Today’s #TransactionsTuesday, from our own Bill Shannon, is entitled ‘From Morikambe to Morecambe: Antiquarians, Periploi and Eischuseis’ 🌅🌅 #cumbria #LANCASHIRE #maps #morecambebay archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/arch…

The earliest description of Preston dates from the 1690s. It was written By John Kuerden, an antiquarian who had an interest in local history. He describes a journey from the bridge at Walton Le Dale to the west side of Preston... blogpreston.co.uk/2023/02/the-ea…

Blog Preston His name was Richard. And his street plan of Preston was made in 1685. See the recent biography published by the Chetham Society, "Seventeenth Century Lancashire Restored: The Life and Work of Dr Richard Kuerden, Antiquary and Topographer, 1623-1702", by William D. Shannon

Deep in the Jordanian desert lies a Roman fort that can stake a claim to being the best-preserved example anywhere in the former empire. But this relic of imperial power is in urgent need of conservation work, as David Breeze explains in World Archaeology: the-past.com/feature/qasr-b…

Gunpowder and the Slave Trade. A story from #Cumbria for #BlackHistoryMonth cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/triangular-tra…

Fantastic to see so many Prestonians turn out to pay their respects at the Remembrance service on the Flag Market today. Preston Lib Dem councillors and Aldermen in attendance. Well done to everyone who organised and took part. #proudPreston

Happy Friday!💫 This time, our ‘fact of the week’ focuses on the "Pennines", and how that name came into being! Find out more on our website: cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/richard-cirenc…. #Pennines #History

Happy Friday!🐺 Today we spotlight the last wolf in England - more specifically, a rare little book published in Grange-over-Sands by Mrs Jerome Mercier, entitled "The Last Wolf - A Story of England in the Fourteenth Century". To find out more visit: cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/last-wolf-engl…

Happy Friday! 🏞 Did you know that 'Morecambe Bay' didn't exist before 1774? Far from being an ancient name used locally for thousands of years, Morecambe Bay is an invented name! To know more visit: cumbriacountyhistory.org.uk/morecambe-bay-…

inspiredbylakeland.co.uk/collections/bo… My new book, launch date 20 Aug 2024

Really pleased to announce the publication of our forthcoming book... Coming August... The brilliant Bill Shannon 's 'Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps' with more than 100 charts, surveys and maps from ten centuries of cartography. Signed pre-orders from inspiredbylakeland.co.uk/collections/bo…

Including... the earliest maps; the first ‘county surveys’; tourist maps – from Thomas West’s viewing stations to Alfred Wainwright’s ‘love letters to the fells’; historical maps; travel maps – recording the golden ages of canal, rail and road; and maps of the Ordnance Survey.

Maps of Cumbria: Christopher Saxton visited Westmorland and Cumberland in 1576 with a commission to make the first ever county map. A year later he published 'Lancastriae Comitatus Palatin[us]'. The original plates were still being used 200 years later. inspiredbylakeland.co.uk/products/cumbr…

To celebrate the launch (out now!) of Bill Shannon's 'Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps', he picks six of his favourite maps over on Hefted. hefted.substack.com/p/six-iconic-m… Buy the book at inspiredbylakeland.co.uk/products/cumbr…

My Cumbria maps book is now in print! Publisher Inspired By Lakeland InspiredByLakeland did a fantastic job on production/presentation!

New for the weekend: CS132: Cumbria – 1,000 years of maps ...in which we tell the 1,000-year story of cartography in the historic counties of Cumberland, Westmorland and Lancashire with author, academic and cartophile Bill Shannon Bill Shannon hefted.substack.com/p/countrystrid…

It was nice to bump into Dave from InspiredByLakeland at Eskdale Show #Cumbria . People were doing their Christmas shopping early by snapping up his latest publication, the gorgeous Cumbria- 1,000 Years of Maps.

Our overall winner for the Hunter Davies Lakeland Book of the Year Award 2025 goes to ‘Cumbria 1000 Years of Maps by William D Shannon.’ A lifetime of love for the Lakeland landscape is expressed in this work, published by InspiredByLakeland

Big congrats to Bill Shannon on his win at the wonderful Lakeland Book Awards. And long may the event run, celebrating so much that is great about Cumbria. Well done Bill :-)

Without a shadow of doubt the stand out book of the year, speaking as a lover of maps. Bill Shannon your book is a treasure and will be adored and needless to say will consulted often by me and others.