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PORTSMOUTH: A HISTORY

Written by A. Temple Patterson
Published by Moonraker Press in 1976
ISBN: 023900146x

PORTSMOUTH: A HISTORY
Written by A. Temple Patterson.
Stock no. 820924
1st. 1976. Hardback. Fine condition.

Pictorial boards. 164 Pages. ISBN: 023900146x.

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Front cover

Cover of PORTSMOUTH: A HISTORY by A. Temple Patterson

Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • 1. The first 'Old Portsmouth': portchester
  • 2. Portsmouth in the Middle Ages
  • 3. Tudor Portsmouth: progress and a a setback
  • 4. For King or Parliament? 1603-1660
  • 5. The rise to primacy as a naval port
  • 6. Progress and peril
  • 7. Town government and local politics in the eighteenth century
  • 8. The 'Great French Wars', 1793-1815
  • 9. 'Peace, retrenchment and reform', 1815-35
  • 10. Expansion resumed, 1835-60
  • 11. Mid-Victorian Portsmouth: war and rumours of war
  • 12. Steady advance, 1860-1914
  • 13. The two world wars: ruin and resurrection
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index