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English Local History

M.A. Dissertations

Name Title of Dissertation Date

ADAMS, J.S. Crisis in Crippledom: some aspects of the history of the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey, 1908-1962.

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

ALLEY WILBUR, E. A humble petition: Lancashire war widows, 1642-1679. 2014

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 in late Middle Ages – the formation of a region around a developing town (Market Harborough).

2000

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

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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 change.

2009

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-Thames valley.

1976

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 study.

1994

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 (ISS)

BEARDMORE, C.

The rural community through the eyes of the land-agent. 2012 (ISS)

BENNETT, C.I. A devouring nostalgia and an infinite repulsion: the impact of D.H. Lawrence on the town and country of Eastwood.

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

BLACKLAWS, N. Outdoor relief in Blaby poor law union: Leicestershire, c. 1916-1926

2015

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

BONNETTE-ANDERSON, D.

The social implications of church seating in Buckinghamshire. 2013 (ISS)

BONSALL, M. The land tax evidence for south Derbyshire in 1793-1830. 1981

BOURNE, J.M. Kingstons and cyninges tuns. 1981

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BOURNE, S. Bolton, parish conflict and the legacy of the English Revolution, 1640-1680.

2019

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, 1660-1700.

1983

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 on three market towns of Leicestershire.

2001

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 and national context.

1995

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, 1891-1991.

1994

BROWN, L. Power, charity and brotherly love: local government and society in two Essex towns: Thaxted and Braintree, 1580-1660

2017

BROWNESS, S. Witnesses to change: early domestic travel writing in the Fens 2012

BRYCELAND, M. The new village of South Wigston, 1880-1910: the place, the people and the communities.

2019

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 2002

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village: Leire, 1870-1945.

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, A. Leicester’s cultural catastrophe: an investigation into the complete closure of Leicester’s professional theatres in the 1950s.

2015

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

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

Revolution, 1750-1850.

2013

CHARLESWORTH, D.

The development of the churches and their landscapes in north-west Gloucestershire, 1000-1300.

2012

CLARKE, J.S. Turnpike roads in Shropshire: part of the development of communications in the West Midlands.

1997

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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 nineteenth-century 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

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

COTTON, C. ‘Black Roods, Rang Back and Dob Headland’: a study of Thrussington field-names.

2015

COURTNEY, P. The early history of the Eight Hundreds of Oundle. 1979

COWEN, P.E. The transformation of a yeoman society: Windermere 1640-1841.

2009 (ISS)

COX, R.C.W. Some aspects of the urban development of Croydon, 1870-1940.

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 socio-economic and cultural study of Alstonefield, Staffordshire.

2004

DAVENPORT, C. Daventry's craft companies, 1590-1675. 1996

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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 villages, 1630-1650.

1988

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, 1780-1834.

2006

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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 nineteenth-century 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, 1780-1840.

1978

ELSWORTH, M. The proof of a town. 2003

EMERY, J. ‘The future beckons bright': senses of place and placelessness in the Newark and Sherwood coalfield, c.1960s to present.

2014

EVANS, J. The ethnic sense of the English in nineteenth-century emigrants’ letters.

2016

EVELEIGH, N.G. Landscape and environment: their contribution to the evolution of settlement in early medieval Kesteven.

1992

FAGG, J. Occupation, migration and the elderly: aspects of life in three Worcestershire parishes, 1871-1901.

2014

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

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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.

Volume 1 – Thesis

Volume 2 – Maps and photographs

1967 listed as thesis

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 Leicestershire in the mid-nineteenth century.

1974

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 of Suffolk through nominal and fiscal evidence within the lay subsidy rolls of 1327 and 1524.

1993

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

GIBSON, N.H. Comparing poor relief in the parishes of Wallsend and Longbenton, 1750-1850.

2014

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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, 1850-1900.

2000

GOODE, A. J. The society and economy of Loughborough, 1660-1690. 1983

GOODWIN, D. The relationship between landlord and tenant in nineteenth-century 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 south-west from Roman to Saxon times.

1997

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

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HAMMOND, P. The effect of improvement in a selected area of north-west Leicestershire, 1750-1800.

2015

HAMPTON, S.J.S. Country carriers of West Surrey: a study of the Guildford area. 1971

HANLEY, K. Leicester: the metropolis of Dissent by 1848? 2016

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)

HARGREAVES, P. Physicians in seventeenth-century Northamptonshire. 2016

HARGREAVES, S. Population and society in Hopton, a township in Derbyshire, 1660 to 1705.

2018

HARRATT, S. Leicestershire parish clergy during the archdeaconate of Andrew Burnaby, 1786-1812: origins, education and intellectual pursuits.

1983

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

HARVEY, B. Service and mobility. 2018

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

HAWORTH, C. The origin and development of the street plan of Oakham in

John Speed’s town plan.

2015

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.

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HAYTER, D.G. Pastures and profits: sheep and enclosure in sixteenth-century south Northamptonshire.

2002

HEARMON, C. M. The social structure of a Buckinghamshire village: Denham, 1749-1800.

1978

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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, 1485-1585.

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

HUNT, H.M.J. The ruling elite in Coventry, 1675-1720. 1975

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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 1870-1939.

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. 2010 (ISS)

JENKINS, P. What sort of people needed poor law relief in Cardington, Bedfordshire, April 1817 – March 1818? What help did they receive?

2004

JENKINS, S.C. Victorian Witney and its railway. 1975

JENNINGS, P. Plan analysis and the development of Leicester’s medieval urban landscape.

2008

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 Norwich.

1981

JONES, R. The Gregynog estate, Montgomeryshire, 1880-1920. 2008 (ISS)

JONES, R. The collapse of Luddism in the West Riding, 1811-13. 2011 (ISS)

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JONES, S. A lasting revolution? Outworking practices in the boot and shoe trade.

2006

JONES, T. An examination of the tripartite relationship between women, clothing and emancipation during the period 1890-1920s: what factors influenced changes to female clothing and did this expedite female emancipation?

2016

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

KENNEDY, P.J.B. The air raids on Smethwick and Oldbury 1940-1942. 1994

KILBURN, T. Popular culture in late-Victorian West Bromwich, 1875-1900. 1980

KILBY, S. A different world? Reconstructing the peasant environment in medieval Elton.

2011

KING, J. George Eliot's legacy: local history revisited. 1992

KINGMAN, M.J. Chester, 1801-1861. 1970

LAITNER, A. Private and charity apprentices in Birmingham, 1700-1816. 2004

LANGWORTH, P.J. Glebeland and field systems in Cambridgeshire. 1992

LAUGHTON, J. Prolegomena to a societal history of late-medieval Chester. 1987

LEE, R. ‘Midnight crimes and guilty consciences’: rural war in Norfolk 1815-1875, the search for a radical agenda.

1999

LEEDHAM, A.

Gravestones and identity from the five ancient parish churches and churchyards of Leicester.

2012

LEONARD, P. Poor relief in Stow in Lindsey, 1750-1833. 2015

LEWIS, J.O. At the sign of the hop leaf: the rise of H. and G. Simonds Ltd, a Berkshire brewer.

2001

LEWITT, G. ‘The last bastion’: agriculture and landownership in Medbourne in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1984

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