Two Thousand Years In Exeter

by Hoskins, W. G.; Harvey, Hazel

• ISBN13: 9781860773037
• ISBN10: 1860773036
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-30
• Publisher: Phillimore

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
Preface to the First Edition	ix
Introduction to the Revised Edition	x
Beginnings: Caerwysc and Isca
The Antiquity of Exeter	1	(3)
The Site of Exeter	4	(1)
The Coming of the Romans	5	(7)
Roman Roads and Streets	12	(2)
Exeter Under the Saxons
The Dark Centuries	14	(2)
The Saxon City and its Setting	16	(3)
The Earliest Churches	19	(3)
The Danes	22	(2)
The Normans and After
The Siege of Exeter, 1068	24	(3)
Cathedral and Parish Churches	27	(1)
The Growth of Exe Island	28	(2)
Exeter Castle	30	(2)
The Building of Exe Bridge	32	(5)
Exeter in the Middle Ages
The Earliest Mayors	37	(2)
Beginnings of a University	39	(1)
Parish Boundaries	40	(1)
The Underground Passages	41	(1)
Some Medieval People	41	(3)
The Labourer and his Wages	44	(3)
Some Medieval Buildings	47	(4)
Medieval Sanitation	51	(2)
The Magdalen Hospital	53	(1)
The Courtenays and the River	53	(2)
Exeter People in the Sixteenth Century
Wealth and Poverty	55	(1)
Some Exeter Mayors	56	(3)
The Reformation	59	(2)
Some Old By-Laws	61	(3)
The First Tennis Courts	64	(1)
Exeter in 1587	65	(6)
Civil War and Commonwealth
The Line-up in Devon	71	(1)
The Siege of 1643	72	(3)
The Siege of 1645-46	75	(6)
Printing in Exeter	81	(1)
A Georgian City
Two Visitors to Exeter	82	(2)
Exeter Merchant Families	84	(6)
Church and Chapel	90	(2)
A Changing City	92	(7)
The Early Nineteenth Century
Smells and Culture	99	(2)
A New Kind of City	101	(6)
The Working Class	107	(6)
The Cholera Epidemic	113	(2)
Victorian Exeter
Mostly about Money	115	(1)
Exeter Politics	116	(1)
The Coming of the Railway	117	(2)
A Victorian Failure	119	(3)
A Victorian Success Story	122	(2)
Wages and Prices	124	(2)
Victorian Fortunes	126	(2)
Entertainment in Former Days	128	(2)
The Coming of the Motor Car	130	(2)
Exeter Since 1914
High Street in 1919	132	(4)
Between the Wars	136	(1)
The Burning of the City	137	(3)
The Silent Revolution	140	(2)
Exeter in 1960	142	(5)
Exeter Since 1960 by Hazel Harvey	147	(12)
Exeter Street-Names and Place-Names	159	(12)
Suggestions for Further Reading	171	(4)
Index	175