Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations
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.
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Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations
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.
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Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations

Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations

Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations

Cambridge Street-Names: Their Origins and Associations

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521789561
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/26/2000
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 180
Product dimensions: 5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.55(d)
Lexile: 1250L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

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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