The Suffolk landscape (The making of the English landscape)

History

Scarfe, Norman

Europe

Hodder and Stoughton

, 3 volumes, with black & white illustrations throughout, Norfolk is a fourth edition

Essex (Shell guide)

FABER

Essex (A Shell guide)

Faber&Faber

Suffolk in the Middle Ages: Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies, and Crosses, Doomsday Book, and Chronicl

Boydell & Brewer Inc

<p>When François de la Rochefoucauld, and his brother Alexandre visited Suffolk in 1784, the events which were to lead to the French Revolution in 1789 were already in train. François' father, the duc de Liancourt, Grand Master of the Wardrobe at Louis XVI's court, was well placed to appreciate the dangers of the situation in France, and it must have been with anxious hopefulness that he sent his sons (François was then 18) to England for a year to appreciate the ordering of these things in a country which had experienced a revolution over a century earlier. Such reflections are never far below the surface of this otherwise cheerful book, which gives a vivid picture of English provincial life in a good year. François' observations range over such diverse subjects as English customs and manners and methods of agriculture and stockbreeding, and include a lively account of a general election. The spirited translation is complemented by numerous illustrations.</p>

A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1784 (Suffolk Records Society) (Volume 30)

Biographies & Memoirs

Rochefoucauld, François de la

Historical

Boydell Press

This book is irresistible. -- THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The duc de Liancourt sent his sons Francois and Alexandre to England in 1784-5. Intimations of the impending French revolution were in the air, and the brothers responded to the excitement of England's own rather different industrial and agricultural revolution. Under the spell of the heady atmosphere of invention and discovery, the brothers travelled all over the country, seeing everything from dockyards and coalmines to the theatre (Mrs Siddons) and the House of Commons (Pitt vs. Fox). They recorded it all, and in Innocent Espionage NORMAN SCARFE translates their unpublished account, his knowledgeable historical and topographical commentary accompanied by sixty contemporary illustrations.

Innocent Espionage: The La Rochefoucauld Brothers' Tour of England in 1785

Fascinating edition of the travels of two young sprigs of the French aristocracy in search of the secrets of British commercial, industrial and agricultural primacy reaches its climax in this delicious volume... a notable contribution to the topographical and social history of Britain on the eve of the French revolution. COUNTRY LIFE (Richard Ollard) The most satisfying book I read in 2002... Connoisseurs of 18th-century travel books will be enraptured by this diary of a visit to Scotland by a young man from the great French family of Rochefoucauld and his Polish tutor... The diary has been translated, edited and annotated by our leading regional historian, and provides an enormous amount of fascinating detail about Scotland in the first phase of the Industrial Revolution. SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (Paul Johnson) In Norman Scarfe's two earlier books of their travels, Francois and Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, with their companion, Maximilien Lazowski, have earned their place among the most perceptive and lively commentators on late 18th-century Britain.In this third book, Alexandre and Lazowski tackle a tougher itinerary, seeing for themselves Improved farming from the Fens to the Moray Firth and back via Armagh, Dublin and North Wales, with deviations into Improved industry and trade, as at Rotherham and Paisley; Improved hospitals (notably Dr Hunter's at York); and more picturesque sights such as Fountains Abbey, Edinburgh, the fifty-foot Foyers Fall near Inverness, the Boyne valley and Llansannan. In Edinburgh they dined with Adam Smith. In the infertile Highlands, they were moved by the Highlanders, only lately permitted back into their plaids and kilts: 'all their customs at stake, they faced being a former people'. Through Scarfe's well-attuned translation, we see these French adventurers for ourselves: the variable hospitality of the inns ('every magnificence' in Edinburgh; 'a dreadful inn' - with compensations - at Old Meldrum); and the terrifying treachery of Loch Etive. NORMAN SCARFE's two previous volumes of La Rochefoucauld travels are A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk and Innocent Espionage, 1785.

To the Highlands in 1786: The Inquisitive Journey of a Young French Aristocrat (Modern History)

<p>The modern landscape of Suffolk is still essentially a medieval one, though much of it is even earlier: the five hundred medieval churches and ten thousand 'listed' houses 'of historic or architectural interest', and the 'Hundred' lanes going back at least to the tenth century, are often found to be set in a landscape created before the Roman conquest. Suffolk in the Middle Ages opens with a discussion of the earliest written records, the place-names, as a guide to settlement-patterns, including the setting of Sutton Hoo. Among the grave-goods found in that celebrated ship and discussed here was the whetstone-sceptre; asked to carry it from its showcase in the British Museum to the laboratory, the author acknowledges a closer feeling of involvement even than helping to re-open the ship in its mound in 1966. His explanation of the presence of the whetstone-sceptre, printed here, has never been challenged. The identification of a carved Anglo-Saxon cross at Iken in 1977 prompted the essay here on St Botolph and the coming of East Anglian Christianity. This leads to a consideration of the Danish invasion of East Anglia, and a reexamination of the posthumous victory of King Edmund and Christianity as portrayed in an imaginary Breckland warren on the front of this book. Scarfe's carefully reasoned argument that the Metropolitan Museum's famous walrus ivory cross was made for the monks' choir at Bury has never been refuted. Life in Bury abbey is vividly reconstructed: it was the most richly documented flowering of the work of East Anglia's apostles, Felix and Fursa, which also led to the phenomenal establishment in Suffolk by 1086 of four hundred of the five hundred medieval churches. In four East Suffolk essays, Southwold, Dunwich, Yoxford and Wingfield are exposed to Norman Scarfe's interpretative skills. He reveals a past few could have guessed at, often quite as curious as the 'Two Strange Tales' unravelled in his concluding pages.</p>

Suffolk in the Middle Ages: Studies in Places and Place-Names, the Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial, Saints, Mummies and Crosses, Domesday Book and Chronicles of Bury Abbey

The first book with this title appeared 30 years ago, whose author, a much honoured historian, is a native of Suffolk and has been involved in research into its history since 1945. Now, he has made a fresh approach to his subject, with the benefit of three more decades of research to provide a new interpretation of the history and evolution of the Suffolk landscape. He scans the county's varied faces and explains its successive makers, from the earliest to the present inhabitants who have left their mark ...on coasts, estuaries, fields, hedgerows and vernacular buildings.

The Suffolk Landscape

Phillimore

Assault Division: A History of the 3rd Division from the Invasion of Normandy to the Surrender of Germany

This book, first published in 1947, and therefore not reliant on secondhand sources, details the full story of one Division, the 3rd from its preparations for the Normandy landings through to the reduction of the city of Bremen and the surrender of Germany. The author, who served in the Division, is able to describe events from the point of view of the fighting man. This is a true classic of military writing and a book of major importance. It is the story of their training for the amphibious assault on Hilter's Atlantic Wall, very thoroughly planned and rehearsed in the months before D-Day. The Division's commander at the outset of the war was 'Monty', Major General B L Montgomery, who was succeeded by Major General T G Rennie and Bolo Whistler, a distinguished armoured brigade commander from the North African campaign. The Division's assault on Sword Beach on D-Day was remarkably successful, though the follow through to take the city of Caen that day proved altogether too 'aspirational' for one division. Later in the campaign, the 3rd Division was particulary proud of its conduct in the battles for Overloon and Venraij, and in the even more intense fighting between the Maas and the Rhine.

Military

Spellmount

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