GAMLINGAY: Six hundred years of life in an English village.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.NFINE/VG++.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price,rear free endpaper removed.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,wrap-around colour 'Dixton Harvesters' painting detail illustrated dw/dj,with yellow+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Some light,superficial scoring/indents/impressions to both panels of dw/dj - but without affecting the boards beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, would appear unread apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,vi-xvipp+1-224pp [paginated] includes foreword by Rowland Parker,acknowledgements,an introduction,31 chapters,b/w line illustrations/maps/diagrams (non-credited),conclusion,an appendix,a select bibliography and an index. Plus [unpaginated] title page,contents list/table with b/w Parish maps to it's verso.
'Gamlingay' tells the intriguing story of the generations of people who lived in this isolated and often lawless East Anglian village and,through them,the history of village life itself.Like the village,they were by and large unremarkable,but their lives and the times in which they lived were complex,tough and often revealing.What makes the characters in Gamlingay's history different is not that they lived in a world long since vanished,but that they lived in one of the best-documented villages in Britain.It is around this wealth of information that 'Gamlingay' is based.
The book covers a period of some six hundred years,starting in 1279 at the height of the medieval open-field system,and ends in 1850 with the coming of Enclosure,and the death throes of that system.The immaculately researched narrative takes the reader from a village still living in the shadow of its Saxon predecessor through to the same village in the Victorian age.
'Gamlingay' is not history as such.
It is a true story,beautifully written,based on hard historical evidence. As Rowland Parker stated in his Foreword '. . . .the history of one village is in a sense the history of them all. . . In respect of source material Jim Brown has been outstandingly fortunate,commendably diligent and truly wise.'
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