- 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: 843,098 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This classic history of Cornwall provides a comprehensive view 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 and the making of the railway. Into this fascinating pattern of the centuries, he weaves the two threads of the sea and Cornish tin. A clear and vibrant account, Halliday skilfully illustrates what makes this historic county so exceptional.
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About the Author
Frank Ernest Halliday was born in 1903, in Bradford. He taught English at Cheltenham College from 1929 to 1947, when the family moved to St. Ives, in Cornwall, where Halliday remained for the rest of his life. He wrote twenty-four books in his lifetime; the first was published in 1946 and the last in 1975. They included numerous books on Shakespeare as well as studies of Thomas Hardy, Chaucer, Robert Browning and Wordsworth. There is now renewed interest in his work, including plans for an F E Halliday archive at the Archive Study Centre in Cornwall. He died in 1982.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Learn about Cornwall!,
By Suze (north) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of Cornwall (Paperback)
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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Cornish History from the Stone Age to the 20th Century,
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This review is from: History of Cornwall (Paperback)
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.
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