Norwich The Biography

Christopher Reeve

• Publisher: Amberley Publishing
• Year: 2011
• eBook ISBN:
  9781445609355
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

'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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Preface
• Introduction: Norwich Before 1066
• 1: 1066–1200: ‘Assailed with indiscriminate revenge’
• 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’
• 3: 1400–1500: ‘They shall either hop headless or fry a faggot’
• 4: 1500–1600 Norwich in the Tudor Age: ‘I have laid up in my breast such goodwill, as I shall never forget “Norwich” ’
• 5: 1600–1700 Puritan & Restoration Norwich: ‘Blown out of the town with a bagpipe’
• 6: 1700–1750 Georgian Norwich Begins: ‘We are here at a miserable passe with this horrid sot we have got for our Dean’
• 7: 1750–1800 The End of Georgian Norwich: ‘Ran away from his Master ... James Hewes, a small chimney-sweeping lad’
• 8: 1800–1900 Norwich in the Victorian Age: ‘The very stones in the street were dear to me’
• 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’
• Picture Section
• Notes
• Select Bibliography