Grasmere, from West's Guide to the Lakes, 1778
Swinside stone circle
Bewcastle
From Mogg's 1829 edn of Paterson's Roads (orig engraving by Paas, c.1784)
Duddon Furnace, from Alfred Fell, The Early Iron Industry of Furness, 1908

Aqua-tints from West's Guide to the Lakes (1796)

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Making aqua-tints is a complex process, but the resultant prints are dramatic and atmospheric. Click on Gallery to see a set of 16 aqua-tints sold to be bound in with West's Guide, the 6th edition of 1796, which also contained two engravings. All these images come from the earliest days of tourism in the Lakes, with Fr West's Guide instructing the reader where to stand to get the best views! They show the lakes as Wordsworth would have known them, following his move to Dove Cottage in 1799

Conference: Medieval Border Society

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Border Society: States, Governance and People, c.1150-c.1300 - Lancaster University, Saturday 6th July 2013, 10.30 am to 4.30 pm

Lancaster University Community Day 6th May

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CCHT will be represented at Lancaster University's forthcoming Community Day event on 6th May at a session devoted to 'Exploring Maps and Memory'. Do you love old maps? Are you interested in historical depictions of Lancashire and Cumbria? If so, then please join us.

'Magna Carta & the Victorians': free lecture 6 May 2015

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History Department and School of Law at Lancaster University are jointly hosting the 2015 Iredell Lecture on 6 May. The topic is ‘Magna Carta and the Victorians’ and the guest speaker is Professor Miles Taylor from York University.

Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Society