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  • Collection: Early Modern

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…

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 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…