Bath History, Vol. X

Reference Number: PP/539/X
Level of Description: Item
Title: Bath History, Vol. X
Creator(s) & Administrative History: Buchanan, Brenda J: Editor
Various: Author
Millstream Books: Publisher

Bath

18 The Tyning, Bath, BA2 6AL
Date: 2005
ISBN: 0 948975 74 1
Extent: Pages: 192
Description: Includes the following articles: A Celebration of 'Bath History; a personal view by Brenda J. Buchanan, pp. 6-7; The Hundred of Bath in 1086 and before by Frank Thorn, pp. 9-27; 'At the Gates of Hell': The seamy side of life in seventeenth-century Bath by John Wroughton, pp. 28-47; Bath's Second Guildhall c.1630-1776, by Michael Bishop, pp. 48-71; Bath's Forgotten Gunpowder History: The powder mills at Woolley in the eighteenth century by Brenda J. Buchanan, pp. 72-96; 'Hazardous and Scanty Securitys': The career of William Yescombe, Bath Attorney, 1760-1774 by Edward Yescombe (includes information on ThomasChilcot (1707-1766), Composer and Organist at Bath Abbey), pp. 97-120; Sarah Scott: Female Historian in Mid-Eighteenth Century Bath by Holger Th. Graf, pp. 121-136; An Academy for Young Gentlemen: John Naish and his School in Bath by William Evans, pp. 137-157; Brunel in Bath by R. Angus Buchanan, pp. 158-186

Edition: 1st