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A Brief History of the Isle of Man
3rd edition, 2nd revision
By Sara Goodwins
An introduction to Manx history for those who want something accurate but not too long, Brief History is one of the best selling books on the Isle of Man.
The book begins 500 million years ago with the formation of the landmass which included the Isle of Man and ends… today. It tells of how Mann became an island, the stone age inhabitants, the Celts and their Viking invaders. It talks about how the larger surrounding islands squabbled over the strategic base in the middle of the Irish Sea. It reveals how one family ruled the island for nearly 350 years, how it was taken over by the UK parliament and eventually gained independence.
Along the way readers are introduced to unique aspects of Manx history. It was, for example, the first country in the world to offer women the vote – most people claim that that was New Zealand, but Mann got there twelve years earlier. Manx mines were some of the most successful in Britain. And the island leads the world in many of its eco policies, including managing its fish stocks and keeping its beaches clean.
The history of this small fiercely independent country was the first published twelve years ago, but remains as popular with readers now as it did then.
Welcome to Loaghtan Books
As a reader have you ever felt that the books you really want to own are just too expensive?
So did we!
To rectify that we at Loaghtan Books keep our prices as low as possible and the quality of our books as high as we can.
We are a small but growing independent publishing house publishing books about the Isle of Man, the UK and other parts of the world. In fact the sort of books we want to read but can’t find elsewhere.
We don’t restrict ourselves to specialising in certain subjects, preferring to base our books on what readers tell us interest them. Whatever the subject each publication is researched thoroughly and imaginatively illustrated. Our books aim equally at education, illumination and entertainment or, to put it another way, learning and fun.
Some of our books are based on unique historic material; manuscripts and photographs not previously published to which we have added commentary so that our readers can understand allusions in the text not obvious to modern eyes.
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