Gloucester A History and Guide

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By Carolyn Heighway. Published 1985

For nearly two thousand years people have been living and working in Gloucester.

This book is the first fully illustrated survey of life in the town from its beginnings as a Roman fort to the present. It concentrates on the daily life of people and their surroundings, the organisation in which they lived, their standard of living, their crimes. This is set against the great events of national importance that have taken place in the city: the defeat of a Viking army, the commissioning of the Domesday book, the Barons’ War, the death of a king. There is also a summary of places, buildings and objects that can still be seen in Gloucester dating from each period.