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Author
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Date published
1997
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Publisher
Stroud : Sutton [in association with] The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, 1997.
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Subject
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Accession number
83427910
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Class
87.31/BEA
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ISBN
0750915358
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Language
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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.