This book draws on the great wealth of associations of street names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus--all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge.…mehr
This book draws on the great wealth of associations of street names in Cambridge. It is not a dictionary, but it provides a series of entries on such topics as the Reformation, George IV and his wife, twentieth-century British scientists, businessmen, Elizabethan times, medieval Cambridge, mayors, millers, and builders. It includes hermits and coal merchants, field marshals and laundresses, martyrs and bombers, unscrupulous politicians and the founder of a Christian community, Cromwell and Newton, an Anglo-Saxon queen and the discoverer of Uranus--all people who lived in or often visited Cambridge.
1. What do street-names mean? 2. How can you tell? 3. Prehistoric 4. Roman 5. Anglo-Saxon 6. Medieval 7. Barnwell 8. Town and gown 9. The beginning of the university 10. The Reformation 11. The Renaissance and science 12. The Civil War 13. The eighteenth century 14. War against Napoleon 15. George IV and his wife 16. Queen Victoria's reign 17. The British Empire 18. Coprolite mining 19. Coal, corn and iron 20. Brewers 21. Trams and buses 22. Nineteenth-century historians, antiquaries and lawyers 23. Nineteenth-century scientists 24. Nineteeth-century bishops and clergy 25. The 'Kite' area 26. Sport 27. Builders and developers 28. Places in Cambridge 29. Hospitals 30. A poet 31. Mayors 32. Churches and saints 33. The High Stewards: unprotected protectors 34. Inclosures 35. The twentieth century.
1. What do street-names mean? 2. How can you tell? 3. Prehistoric 4. Roman 5. Anglo-Saxon 6. Medieval 7. Barnwell 8. Town and gown 9. The beginning of the university 10. The Reformation 11. The Renaissance and science 12. The Civil War 13. The eighteenth century 14. War against Napoleon 15. George IV and his wife 16. Queen Victoria's reign 17. The British Empire 18. Coprolite mining 19. Coal, corn and iron 20. Brewers 21. Trams and buses 22. Nineteenth-century historians, antiquaries and lawyers 23. Nineteenth-century scientists 24. Nineteeth-century bishops and clergy 25. The 'Kite' area 26. Sport 27. Builders and developers 28. Places in Cambridge 29. Hospitals 30. A poet 31. Mayors 32. Churches and saints 33. The High Stewards: unprotected protectors 34. Inclosures 35. The twentieth century.
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