Lake District and Cumbrian History
The Lake District may be viewed by many today as a landscape playground for visitors from outside the region, but for centuries it was a hive of local industrial activity. Long before the “industrial revolution” much of Cumbria was a county of miners and quarrymen as well as farmers. Tourism is the newcomer.
The books here cover in various different ways the history of people in an often harsh environment seeking to extract a living from the hills. They describe the cruel experiences of a people placed between north and south as invaders came repeatedly from both directions to fight over territory. Others focus more on the later more peaceful changes that came about as poetic romanticism flourished among these mountains in the nineteenth century.
