a long tradition of cooperation in Italy, but modern business circumstances and financial models, as well as the need for greater regulation and accountability, have led to wide-ranging change within the organisation.

A study of new forms of cooperation in business.

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Burroughs Wellcome & Co.Roy Church and E.M. Tansey

Cotton mills in Greater ManchesterMike Williams with D.A . Farnie

Cotton mills of Preston: The power behind the threadT.C. Dickinson

An account of the machinery, innovation and personalities that shaped the flour milling industry for 130 years. 384 pages, 255 illustrations, hardback.

Ferranti, volume 1: Building a family business, 1882–1975John F. Wilson

ISBN 978-1-905472-04-8hardback £�5.00

ISBN 978-0-948789-89-2softback £15.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-096-5softback £12.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-085-9hardback £20.00

ISBN 978-1-905472-01-7hardback £2�.00

A major history of this fascinating pharmaceutical company.


The cotton industry made Manchester, its mills were a major feature of the landscape. This is the history of those iconic buildings.

224 pages, 276 × 219 mm.

A unique record of the mills of Preston, a rich source of information for anyone interested in cotton mills and steam power.

208 pages, 243 × 169 mm.

The millers: a story of technological endeavour and industrial success, 1870–2001Glyn Jones

ISBN 978-1-85936-098-9softback £18.00

This volume tells about the first century of Ferranti, one of the most successful engineering firms and a centre of excellence and innovation that was renowned world-wide.

Ferranti, volume 2: From family firm to multinational company, 1975–1987John F. Wilson

Volume 2 of the Ferranti story deals with the turbulent years of the 1970s and 1980s, when the family firm finally lost its independence.

The Horrockses: cotton kings of PrestonMargaret Burscough

ISBN 978-1-874181-64-4softback £1�.00


A truly fascinating saga of a great Preston and Lancashire family which is in turn a vivid portrayal of society at the time.


An Oldham velvet dynasty: the Mellodews of MoorsideWilliam M. Hartley

This family-owned firm was an important local business, spinning cotton and producing high-quality cotton velvet.


ISBN 978-1-905472-07-9softback £19.99


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The Midland Hotel: Morecambe’s white hopeBarry Guise and Pam Brook

In July 1933 a remarkable building opened. The LMS Railway Company replaced its old Victorian hotel on Morecambe’s seafront with a sparkling white Modernist structure. Acclaimed for its revolutionary architecture and the quality of its interior, the Midland Hotel was unique. Resplendent on the promenade, the Midland was seen as the future: the town’s ‘white hope’.

This beautiful best-seller is available in limited edition hardback and great value softback. 224 pages, 276 × 219 mm, mostly in colour.

ISBN 978-1-874181-54-5ltd edn hard £25.00

ISBN 978-1-874181-55-2softback £16.99

Lancashire’s historic halls: the county’s history as witnessed by some of its most famous buildingsDavid Brazendale

This is the revised second edition of David Brazendale’s popular book looking at some of the famous Lancashire halls, including the likes of Rufford, Samlesbury, Speke and Towneley. The author sets the halls in their historical context, and a each hall is treated in such a way as to highlight a major historical theme in the county’s history.

Read the book before you visit the halls, or take it along with you on your trip. Invaluable.

288 pages, 243 × 169 mm, 130 illustrations. ISBN 978-1-85936-106-1softback £10.00

The building of Liverpool CathedralPeter Kennerley

Liverpool Cathedral is one of the largest and greatest church buildings in the world. Visitors marvel at the scale and beauty of the great interior, while the building’s towering profile dominates the skyline for miles around. The building was planned and built entirely during the twentieth century, and its construction is fully documented in letters, papers and stunning photographs. Peter Kennerley has had unlimited access to the vast archives and he has woven the facts into a fascinating and lively narrative which truly brings the characters and events to life.

Stott and Sons: architects of the Lancashire cotton millRoger Holden

ISBN 978-1-85936-047-7softback £9.95

In the second half of the nineteenth century Oldham became the major cotton spinning town in Britain, and architects from Oldham came to dominate the business of designing cotton spinning mills in Lancashire. This book traces the history of Stott & Sons, who were one of the oldest and most prominent firms in the business.

‘Many of the big spinning mills have been demolished or truncated; but enough remain to make a visit to Greater Manchester well worth while. Mr Holden’s thoroughly researched book is the ideal companion.’

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Birdwatching walks in the Lake DistrictDavid Hindle and John Wilson

This wonderful new collection of walks combines the spectacular and beautiful scenery of the Lake District with excellent opportunities to see some of the area’s birds and other wildlife. Designed for walkers of all ages and abilities, each route is accompanied by a useful map, easy-to-follow directions and fascinating background information, making this lovely book the perfect guide to a wonderful day out. Includes a 32-page colour bird/wildlife reference section.

This is the fourth in this very popular bird-watching walks series. ISBN 978-1-874181-67-5

softback £8.95

Birdwatching walks in the Yorkshire DalesBrendan Threlfall

192 pages, colour section and helpful maps

The Yorkshire Dales is a beautiful area in the heart of northern England. But the Dales is also a special place for many bird species, and these twin assets are combined in this excellent new book. Well designed walks are set in gorgeous countryside and give every chance of seeing some of the birds that abound in the area. Dippers at Aysgarth, or great spotted woodpeckers in Grass Woods, as well as the rarer black grouse, wood warbler, pied flycatcher and nightjar, to name but a few. With helpful guide maps, interesting bird and habitat information, travel hints and a bird reference section.

ISBN 978-1-874181-53-8softback £7.95

Birdwatching walks around Morecambe BayJohn Wilson and David Hindle


This is a walkers’ and birders’ paradise. Set against the magical backdrop of the Lakeland fells, it is an ever-changing world of water and sand moulded by the constant ebb and flow of the tides, home to one of the largest concentrations of birds in Europe.

Covering the Wyre estuary in the south to Walney Island in the north, embracing Arnside/Silverdale AONB, the Duddon estuary, southern Lake District and Forest of Bowland, this excellent book is perfect for anyone wishing to combine a love of walking with an interest in birds and other wildlife.

Birdwatching walks in BowlandDavid Hindle and John Wilson BEM


ISBN 978-1-874181-40-8softback £7.95

The Forest of Bowland is a stunning and immensely important AONB. Many species of birds – some of them rare – are there to be enjoyed within the varied habitats of the beautiful Bowland landscape. Over 30 scenic walks cover the whole of the area, from Lancaster to Pendle, and from Preston to Settle, each designed to give walkers the best chance to encounter a wide range of different birdlife.

‘The authors clearly know their area and their subject – the descriptions of the landscape, its bird life and the detailed routes to follow make this one of the best guide books I have come across.’

ISBN 978-1-874181-37-8softback £7.95

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Historic walks in and around BirminghamBrian Conduit

Walking from Garstang and in WyresdaleIan and Krysia Brodie

The 40 walks in this best-selling book all visit places of unusual interest, delving into Lancashire’s unique and often mysterious past while exploring lovely countryside.

Castle walks in YorkshirePeter Williamson

ISBN 978-1-874181-51-4softback £8.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-52-1softback £8.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-50-7softback £7.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-33-0softback £7.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-34-7softback £6.95

This excellent book guides walkers of all abilities around city and country in a series of 25 well-thought-out routes, each with a helpful map, historical background information and photographs.

England’s North East is a spectacular place for walking. This book of historic walks covers Newcastle and also many miles of open countryside around.

The fifth edition of this popular walking book. It has been completely updated and redesigned, with all route and other changes incorporated, and the addition of many colour images.

Curious Lancashire walks: �0 intriguing ramblesGraham Dugdale

ISBN 978-1-874181-32-3softback £8.95

In this popular book castles and other historic sites are cleverly linked with interesting and pleasant countryside, creating circular walks which begin and end at a pub in a small village. Perfect!

Windermere: walking around the lakeDuncan Turner

A superb 30-mile circuit of England’s largest lake in 4 or 5 easy stages. Illustrated with colour maps and photographs, this interesting book is the ideal companion to a Lake District visit.

Historic walks in and around NewcastleBrian Conduit

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Real Lancashire: a journey through the history of the old countyPhil Smith

ISBN 978-1-874181-26-2softback now £9.99

This book takes the reader through thousands of years of Lancashire’s history to try to pinpoint what makes the place special, unique. From Neolithic burials and Roman roads to medieval castles and civil war, to the pulsating hearts of our newly invented modern cities, Phil Smith’s lively history celebrates the character and uniqueness of real Lancashire, in all its variety and warmth.

Intended to be readable and accessible, this book captures the essence of what it is to be Lancastrian.

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Early modern ManchesterCraig Horner (ed.)(inassociationwiththeManchesterCentreforRegionalHistory)

Sport in ManchesterDave Russell (ed.)(inassociationwiththeManchesterCentreforRegionalHistory)

The history of science and technology in the North WestJohn V. Pickstone (ed.)(inassociationwiththeManchesterCentreforRegionalHistory)

A vivid picture of Lancaster’s inn and pub life, including brewing, publicans, food, prostitution, famous visitors and inn names. Includes a gazetteer of Lancaster inns, past and present.

Longton in the nineteenth centuryMarjorie Searson

ISBN 978-1-85936-184-9softback £10.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-202-0softback £12.00

ISBN 978-1-85936-183-2softback £10.00

ISBN 978-1-874181-28-6softback £7.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-44-6softback £7.95

This fascinating volume takes a look at aspects of Manchester’s history in the centuries before its industrial heyday, a much overlooked yet crucial period in its development.

An excellent new book celebrating the remarkable richness of the sporting culture and heritage of the Manchester area.

A fascinating and revealing overview of the North West’s important place in the history of scientific and technological advances.

Lancaster’s historic innsAndrew White


To learn about rural and village life in a bygone age, one has to rely on descriptions such as this. Longton in Lancashire can stand for thousands of other English villages.

The making of Lancaster: people, places and war, 1789–1815George Howson

The Georgian prosperity of Lancaster did not last long into the nineteenth century. This important period in Lancaster’s history has long been neglected … until now.

Lancashire Local Studies: essays in honour of Diana WinterbothamAlan Crosby (ed.)

ISBN 978-0-948789-24-3softback £1.95

ISBN 978-0-948789-94-6hardback £9.95

A diverse collection of essays about aspects of Lancashire history, written by an impressive range of historians.

Clitheroe Castle: a guideDavid Best

The twelfth-century keep of Clitheroe Castle might be small by national standards, but its historical importance at the centre of a huge feudal estate and parish is undeniable. This is a useful little guide to the ruins.


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Preston’s haunted heritageJason Dexter Karl and Adele Yeomans

Blackpool’s haunted heritageJason Dexter Karl and Adele Yeomans

Tacklers’ tales: a humorous look at LancashireGeoffrey Mather

An amusing, enlightening and self-deprecating biography of the star presenter of Bulls-Eye.

‘Is there no beginning to his talents?’ Bob Monkhouse

ISBN 978-1-874181-41-5softback £7.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-65-1softback £7.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-19-4softback £7.95

ISBN 978-1-874181-35-4softback £10.00

Whether you believe in the spirit world or not, prepare to be entertained as you take a walk on the other s ide in this spine-tingling tour of Preston’s haunted heritage.

From the horrific to the hilarious, this frightfully fun guide is packed with ghostly happenings, written in a colourful style that is intended to both inform and entertain the reader.

A tackler’s tale – a typically Lancastrian story of gormlessness, delivered with a straight face. This amusing, readable book is both funny and thought-provoking.

Jim Bowen: Right place, right time, now with added extrasJ im Bowen

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We’ll trace the RainbowJean Brown

ISBN 978-1-874181-49-1softback £17.00

Jean’s second volume follows on from the success of the first.

‘Reading from Jean’s book is like sitting by a cool stream of water in the heat of the day. It’s refreshing, because she shares some of the things in life that we all long for.’

We’ll see the CuckooJean Brown

ISBN 978-1-874181-56-9softback £17.00

The first of Jean Brown’s wonderful evocations of life at Currer Laithe, her Yorkshire hill farm.

‘If, by reading this book, you can absorb into your own existence a tiny part of its author’s outlook on life, you will be rich indeed!’

We’ll blow with the WindJean Brown

ISBN 978-1-874181-59-0softback £17.00

The story comes right up to date.

‘Written in a most readable, descriptive style, they express a satisfaction with a chosen way of life and a caring for others which, in this modern world, is heart-warming.’

We’ll buy another on MondayJean Brown

ISBN 978-1-874181-48-4softback £12.00

Another volume of eloquent tales. A warm, entertaining and moving book which will do much to renew faith in farmers and farming, as well as in human nature generally.


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The Wolverhampton tragedy: death and the ‘respectable’ Mr LawrenceJohn Benson

One hundred years ago Ruth Hadley, a pretty young Wolverhampton woman with a fiery temper, was killed by a shot to the head. Three months later, Edward Lawrence – one-time vet and successful businessman – was acquitted of her murder. But did Edward pull the trigger? Or was it a tragic accident?

This intriguing story can be read as a ‘whodunnit’, but the case also points up many contradictions in Victorian society, including what appear to be some flexible notions of what respectability really meant.

176 pages, 234 × 156 mm, illustrated.ISBN 978-1-85936-195-5 softback £8.95

The Black Widows of Liverpool: a chilling account of cold-blooded murder in the Victorian cityAngela Brabin

An astonishing book that tells of the murderous activities of an infamous killing syndicate operating in the heart of Liverpool. This money-making enterprise involved a web of poor, ordinary women who conspired to insure and then to poison their victims, including their husbands, for the insurance pay-out. Two sisters sat at the centre of this web, preying, like Black Widow spiders, on their victims.

‘A truly interesting account of women’s … criminal activities in the Victorian period. Serious and thoroughly researched.’ ISBN 978-1-874181-60-6

softback £8.00

Merseyside murders of the 1920sDavid Parry

Inter-war Liverpool was a tough place. Though the most chronic living conditions were being tackled by slum clearance, for some people the pressures of poverty, unemployment, post-war trauma and uncertainty took their toll. Many of the cases in this collection of murders in 1920s Merseyside show clearly how bleak life could be, how little hope those involved had. The bad, sad and mad all appear in this book, which is both a fascinating read and a valuable piece of social history.

128 pages, 234 × 156 mm, illustrated

Murder in Edwardian MerseysideDavid Parry

ISBN 978-1-874181-27-9softback £7.95

Liverpool at the end of the Victorian era was still a place of poverty, slum housing and hardship. Forced to endure appalling living conditions, many turned to drink and violence, the one often born out of the other. The 43 murders recounted here range from the downright evil to the heartbreakingly sad, and the ways in which they were dealt with by the police and courts are both interesting and revealing.

A profound insight into broad issues of the period, including hanging, infanticide, religion, drunkenness and unemployment.

ISBN 978-1-874181-43-9softback £7.95

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All of our books are distributed by BookSourceTel: 0845 370 0067 [email protected]

I n f o r m a t i o nSpring 2010

Bookshop sales rise; returns at all-time lowQuality and longevity count, as Carnegie sales forge ahead, with returns at around 1%.

‘Bookshops really can order with confidence,’ said marketing director Anna Goddard. ‘Our books sell consistently well. The price and quality of our titles make many of them permanent stock items on bookshops’ shelves.’

2010 expansionWhile parts of the UK publishing industry hold their breath amid recession worries, Carnegie are looking forward to continuing growth, with some beautiful, major new history titles planned for 2010 and 2011. Look out for our catalogues or visit www.carnegiepublishing.com

Ordering information for individual purchasersWe would always urge people to support their local booksellers. Good bookshops should stock at least some of our titles, often in the History or the Local Interest sections. If not, give them the full details of the book you want, and your bookshop will be able to obtain it for you.

You can also order direct on 0152� 8�0111, or online at www.carnegiepublishing.com

Ordering information for booksellersOur books are distributed to the trade by BookSource, 50 Cambuslang Road, Glasgow, G�2 8NB. Telephone: 08�5 �70 0067. tele-ordering mnemonic: SCBKSO.

Many of our titles are also in stock at the major national and regional wholesalers. If you need any help or further information, please contact us on 0152� 8�0111.

New dedicated book websites launchedAll new titles from the Carnegie Publishing stable will now have their own separate website, so that you can browse more easily for book information, reviews, excerpts from the books and much more.

Full details and secure online ordering are always available at our main site – www.carnegiepublishing.com – but having a dedicated site helps people find the books they want quickly … hopefully your web search will take you straight there!

So look out for sites such as www.birdwatchingwalks.co.uk or www.belfast-history.co.uk. (You can find links to all our mini-sites via www.carnegiepublishing.com.)

‘We hope that these new sites will help bring our books to an even wider audience,’ said marketing director Anna Goddard. ‘We can point people directly to a particular book rather than having to search through the whole catalogue.’

‘Do let us know what you think. And happy browsing.’

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