Dimensions
172 x 248 x 10mm
Drawing on original research and the recently published work of the last 30 years, Tony Scrase traces the varying fortunes of Wells and its relationship to the Cathedral. He chronicles the large change in fortune from the late medieval textile centre to the quiet eighteenth-century place run by the Tudway family as their pocket borough. He shows how the city missed most of the growth associated with the nineteenth century but how its fortunes improved after 1919. He also sketches a wide variety of inhabitants from rich medieval widows to the greedy relatives of early modern bishops.
