Origins and Influences
Topographical Features of the Town
Historical Demography
Occupation and the Local Economy
Housing, Population and Social Geography
House Design and Interior Arrangements
Wealth, Credit and Inheritance
Fishing and Maritime Trade
Agriculture and Allied Industries
Parochial and Manorial Administration
Literacy, Education and Religious Belief
Urban Status and Identity
DAVID BUTCHER is a retired Lowestoft schoolteacher and former lecturer in Local History topics for the University of East Anglia
The book certainly lives up to the aims of the series. On a wider
plane, social and economic historians will find plenty to interest
them, especially those who specialise in smaller towns. [...] The
Boydell Press should also be congratulated on producing a handsome
volume, and readers will be struck by Lowestoft's good fortune in
having such fine images of its early history. The book will be used
not only by local historians, but also by academics attracted by
this absorbing case-study, and by the thoroughness of its tireless
historian.
*ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW*
A richly detailed and ambitious study. [...] As a result of its
wider perspective, and the impressive research on which it rests,
this study presents a convincing and coherent view of a local
maritime community. Provides a detailed survey of the changing
fortunes and structures of community life, which examines in a
careful and nuanced way the relationship between sea and land and
the contribution it made to the fashioning of an urban
identity.
*INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY*
A well-documented account of how a Suffolk seaside settlement in
1550 emerged as a thriving port and small town by 1750. [...] The
Boydell Press has done an excellent job. [...] This is an essential
book for all urban historians and indeed for all early modernists.
It is also a good tool for family historians.
*CEAS NEWSLETTER*
An obvious labor of love by a longtime resident and schoolmaster,
is likely to remain the standard account of this town's social and
economic, if not political, history in the era at hand.
*JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES*
The documentation is impeccable and comprehensive [.] a model of
its kind.
*THE LOCAL HISTORIAN*
A thorough and deeply researched study.
*SUFFOLK LOCAL HISTORY COUNCIL NEWSLETTER*
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