The History of Wisbech, and the Fens (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of Wisbech, and the Fens Years' duration, and that the Saxon spirit continued to bite at the Norman yoke for three centuries afterwards. This was the first contribution to the history of the people. It has been succeeded by the History of Civilization, of Guizot, drawn chie¿y from forgotten laws and customs. But the spirit is awaked: the people are now to have their histo rians as well as their rulers. Macaulay has made a bold attempt at realizing the demands of the age in his History of England and he will be succeeded by others who are dili gently searching Corporation records, acts of Parliament, old diaries, letters, and other materials, which the Camden, and Percy societies, and the Archeological institutes are gathering together for the future historians of the manners, customs, arts, and industry of the people. To these mate rials, local histories will necessarily contribute much, since he who writes a history of a town cannot be dazzled with brighter ideas than the shop or the council chamber affords him His history is essentially a history of the people. Their trade, their improvements, their buildings, their opi nions, and their habits, are the memorials which he seeks to gather together, and 'when some adequate spirit shall arise to blend and fuse these various materials, extracting the characteristic, and rejecting the redundant, a history of the country will be produced worthy of the great nation it will commemorate. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.