Alan Kidd is Professor Emeritus at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published numerous articles and books on the history of Manchester (visit www.carnegiepublishing.com for our other titles and details of Alan’s next book, which continues the story of Manchester up to the present day).

• Preface ivIntroduction 11 Mamucium: a Roman fort 32 Mamecestre: a medieval market town 153 ‘The fairest, best builded, quikkest and most populous tounne of al Lancastreshire’: Manchester 1543–1660 344 ‘The greatest mere village in England’: roots of industrial revolution, 1660–1780 615 Living in eighteenth-century Manchester 82Notes and references 116Index 121

Alan Kidd is Professor Emeritus at Manchester Metropolitan University. He has published numerous articles and books on the history of Manchester (visit www.carnegiepublishing.com for our other titles and details of Alan’s next book, which continues the story of Manchester up to the present day).

• Preface ivIntroduction 11 Mamucium: a Roman fort 32 Mamecestre: a medieval market town 153 ‘The fairest, best builded, quikkest and most populous tounne of al Lancastreshire’: Manchester 1543–1660 344 ‘The greatest mere village in England’: roots of industrial revolution, 1660–1780 615 Living in eighteenth-century Manchester 82Notes and references 116Index 121