https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/01/john-stowes-survay-of-spittle-fields-1598/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:03:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/01/john-stowes-survay-of-spittle-fields-1598/#comment-1156503 Sun, 02 Jul 2017 15:03:07 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158612#comment-1156503 Thank you for this post, it must have been quite wonderful to see John Stow’s original work over 400 years after it was produced. I have a modern copy of John Stow’s work as my paternal grandmother (herself born a Stow in Bermondsey) always maintained that her family were direct descendants of his. She wrote a fictional work of John Stow’s daily life which was finished by my uncle after her death. My uncle, sadly now also deceased, bore a very close resemblance to his ancestor John.

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2017/07/01/john-stowes-survay-of-spittle-fields-1598/#comment-1156436 Sat, 01 Jul 2017 04:05:08 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=158612#comment-1156436 Amateur he may have been, but Stow’s evocative prose put flesh upon history – and his own time’s interaction with and perception of history – in a way that most modern historians (however more forensically practised) struggle to match. A historian myself, I’ve treasured his ‘Survay’ all my adult life.

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