Cambridgeshire Hearth Tax Returns, Mmichaelmas, 1664
Author : Nesta Evans
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
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Author : Nesta Evans
Publisher :
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Cambridgeshire (England)
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Author : Craig Muldrew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 44,53 MB
Release : 2011-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1139495127
Until the widespread harnessing of machine energy, food was the energy which fuelled the economy. In this groundbreaking 2011 study of agricultural labourers' diet and material standard of living, Craig Muldrew uses empirical research to present a much fuller account of the interrelationship between consumption, living standards and work in the early modern English economy than has previously existed. The book integrates labourers into a study of the wider economy and engages with the history of food as an energy source and its importance to working life, the social complexity of family earnings, and the concept of the 'industrious revolution'. It argues that 'industriousness' was as much the result of ideology and labour markets as labourers' household consumption. Linking this with ideas about the social order of early modern England, the author demonstrates that bread, beer and meat were the petrol of this world, and a springboard for economic change.
Author : George Redmonds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019162036X
This book combines linguistic and historical approaches with the latest techniques of DNA analysis and shows the insights these offer for every kind of genealogical research. It focuses on British names, tracing their origins to different parts of the British Isles and Europe and revealing how names often remain concentrated in the districts where they first became established centuries ago. In the process the book casts fresh light on the ancient peopling of the British Isles. The authors consider why some names die out while others spread across the globe. They use recent advances in DNA testing to investigate whether particular surnames have single, dual, or multiple origins, and to find out if the various forms of a single name have a common origin. They show how information from DNA can be combined with historical evidence and techniques to distinguish between individuals with the same name and different names with similar spellings, and to identifty the name of the same individual or family spelt in various ways in different times and places. The final chapter of this paperback edition, looking at the use of genetics in historical research, has been updated to include new work on the DNA of Richard III.
Author : Catherine Casson
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,81 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1529209269
It may seem like a recent trend, but businesses have been practising compassionate capitalism for nearly a thousand years. Based on the newly discovered historical documents on Cambridge’s sophisticated urban property market during the Commercial Revolution in the thirteenth century, this book explores how successful entrepreneurs employed the wealth they had accumulated to the benefit of the community. Cutting across disciplines, from economic and business history to entrepreneurship, philanthropy and medieval studies, this outstanding volume presents an invaluable contribution to our knowledge of the early phases of capitalism. A companion book, The Cambridge Hundred Rolls Sources Volume, replacing the previous incomplete and inaccurate transcription by the Record Commission of 1818, is also available from Bristol University Press.
Author : Duncan W. Harrington
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Hearth-money
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Publisher : BRILL
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004456201
This volume offers a cross-period (14th-19th century) European comparison of different property regimes brought into conversation with inheritance patterns and resulting gender-specific negotiations and conflicts.
Author : Margaret Spufford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 40,22 MB
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521297486
A study of three Cambridgeshire villages.
Author : P. S. Barnwell
Publisher : Council for British Archaeology(GB)
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
The Hearth Tax (1662-89) is the only national listing of people between the medieval poll taxes and the 19th-century census returns. It was a property tax, measured by the number of fireplaces in the dwelling of each eligible household. The data provides valuable insights into national wealth, population and social structure. This study goes further than any before in linking these general questions to a full investigation of changing and diverse forms of domestic building and house use.
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 25,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Mac Griswold
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 43,37 MB
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1466837012
Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago. In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island creek when she came upon a stately yellow house and a garden guarded by looming boxwoods. She instantly knew that boxwoods that large—twelve feet tall, fifteen feet wide—had to be hundreds of years old. So, as it happened, was the house: Sylvester Manor had been held in the same family for eleven generations. Formerly encompassing all of Shelter Island, New York, a pearl of 8,000 acres caught between the North and South Forks of Long Island, the manor had dwindled to 243 acres. Still, its hidden vault proved to be full of revelations and treasures, including the 1666 charter for the land, and correspondence from Thomas Jefferson. Most notable was the short and steep flight of steps the family had called the "slave staircase," which would provide clues to the extensive but little-known story of Northern slavery. Alongside a team of archaeologists, Griswold began a dig that would uncover a landscape bursting with stories. Based on years of archival and field research, as well as voyages to Africa, the West Indies, and Europe, The Manor is at once an investigation into forgotten lives and a sweeping drama that captures our history in all its richness and suffering. It is a monumental achievement.