English Local History
M.A. Dissertations
Name
ADAMS, J.S.
Title of Dissertation
Crisis in Crippledom: some aspects of the history of the Rowley
Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey, 1908-1962.
Date
1993
ADAMS, N.C.
The local Coventry society as revealed by five autobiographies.
1992
ALDERSON, J.
A study of the landscape and population of the parish of
Coleorton in north-west Leicestershire.
1998
ALDIS, M.
One man’s Nuneaton, 1810-1854.
1992
ALDRED, D.H.
Poor relief in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire 1800-1851.
1972
ALI, L.S.
The social and economic history of the Hope valley from the
mid- to the late-nineteenth century.
1991
ALLAN, J. R.
A Cambridgeshire parish – Bassingbourn, 1487-1557:
observations on the context and practice of piety
2000
ALLAN, J.D.
Pickering: the community of a Yorkshire market town in the
nineteenth century.
1969
AMBROSE, G.R.
The administration of the Old Poor Law in Wells from 1776.
1970
ANDREWS, K.
World War II: its effect on the work of working-class women in
Boston, Lincolnshire.
1996
ARNOLD, B.
The saints' dedications of Somerset.
1986
AUCOTT, P.J.
Economic and social developments in South-East Leicestershire 2000
in late Middle Ages – the formation of a region around a
developing town (Market Harborough).
AUSTIN, J.P.
The trees and woodlands of the Cecils.
1993
AUTTON, A.P.
The forgotten boroughs of Devon: a study of the structure and
composition of the village boroughs of Bow, Colyford, Newton
Poppleford and South Zeal during the nineteenth century.
1988
AYRES, M.
Beyond the rural idyll: housing Dorset’s labouring poor in the
early nineteenth century
2000
BABINGTON, I.
The hand-made nail industry of the Black Country: a study of an
occupational culture.
1995
BADCOCK, M.
Landownership, rents and tenures on Dartmoor, 1840-1910.
1999
BAILEY, M.
The effects of industry on the “close” village model
2004
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BAINBRIDGE, J.
The social and cultural life of Great Malvern in 1871.
1989
BARBOUR, R
Gundogs in nineteenth-century Warwickshire: a guide to social
2009
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change.
BARKER, A.
Insular farms and muddy lanes: pre-conquest and medieval
settlement on the Culm Measures of Devon.
1986
BARROW, V.
The regio of the Sunningas: an early Saxon tribal area in the mid- 1976
Thames valley.
BARRY, P. J. S.
Reconstructing the pre-inclosure social and topographic
conditions of a Breckland village: Roudham.
1999
BATEMAN, J.
Those who fought, those who prayed, those who worked: the
secular clergy and laity in the archdeaconry of Northampton in
the late Middle Ages.
1997
BATES, D.
Industrial location: cotton spinning in Northampton – a case 1994
study.
BATES, W
The churches’ mission in south Derbyshire and north-west
Leicestershire, 1901-1911.
1997
BATMAN, P.
The survival of rural core families: Bolton Percy and Poppleton
in the Ainsty of York from Enclosure to the Second World War.
2012
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BEARDMORE, C.
The rural community through the eyes of the land-agent.
BENNETT, C.I.
A devouring nostalgia and an infinite repulsion: the impact of
D.H. Lawrence on the town and country of Eastwood.
2012
(ISS)
1994
BENNETT, J.
The ecclesiastical topography of the Fenland: the Anglo-Saxon
period.
1994
BERRYMAN, P.A.
The manufacturing crafts in York, 1740-1784.
1977
BIRD, S.C.
Watlington, 1660-1740: a market town?
1992
BLAND, J.
The impact of a coal mine on a small Warwickshire agricultural
community: the creation of a hybrid society
2013
BOASE, S.
The Leicester pleasure fairs in Humberstone Gate, 1837-1904.
1979
BONE, R.D.
The inns of Leicester in the reign of George III, 1760-1820.
1976
BONNETTEANDERSON, D.
BONSALL, M.
The social implications of church seating in Buckinghamshire.
The land tax evidence for south Derbyshire in 1793-1830.
2013
(ISS)
1981
BOURNE, J.M.
Kingstons and cyninges tuns.
1981
BOWEN, J.
A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, chief
agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate,
Shropshire, 1720-1820.
2010
BOWEN, P.
The inns and public houses of Birmingham, 1767-1812.
1977
BOWER, J.
The congregation of the Dover General Baptist Church, 1660-
1983
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1700.
BOWES, A. G. G
Landscapes in Nottinghamshire: a study of four villages and
their historic landscape characterisation.
2000
BRADY, R.L.
A comparison of attitudes towards domestic service in England
during the Victorian period and the early to mid-twentieth
century.
1997
BREWIN, M.
The eighteenth-century English urban renaissance and its effects 2001
on three market towns of Leicestershire.
BRITTON, C.J.
Thornbury, 1841-1851: a study of a small market town in
Gloucestershire.
1976
BROOKER, J.
Prosperity and decline in fourteenth-century Hertfordshire: an
evaluation of commerce, mobility and wealth distribution.
1992
BROWN, E.
Leicester Mechanics’ Institute, 1833-1870: studied in its local 1995
and national context.
BROWN, G.P.
Population and mobility: a study using marriage registers of the
Leicester and Nottinghamshire borders during the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries.
1986
BROWN, J.
The nineteenth century industrialization of a primary market
town: Grantham, Lincolnshire.
1995
BROWN, J.L.
South Highfields, Leicester: the evolution of a suburb, 18911991.
1994
BUCKHAM, P.E.
Representations of artisans from the eighteenth to the early
twentieth century
1999
BULLEN, S.C.
The cultural life of Preston, 1742-1842.
1970
BURNS, H.
Aspects of the Portsmouth area in fiction from 1814.
1994
BURNS, S.
The socio-economic history of a south-west Leicestershire
village: Leire, 1870-1945.
2002
BURRELL, K.
Identity and integration: a study of the Polish community in
Leicester.
1999
BURT, J.
Northamptonshire gardens and parks, 1660-1825.
1986
BUSBY, M.
Leicestershire settlements through the late fourteenth-century
poll tax records – urban or rural?
2007
BUTLER, S.P.
Contrasting rural communities in mid-nineteenth century
Leicestershire.
1976
BUTTREY, P.
Quiet and orderly: the administration, placement and treatment
of pauper lunatics in Croydon from 1875 to 1914.
2008
CAFFYN, S.J.
Land tenure and social structure in nineteenth-century Newick.
1983
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CAHILL, N.J.
Conquest and colonisation on the Isle of Wight: the effects of
the island’s strategic importance on early medieval organisation
and settlement.
1980
CAMBERS, C.
Water, shelter and centricity: were post-enclosure farmers
persuaded?
2008
CAMERON, J.
The lives of female vagrants in the casual ward of St Mary’s
workhouse, Nottingham, April 1899-1900.
1994
CAMPBELL, D.
The local politics of improvement: debating the Ashby canal,
1781-1794.
2007
CARPENTER, C.
Rural transformation: cause and effect in the landscape
evolution of Churchill and Blakedown since 1850.
1999
CARR, J-P.
The working world: Irchester in Northamptonshire, 1841-1891.
1999
CARTER, R.A.
Aspects of the economic history of Kirkburton (Yorkshire) in the
nineteenth century.
1973
CARTER, S.
Leicestershire mercers, 1660-1710.
2006
CASSON, P.
Churches and ritual landscapes in the Sparkenhoe hundred of
Leicestershire.
2002
CAWS, S.
Continuity or change? The Isle of Wight and the Agricultural 2013
Revolution, 1750-1850.
CHARLESWORTH, D. The development of the churches and their landscapes in northwest Gloucestershire, 1000-1300.
2012
CLARKE, J.S.
Turnpike roads in Shropshire: part of the development of
communications in the West Midlands.
1997
CLIFFORD, M.C.S.
Fifteen Leicestershire villages: a study of their morphology and
location.
1987
COLTMAN, S.F.
The role of decayed minor market towns in the mid-Victorian
countryside: two Oxfordshire examples, Hook Norton and
Charlbury.
1985
COOPER, A.
Patterns of nonconformity and social change in nineteenthcentury Cardiganshire.
1993
COOPER, A.W.
Newark, 1830-1901.
1968
COOPER, J.
A study of limestone quarrying in Ketton, Rutland: the influence
of the industry during the middle of the late nineteenth century
on the village and its community, taking in both the landscape
and cultural aspects.
2004
COOPER, K.
Out-migration from the land, 1850-1912: Cardiganshire.
2005
COOPER, N.
The church in Anglo-Saxon Northumberland.
1995
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COOPER, T.D.C.
Enclosure and the creation of isolated farmsteads in Rutland,
1781-1887.
1983
CORCOS, N. J.
Shapwick: the enclosure of a Somerset parish, 1515-1839.
1982
CORDLE, C.
The culture of the hop: Wealden Kent, 1830-1996.
1997
COURTNEY, P.
The early history of the Eight Hundreds of Oundle.
1979
COWEN, P.E.
The transformation of a yeoman society: Windermere 16401841.
2009
(ISS)
COX, R.C.W.
Some aspects of the urban development of Croydon, 18701940.
1966
CROMPTON, J.
The pattern of dissent in Staffordshire in 1851.
1987
CROSSMAN, A.B.
The Buckinghamshire posse comitatus, 1798.
1972
CROUCH, P.J.
Cheese-making in east Leicestershire 1610-1911: the genesis of
Stilton cheese.
1988
CROWDEN, H.
Boundaries and borders: the battle for Rutland, the identity of
an English rural community in the late twentieth century.
2004
CULLEN, M.
The churches and chapels of Leamington Priors.
2001
CUMMINS, H.A.
Higher Walton: an industrial community, 1851-1871.
1984
DACK, C.
The distinguishing features of a rural middling sort: a socioeconomic and cultural study of Alstonefield, Staffordshire.
2004
DAVENPORT, C.
Daventry's craft companies, 1590-1675.
1996
DAVIDSON, E.
The evolution and secularisation of the funeral in Leicester and
Leicestershire, 1830-2010.
2010
DAVIES, S.
Co-operation, anti-fascism and pacifism in an alternative youth
movement: the Woodcraft Folk in Sheffield, 1929-1950.
2002
DAVIES, V.E.L.
A sweet prison: aspects of the origin and establishment of the
Leicester Asian community.
1993
DAVIS, D.K.
The Glastonbury manor of Sowy, 1086-1308.
1993
DAVIS, P.
From poverty to mud, money and music: the industrialisation of
a Northamptonshire village in the nineteenth century.
2004
DAY, A.
Rutland churches: location, relationships and change.
2006
DE BELIN, M
The landscape of foxhunting: Leicestershire, Northamptonshire
and Rutland, 1750-1900.
2004
DE CLERCQ, P.
A Leicestershire framework knitters’ community: Earl Shilton,
1845-1871.
1978
DEBNEY, C.
A village community, Greetham, c.1840-1871.
1981
DELONG, R.E.
Women, widows and witches. A study of four Huntingdonshire
1988
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villages, 1630-1650.
DIPLOCK, P.
The introduction of three utilities (gas, electricity and
telephone) into three market towns (Marlow, Oakham and
Stamford).
2005
DIXON, P.
The new Domesdays: continuity and change in three
Cambridgeshire parishes.
2003
DOREE, S.G.
Aspects of mortality crises in eleven parishes in east
Hertfordshire between 1560 and 1670.
1976
DOW, D.
Stockport, the prototype mill town: the why, wherefore and
therefore.
2009
DOWNER, S.
Settlement rank, status and territory in north Worcestershire in
the eighth to eleventh centuries.
1995
DRAYCOTT, C.
The Soke of Peterborough: a study of the early history of
Peterborough Abbey and its dependent local settlements, up to
the time of the Domesday Survey with special emphasis on the
Anglo-Saxon period.
1993
DROBNER, H.
St Willibrord’s calendar and the mutual veneration of local
saints in Britain and on the Continent.
2008
(ISS)
DYER, J.
The hillforts of the Chilterns in relation to the Icknield Way.
1965
DYNDOR, Z.
Capital punishment and the press in Northamptonshire, 17801834.
2006
EATON, M.D.
Victorian Market Harborough: the structure and functions of a
nineteenth-century market town.
1969
EDWARDS, E.
The medieval market town of Solihull, 1200-1580.
1992
EDWARDS, E.J.M.
The relationship between landlord and tenant in nineteenthcentury North Wales.
1975
EDWARDS, H.
Farmers' wives of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire: their
working lives, 1918-1950.
1988
EDWARDS, J.
Brewham Lodge, Somerset: from receivership to sale highlighting legal matters of the period 1799-1816.
1996
EDWARDS, L.E.
A study of Coalville from the census returns.
1992
EDWARDS, P.R.
Farming in a north Worcestershire parish: Rushock, 1572-1972.
1973
ELL, P.S.
A quantitative analysis of variables allegedly influencing the
pattern of religious observance in 1851: a case study in
Warwickshire.
1987
ELLIOTT, B. S.
The building of a provincial town: Newcastle- under-Lyme, 1780- 1978
1840.
ELSWORTH, M.
The proof of a town.
2003
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EVELEIGH, N.G.
Landscape and environment: their contribution to the evolution
of settlement in early medieval Kesteven.
1992
FARRELL, S.
The chaining of the countryside: an evaluation of parliamentary
enclosure with reference to three Northamptonshire parishes.
1998
FEAREY, A.
Nineteenth-century Northamptonshire shoe-workers: where did
they come from?
2008
FENN, A. C. W.
Settlement patterns in early medieval Rhwng Gwy a Hafren.
2001
FISHER, P.
An object of ambition? The office and role of the coroner in two
Midland counties, 1751-1888.
2003
FITTON-BROWN, O.
Conflict over church ritualism: Thorpe, Surrey, 1910.
2006
FLACK, H.
The River Severn – barrier or bridge? The impact on
communities of the River Severn in Worcestershire in the period
c.850 to 1500.
2010
FLEMING, A.J.
Newport Pagnell: a hundred town, 1825-1875.
1971
FLEMING, D.
Some aspects of the gentry in Jacobean and Caroline
Leicestershire.
1976
FLETCHER, L.
Local charity: its role and social meaning in the area of the
Oundle Poor Law Union, 1800-1900.
2008
FLETCHER, S.J.C.
Crime in Cheltenham 1848-1851.
1989
FLETCHER, S. M.
The Old Cricket Ground, Leicester: a study of two contrasting
areas of nineteenth-century development.
1983
FORD, W.J.
The pattern of settlement in the central region of the
Warwickshire Avon.
1973
FOX, A.W.
The agrarian economy of six parishes in the Wreake Valley from
1540-1680.
1997
FOX, D
Crosses of the North York Moors: a study of the stone crosses of
the North York Moors, their origins and purposes.
1998
FOX, D.E.
The spread of Christianity and Christian churches in the
wapentake of Langbargh, North Riding of Yorkshire 600-1300.
1993
FREEBODY, N.K.
A history of Scraptoft, Leicestershire.
1967
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Volume 1 – Thesis
Volume 2 – Maps and photographs
FRENCH, P.R.
The ‘making’ of a local regiment: a case study of the
Leicestershire regiment and its antecedents, c.1770 to c.1902.
2012
FRIEL, I.
The regio of the Hicce: a tribal unit of the Hitchin area.
1977
FRYE, J.
Population migration in a selected region of north-east
1974
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Leicestershire in the mid-nineteenth century.
GADD, T.
St George, Gloucestershire, 1750-1850: social and economic
relations in a marginal parish.
2013
(ISS)
GALBRAITH, F.
Changes in upland parishes in Derbyshire.
2000
GARRISON, L.
Post-war immigration and settlement of West Indians in
Nottingham, 1948-1968.
1993
GARVEN, M.
Change or continuity? An evaluation of the economy and society 1993
of Suffolk through nominal and fiscal evidence within the lay
subsidy rolls of 1327 and 1524.
GENT, F.J.R.
The development of Strangeways, 1768-1868.
1973
GENT, K.S.
Leisure activities in Leicester, 1870-1901, with special reference
to the working class.
1976
GILBERT, J.
Off the beaten track: Glenfield (1871-1939) village or suburb?
1999
GILES, C.
Domestic architecture in the north Staffordshire moorlands: the
vernacular buildings of Grindon and Waterfall.1976
1975
GILPIN, S.
Growth and development of the rural parish of Flixton between
1841 and 1891
2005
GLADDEN, D.H.
Nonconformity in Newark, 1850-1882.
1975
GLASSON, M.
A downland common and its enclosure: Broadfield, 1750-1850.
1983
GODFREY, A.
Industry and class: a study of two Leicestershire villages, 18501900.
2000
GOODE, A. J.
The society and economy of Loughborough, 1660-1690.
1983
GOODWIN, D.
The relationship between landlord and tenant in nineteenthcentury North Wales.
1993
GRAHAM, M.
Tavistock, 1825-1875.
1970
GREENFIELD, E.M.
The social and economic effects of the decline of lead mining on
villages in north Derbyshire, 1851-1891.
1996
GREENWOOD, J.J.
Reigate, 1700-1821: its turnpikes and its economy.
1980
GREWCOCK, C.E.S.
Social and intellectual life in Leicester, 1763-1835.
1973
GRISTWOOD, H.
Puerperal insanity: a study of women admitted to the county
asylums at Brookwood in Surrey, Colney Hatch in Middlesex and
Knowle in Hampshire between the years 1870 and 1900.
2013
GRUNDY, P.
The impact of industrialization on the rural community of
Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, 1700- 2000.
2004
HADEN, J.
Church wall paintings.
1999
HADLEY A.
Hill-tops, cyninges-tuns and wics: central places and trade in the
1997
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south-west from Roman to Saxon times.
HAIGH, B.
A West Riding clothing community: Kirkburton, 1664-1816.
1972
HAIGH, D.
The evolution of settlement in eastern Cambridgeshire.
1978
HALEY, D.
Aspects of the economic history and the demography of the
parish of Buckingham, c.1560-1710, a preliminary study.
1982
HALL, J.
Poems and songs of Staffordshire in the modern period and
their depiction of people and region.
1995
HALL, J.L. (Née
Bickerton)
‘Let agriculture flourish’: the diffusion of new ideas among
agricultural improvers in Richmondshire 1815-1870.
1979
HAMMOND, C.
Aspects of the occupational structures of four villages in south
Nottinghamshire, 1851-1871.
1998
HAMPTON, S.J.S.
Country carriers of West Surrey: a study of the Guildford area.
1971
HARDEN, N.
Living stones living water: a study of the siting of churches in
southern Warwickshire.
2000
HARDY, M.
Exe-Dart Devon: some social and economic effects of the
Newfoundland trade.
2010
(ISS)
HARRATT, S.
Leicestershire parish clergy during the archdeaconate of Andrew 1983
Burnaby, 1786-1812: origins, education and intellectual pursuits.
HARRIS, K.S.
Some aspects of education and society in Market Harborough
1869-1913 as seen through schools' log books.
1991
HARRISON, J.D.
The composite manor of Brent, 1189-1307.
1987
HART, C. R.
Bolsover and its manor, 1600-1700.
1985
HARVEY, B.
Swinton, south Yorkshire – a very ‘northern’ parish? Pauper
narratives, 1799-1837.
2012
HASELDINE, A.
Milling hydro-power in Domesday Lincolnshire.
2006
HAWKER, K.
‘Instructed in the art and mystery’, Leicestershire apprentices in
Hanoverian and early Victorian times.
1998
HAWKINS, M.
The impact of the building of the Grand Junction Canal on
selected settlements In Northamptonshire, 1793-1850.
2010
HAYES, W.F.G.
The working poor in mid-nineteenth century Torquay.
1992
* HAYHURST,
Yvonne M.
The development of an early 1985 Victorian suburb: Southfields
– a case study.
HAYTER, D.G.
Pastures and profits: sheep and enclosure in sixteenth-century 2002
south Northamptonshire.
HEARMON, C. M.
The social structure of a Buckinghamshire village: Denham,
??
1978
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1749-1800.
HEATHCOTE BALL, J. An attempt to analyse the development of the alabaster effigy
tombs of Leicestershire 1350-1605.
1998
HEATON, M.
The influence of Parliamentary Enclosure on Grassing-Down in
Northamptonshire.
2011
(ISS)
HEMMING, A.C.
A study of social relationships in late-Victorian London: the
diaries of Hannah Cullwick and Arthur Munby.
1987
HENDY, S.
Bedfordshire in 1851: an exploration of the patterns of worship
of the major religious denominations in the registration district
of Bedfordshire at the time of the religious census.
1994
HEY, D.G.
The parish of Ecclesfield in an era of change, 1672-1851.
1967
HIGGINS, D.M.M.
In search of Bromswold.
2001
HILL, T.G.
The trading community of Shifnal and its geographical and
genealogical linkages: a case study, 1841-1861.
1989
HILLIER, K.
The welfare and education of working-class children in Ashby de
la Zouch in the nineteenth century.
1996
HIROSUE, M.
Avebury, World Heritage Site management planning issues.
2008
HOARE, N.F.
The community of Colyton and its poor, 1800-1850.
1973
HOBSON, M.
The occupational structure of West Malling, 1841-1871.
1978
HODGKINSON, J.S.
Changing standards of living in the smaller house in the
Northampton area, 1850-1940.
1991
HOGAN, C.J.
The distribution of puritanism in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1603-1642. 1974
HOLMES, D.
Creating an industrial society: a history of the shoe industry in
Desborough since 1850
2002
HORNBY, E.
Aspects of social, intellectual and leisured life in Salisbury in the
eighteenth century.
1979
HORTON, B.
The Kidderminster carpet weaver: his migration response to the
technological change from hand loom to power loom weaving
between 1851 and 1881.
2012
(ISS)
HORTON, M.
An investigation into the ‘manor’ of Auckland, county Durham:
the evolution and structure of a medieval estate.
1978
HUFFORD, M. R.
‘The sacred and the profane’: civic ceremonial in York, 14851585.
1985
HUMBER, L.
The health and safety of women workers in munitions factories
during the First World War.
2000
HUME, J.A.
Settlement and migration in Dorset 1704-1862: a study of the
migrational patterns of paupers.
1989
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HUNT, H.M.J.
The ruling elite in Coventry, 1675-1720.
1975
HUNT, I.D.J.
A change of direction: for the rural economy of north-west
Leicestershire, 1791-1841.
1997
HURST, A.J.
The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.
2001
HUTCHIN, J.D.
Attitudes to the relief of poverty in Leicester, 1901-14.
1994
INDER, P.M.
Topographical prints and the development of seaside resorts:
case studies of Scarborough and Sidmouth.
1993
INGLESANT, D.
Retailing furniture, 1850-1950.
1996
IRONFIELD, C.
The parish of Chipping during the seventeenth century.
1975?
JACKSON, A.J.H.
The country house estate economy in decline: east Devon 18701939.
1992
JACKSON, P.
Sawley, from principal settlement to suburb: a study of rural
decline in the nineteenth century.
1994
JAKEWAY, J.
Manifestations of madness: a study of the patients of Norfolk
County Asylum, 1846-1870.
2011
(ISS)
JAMES, S. A.
The cultural and social life of Buxton in 1871.
1983
JAMES, T.M.
The inns of Croydon, 1640-1830.
1969
JAMIESON, D.
Willington: landscape and society from 1380 to 1540.
JENKINS, P.
What sort of people needed poor law relief in Cardington,
Bedfordshire, April 1817 – March 1818? What help did they
receive?
2010
(ISS)
2004
JENKINS, S.C.
Victorian Witney and its railway.
JENNINGS, P.
Plan analysis and the development of Leicester’s medieval urban 2008
landscape.
JESSOP, P.
Medieval Framland: the spatial development of churches in
north-east Leicestershire.
2001
JOHNSON, B.
The General Strike in the Mansfield area 1926.
1999
JONES, C.
Aspects of society in the Vale of Belvoir in the first half of the
nineteenth century, looking particularly at the relationship
between the Nonconformist and Established sectors of society.
1998
JONES, G.
The pattern and development of religious, popular and
municipal ceremonial in the Borough of Leicester, c.1450-1600.
1980
JONES, L.
Ceremonial and community in fifteenth and sixteenth-century 1981
Norwich.
JONES, R.
The Gregynog estate, Montgomeryshire, 1880-1920.
1975
2008
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JONES, R.
The collapse of Luddism in the West Riding, 1811-13.
2011
(ISS)
2006
JONES, S.
A lasting revolution? Outworking practices in the boot and shoe
trade.
JOYCE, R.
Intellectual, cultural and religious life in late eighteenth-century
Derby.
1997
KAYE, D.
Church dedications in Lincolnshire.
1973
KEEP, R.I.
Settlement and territory in east Herefordshire: a study of the
complex and dynamic patterns of settlement and territory in
east Herefordshire in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.
1990
KELLEY, J.W.
The medieval markets and fairs of Leicestershire.
1986
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