Annals of Cambridge

Volume 1 of this authoritative Victorian history of the town and university of Cambridge covers the period to 1546.

Charles Henry Cooper (Author)

9781108000307, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2009

492 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.8 cm, 0.62 kg

Charles Henry Cooper charted over half a millennium of life at Cambridge in the five volumes of Annals of Cambridge. Cooper practised as a solicitor in Cambridge, and was also town clerk from 1849 until his death in 1866. He was a keen historian and devoted a great deal of time to archival research, particularly into local history. Drawing on extensive public and private records, including petitions, town treasurers' accounts, restoration records, death certificates, legal articles and letters to ruling royalty, Cooper compiled a comprehensive chronological history of Cambridge, documenting the 'city of scholars' through its tumultuous political and religious growing pains. It was published in parts, in the face of considerable opposition from the university authorities, but was eventually acclaimed as an authoritative account. This first volume, published in 1842, spans the centuries from the town's beginnings to the surveys of the colleges in 1546.

1. Fabulous history
2. The Britons and Romans
3. The Saxons and Danes
4. William the Conqueror
5. William Rufus
6. Henry I
7. Stephen
8. Henry II
9. Richard I
10. John
11. Henry III
12. Edward I
13. Edward II
14. Edward III
15. Richard II
16. Henry IV
17. Henry V
18. Henry VI
19. Edward IV
20. Henry VI restored
21. Edward IV restored
22. Edward V
23. Richard III
24. Henry VII
25. Henry VIII.

Subject Areas: Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500 [HBLC]