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Hidden Cumbrian Histories

Paul Eastham

The fascinating and turbulent history of England's most beautiful place.

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Viking place-names cover Cumbria: surely there was a huge invasion?

Did a bloody Scandinavian onslaught expel virtually all Celts in 902 AD? Did mass immigration by Norse warriors saturate local dialect with Nordic words and transform Cumbria's culture? Er, No.

People say there are loads of places with Nor...

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How Celtic Cumbrians were swindled out of their votes

Victorian Tory leader Lord Salisbury believed "Celtic Fringe" residents were "inferior". So he forced Gladstone to accept gerrymandering that devalued "peripheral" votes

It might seem incredible in today’s democratic world, but Victorian p...

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Was Cumbria's Arctic exploration hero a death-dealing bungler?

Sir John Barrow masterminded the world’s greatest programme of exploration to the Arctic, Antarctica and Africa. But, as BBC TVs "The Terror" suggested, did shiploads of men die pointlessly?

Standing proud on a hill above the ancient town...

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Mary, Queen of Scots was naive. She started a Cumbrian rebellion. It sealed her doom

Mary with Carlisle Castle (the portrait was painted c.1560)

From the moment the alluring, intelligent and spirited Mary Queen of Scots rode into Carlisle Castle in a horse-drawn litter in May 1568, the north of England was almost bound to...

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Why has the true history of the Cumbrians been hidden?

This is the text of a talk Paul Eastham gave to the Words By The Water Literary Festival at the Keswick Museum in Cumbria.

I have written a new book about the hidden people by which I mean the Cumbrians who, as I will argue, have very anci...

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