Plague Flood and Gewgaws

<p>It must truly have been a night to remember when the ancient tower of St Peter’s came crashing down.</p><p>But that was just the beginning of all that would befall the people of Wisbech and the Fens in the Tudor and Stuart eras. They were about to enter a time of such upheaval that the way they behaved prayed even the way in which they were expected to think would be turned upside down.</p><p>‘Plague Flood and Gewgaws’ follows the progress of Wisbech and the Fens through two hundred turbulent years witnessing the perils of religious Reform flood plague fire and civil war.</p><p>And it is the ordinary people who take centre stage here. Not the kings bishops or burgesses but the folk who laboured fought and rebelled; the cottagers ploughmen dykers ... and the Fen Tigers themselves.</p>