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Coalbrookdale: The Bangham Family Saga
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781838426040
Publisher: Spellbrooktales
Published: Mar 10 2022
Pages: 356
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, one ordinary family is swept into extraordinary change.
Set in the Severn Gorge in early eighteenth-century England, Coalbrookdale tells the story of Joseph Bangham and his family as their traditional rural life gives way to the relentless demands of iron and industry.
For generations, the Banghams have lived by the rhythms of the land, coppicing wood in Banghams Wood and measuring time by the seasons. But when Joseph finds work at the Coalbrookdale ironworks-where Abraham Darby is pioneering the use of coal in iron production-the family is drawn across the Gorge into a new world, ruled not by nature but by the furnace.
As industry spreads and the old ways falter, the Banghams must navigate profound change. Joy and hardship, loyalty and loss, progress and consequence are woven into daily life against the often brutal realities of eighteenth-century England, where poverty can mean transportation-or the gallows-for the smallest crime.
Coalbrookdale is a richly imagined work of adult historical fiction that brings to life the human cost of progress at the very moment the modern world was being forged. Through the eyes of one family, it explores a question that still resonates today: when history changes everything, who truly benefits?
Book One of the Bangham Family Saga.
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