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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Author’s Note
Introduction
Part One
1. Beginnings: St Cuthbert’s journey and the founding of the City
2. Cnut the Great: His rise to power and his pilgrimage to Durham
3. Fire and Sword: The ‘Harrying of the North’ by William the Conqueror
Part Two
4. The Pirate Saint: St Godric of Finchale
5. Of Brave and Bowld Sir John: The Legend of the Lambton Worm
6. Battle on the Red Hills: The Battle of Neville’s Cross
7. The Sons of Cecily Neville: The Rose of Raby, mother of two kings of England
Part Three
8. The Rising of the North: Northern Catholic nobles rise against Queen Elizabeth I
9. The Execution of John Boste: Roman Catholic saint, martyred in a Durham school field
10. The King, the Covenanters and Oliver Cromwell: Civil War years
11. Murder at ‘Cutty Throat’ farm: Notorious local murder
Part Four
12. The Wear Men, the Tyne Men and the Old Man of the Sea: Plans to turn Durham City into a ‘port’
13. Look Away Dixieland: Jeremiah Dixon, astronomer and surveyor, co-founder of the Mason–Dixon Line, boundary between North and South in the American Civil War
14. Byron, Boz and Pretty Bessie Barrett: Lord Byron, Charles Dickens and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Part Five
15. Of Cavaliers and Coalfields: The 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, cavalry officer and coal entrepreneur
16. Fighting Charley and the Blind Beggar: Legend of the Londonderry statue
17. The Tsar of Russia, the Nova Scotia Miners and: Mr Timothy Hackworth: Timothy Hackworth, locomotive pioneer
Part Six
18. St Cuthbert and the Lost Bombers: The story of an allegedly unsuccessful ‘Baedeker raid’ by the Luftwaffe
19. Lest We Forget 197: The Durham Miners
20. Nine Hundred Years: Stories of Durham Cathedral
Endnote
Bibliography
Journals, Articles and Other Publications
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