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Early modern Manchester

edited by Craig Horner

£10.00

Many new insights into Manchester in the early modern period

This fascinating volume takes a look at aspects of Manhester’s history in the centuries before its industrial heyday, a much overlooked yet crucial period in its development. The topics are parts of an historical jigsaw, building into a picture of early modern Manchester and its social, religious, political and economic life:

Articles include:

• The regional road network and the growth of Manchester in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries by Alan Crosby
• In the labyrinth: John Dee and Reformation Manchester by Stephen Bowd
• Church or chapel? Restoration Presbyterianism in Manchester, 1660–1689 by Catherine Nunn
• Manchester and its region: networks and boundaries in the eighteenth century by Jon Stobart
• Lost in translation? Documents relating to the disturbances at Manchester, 1715 by Kazuhiko Kondo
• ‘What have I to do with the ship?’: John Byrom and eighteenth-century Manchester politics, with new verse attributions by Timothy Underhill

There is also a piece about The Manchester grocer by Bob Mather

Binding:

softback

ISBN:

978-1-85936-184-9

Pages:

176

Illustrations:

Black and white

Date of Publication:

July 2008

Dimensions:

243 × 169mm