- Paperback: 399 pages
- Publisher: House of Stratus; New edition edition (May 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755108175
- ISBN-13: 978-0755108176
- Product Dimensions: 21.9 x 15.5 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 967,390 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This classic history of Cornwall provides a comprehensive review of Britain's most south-westerly county. With absorbing detail, Halliday relates the story of the Bronze Age stone circles and Iron Age citadels; the coming of the Saints; the dissolution of the monasteries and the Tudor rebellions; the Armada and the war with Spain; the preaching of John Wesley; the making of the railway; and into this fascinating pattern of the centuries he weaves the two threads of the sea and Cornish tin. In this clear and vibrant account, Halliday skilfully illustrates what makes this historic county so exceptional.
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Literary scholar and Cornwall historian, Frank Ernest Halliday, was born in Yorkshire. He taught English and History at Cheltenham College before moving to St Ives, in Cornwall, where he settled permanently and devoted his time to writing books. His vigorous, uncluttered and well informed work includes numerous volumes on Shakespeare, as well as studies of Thomas Hardy, Geoffrey Chaucer, Robert Browning, Doctor Johnson and William Wordsworth.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Excellent informative book, must have for anyone with a love of Cornwall and a thirst for knowledge about how it and its inhabitants have evolved as a unique part of the UK. Well researched and written in a user friendly way.
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This book is very informative and well researched by an author who is passionate about his subject
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This book was written in the 1950s by the FE Haliday, a literary scholar and historian of Cornwall. Is is, I believe, one of only two complete histories of Cornwall, the other by Philip Peyton. The work is a good narrative account of the history of Cornwall from the Stone Age up to the 20th Century, although the latter is rather a short summary. Time periods are traditionally divided, and a chapter is allocated to each. FE Halliday's son, Sebastian Halliday, has added an epilogue summarising the state of Cornwall about the year 2000.
The book makes a somewhat unpromising start, with the rather twee assertion that Neanderthal man was "an unattractive-looking creature, shaggy, shuffling and ape-like" whilst Cro-Magnon man was "a splendid example of humanity, both physically and mentally". This being on the first page was not the best of starts. However, things quickly improve, and is probably a reflection of views at the time of writing. I also felt the author was possibly slighlty biased in the brief discussions of Reformation in the Tudors chapter. However, this is not a major problem.
A particularly interesting thread that runs through the book is the development of tin (and coppper) mining in the county, from the Classical period to its final end in the 1990s. Hence this book will be of much interest to mining historians and others.
Overall, I would commend this book to anyone who wishes to delve into the history and culture of Cornwall, and go beyond the somewhat superficial view often presented elsewhere.
The book makes a somewhat unpromising start, with the rather twee assertion that Neanderthal man was "an unattractive-looking creature, shaggy, shuffling and ape-like" whilst Cro-Magnon man was "a splendid example of humanity, both physically and mentally". This being on the first page was not the best of starts. However, things quickly improve, and is probably a reflection of views at the time of writing. I also felt the author was possibly slighlty biased in the brief discussions of Reformation in the Tudors chapter. However, this is not a major problem.
A particularly interesting thread that runs through the book is the development of tin (and coppper) mining in the county, from the Classical period to its final end in the 1990s. Hence this book will be of much interest to mining historians and others.
Overall, I would commend this book to anyone who wishes to delve into the history and culture of Cornwall, and go beyond the somewhat superficial view often presented elsewhere.
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