Table of contents for A history of Coventry / David McGrory.

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One    Beginnings
Prehistory - Roman Coventry - Saxon Coventry and Osburga - 
Leofric, Godiva and Aelfgar - The House that Leofric Built? - The Early Bishops
The Earls of Chester and Coventry Castle 

Two    Medieval Coventry
The Earl's Half and the Prior's Half- Churches and Monasteries - The City Wall -
Royal Visits - The Guilds of Coventry - Life in Medieval Coventry - Crime and Punishment

Three   Lancastrian Coventry and Henry VI
A Royal City - The Royal Court moves to Coventry - War- Coventry Changes
Sides - Religion - Crime and Punishment - Daily Life

Four    Tudor Coventry
Henry Tudor- The Veneration of Henry VI - Laurence Saunders - Religious Rebellion -
Dissolution - Doomsday of the Mystery Plays - The Coventry Cross - Elizabeth and Mary -
Education - Crime and Punishment - Daily Life

Five   Seventeenth-Century Coventry Royal Visits - Great Rebellion and Glorious Revolution - 
Religion - Crime and Punishment - Education - Everyday Life

Six   Everyday Life in Eighteenth-Century Coventry
Education and Religion - Crime and Punishment - Leisure 

Seven   Nineteenth-Century Coventry
Industry - Education - Entertainment -Crime and Punishment - Religion 

Eight   Coventry in the Twentieth Century
Housing, Health and Public Services - Industry - Two World Wars
Rebuilding the City