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  • South Yorkshire Mining Villages

    A History of the Region's Former Coal Mining Communities

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    Over a period of more than 150 years between the late eighteenth century and the 1930s the South Yorkshire rural landscape was transformed by coal mining and the movement of coal. But it was not just the development of collieries, canals and railways that caused this transformation. The population of the coalfield grew at a phenomenal rate and the new mining population, many of them migrants from ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Making of Sheffield

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    Covering thousands of years and a multitude of topics, the book tells the story of the development from a group of small agricultural settlements into a town and then a modern city. It covers success, disappointments, miserable periods and glorious episodes that have marked the city's evolution. ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trees and Woodland in the South Yorkshire Landscape

    A Natural, Economic & Social History

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    If you stop and look around you will see trees everywhere: not only in woods and plantations, in parks and gardens and in hedges but also along streets, beside motorways, on old colliery sites, around reservoirs, in the centre of villages and larger urban settlements and standing alone or in small groups in such diverse places as churchyards, in the middle of fields or on high moorlands.This ... Read more

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  • That Contentious Doctrine

    Studies in the history of holiness teaching

    by Melvyn Jones ...
    In his Foreword to this book, Dr John Coutts writes:The author considers in detail the links between first-generation Salvationists and the ‘Higher Life’ movement which flourished in Great Britain in the 19th century, as well the Army’s relationship with Pentecostalism in the twentieth.Many questions, some contentious, were asked and variously answered. Does a Christian’s commitment to holy living ... Read more

    $7.40 USD

  • Secret Sheffield

    by Professor Ian D. Rotherham, Christine Handley, Melvyn Jones ...
    Series series Secret
    Sheffield is the fourth largest city in England and was where the Industrial Revolution began in earnest. It is renowned for its high-quality steel and fine cutlery, for its two large universities and for having the biggest shopping centre in Europe, yet there is so much more to know about this proud South Yorkshire city. In Secret Sheffield, the authors pull back the carpet of history to reveal ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Secret Rotherham

    by Melvyn Jones, Anthony Dodsworth ...
    Series series Secret
    Secret Rotherham offers a unique insight into this bustling, modern South Yorkshire town through a series of little-known and forgotten stories, facts and anecdotes from its past. The town has an enviable industrial history: Nelson’s HMS Victory was armed with Walker cannons made at Masbrough, the iron plates for Isambard Brunel’s steamship the Great Eastern were manufactured at Parkgate Iron & ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family

    by Melvyn Jones, Joan Jones, Stephen Cooper ...
    It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of the last wolves in the British Isles. One owner built the Palladian mansion at Wentworth, which has ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In & Around Rotherham From Old Photographs

    by Melvyn Jones, Michael Bentley ...
    Series series From Old Photographs
    The Rotherham area has undergone profound change in the last century or so. There has been much demolition and rebuilding in the town centre, the town has grown outwards in all directions and the surrounding settlements – rural and industrial – have been transformed in many cases. Many working patterns and workplaces have disappeared, means of transport have changed beyond all recognition and even ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Cinema Memories

    A People's History of Cinema-going in 1960s Britain

    by Melvyn Stokes, Matthew Jones, Emma Pett ...
    Cinema Memories brings together and analyses the memories of almost a thousand people of going to the cinema in Britain during the 1960s. It offers a fresh perspective on the social, cultural and film history of what has come to be seen as an iconic decade, with the release of films such as A Taste of Honey, The Sound of Music, Darling, Blow-Up, Alfie, The Graduate, and Bonnie and Clyde.Drawing on ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Sheffield at Work

    People and Industries Through the Years

    by Melvyn and Joan Jones ...
    Series series At Work
    Sheffield has been dubbed ‘Steel City’ but it was and still is much more than that, and it is for much more than manufacturing metal ingots that Sheffield earned its national and international reputation. For centuries it produced cutlery, files, a vast range of agricultural implements, Old Sheffield Plate, silverware, crinoline wires, umbrella frames, the railway lines that transformed Britain’s ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • A-Z of Sheffield

    Places-People-History

    by Melvyn and Joan Jones ...
    Series series A-Z
    The city of Sheffield has long had a worldwide reputation as ‘Steel City’, the home of steel products of every description from cutlery to special steels for the nuclear, petrochemical and aerospace industries. But this city of more than half a million people contains much more than the evidence of its industrial past and present. From the Lower Don valley in the east, the city extends into the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Ecclesfield, Chapeltown & High Green From Old Photographs

    by Melvyn and Joan Jones ...
    Series series From Old Photographs
    Now part of an almost continuous suburban built-up area on the northern fringes of the City of Sheffield, Ecclesfield, Chapeltown and High Green were for centuries three distinct communities. Although surrounded by fields and woodland, they were for much of the last two centuries not rural communities but centres of industry. Coal mining, ironstone mining, iron making, nail making, file making, ... Read more

    $11.69 USD