A History of the County of Durham

Volume V: Sunderland
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-904356-44-8
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 208 mm x 307 mm, Gewicht: 1633 g

Reihe: Victoria County History

Full and authoritative history of Sunderland, from its origins to the present day.

Famed across Europe during Bede's time and the heyday of Wearmouth monastery, Sunderland found a less celebrated renown in the twentieth century with the distress of its heavy industries between the wars, and their final extinction in the 1980s. Between those very contrasting eras, its story is one of re-invention and of a growing industrial and commercial might. The coal trade transformed the town during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; shipbuilding came to the fore in the nineteenth, and Wearside became the nation's, and the world's, greatest shipbuilder. Though it lacked formal local government before 1835, this was a wealthy and relatively sophisticated town, with a great and spectacular early iron bridge (1796).
This volume covers the history of Sunderland from the earliest times and into the twenty-first century, including its landscape and buildings, government, trade and industry, politics and social institutions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cookson, Gillian

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Before the Norman Conquest
Medieval Settlement and Society
Growth, 1600-1800
Industrial Town, 1800-1914
Twentieth-Century Town and City
Churches and Religious Bodies
Trade, Industry, and Communications
Major Buildings and Public Spaces
Public Services and Utilities
Social and Cultural Life
List of Abbreviations
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Cookson, Gillian
GILLIAN COOKSON is an industrial historian. She is the author of The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, published by The Boydell Press in 2018.