A01=Greg Finch
Author_Greg Finch
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Product details
- ISBN 9781838280994
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 2022
- Publisher: Newcastle Libraries & Information Service
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The Blacketts have cast long shadows over the region's history as Newcastle merchants, miners, the builders of Wallington Hall and political figures in the 1600s and 1700s. Yet historians over the years have previously found it hard to get out from those shadows and to see more than the silhouettes of myth. Greg Finch's flowing account of the first three Sir William Blacketts, based on extensive new research, now dispels those myths. He reveals a vivid story of a dramatic rise from modest origins, the opening up of the regional lead industry, the creation and operation of a huge business and the crises that followed during a turbulent century of conflict and progress.
‘Dr. Greg Finch worked in IT and business consulting for over 20 years. He has written widely on aspects of English history between the 16th and 20th centuries. In 2013 he edited A Pack of Idle Sparks, a collection of early 18th century letters on social history in the North of England.’
