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The history of an English borough : Stratford-upon-Avon, 1196-1996 / edited by Robert Bearman.

  • Accession number

    83350551

  • Class

    87.31/HIS

  • ISBN

    0750915358

  • Language

    English

  • Physical description

    xxii, 218p : ill., facsims., maps, ports., plans ; 25 cm.

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General note: Includes index. Published with the support of: Stratford-upon-Avon Town Council. Formatted contents note: The charter of 1196 / Robert Bearman --Origins, the Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon settlements / Nicholas Palmer -- Domesday village to medieval town : the topography of medieval Stratford-upon-Avon / T.R. Slater -- Medieval Stratford, a succesful small town / Christopher Dyer -- Town and country, the Stratford Guild and political networks of fifteenth-century Warwickshire / Christine Carpenter. Crisis and revolution, government and society in Stratford, 1540-1640 / Alan Dyer -- Building a godly town: religious and cultural divisions in Stratford-upon-Avon, 1560-1640 / Ann Hughes -- Stratford-upon-Avon in the Civil War / Philip Tenant -- 'A little purging and bleeding': poverty and disease in eighteenth century Stratford / Joan Lane -- 'Tracts and bills galore' : political processes in Victorian Stratford / Nicholas Fogg -- The rise of Stratford as Shakespeare's town / Roger Pringle.