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Lancastrians - Mills, Mines and Minarets: A New History (Hardcover)
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Lancastrians - Mills, Mines and Minarets: A New History (Hardcover)
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This long-overdue popular history explores the cultural heritage
and identity of Lancashire. Paul Salveson traces to the thirteenth
century the origins of a distinct county stretching from the Mersey
to the Lake District--'Lancashire North of the Sands'. From a
relatively backward place in terms of industry and learning,
Lancashire would become the powerhouse of the Industrial
Revolution: the creation of a self- confident bourgeoisie drove
economic growth, and industrialists had a strong commitment to the
arts, endowing galleries and museums and producing a diverse
culture encompassing science, technology, music and literature.
Lancashire developed a distinct business culture, its shrine being
the Manchester Cotton Exchange, but this was also the birthplace of
the world co-operative movement, and the heart of campaigns for
democracy including Chartism and women's suffrage. Lancashire has
generally welcomed incomers, who have long helped to inform its
distinctive identity: fourteenth-century Flemish weavers;
nineteenth-century Irish immigrants and Jewish refugees; and, more
recently, New Lancastrians from Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.
The book explores what has become of Lancastrian culture, following
modern upheavals and Lancashire's fragmentation compared with its
old rival Yorkshire. What is the future for the 6 million people of
this rich historic region?
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