About the author

Andrew Percival is the author of Notes on Old Peterborough. Public information about this author is limited: his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background cannot presently be confirmed, and only one of his works is held in the collection. Judging from the title and subject matter, the book concerns the local history and older face of Peterborough, England, and belongs to the genre of local-history notes. Such works usually record a town's streets, buildings, figures and anecdotes in note form, with a strong regional and documentary character. Writing of this kind generally relies on the author's study of local records and surviving sites, values detail and a sense of place, and often preserves local memory beyond official history. Although Percival and his book are not widely known today, the work may still serve as a reference for understanding the historical appearance of old Peterborough.

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Project Gutenberg