Books by John (Education Walsall UK) Taylor

This is the story of those villages now engulfed by Milton Keynes. A time when all the cows were real.Compiled in the late 1970s the content was serialised in the local press, and the contemporary descriptions refer to that period.A time when Milton Keynes Development Corporation was everywhere and anywhere - and would be for many years to come.This then is the bygone Milton Keynes.Written by one who remembers a time when all the cows weren't concrete.

In 1540, Francisco Coronado led a band of soldiers, treasure-seekers, and Franciscan priests and friars into New Mexico, changing the lives of the Native Americans forever. In 1680, less than 100 years after the first Spanish colony imposed disease, serfdom, and zealous religious oversight on the indigenous peoples, the Pueblos rose up, forcing the Spaniards out. The uprising, known as the Pueblo Revolt, lasted for 12 years, but Catholic influence was reinvigorated following the 1692 Diego De Vargas reconquest. Over the next century, the Franciscans were gradually relegated to outlying pueblos while diocesan priests from Mexico and later from France and the United States dominated the Church's expansion in the Rio Grande Valley. Today Catholicism remains strong and vibrant in New Mexico, learning the lessons and building on the foundations from the past 500 years.