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Description for Secret Derby
Paperback. Explore Derby's secret history through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs. Series: Secret. Num Pages: 96 pages, 100. BIC Classification: 1DBKEMD; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 234 x 16. Weight in Grams: 278.
Derby's history goes back almost 2,000 years, despite a refoundation on a revised site in the tenth century. It is a county town but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was home to a number scientific and entrepreneurial innovators. Their efforts led to a radical transformation of the borough in the Regency period, which was followed by the introduction of heavy industry: iron founding, railways and textiles. In the twentieth century, some of the older industries went into eclipse and were succeeded by new, high-tech ones. Derby became the focus of a new diocese in 1927, ... Read more
Derby's history goes back almost 2,000 years, despite a refoundation on a revised site in the tenth century. It is a county town but in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries it was home to a number scientific and entrepreneurial innovators. Their efforts led to a radical transformation of the borough in the Regency period, which was followed by the introduction of heavy industry: iron founding, railways and textiles. In the twentieth century, some of the older industries went into eclipse and were succeeded by new, high-tech ones. Derby became the focus of a new diocese in 1927, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Amberley Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Secret
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Chalford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781445653693
SKU
V9781445653693
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Ref
99-5
About Maxwell Craven
Maxwell Craven has written extensively on architecture and antiques for the Georgian Group Journal, Country Life, and various local magazines. He is author of A Derbyshire Armory (1991), Richard Keene, Pioneer Victorian Photographer (1993) and Derby, an Illustrated History (2nd edn. 2007). He is a former chairman of Derby Conservation Area Advisory Committee, a member of Derby Cathedral FAC, a ... Read more
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