Annals of Cambridge, Volume 2

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Annals of Cambridge, Volume 2

Title number

Volume 2

Statement of responsibility

Charles Henry Cooper

Creator

• Cooper, Charles Henry

Language

eng

Summary

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 second volume, published in 1843, covers the Elizabethan period, from 1546–1601, and includes the founding of the University Press. --

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• Cambridge library collection, Cambridge

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UkCbUP

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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• Cambridge library collection. Cambridge
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks