Non-Fiction Books
For Queen and Cumberland
Publisher: Hayloft
Published Date: December 2008
Format: Paperback
Category: History
Illustrations: B&W Photographs
ISBN: 19045 24575
Jacob Reed joined the army to escape the disease-ridden poverty of 1840s Carlisle, but his years of peaceful soldiering came to an end with the outbreak of the Crimean War where disease and combat took their dreadful toll of life.
Anonymous Heroes
Publisher: Hayloft
Published Date: December 2009
Format: Paperback
Category: History
Illustrations: B&W Photographs
ISBN: 978 190 452 4731
In this story of the Great War... the challenge was to link local and family history to national and international history… By telling the story of his forefathers, Martin adds a human element and at the same time gives a snapshot of what life was like for working-class people in Carlisle. The period covered in this book was a time of great change.
The Day We Went To Arsenal
Publisher: DB Publishing
Published Date: 2014
Format: Paperback
Category: Sport and History
Illustrations: B&W Photographs
ISBN: 9781 7809 103674
In 1951, tiny Carlisle United, from the Third Division North played the biggest game in their brief history when they were drawn to play the mighty Arsenal in the Third Round of the FA Cup. It was an event that has gone down in Carlisle folklore.
Fourth, First & Fulham
Publisher: DB Publishing
Published Date: 2012
Format: Paperback
Category: Sport and History
Illustrations: B&W Photographs
ISBN: 9781 7809 10321
Fourth, First & Fulham is an unusual title but is explained by its sub-title: The Golden Era of Carlisle United. Over a twelve-year period during the 1960s and 1970s the small Cumbrian club rose through the Football League, winning promotions and titles, performing heroic giant-killing acts, and taking part in its one and only European competition.