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Arranged by parish, listing name of househoulders, and number of hearths taxed.
Author : Elizabeth Parkinson
Publisher : Barrie Publishing
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Arranged by parish, listing name of househoulders, and number of hearths taxed.
Author : J. C. Howe
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,69 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Darlington (England)
ISBN :
Author : Cleveland, North Yorkshire and South Durham Family History Society
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Durham
ISBN :
Author : David Hey
Publisher : Nicholson
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 43,24 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : A. T. Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1783270756
A regional study of landed society in the transition between the late medieval and early modern period.
Author : Angela Nicholls
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 19,57 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1783271787
This book is an examination of early modern English almshouses in the 'mixed economy' of welfare. Drawing on archival evidence from three contrasting counties - Durham, Warwickshire and Kent - between 1550 and 1725, the book assesses the contribution almshouses made within the developing welfare systems of the time and the reasons for the enduring popularity of this particular form of charity. Post-Reformation almshouses are usually considered to have been places of privilege for the respectable deserving poor, operating outside the structure of parish poor relief to which ordinary poor people were subjected, and making little contribution to the genuinely poor and needy. This book challenges these assumptions through an exploration of the nature and extent of almshouse provision; it examines why almshouses were founded in the late sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, who the occupants were, what benefits they received and how residents were expected to live their lives. The book reveals a surprising variation in the socio-economic status of almspeople and their experience of almshouse life.
Author : Colin Phillips
Publisher :
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 15,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : J. McEwan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2010-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0230304702
This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850. Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth century.
Author : George Redmonds
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,22 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 : Peter L. Larson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 16,45 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Communities
ISBN : 0192849875
This case study of two rural parishes in County Durham, England, provides an alternate view on the economic development involved in the transition from medieval to modern, partly explaining England's rise to global economic dominance in the seventeenth century. Coal mining did not come to these parishes until the nineteenth century; these are an example of agrarian expansion. Low population, favourable seigniorial administration, and a commercialised society saw the emergence of large farms on the bishopric of Durham soon after the Black Death; these secure copyhold and leasehold tenures were among the earliest known in England. Individualism developed within a strong parish and village community that encouraged growth while enforcing conformity: tenants had freedom to farm as they wished, within limits. Along with low rents, this allowed for a swift expansion of agricultural production in the sixteenth century as population rose and then as the coal trade expanded rapidly. The prosperity of these men is reflected in their lands, livestock, and consumer goods. Yet not all shared in this prosperity, as the poor and landless increased in number simply by population growth. Through reformation and rebellion, these and other parishes prospered without experiencing severe disruption or destruction. In north-eastern England, agrarian development was an evolution and not a revolution. This study shows England's economic development as a single narrative, woven together from a collection of regional experiences at different times and at different speeds.