Remains of Elmet
'The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall tothe Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness, a notorious refuge forcriminals, a hide-out for refugees. Then in the early 1800s it became the cradle for the Industrial Revolution intextiles, and the upper Calder became the hardest-worked river in England. Throughout my lifetime, since1930, I have watched the mills of the region and their attendant chapels die. Within the last fifteen years the endhas come. They are now virtually dead, and the population of the valley and the hillsides, so rooted fo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-571-27992-0
- EAN: 9780571279920
- Produktnummer: 13992516
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 133 KB
- Auflage: Main
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Ted Hughes
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