Heritage and Landscape

The Built Environment Transformed: Illustration details

Taking a case-study approach, The Built Environment Transformed discusses the remarkable changes made to the built environment in textile Lancashire - essentially the eastern and central parts of the county – during the Industrial Revolution (c1780-c1850). Developments in industry, housing and transport are emphasised, drawing particularly on the physical evidence the sites provide. The illustrations … Continue reading

History

Women’s Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy and France

S.C. Kaplan takes us through her experience writing Women's Libraries in Late Medieval Bourbonnais, Burgundy, and France: A Family Affair. This new book is about women's reading and their intellectual influence--on each other, but also on the men around them and on the different French-speaking courts more generally--as demonstrated through the literature that they shared with … Continue reading