Isabel Jones from Thomas Mills High School at Framlingham was the winner of the Young Historian Award for Local History [16-19] in 2006. The Director of the Young Historian Project, Trevor James, has edited her winning essay. It has been shortened and the footnotes removed, to enable it to fit into The Historian, but the text amply conveys the dual intention of such sixth–form coursework: it is an investigation into a particular locality but it also demonstrates a thorough evaluation of sources.