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This book gives details of recent excavations at sites of international significance, such as Sutton Hoo, West Stow and Brandon. It covers the history and archaeology of Suffolk, from the time of the first farmers to the coming of the Normans.
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Bright Family
Excerpt from The Brights of Suffolk, England Few occupations are deemed by a majority of our countrymen less profitable than the pursuit of an ancestry so long passed away from the stage, and so much lost in the shadows of former ages, that a few mouldering relics are often the only vestiges left to mark the scene of their perhaps uneventful lives, of a majority of whom the most that can be told is, that they were born, and that they died. If the chase in search of kindred leads to distant lands, among the memorials of extinct families, whose very names may be unknown to their succes sors in the ancient homes where they flourished, it is usually set down as an idle employment. About the Pub...
Suffolk was one of the most interesting counties in 16th-century England. The scene of the only two successful rebellions in Tudor England, Suffolk also underwent an incredible turnaround from being a haven of Catholic worship in 1500 to becoming one of the strongholds of radical Protestantism less than a century later. That same period saw the shocking ousting of its Duke in 1538, an influential landowner in the county and close confidant of Henry VIII. By investigating the historical background to such dramatic developments, this book throws new light on the relationship between the counties and the central government and on the changing political and religious views at the time of the English Reformation.
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First published in three volumes, 1988, 1990, and 1992.