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HIST226: A History of the Lake District: the Forging of Regional Identity

Wordsworth and other writers endowed the Lake District with a strong personality, claiming that Lakeland communities possessed a distinctive historical identity, which set them apart from other areas. This course uses the social and environmental history of Cumbria to explore the theme of local and regional identities. Sense of place is examined through (a) the relationship between society and local environments across the medieval and early-modern periods; (b) the nature and structure of local communities; and (c) perceptions of place seen in topographical writing from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. The first half of the course develops the theme of ‘Land and People’ by tracing the evolution of Lake District communities from the early-medieval period to c. 1750; the second half explores the distinctive social structure of these communities by comparing historical evidence from the early-modern period with the images portrayed in topographical writing.

For further information on HIST226 visit the Lancaster University Online Courses Handbook.

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