Two Thousand Years in Exeter Hoskins W. G.
Two Thousand Years in Exeter Hoskins W. G. Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare throughout that long period. It was an inhabited…
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Two Thousand Years in Exeter Hoskins W. G.
Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain. The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare throughout that long period. It was an inhabited place some two hundred years before the Romans came, and people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years.
In this book, first published in 1960 and acclaimed as a 'small masterpiece', the author traces the essential historic development and character of a leading provincial centre. For centuries Exeter was one of the largest and wealthiest cities in the kingdom and has always been the Mother-City of the South West. He describes its adventure from a small Celtic village to a modern city, with particular reference to its social history, to the lives and surroundings of ordinary people, to the buildings and landscapes of the past.
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