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History of Newcastle and Gateshead (Volume II) Sixteenth Century

History of Newcastle and Gateshead (Volume II) Sixteenth Century

Welford, Richard

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General World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9353704170
ISBN13: 9789353704179
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 20 2019
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.79
Height: 1.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into streets where power, trade, and faith jostled for space: sixteenth century Newcastle and its neighbour across the Tyne, Gateshead. The past is still speaking. Richard Welford's History of Newcastle and Gateshead (Volume II) brings Tudor-era England into sharp local focus, drawing on Newcastle civic records and other municipal evidence to show, at close quarters, how an English town governed itself, policed its markets, and negotiated crown and church. From guildhall minutes to charters and court notices, Welford assembles a narrative of civic continuity and change, revealing how law, labour, and belief shaped daily urban life on the Tyne. This municipal history volume is an absorbing historical reference book as much as an antiquarian history reprint: rich in names, offices, disputes, and everyday decisions that shaped a community. Readers of English urban history will find a close-grained account of institutions and streets; local history researchers will recognise a dependable guide for genealogy and family history, tracing households, officials, and merchants through the documentary record. It is also a vivid contribution to British regional history, illuminating Gateshead town history beside the larger story of the north in the Tudor period society. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. Restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For casual readers, it offers a compelling window onto civic life in sixteenth century Newcastle; for classic-literature collectors and historians, it stands as a landmark chronicle of northern municipal memory.

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