Cornish Railways in Kindle

The History of Cornish Railways explored in Books

 

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The Cornish Maritime History Kindle Bookshelf

The history of maritime Cornwall explored in books

Cornwall is almost surrounded by the sea, and its interior is deeply penetrated by its tidal estuaries. It is therefore of no surprise that  seafaring has played such an important part in the history of Cornwall.

The Maritime History of Cornwall in quotes

 "Nowhere is far from the sea in Cornwall and, indeed, as is so often said, Cornwall is all but an Island." _{The Maritime History of Cornwall}

"The wealth of the Duchy, as they knew it lay buried deep in the hills of granite and in the waters that surrounded their cliff-girt home." _{Cornish Seafarers} 

Cornish Music with a fishing theme

The Cornish Mining Kindle Bookshelf

The history of Cornish Mining explored in Kindle books

Mining dominates the history of Cornwall, and its miners, skills, technology and systems influenced hard rock mining all around the world.

Quotes on Cornish mining

"Cornish mining is one of the most ancient of industries and is among the most fascinating." _{The Cornish Mining Industry}

"The peculiar system invented and gradually improved to its preset state in the mines of Cornwall, and more recently adopted in the undertakings of the same kind in the adjoining county, so completely answer the purposes of combining the interests of the working miner with those of the employer.. " _{On the Economy of the mines of Cornwall and Devon}

"The active,intelligent and self relying miner presents a marked contrast to the easy going well fed farmer" The Liskeard Mining District in 1863

Music of the Cornish Mines

The Cornish History Kindle Bookshelf

The history of Cornwall explored in Kindle Books

Cornish History in Quotations 

"Cornwall’s strange, mellifluous place names give it a flavour quite different from English counties." _{1000 Cornish Place Names: Explained}

"Then our mother said 'When we leave Plymouth we shall come to a bridge, and once the bridge is crossed we shall be in Cornwall'" _{Vanishing Cornwall (VMC Book 466)} 

“Cornwall, peopled mainly by Celts, but with an infusion of English blood, stands, and always has stood apart from the rest of England, but in a less degree has Wales.” Cornish Characters

"Morever, Vntill Athelsones time, the Cornish-men bare equal sway in Excester with the English: for hee it was who hemmed them within their present limits." The Survey of Cornwall 

“The story goes that the devil one day came to the Tamar from the Devin side and stood rubbing his chin and considering.” “No”, said he, “ I won’t risk it. Yonder every person is made into a saint, and everything into a squab pie. I do not feel qualified for either position.” A Book of Cornwall (Illustrated)

“Cornwall emerges from the murk of prehistory courtesy of Classical writes such as Strabo, who mentions a visit by the Roman Publius Crassus who in the first century BC visited the Cassiterides (the Tin Isles(, Modern day cornwall and Scilly, to organise tin trading with the Mediteranean” Cornwall's History: an introduction

“Cornwall was bound to be different: Its rocks had made it so. They are of several kinds and have different origins, but it is the grey granite which dominates Cornwall’s landscapes and moods.”  National Trust Histories: Cornwall 

The Local History Kindle Bookshelf

Local history as a subject in Kindle Books

This Kindle Book shelf contains books covering the study, research and writing of local history.



 Local history is the study of the history of a relatively small geographic area. Normally a specific settlement, parish or county. Its establishment as a academic discipline is credited to W. G. Hoskins, who popularised the subject with his book The Making of the English Landscape

Local History in Quotations

“Local History is all around us. Our family, our house, our street, community all have history.” _{Writing local history by John Beckett}

"No branch in history thinks and writes about itself as much as does local history." _{New directions in local history since Hoskins}

"People who have cultivated new and detailed knowledge of their locality can perform a notable service by communicating that knowledge!" _{Writing Local history Today  Mason and Calder}

"Maps are among the most visually attractive and most frequently consulted categories of public records." _{Maps for family and local history}

The dive into Kindle Books begins

This blog will be digging down into the depths of the Kindle book pile and scrambling around the thousands of titles to pull out local history publications that attract my eye. This pile of Kindle books will then be sifted and sorted, and arranged onto shelves that are more useful then the search box on the Amazon page.

The very words of this post are being tapped away on my trusty, and well travelled Fire HD6. I aim to produce all this blog from the small Kindle; a blog untouched by laptop, Mac, PC or iPad.