This volume is the result of nearly fifteen years' work since the idea of such a bibliography was first considered by the Suffolk Records Society in 1964. It is designed as a practical working bibliography, and gives a comprehensive guide to the literature on almost every aspect of Suffolk.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15115-1

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This collection of twenty East Anglian essays celebrates Hassell Smith's seventieth birthday. It has been written and edited by former colleagues, friends and post-graduate students who have been connected, in various ways, with his work at the Centre of East Anglian Studies at the University of East Anglia during the past thirty years. They cover a wide variety of topics from the thirteenth century through to the eighteenth century and make a valuable contribution to the understanding of the history of Suffolk and Norfolk.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-906-21943-0

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East Anglia's political and economic importance in the middle ages is plain for all to see, stemming initially from its crucial position on the eastern shores of the North Sea and its participation in the successive patterns of invasion and settlement of England. Archaeological evidence abounds: burial mounds, castles, great churches deriving from the wealth created by sheep, yeoman farmhouses, and market towns of eighteenth-century elegance. Behind thesevisible manifestations of the march of centuries lie particular histories, and these seventeen studies from the region's best scholars reveal some of those jigsaw puzzles of time, ranging from the Domesday herring industry by wayof monasteries, memorials, wills, Gainsborough and garden history to the growing passion for natural history and science in the mid nineteenth century. They make a serious contribution to an understanding of the region, and at thesame time honour Norman Scarfe, whose own studies have played a notable part in the interpretation of East Anglia's history.
Contributors JOHN BLATCHLY, JAMES CAMPBELL, CHRISTOPHER HARPER-BILL, CAROLE RAWCLIFFE, DAVID DYMOND, PETER NORTHEAST, COLIN RICHMOND, JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART, DIARMAID MacCULLOCH, HASSELL SMITH, TOM WILLIAMSON, EDWARD MARTIN, JONATHAN THEOBALD, RICHARD WILSON, HUGH BELSEY, STEVEN PLUNKETT, GEOFFREY MARTIN, MICHAEL HOWARD.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15878-5

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The essays and articles produced by Roger Virgoe (1932-1996) over a period of thirty-five years make a notable contribution to the study of political life in late medieval England, and to our knowledge of the workings of East Anglian gentry society.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-906-21944-7

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[East Anglian] Detailed survey of two Suffolk manors, revealing details of country life in the sixteenth century.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-900-71616-4

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When Henry Tooley drew up his will shortly before his death in 1551 he ensured the survival of two monuments to his career as a merchant in Ipswich: the almshouses which still stand in the town, and an account book which the Corporation originally acquired to administer his bequest and now hold in their archives.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-900-71610-2

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Published in 1889. An historical account of Ipswich as it was in 1689.    

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The period between the late tenth and late twelfth centuries saw many changes in the structure and composition of the European and English aristocracy. One of the most important is the growth in local power bases and patrimonies at the expense of wider property and kinship ties. In this volume, the author uses the organisation of aristocracy in East Anglia as a case-study to explore the issue as a whole, considering the extent to which local families adopted national and European values, and investigating the role of local circumstances in the formulation of regional patterns and frameworks. The book is interdisciplinary in approach, using anthropological, economic and prosopographical research to analyse themes such as marriage and kinship, social mobility, relations between secular and ecclesiastical lords, ethnic groups, and patterns of economic growth amongst social groupings; there is a particular focus too on how different landscapes - fenland, upland, coastal and urban - affected the pattern of aristocratic experience. Dr ANDREW WAREHAM is a Research Associate at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83155-6

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East Anglia was the most prosperous region of medieval England; far from being an isolated backwater, it had strong economic, religious and cultural connections with continental Europe, with Norwich for a time England's second city. The essays in this volume bring out the importance of the region during the middle ages. Spanning the late eleventh to the fifteenth century, they offer a broad coverage of East Anglia's history and culture; particular topics examined include its landscape, urban history, buildings, government and society, religion and rich culture.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83151-8

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Six medieval texts transcribed in full form the core of this book. They cover the Bigod, Brotherton and Howard eras and include a survey of Framlingham made in the late 13th century, an account of household expenses (mostly food and drink) compiled by the steward of the castle for the year 1385-6, and a large and detailed inventory of Framlingham castle drawn up (in English) in 1524. These documents illuminate the social and economic life of Framlingham within and without the castle walls during a period when the power and wealth of the lords of Framlingham castle greatly influenced the outcome of both regional and national events. Short descriptions of each text have been provided, which include translations of some of the most interesting items. John Ridgard's book begins with a short history of Framlingham in the middle ages. In addition to the historical material contained in the six transcribed texts, he has drawn widely on other documentary sources of the period, such as the recently rediscovered Survey of Framlingham made in 1547 and owned by Pembroke College, Cambridge. Short studies of four aspects of Framlingham's medieval history for which there is particularly interesting documentary evidence - hunting, milling, the provision of wine and spices, and the market - have been included in this volume as appendices.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15432-9

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Suffolk was one of the most important regions of England in the middle ages. Even by 1200 it was wealthy, densely populated, highly commercialised and urbanised; and it survived the impact of three of the most tumultuous events ofthe last millennium, the Great Famine [1315-22], the Black Death [1349] and the Peasants' Revolt [1381], to become by 1500 one of the richest and most industrialised regions of England, based on cloth manufacture, fishing and tanning. This first volume in a series which will become the definitive History of Suffolk describes, documents and analyses these events. It combines an accessible and readable summary of the current state of knowledge with fresh insights drawn from extensive investigations of primary sources. Overall, it offers a guide to and re-evaluation of the history of late medieval Suffolk.
MARK BAILEY is Senior Visiting Lecturer at the University of Leeds and Headmaster of The Grammar School at Leeds.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83315-4

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This study is a test-case of the old poor law. In its exploration of the virtually unknown world of the aged poor in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, it asks how the elderly poor managed to survive in a pre-industrial economy, and answers through focusing on the many factors that make up the experience of old age - status, health, wealth, and local culture - in two Suffolk villages.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83094-8

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In the 1640s Parliament intervened against clergymen with Royalist sympathies, and in the political jargon of the time they were referred to as 'Scandalous Ministers'. As the Civil War developed two Suffolk committees were empowered to hear evidence against any minister (or schoolmaster) who was 'scandalous' in either life or doctrine, or in any way 'malignant' (ill-affected to Parliament).   hardback   ISBN 978-0-900-71600-3

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The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred' lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Scarfe reveals a past few could have guessed at.   paperback   ISBN 978-1-843-83068-9

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The original book was written in 1618 by Robert Reyce and this is a transcription from the original manuscript by Lord Francis Hervey. A superb topographical description and history of the county with genalogies of noteworthy familes, the names of the lords of the manors, knights, justices etc. Hervey also took the time to compile an excellent index which is included here.    

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A huge volume published in 1902 which is incredibly detailed. The contents include transcripts from the parish register from 1558, court rolls, and early wills, plus details of free and copyhold tenants, topographical and historical information. Also included are twenty four full plate illustrations and a very large map of lands in the parish.    

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A miscellany of anecdotes, romantic ballads, descriptive poems and songs, historical and biographical notices and statistical returns relating to the county of Suffolk. Collected and compiled by John Glyde and published in 1866, this book will prove of great interest to those with ancestors in Suffolk. A great way to find out about life in by-gone times is through the tales people tell, this book in many ways contains the oral history of Suffolk    

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The author took surveys of the whole of Suffolk in the years 1732, 1733 and 1734. This publications contains his observations regarding the places he visited including; A section devoted to Ipswich which gives accounts of the Churches, Religious Houses, and the Trades of the Town as well as providing a translation of the Charter of King Henry VI to the Burgess of Ipswich. Lists of the High Sherriffs and Knights of the Shire. 4 road maps. See More info for place names.    

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  hardback   ISBN 978-0-712-90648-7

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