Scarthin Publications

Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Highland Army in Derby – Brian Stone

9781900446167

Paperback 2015

£12.95

On 4th December 1745, the ragged highland army of Bonnie Prince Charlie entered the market town of Derby on their march to London. It was to be the high watermark of the Jacobite Rebellion and what happened in the next two days arguably changed the course of British history forever.

This new book reveals much fresh and unfamiliar material which adds greatly to our understanding of this critical event in 18th Century history. It looks at the reception and behaviour of the rebel army, who briefly outnumbered the citizens of Derby itself. In particular, the author examines in detail the deliberations of the Council of War which decided on the retreat to Scotland, and analyses the acrimonious differences that separated the Prince from his senior officers. Crucially he deals once and for with all the myth of the spy Dudley Bradstreet and his alleged part in the decision, and then goes on to examine the prospects of the rebels if they had decided to march on to London and what might have happened had they reached the Capital. He also examines the reaction of the Hanoverian government and considers the performance of the local militia regiment, the Derbyshire Blues.

In both the text and extensive appendices the author quotes from many vivid contemporary newspaper reports, letters and eyewitness accounts, some previously unpublished. This is a major new work on the Jacobite invasion, and overturns long-held historical assumptions about the decision of the Council of War to abandon the attempt to regain the crown for the Stuarts.

Brian Stone is an author and lecturer well known in the East Midlands for his talks on various aspects of regional and military history. His previous publications include Derbyshire in the Civil War (Scarthin Books) and Millennium Eyewitness (Piatkus Books). He lives near Derby.

Hanged for a Sheep – E.G Power

9780907758006

2009

Driving the Clay Cross Tunnel – Cliff Williams

978-0907758075

2009

When George Stephenson first surveyed the route of the North Midland Railway from Derby to Leeds, he realised that the major engineering challenge was to drive a tunnel beneath Clay Cross, then a tiny hamlet. This book tells how, once opposition had been overcome and the Bill steered through parliament, the engineer, Frederick Swanwick, set hundreds of navvies to work to drive the tunnel; how they shattered the peace of the village with their drinking and fighting, as they faced privation, maiming and death to complete the task. When the work was done and the navvies left, Stephenson and his Clay Cross Company stayed on. Tunnel and Company together transformed Clay Cross from a quiet rural community into a roaring industrial town.

The Derbyshire Portway: Pilgrimage to the Past – Stephen Bailey

978-1900446136

2008

Collected Poems – Charles Morgan

978-1900446129

2008

Pedal Powered Planes – Keith Sherwin

978-1900446105

2007

Derbyshire Children at School 1800-1900 – E.G Power

978-1900446068

2003

If you have read George Power’s Derbyshire Children at Home, you will meet some of the same cast of characters in this book. You will also meet child pioneers of literacy in Derbyshire, struggling to learn to read and write when most of their parents could not. The boarding school life of the well to do is illustrated with the aid of letters home, while to recreate the atmosphere of the nineteenth century village school, the author quotes freely from the logbooks which Head Teachers were required to keep. You may find your sympathies divided between teaches and the taught, both at Boarding school and Board schools. In both, battles often raged, but we also see acts of kindness by the teachers and even an understanding by some of the pupils of the uphill task their teachers faced. Once again George Power brings our past vividly and humorously to life.

Derbyshire Children at Home 1800-1900 – E.G Power

978-1900446051

2002

A Stage or Two Beyond Christendom – Michael Austin

978-1900446037

2001

Derbyshire Churches and Chapels – Rodney Tomkins

978-1900446020

2000

The Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem in Derbyshire History – Gladwyn Turbutt

978-1900446013

2000

The History of the Derbyshire General Infirmary – V.M Leveaux

978-1900446006

1999

The Diaries of Maria Gyte 1913-1920 – Maria Gyte

978-0907758969

1999

Off Peak Walks – Michael Hull

978-0907758990

1998

Historic Organs in Derbyshire – Rodney Tomkins

978-0907758976

1998

Squire of Calke Abbey: The Journals of Sir George Crewell 1815-1834 – George Crewell

978-0907758846

1995

With Courage and Trust – David Brown

978-0907758785

1994

The Clay Cross Calamities – Terry Judge

978-0907758792

1994

Historic Farm Houses Around Derby – Barbara Hutton

978-0907758488

1991

The Black and White Village Trail – David Gorvett & Les Lumsdon

978-0907758471

1991

Paupers Venture – Children’s Fortune – Ron Slack

978-0907758181

1986

Salad Days in Sutton – Charles Sanderson

978-0907758143

1985

This book is full of Sanderson’s memories of his boyhood and youth, recalled with zest and without regret. The book will have a special appeal for Suttonians; but his descriptions of home & school, games, outings and youthful excitement will match many memories among his own generation, and echo many grandparents’ tales throughout the Midlands.