Occasional Publications - Worcestershire Historical Society
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Worcestershire (England)
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Page : 68 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Worcestershire (England)
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Page : 40 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Hereford and Worcester (England)
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Author : David Atkinson
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2023-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 180511042X
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history.
Author : Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 19,11 MB
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136021183
Consumption is well established as a key theme in the study of the eighteenth century. Spaces of Consumption brings a new dimension to this subject by looking at it spatially. Taking English towns as its scene, this inspiring study focuses on moments of consumption – selecting and purchasing goods, attending plays, promenading – and explores the ways in which these were related together through the spaces of the town: the shop, the theatre and the street. Using this fresh form of analysis, it has much to say about sociability, politeness and respectability in the eighteenth century.
Author : Samuel Kline Cohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 1107027802
Draws new attention to popular protest in medieval English towns, away from the more frequently studied theme of rural revolt.
Author : John Hemingway
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1803273097
This book attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how Birmingham evolved from a village into its present role as the second city of the United Kingdom.
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Page : 1792 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Michael John Key
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445684780
The first biography of Alfred the Great's son, the forgotten king who was crucial to uniting England.
Author : British Library. Document Supply Centre
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Page : 536 pages
File Size : 19,51 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Periodicals
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Author : Christopher Dyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2005-02-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198221665
This significant new work by a prominent medievalist focusses on the period of transition between 1250 and 1550, when the wealth and power of the great lords was threatened and weakened, and when new social groups emerged and new methods of production were adopted. Professor Dyer examines both the commercial growth of the thirteenth century, and the restructuring of farming, trade, and industry in the fifteenth. The subjects investigated include the balance between individuals andthe collective interests of families and villages. The role of the aristocracy and in particular the gentry are scrutinized, and emphasis placed on the initiatives taken by peasants, traders, and craftsmen. The growth in consumption moved the economy in new directions after 1350, and this encouragedinvestment in productive enterprises. A commercial mentality persisted and grew, and producers, such as farmers, profited from the market. Many people lived on wages, but not enough of them to justify describing the sixteenth century economy as capitalist. The conclusions are supported by research in sources not much used before, such as wills, and non-written evidence, including buildings.Christopher Dyer, who has already published on many aspects of this period, has produced the first full-length study by a single author of the 'transition'. He argues for a reassessment of the whole period, and shows that many features of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries can be found before 1500.