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Introduction
This is the story of six generations of the Cutting family - farmers, doctors, clergymen and solicitors - all of whom lived in Suffolk and Norfolk between 1760 and 1985. What does this family have to do with Waterloo and the arrest of Napoleon, with three different Presidents of the USA, with leading abolitionists, with a highly decorated WW2 General in Nazi Germany, and with the career of England's World Cup winning football manager, Sir Alf Ramsey?
As we take a chronological walk through six generations of Cuttings, we will encounter all these characters and more, but will also have to contend with smuggling, bankruptcy, gassing, sickness, and the tragic deaths of sons and daughters, through disease and even in an avalanche. Their vocations, relationships, writings and travels help to build an intriguing picture of 200 years of East Anglian life, and of the conflicting stresses and strains of their times.
And yet, through all their ups and downs, strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, idiosyncrasies and vulnerabilities, possibly the greatest impression we are left with is the sheer normality of these successive Cutting family generations.
Photos
Photographs that link with the book can be found here.
This is the story of six generations of the Cutting family - farmers, doctors, clergymen and solicitors - all of whom lived in Suffolk and Norfolk between 1760 and 1985. What does this family have to do with Waterloo and the arrest of Napoleon, with three different Presidents of the USA, with leading abolitionists, with a highly decorated WW2 General in Nazi Germany, and with the career of England's World Cup winning football manager, Sir Alf Ramsey?
As we take a chronological walk through six generations of Cuttings, we will encounter all these characters and more, but will also have to contend with smuggling, bankruptcy, gassing, sickness, and the tragic deaths of sons and daughters, through disease and even in an avalanche. Their vocations, relationships, writings and travels help to build an intriguing picture of 200 years of East Anglian life, and of the conflicting stresses and strains of their times.
And yet, through all their ups and downs, strengths and weaknesses, successes and failures, idiosyncrasies and vulnerabilities, possibly the greatest impression we are left with is the sheer normality of these successive Cutting family generations.
Photos
Photographs that link with the book can be found here.
