Book contents
- The Story of Cambridge
- Dedication
- The Story of Cambridge
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Cambridge: a Famous City
- 1 Prehistoric Cam Valley
- 2 Invaders and Settlers
- 3 Medieval Cambridge
- 4 Tudor Cambridge
- 5 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 6 Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge
- 7 Cambridge at War
- 8 The Modern City
- Acknowledgements
- Index
2 - Invaders and Settlers
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 May 2023
- The Story of Cambridge
- Dedication
- The Story of Cambridge
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Cambridge: a Famous City
- 1 Prehistoric Cam Valley
- 2 Invaders and Settlers
- 3 Medieval Cambridge
- 4 Tudor Cambridge
- 5 The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- 6 Victorian and Edwardian Cambridge
- 7 Cambridge at War
- 8 The Modern City
- Acknowledgements
- Index
Summary
From the first century AD, Cambridge was raided, invaded and settled by different groups of people from overseas, for about a thousand years. The author charts how Cambridge changed, grew and shifted geographically: from Roman fort on Castle Hill to Anglo-Saxon town trading on Market Hill; from Viking port by Quayside to Norman stronghold with a motte and bailey castle on Castle Mound, occupied by the much-loathed Sheriff Picot. Local resistance fighters Boudicca and Hereward the Wake are included. Stephanie Boyd draws on evidence ranging from landmarks such as Devil’s Dyke, to local place-names and a rare bed burial at Trumpington Meadows, to piece together a picture of life in the local area more than a thousand years ago.
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- The Story of Cambridge , pp. 16 - 34Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023