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To browse Academia. It features contributions from distinguished scholars, extensive biographies, illustrations, and advanced search features to enhance research capabilities. The ODNB encompasses diverse individuals across various fields, offering insights into their legacies and the contexts of their contributions. What better retirement gift than a collection of polished essays by friends, colleagues and students, accompanied by heartfelt tributes?

The title, nicely chosen from Chaucer, perfectly captures the honorand's expertise in the history of medicine and those skills as teacher and scholar that have encouraged and inspired so many. Sometimes, alas, a festschrift proves 'un-pick-up-able'. But not this one, for here the general editors and individual authors have provided sufficient context for each essay to be enjoyed as a free-standing piece.

Indeed, whilst one or two recurring sub-themes play to Professor Rawcliffe's special interests East Anglia, medicine, medieval history, the role of women , the historian's craft itself is the uniting theme of the volume. Each essay is self-contained, but the book is none the worse for that. Our journey begins with the early history of Coslany, over the river in the north-west corner of what we now know as Norwich.

Tackling the period before most written records, Brian Ayres makes a plea for more archaeology, and stresses the need to cross-fertilize its findings not only with the sparse written records but also with topographical evidence, place-names, and the notes of antiquaries in previous generations.