The area around Derby has been inhabited for millennia – from prehistory, through Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Viking settlements. The Mercian queen Ethelflaeda won a significant victory against the Vikings at Derby and the town became an important monastic centre in the Middle Ages and was in the frontline of later conflicts during the Civil War and the Jacobite Rebellion. The eighteenth and nineteenth centuries marked the development of industrial Derby, including the new porcelain industry, and at the same time it attracted a group of Enlightenment thinkers, artists, scientists and reforming industrialists, including Erasmus Darwin and Joseph Wright, who were to leave their mark on the country. Famous manufacturing names such as Rolls Royce made Derby their home and today’s city is now redeveloping itself in a post-industrial world.
 
Illustrated throughout, this accessible historical portrait by Michael Smith of the transformation that Derby has undergone through the ages will be of great interest to residents, visitors and all those with links to the city.
 
For a limited time all purchases of this pre-order will receive 2 x free tickets (worth £10 each) to 'Derby Uncovered - The Walk' which runs every Tuesday and Thursday from the Derby Heritage Centre at 11 Sadler Gate, Derby. More details on walk can be found here:
 
https://bookeo.com/derbyuncovered
 
Upon purchase of the book you will receive an email telling you how to claim and use your tickets.