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This book is the most comprehensive history and description of an English county ever attempted in a single volume. Its first part describes the county's natural situation and its earliest history and surveys its economic life, in particular its almost vanished agriculture and its modern industrial development. There are chapters on particular aspects of Middlesex's history, inhabitants and buildings. The second part - virtually a book in itself - is a lively gazetteer of the places in contemporary Middlesex, from Acton to Yiewsley. The whole work is fully indexed and referenced, and includes updated tables of population and a detailed bibliography, line maps, diagrams and 48 pages of superb photographs.
About the author
Michael Robbins was born in Hendon in 1915 and went to his first school in Middlesex. Though not a professional historian, he immersed himself in history and during a long and very active life was President of the Society of Antiquaries, President of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, President of the Greater London Industrial Archaeological Society, Chairman of the Middlesex Council of the Victoria County History, Chairman of the Governors of the Museum of London, and Chairman of the Standing Conference on London Archaeology. He died in 2002 aged 87.
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A history of Middlesex
