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A local market system: Melton Mowbray and the Wreake Valley, 1549-1720
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A maritime history of the ports of Bideford and Barnstaple, 1786-1841
This study can be divided into two parts. The first attempts to place the ports of Bideford and Barnstaple in the broader contexts of international, national and regional trends during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The effects…
A secularising geography? Patterns and processes of religious change in England and Wales, 1676 - 1851
The aim of this thesis is to address the most important questions raised by the 1851 Census of Religious Worship, which was the only comprehensive census of religion in the history of the modern United Kingdom. The relationship between religion and…
A Shropshire woodland community: Myddle, 1524-1701
Historians are becoming increasingly aware of the value of studying local communities as definite types. In many ways Myddle was a typical woodland community in Tudor and Stuart times, though it differed from some in having relatively few craftsmen…
A very indifferent small city: The economy of Carlisle, 1550-1700
This thesis sets out to discover the principal facts concerning the economy of Carlisle in this 150 years and to try to explain them and their significance. A wide range of sources has been used, including: the administrative papers, court records…
Schismatical People: Conflict between clergy and laity in Warwickshire, 1660-1720
The clergy were the focus of early modern parish life, yet their often troubled relationships with parishioners have received little attention from social historians. This thesis offers new evidence by examining the Warwickshire clergy, in the…
Agricultural labourers' trade unionism in four Midland counties (1860-1900): Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire
It is the purpose of this work to discuss the rise and fall of trade Unionism among agricultural labourers in the four Midland counties of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire, at the end of the nineteenth century, and to…
Agriculture and society in Glamorgan, 1660-1760
During the period 1660-1760, Glamorgan was a predominantly rural and peasant county. Arable and animal husbandry, and their ancillary tasks, provided the only sources of livelihood for the majority of the people who were concentrated mainly in the…
An urban society and its hinterland: St Ives in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries
This thesis has examined the contention of the late Philip Abrams that a town should not be considered as a distinct social entity, but in relation to its setting and to "the complex of domination" in which it is embedded. It was decided to use St…
Aspects of Anglo-Saxon history in the East Midlands, with special reference to the lower Soar Valley
This thesis illustrates features of Anglo-Saxon settlement in the valley of the river Soar, Leicestershire, between the northern limit of Leicester and the river Trent, herein called the lower Soar valley. It is a poorly attested area in documentary…
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Government and society in Tudor and Stuart Norwich, 1525-1675.
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