Christopher Harper-Bill & Carole Rawcliffe 
East Anglia’s History [PDF ebook] 
Studies in Honour of Norman Scarfe

Seventeen studies from the region’s best scholars illuminate aspects of the history of Suffolk and Norfolk from the 11th century to the 20th.


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, DAVIDDYMOND, PETER NORTHEAST, COLIN RICHMOND, JUDITH MIDDLETON-STEWART, DIARMAID Mac CULLOCH, HASSELL SMITH, TOM WILLIAMSON, EDWARD MARTIN, JONATHAN THEOBALD, RICHARD WILSON, HUGH BELSEY, STEVEN PLUNKETT, GEOFFREY MARTIN, MICHAEL HOWARD.

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Norman Scarfe: an Appreciation – John Blatchly

Domesday Herrings – James Campbell

Searching for Salvation in Anglo-Norman East Anglia – Christopher Harper-Bill

‘On the Threshold of Eternity’: Care for the Sick in East Anglian Monasteries –

The Parson’s Glebe: Stable, Expanding or Shrinking? – David P. Dymond

Suffolk Churches in the Late Middle Ages: the Evidence of Wills – Peter Northeast

Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: the Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration (with Judith Middleton-Stewart) – John Blatchly

Sir Philip Bothe of Shrubland: the Last of a Distinguished Line Builds in Commemoration (with John Blatchly) – Judith Middleton-Stewart

A First Stirring of Suffolk Archaeology? – Diarmaid Mc Culloch

Concept and Compromise: Sir Nicholas Bacon and the Building of Stiffkey Hall – A. Hassell Smith

Shrubland Hall: a House and its Landscape, 1660-1880 –

Garden Canals in Suffolk – Edward Martin

Estate Stewards in Woodland High Suffolk, 1690-1880 – Jon Theobald

A Journal of a Tour through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lincolnshire and Yorkshire in the Summer of 1741 – Richard G Wilson

Thomas Gainsborough as an Ipswich Musician, a Collector of Prints and a Caricaturist – Hugh Belsey

Ipswich Museum Moralities in the 1840s and 1850s – Steven Plunkett

John Cordy Jeaffreson (1831-1901) and the Ipswich Borough Archives – G Martin

The Caen Controversy – Michael Howard