Early modern Manchester
edited by Craig HornerMany new insights into Manchester in the early modern period.
This fascinating volume takes a look at aspects of Manchester’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
Essential reading for anyone interested in or studying the history of this great city.