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Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne Lecture

There are iconographical aspects to the material environment of the 17th and early 18th century city: the merchant houses on Sandhill and aspirations to a New Jerusalem created by Puritan-leaning merchants during the Commonwealth; the merchant ledger slab in St Nicholas’s Cathedral; and the provision of public water supply: the idea of ‘the material culture of neighbourhood’ applied to Newcastle.

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