University Of Hertfordshire Press: 41 books

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A Caring County?

Social Welfare in Hertfordshire from 1600

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013

This comparative study gathers together new research by local historians into aspects of welfare in Hertfordshire spanning four centuries and focusing on towns and villages across the county, including Ashwell, Cheshunt, Hertford, Pirton, and Royston, amongst many others. In so doing it makes a valuable...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012

This second volume of Hertfordshire garden history considers how Hertfordshire’s historic parks and gardens have been influenced by, and reflect, the social and economic history of their time. Beginning with the hunting parks and Renaissance gardens of the Bacons, Cecils, and Capels in the 16th...
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Hertfordshire

A Landscape History

by Anne Rowe, Tom Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013

Dividing the county of Hertfordshire into four broad regions—the “champion” countryside in the north, the Chiltern dip slope to the west, the fertile boulder clays of the east, and the unwelcoming London Clay in the south—this volume explains how, in the course of the middle ages, natural...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Celebrating the rich heritage of archaeology and of archaeological research in Hertfordshire, the 15 papers collected in this work focus on various aspects of the region, including the Neolithic to the post-Medieval periods, and include a report on the important excavations at the formative henge...
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Flex

Do Something Different

by Ben (C) Fletcher, Karen J. Pine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Imagine being able to handle any situation with ease. Arguing that our habits undermine our ability to rise to new challenges, this self-help guide demonstrates how a change in behavior can lead individuals to feel happier, less stressed, and more in control. Written by highly respected psychologists,...
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by Robert Rogerson, Sue Sadler, Anne Green
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011

Drawing upon interdisciplinary research conducted across various universities within the United Kingdom, this book offers insights into how local initiatives can enhance sustainable development and engage people in creating better places in which to live. Demonstrating how to embed sustainability...
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Farmers, Consumers, Innovators

The World of Joan Thirsk

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Joan Thirsk was the leading English agrarian historian of the late 20th century. Perhaps best known for her research into regional farming, she also wrote much about rural industry, changing tastes and fashions, and innovations in the rural economy. This book is based on a conference held in her honor...
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Danger! Educated Gypsy

Selected Essays

by Ian Hancock
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

Penned by a noted Gypsy scholar, this collection of writings examines Romani history, culture, language, and politics and covers topics that range from responses to the Romani Holocaust and Romani religion to anti-Gypsy racism and oppression. Giving a voice to an often misunderstood community, this...
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Trees in England

Management and Disease since 1600

by Toby Pillatt, Gerry Barnes, Tom Williamson
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017

There is currently much concern about our trees and woodlands. The terrible toll taken by Dutch elm disease has been followed by a string of further epidemics, most worryingly ash chalara – and there are more threats on the horizon. There is also a widely shared belief that our woods have been steadily...
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by Christopher Dyer, Andrew Hopper, Evelyn Lord
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011

Utilizing the techniques developed by renowned local historian W. G. Hoskins in his landmark study published 50 years ago, Local History in England, this book demonstrates how local history has evolved as a discipline over the last half century. Fifteen historians write about a variety of local history...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

Honoring the memory of Professor Alan Everitt-who advanced the fruitful notion of the "county community" during the 17th century-this volume proposes some modifications to Everitt’s influential hypotheses in the light of the best recent scholarship. With an important reevaluation of political...
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Peaceful Path

Building Garden Cities and New Towns

by Stephen Ward
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2016

The title of this book is taken from Ebenezer Howard's visionary tract To-morrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform. Published in 1898 as a manifesto for social reform via the creation of Garden Cities, it proposed a new way of providing cheap and healthy homes, workplaces and green spaces in balance...
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Learn Romani

Das-duma Rromanes

by Ronald Lee
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2005

Following 18 carefully structured lessons, this Romani language primer explores the vocabulary and grammar of the Kalderash Roma in Europe, the United States, Canada, and Latin America. Designed for beginner students, this course reference begins with the basic verbs and nouns and builds through to...
Cover of Land and Family: Trends and Local Variations in the Peasant Land Market on the Winchester Bishopric Estates, 1263-1415
by John Mullan, Richard Britnell
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010

With a special emphasis on the exchange of land between medieval servile tenants-especially from the 13th century onward-this scholarly examination of the peasant land market of the Middle Ages explores the identification of peasant families with particular lands to which they had a hereditary right....
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