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15 - Chapters 40-41

In Thorstein of the Mere: A Saga of the Northmen in Lakeland

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W. G. Collingwood and William Gershom Collingwood

A fine adventure set in 10th-century England at a time when everyday life in north was made hazardous by wars and shifting alliances among S…

01 - To Cheshire and Yorkshire

In The Itinerary of John Leland in or About the Years 1535-1543

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John Leland

John Leland's 'Itinerary' was the product of several journeys around England and Wales undertaken between 1538 and 1543. The manuscript is m…

Some beauty spots of the industrial districts

In Lancashire

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Francis Archibald Bruton

The county of Lancashire in the north-west of England is best known as the engine room of the nineteenth-century Industrial Revolution. Stee…

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