University Of Hertfordshire Press: 41 books
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
With special emphasis on the period following the Black Death, this new collection of essays explores agriculture and rural society during the late Middle Ages. Combining a broad perspective on agrarian problems-such as depopulation and social conflict-with illustrative material from detailed local...
Rethinking Ancient Woodland
The Archaeology and History of Woods in Norfolk
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
'Ancient woodland' is a term widely used in England for long-established semi-natural woods, shaped by centuries of traditional management. As an official designation, it describes woods which have existed since the early seventeenth century, and which today contain a distinctive range of plants which...
by Celia Cordle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Based on oral histories and farm books, this account offers a fascinating analysis of some 300 years of hop-cultivation history in the Weald of Kent, a rural area in the South of England, and in the Borough at Southwark, London. The diverse processes of hop agriculture are examined within the wider...
Shared Sorrows
A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2002
On the morning after Kristallnacht, Toby Sonneman’s father walked through broken glass to apply for the visa that saved him from the fate of so many during the Third Reich. In examining her own family history, the author discovered the similarities between the fate of the Jews and the Gypsies in...
by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
At the cutting edge of new social and demographic history, this book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town. Well before the Poor Laws of 1598 and 1601, Hadleigh, Suffolk—a thriving woolen cloth center with a population of roughly...
Magic in Theory
An Introduction to the Theoretical and Psychological Elements of Conjuring
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2005
A useful manual for any magician or curious spectator who wonders why the tricks seem so real, this guide examines the psychological aspects of a magician’s work. Exploring the ways in which human psychology plays into the methods of conjuring rather than focusing on the individual tricks alone,...
by John Hare
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Based on a case study of a particular countryside and town in southern England-namely, the county of Wiltshire and the city of Salisbury-this record seeks to explore the changing nature of English society during the period from 1380 to 1520. It examines the influence of landscape and population on...
by Rowland Hughes, Magdalen King-Hall
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
First published in 1944, Magdalen King-Hall's Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton is a historical novel set in late-seventeenth-century England. It tells the story of Barbara Skelton, a well-born young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, who finds escape from the tedium of her life by leading...
Bread and Ale for the Brethren
The Provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 1260-1536
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
Despite increased commercialization and an efficient network of local markets in 1300s Europe-as well as significant costs and risks associated with the production, transportation, and storage of food-some landed lords, monasteries, and convents continued to rely on the produce of their own estates....
After All These Years
Our Gypsy Journey Continues
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Set in the context of the Gypsies’ long and rich history, this autobiography secures the memories of the old ways of Gypsy life and culture at the dawn of the 21st century. Full of the author’s vivid recollections, these pages recount her experiences growing up as a Gypsy in rural England. At...
St Albans
Life on the Home Front, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Much has been written about the men who left to fight in the First World War but what was life really like for those left behind on the Home Front? A bustling market town profoundly touched by the war, St Albans is the perfect place of which to ask this question, thanks in part to the survival of...
Prostitution in Victorian Colchester
Controlling the Uncontrollable
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
The decision to build a new army camp in the small market town of Colchester in 1856 was well received and helped to stimulate the local economy after a prolonged period of economic stagnation. Before long the Colchester garrison was one of the largest in the country and the town experienced an economic...
The Fighting Essex Soldier
Recruitment, War and Society in the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The wars of the fourteenth-century English kings with France and Scotland resulted in a dramatic increase in the number of men involved in warfare on land and sea. This book draws upon new research to identify and analyze these soldiers at all social levels in the specific context of the county of Essex.