Auf Lager:
7
Buch (Softcover): Fachbuch
Derby: A Potted History
Verlag:
Amberley Publishing Unsere-Artikel-Nr.: QEQNQ22
EAN: 9781398123731
Auf Lager:
7
Zustellung: Di, 13.10.2026
Versand: Kostenlos
CHF 31.61
Beschreibung
The area around Derby has been inhabited for millennia - from prehistory, through Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements. The Mercian queen Ethelflaeda won a significant victory against the Vikings at Derby and the town became an important monastic centre in the Middle Ages and was in the front line of later conflicts during the Civil War and the Jacobite Rebellion. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries marked the development of industrial Derby, including the new porcelain industry, and at the same time it attracted a group of Enlightenment thinkers, artists, scientists and reforming industrialists, including Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Wright, who were to leave their mark on the country. Famous manufacturing names such as Rolls-Royce made Derby their home and today's city is now redeveloping itself in a post-industrial world. Illustrated throughout, this accessible historical portrait of the transformation that Derby has undergone through the ages will be of great interest to residents, visitors, and all those with links to the city.
Spezifikationen
Sprache
- Englisch
Autor
- MICHAEL SMITH
Erscheinungsjahr
- 2025
Format
- Buch (Softcover)
Anzahl Seiten
- 96