Hills of Hawkstone and Attingham
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A01=Joanna Hill
Attingham
Author_Joanna Hill
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family history
geneaology
Hawkstone
Hill family
local history
Phillimore
Shropshire
The Rise Shine and Decline of a Shropshire Family
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- ISBN 9781860773228
- Weight: 730g
- Dimensions: 165 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2005
- Publisher: The History Press Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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For several centuries the Hills played a prominent role in shaping the history of England and especially of Shropshire. This well researched book is a family history, an architectural history, and a contribution to the story of England's social evolution over the past few centuries.
Writer and historian JOANNA HILL is the great, great, great niece of Rowland Hill and as such has gained unique access to the Hill family archives. In April 2005, she published her first book on the Hill family, The Hills of Hawkstone and Attingham; the Rise, Shine and Decline of a Shropshire Family. Serendipity has sometimes led her life in the footsteps of her illustrious ancestor. While working at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University’s post graduate department for the history of art and archaeology, she spent three very hot seasons excavating in the Nile Delta of Egypt, a few kilometres from the site of one of the General’s very first battles, at Aboukir in 1801. She currently lives with her husband (and an international champion Skye terrier, Dougal) in a 13th-century hilltop bastide village in South West France. This is just a short distance north of St Pierre d’Irube at the foot of the Pyrenees, where Rowland Hill won his very own general action in the closing stages of the Peninsular War in December 1813. When the victorious British cavalry rode home through France from Toulouse to the channel ports in May the following year, they must have passed by.
