STEEP HOLM: THE STORY OF A SMALL ISLAND
Written by Stan Rendell, Joan Rendell
Published by Alan Sutton
in 1993
ISBN: 0750903236
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- SOMERSET
- HISTORY
- HISTORY (BRITISH)
- ISLANDS
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Front cover
Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Illustration acknowledgements
- Chapter One: Setting Scene
- Chapter Two: Prehistory
- Chapter Three: A Roman Outpost
- Chapter Four: Delving in the Dark Ages
- Chapter Five: Founding a Medieval Priory
- Chapter Six: Life at St Michael's
- Chapter Seven: Death - and Closure of the Priory
- Chapter Eight: My Lord's Coney Warren
- chapter Nine: Property Disputes and Neglect
- chapter Ten: Maritime Matters and Merchants
- Chapter Eleven: Steep Holm Commercialized
- Chapter Twelve: Mixed Fortunes
- Chapter Thirteen: Building Fortress Steep Holm
- Chapter Fourteen: The Military takes over
- Chapter Fifteen: prosperity and Decline
- Chapter Sixteen: Into the Twentieth Century
- Chapter Seventeen: War comes to the Island
- Chapter Eighteen: Legacy of War and a new lease of Life
- Chapter Nineteen: The Allsop Memorial era begins
- Chapter Twenty: Administration of an Island
- Appendix: geology Table
- Bibliography
- Index