Norwich the Biography

by Christopher Reeve

Overview

'If only stones could speak.' Often, when we visit historic towns, churches, castles, or old family mansions, we wish that the people who were once connected with those places could step out of the shadowy walls and tell us stories about their distant past. This book aims to do just that, combining the history of the great city of Norwich with revelations concerning the lives and labours, the lamentations and loves, of rich and poor, the great and the ungodly, throughout the last 1,000 years. Drawing on information derived from historic documents, tomb inscriptions, parish records, diaries and newspapers, Norwich: The Biography conjures up a vivid panorama of life in one of Britain's most warm-hearted and fascinating cities.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781445634609
Publisher:	Amberley Publishing
Publication date:	05/15/2014
Series:	The Biography
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	4.80(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Christopher Reeve lives, and was born in Bungay. He is the curator of Bungay Museum and was Keeper of Art for Bury St Edmunds Borough Council. He is a local author who has written many books on his home town Bungay. He has also contributed several entries on to the current DNB. He lives in Bungay.

Table of Contents

Preface 7

Introduction: Norwich Before 1066 9

1 1066-1200: 'Assailed with indiscriminate revenge' 13

2 1200-1400: 'So tumultuous was the city that I meet with many prosecutions of the citizens for firing one another's houses by night' 41

3 1400-1500: 'They shall either hop headless or fry a faggot' 55

4 1500-1600 Norwich in the Tudor Age: 'I have laid up in my breast such goodwill, as I shall never forget "Norwich"' 75

5 1600-1700 Puritan & Restoration Norwich: 'Blown out of the town with a bagpipe' 111

6 1700-1750 Georgian Norwich Begins: 'We are here at a miserable passe with this horrid sot we have got for our Dean' 133

7 1750-1800 The End of Georgian Norwich: 'Ran away from his Master… James Hewes, a small chimney-sweeping lad' 147

8 1800-1900 Norwich in the Victorian Age: 'The very stones in the street were dear to me' 169

9 Norwich Since 1900:'…and I must keep on with hosses because after this War there'll be no such thing as having any to paint' 209

Notes 243

Select Bibliography 253