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.
| ISBN: | 9781904356448 |
| Publication date: | 19th November 2015 |
| Author: | University of London |
| Publisher: | Victoria County History an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 346 pages |
| Series: | The Victoria County History of the Counties of England |
| Genres: |
European 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.
A History of the County of Durham. Volume V Sunderland features in the following genres: European history
A History of the County of Durham. Volume V Sunderland is available in Hardback
A History of the County of Durham. Volume V Sunderland was written by University of London and published by Victoria County History an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd
A History of the County of Durham. Volume V Sunderland has 346 pages
Yes it is part of The Victoria County History of the Counties of England series