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Changing Fortunes during the Fifteenth Century Recession
Posted on March 24, 2013 | No CommentsHow far did the fifteenth-century recession change the relationship between landlords and tenants in Durham? There can be little doubt that this was a period of hardship for landowners. -
Space, place, and popular politics in northern England, 1789-1848
Posted on November 20, 2012 | No CommentsThese studies underline the crucial role of space and place in this volatile and revolutionary period. They argue that space is socially constructed, which in itself helps to shape behaviour of those who inhabit or imagine the space. -
Poor Relief in Edinburgh and the Famine of 1621-24
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Scottish (and English) historians have not ignored the famine of 1621-24, the crisis still needs to be adequately contextualised within investigations into the development of poor relief in the early seventeenth century. -
The 1738–41 Harvest Crisis in Scotland
Posted on October 5, 2012 | No CommentsTo demonstrate this, the harvest and mortality crisis or macroeconomic depression of 1738–41, a hitherto largely unexplored event in Scotland’s eighteenth-century economic history, has been chosen. -
The Culture of Crime: Representations of the Criminal in Eighteenth-Century England
Posted on September 2, 2012 | No CommentsAs the title of this study should suggest, this dissertation aims to account for this increasing representation of criminality in England throughout the eighteenth century. And as the title of this opening chapter indicates, this introduction aims to account for the methods and biases that inform this study and are utilized throughout. -
The justice of the peace and county government in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1782-1836
Posted on August 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe Riding was dominated by its geology and geography. It was predominantly agricultural with few major settlements and very little industrial development. -
Adultery in Early Stuart England
Posted on July 6, 2012 | No CommentsBut spectacles of sexual transgression could not only be seen in theatres. Rhymes and broadside ballads sung at street corners or markets, or hung up on walls of taverns and private houses told of lusty bachelors and maidens, of unfaithful, slothful, or violent husbands and wives. -
Local Government and Society in Early Modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, C. 1590-1630
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsIn this dissertation, I propose to study the administrative and social history of two adjoining English counties, Essex and Hertfordshire, for the period of 1590 through 1630. As a political and social history, this study will track the careers and social relationships of the justices of the peace, as well as other county officials, such as the sheriff, the deputy lieutenants, and the lord lieutenant (usually the resident nobleman of a county). -
Westall’s peasants : British identity and the crisis of nation in 1799
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No CommentsThis thesis examines a set of stipple engravings representing groups of peasants and the rural countryside in four regions of the British Isles. -
From obligation to agreement: concepts of servitude in early modern England
Posted on April 10, 2012 | No CommentsUntil quite recently, servants played a central role in European family life...Early Modern England was no exception, for nearly every household participated in the institution of servitude. -
Poor Relief in Sixteenth Century England
Posted on April 5, 2012 | No CommentsThis study models any potential bias in recorded poor relief as a function of the characteristics of the data collectors themselves; such characteristics should be unrelated to the poor relief that the religious houses actually provided. -
Garden seeds in England before the late eighteenth century: I. Seed growing
Posted on February 19, 2012 | No CommentsPeculiar elements which shaped the development of garden seed production and marketing include the important role of foreigners in the process of innovation, technical difficulties and uncertainties of production balanced by the possibility of high profits, competition from imports, dependence on a retail market subject to fashion, and the emergence of seed growing from another innovation-market gardening. -
The City of York in the time of Henry VIII
Posted on January 31, 2012 | No CommentsDuring this period, the role of the landed aristocracy was changing. With the creation of a professional standing army, in which soldiers were paid a wage, and the use of foreign mercenaries (think of the Swiss Guard), the traditional military function of the nobility receded. -
English Almanacs and Animal Health Care in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on January 18, 2012 | No CommentsIn seventeenth-century England, the health and welfare of nonhuman animals rested almost solely on the shoulders of their keepers. Veterinary institutions had not yet been founded, and academically trained animal doctors did not exist. -
English hunger and industrial disorders : a study of social conflict during the first decade of George III’s reign
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation will argue that while the distress of the industrious poor, which followed sudden fluctuations in food prices and declining employment was the common denominator in the numerous riots of the 1760's, the disorders were merely the surface manifestation of underlying political, economic, social and intellectual ferment which affected all levels of society. -
The Madonna and the Whore: The Victorian Wife and the Victorian Prostitute, a Collision of Virtue and Vice
Posted on October 4, 2011 | No CommentsThe Madonna and the Whore: The Victorian Wife and the Victorian Prostitute, a Collision of Virtue and Vice Coressel, Patti Lourdes College Online Narrative History Journal, Volume 9 (2011) Abstract... -
Statute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsStatute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England By Angus Winchester Confernce Paper (2008) Abstract: The role of seigniorial courts in... -
Rural and urban poaching in Victorian England
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsRural and urban poaching in Victorian England By M.J. Winstanley and H. Osborne Rural History, Vol. 17:2 (2006) Abstract: Poaching is commonly portrayed as the archetypal nineteenth-century ‘rural’ crime, particularly... -
Social Mobility in Nineteenth.Century Devon
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsSocial Mobility in Nineteenth Century Devon Mitchell, Duncan Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Devon is an area of small farms. The tradition is not a new... -
The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, I549, (Continued from Vol. 1, p. 15)
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, I549, (Continued from Vol. 1, p. 15) Beresford, M. W. Agricultural History Review,Volume 2 (1954) Abstract It is in this atmosphere of proposals... -
A Cornish Farmer in Ontario I83O-7I
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsA Cornish Farmer in Ontario I83O-7I Rowe, John Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract The following letter by Charles Julyan, who had lived at Penpoll near Truro, written from Edgewater... -
Agricultural Returns and the Government during the Napoleonic Wars
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsAgricultural Returns and the Government during the Napoleonic Wars Minchington, W. E. Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract In the course of the second half of the eighteenth century Great... -
The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, 1549
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, 1549 Beresford, M.W. Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract In March 1549 Parliament granted Edward VI the proceeds of a tax on sheep... -
Male occupations in a rural Middlesex parish (1574–92)
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsMale occupations in a rural Middlesex parish (1574–92) Avery, David Local Population Studies Number 2 (Spring 1969) Abstract For the pre-census periods little work, if any at all, has been...