Author: Thomas Sokoll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263488
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 802
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The immensely rich archives from the administration of the English poor law before 1834 include letters to the overseers of the poor that came from the poor themselves. As personal testimonies of people claiming relief, which are often written in a stunningly 'private' tone, pauper letters allow deep insights into the living conditions, experiences and attitudes of the labouring poor in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. This edition contains some 750 of these letters, all those presently known to survive in the county of Essex. The Introduction demonstrates the immense importance of this neglected source, both for the social historian and for the comparative study of literacy.
Author: Sumner Chilton Powell
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819572683
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Pulitzer Prize Winner: “A meticulous and remarkably detailed account of the early government and social organization of the town of Sudbury, Massachusetts.” —Time In addition to drawing on local records from Sudbury, Massachusetts, the author of this classic work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History, traced the town’s early families back to England to create an outstanding portrait of a colonial settlement in the seventeenth century. He looks at the various individuals who formed this new society; how institutions and government took shape; what changed—or didn’t—in the movement from the Old World to the New; and how those from different local cultures adjusted, adapted, competed, and cooperated to plant the seeds of what would become, in the century to follow, a commonwealth of the United States of America. “An important and interesting book . . . to the student of institutions, even to the sociologist, as well as to the historian.” —The New England Quarterly
Author: Dolly MacKinnon
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317147243
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 367
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The Essex village of Earls Colne boasts one of the most comprehensive collections of historical documents in Britain, and has been the subject of an intensive and ongoing research project to collate and computerise the surviving records. As such, Earls Colne is undoubtedly one of the most studied parishes in England. Yet whilst much is now known about the village and its inhabitants, little work has been done on the social relationships that bound the community together within its mental and physical landscape. As such, scholars will welcome Dr MacKinnon’s investigation into the social, political and cultural world of early modern England as represented by Earls Colne. The book provides a fresh approach to the study of the landscape of a seventeenth-century village by focussing on the relationships between political power and cultural artefacts. It examines how private, public and communal spaces within society were generated, gendered and governed, and how this was recorded and perpetuated in the records, names, and monuments of the parish and surrounding landscape. Yet whilst the ’elites’ tried to represent a select social landscape through their control of the local records and documents, these attempts were always counterbalanced by the less powerful members of the community who occupied and contested these spaces. By reconstructing the dynamics of Earls Colne through a careful reading and cross-referencing of the surviving documents, buildings and place names, this book offers a fascinating insight into how the sights and sounds of early modern society were imbued with the social relations of parish politics. As well as deepening our understanding of Earls Colne itself, the book offers historians the potential to revisit other local studies from a fresh perspective.
Author: Michael J. Franklin
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780851153841
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Essays on English medieval ecclesiastical history, focusing particularly on administration.
Author: Guildhall Library (London, England)
Publisher:
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: C. C. Webb
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 200
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Author: Dolores B. Owen
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821538
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 418
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Author: Tim Hitchcock
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349252603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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Over the last twenty years more and more historians of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have turned their eyes away from the records of central administration, towards local archives, and the lives of the poor. What they have found is a wealth of sources some of which chronicle the lives, and many of which record the words, of working people. This book will bring together some of the best work based on these sources.
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Subject
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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A cumulative list of works represented by Library of Congress printed cards.
Author: Frederick George Emmison
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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