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The book holds fascinating and beautiful illustrations that show the West Yorkshire landscape in its entirety. West Yorkshire is a land of great contrast and sudden change. Lonely upland moors rapidly pass into busy valley towns such as Bradford and Halifax. Serene farmland lies close to Huddersfield, Leeds and Wakefield. The cereal lands of the low gently sloping eastern area contrasts sharply with the grasslands of the higher Pennines. 'The Making of the West Yorkshire Landscape' is the story of how West Yorkshire's landscape has changed since the area emerged from under a sea some seventy million years ago. It reveals how, from prehistoric times onwards, people changed an initially wooded landscape into its contemporary pattern of moors, farms, villages and towns. 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'The Making of Manchester', is a very apt title, for Manchester has made and re-made itself through the centuries.  From the Roman settlement and fort of Mancunium, to the Medieval town, made famous by the De Grelley family amongst others.  It has witnessed hostile forces, during the English Civil Wars and the rising of the Jacobites.  Yet Manchester changed its image come the Industrial Revolution, becoming Cottonpolis, and the centre of the canal and railway network.  And yet although there was employment there was hardship too, something that was only rectified during the twentieth century.  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