The Centre for English Local History

Dissertations

The Centre holds copies of all dissertations undertaken by its alumni; they can be read in the department by arrangement (email elhinfo@le.ac.uk).

You can now view Recently Completed dissertations below.

View titles by broad category:

• A-Z of completed dissertations 1968-2008
• Landscape and buildings
• Society and economy
• Population, family and kinship
• Cultures

A note on the arrangement below: the dissertations are arranged in the order in which they appear in the departmental Bibliography but without the sub-headings.

Recently Completed

• Pamela Buttery, 'Quiet and orderly: the administration, placement and treatment of pauper lunatics in Croydon from 1875 to 1914' (2008)
• Carol Cambers, 'Water, Shelter and Centricity: Were Post-enclosure Farmers persuaded?' (2008)
• Hubertus Drobner, 'St Willibrord's Calendar and the mutual veneration of local saints in Britain and on the Continent' (2008)
• Alison Fearey, 'Nineteenth century Northamptonshire shoe-workers: where did they all come from?' (2008)
• Mika Hirosue, 'Avebury, World Heritage Site Management Planning Issues' (2008)
• Rachael Jones, 'The Gregynog Estate, Montgomeryshire, 1880- 1920' (2008)
• Malcolm Muir, 'Independent and Leisure Travel 1635 to 1850' (2008)
• Phillip Ramsey, 'Cumnor Parish: A Parochial perspective on the English Agricultural Revolution' (2008)
• Freda Raphael, 'An Exploration of the Life and Opinions of John Smedley (1803- 74); Inventor of the Mild System of Hydropathy, in Relation to the Development of Water Cures in Matlock Bank and Matlock Bath 1697- 1874' (2008)
• Richard Stone, 'Woodland in the East Staffordshire Landscape' (2008)
• Andrew Wager, 'The Effect of Early Railways on Landscape and Communities in Derbyshire' (2008)
• Noel Tornbohm, ‘Facets of Enclosure in a mid-Derbyshire Manor (1760-1860)’ (2007)
• Rosemary Ruck, ‘The Common, Custom, Conflict and Control: A Study of Defford Common, Worcestershire’ (2007)
• Ozan Fitton-Brown, ‘Conflict Over Church Ritualism: Thorpe, Surrey, 1910’ (2006)
• Sylvia Ray, ‘A Study of Atcham Union Workhouse at Cross-houses, Shropshire, 1794-1894’ (2006)
• Jennie Pegram, ‘The Derby Cemeteries: from Victorian Distinction to Ethnic Pluralism’ (2007)
• Zoe Dyndor, ‘Death Recorded: Capital Punishment and The Press in Northamptonshire 1780-1834’ (2006)
• Michael Busby, ‘Leicestershire Settlements through the late fourteenth century poll tax records – urban or rural?’ (2007)
• Sheila Jones, ‘A Lasting Revolution? Outworking Practices in the Boot and Shoe Trade’ (2006)
• Drew Campbell, ‘The Local Politics of improvement: debating the Ashby Canal, 1781-1794’ (2007)

Landscape and buildings

• J. P. Austin, 'Trees and woodlands of the Cecils' (1993);
• A. Barker, 'Insular farms and muddy lanes: pre-conquest and medieval settlement on the Culm Measures of Devon' (1986);
• J. Burt, 'Northamptonshire gardens and parks, 1660-1825' (1986);
• M. C. S. Clifford, 'Fifteen Leicestershire villages: a study of their morphology and location' (1987);
• N. G. Eveleigh, 'Landscape and environment: their contribution to the evolution of settlement in early medieval Kesteven' (1992);
• P. Lynd-Evans, 'Morphology of villages in the central region of Lincolnshire from the early Saxon period' (1997);
• D, Sheppard, 'In search of the Forest of Arden' (1997);
• T. Sparling, 'An enquiry into the effect of drainage and watersheds on settlement from the end of the Roman period to the Norman period' (1992);
• P. A. Stokes, 'The organisation of landscape and territory on the estates of Glastonbury Abbey: a case study of the manors of Ditcheat and Pennard' (1997);
• C. Terry, 'The church in the landscape: two case studies from Norfolk' (1983);
• P. Upton, 'Place-names of Warwickshire revisited' (1997);
• C. I. Morris, 'Surveyors and commissioners of enclosure in Bedfordshire, 1760- 1820: the growth of professionalism' (1975);
• H. Nichols, 'Local maps of Derbyshire to 1770: an inventory and introduction' (1973);
• C. Giles, 'Domestic architecture in the North Staffordshire moorlands: the vernacular buildings of Grindon and Waterfall' (1976);
• D. P. Oliver, 'First duties, truest pleasures: an examination of cottage building on the Russell estates in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire between 1802 and 1914' (1997);
• M. R. Sell, 'Farmsteads in the parishes of Holmesfield, Barlow and Brampton in N.E. Derbyshire' (1969);
• K. G. B. Skempton, 'Gypsum plaster panels in timber-framed buildings: a study of local building material in part of the Trent Valley' (1970).

post-Bibliography [1998- ]

• J. Alderson, 'A study of the landscape and population of the parish of Coleorton in the latter part of the 19th century' (1998);
• P. Barry, 'Reconstructing the pre-inclosure social and topographical conditions of a Breckland village: Roudham' [Norfolk];
• C. Carpenter, 'Rural transformation: cause and effect in the landscape evolution of Churchill and Blakedown since 1850' (2000);
• D. Fox, 'Crosses of the North York Moors: a study of the stone crosses of the North York Moors, their origins and purposes' (1999);
• N. Harden, 'Living stones, living water: a study of the siting of churches in southern Warwickshire' (2000);
• M. Lindley, 'Land use and occupations in Ballidon and Brassington, Derbyshire, during the nineteenth century' (2000);
• J. Murray, 'New Forest marlpits and the right of common of marl' (2000);
• J. Rowley, 'Scraptoft: settlement to enclosure' (1999)

Society and economy

• R. I. Brady, 'A comparison of attitudes towards domestic service in England during the Victorian period and the early to mid twentieth century' (1997);
• P. N. Malton, 'The functions and importance of a chartered sanctuary: Beverley minster, 1478-1539' (1985);
• V. Barrow, 'The regio of the Sunningas: an early Saxon tribal area in the mid Thames valley' (1977);
• J. M. Bourne, 'Kingstons and cyninges tuns' (1981);
• J. Bennett, 'The ecclesiastical topography of the Fenland: the Anglo-Saxon period' (1994);
• N. J. Cahill, 'Conquest and colonisation on the Isle of Wight: the effect of the island's strategic importance on early medieval organisation and settlement' (1980);
• S. Downer, 'Settlement, rank and status in N. Worcs. 8th-11th centuries' (1996);
• C. Draycott, 'The Soke of Peterborough: a study of the early history of Peterborough Abbey and its dependent local settlements...';
• W. J. Ford, 'The pattern of settlement in the central region of the Warws. Avon' (1973);
• I. Friel, 'The regio of the Hicce: a tribal unit of the Hitchin area' (1978);
• A. Hadley, 'Hill-tops, cyninges-tuns and wics: central places and trade in the S.W. from Roman to Saxon times' (1998);
• D. Haigh, 'The evolution of settlement in eastern Cambridgeshire' (1978);
• M. Horton, 'An investigation into the "manor" of Auckland, co. Durham. The evolution and structure of a medieval estate' (1978);
• R. I. Keep, 'Settlement and territory in east Herefordshire: a study of the complex and dynamic patterns of settlement and territory ... in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods' (1990);
• S. M. Lewitt, 'Aspects of the evolution of the distribution and pattern of settlement up to the Norman Conquest in the southern part of the Rape of Pevensey' (1980);
• B. M. Turnock, 'Land use in parts of Leics. as revealed in Domesday Book' (1992);
• J. A. Wainwright, 'The evolution of parish and township boundaries on the Yorkshire Wolds' (1993);
• R. Weedon, 'Howdenshire: early territorial organisation in the East Riding of Yorkshire' (1987);
• D. Fleming, 'Some aspects of the gentry in Jacobean and Caroline Leics.' (1977);
• A. J. H. Jackson, 'The country house estate economy in decline: East Devon, 1870-1939' (1992);
• R. Joyce, 'Intellectual, cultural and religious life in late-eighteenth-century Derby' (1997);
• A. M. Morton-Thorpe, 'The gentry of Derbyshire, 1640-1660' (1971);
• C. R. Redpath, 'The Ishams of Lamport and their role as J.P.s (1660-1737)' (1998);
• F. M. Redpath, 'A Northamptonshire gentry family in the age of watering places' (1998);
• D. Slater, 'Summary justice in Northamptonshire: eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' (1997);
• G. Wolfe, 'Keeping the peace: Warws., 1630-1700' (1997);
• P. R. Edwards, 'Farming in a N. Worcs. parish: Rushock, 1572-1972' (1974);
• N. K. Freebody, 'A history of Scraptoft, Leics.' (1967);
• L. Pinkham, 'Starcross, Devon: "a small creek ... noted only for a small fishery of oysters and cockles"' (1986);
• L. Staniforth, 'Rural and urban cotton plantations: some reasons for their establishment and the resultant effects upon the Macclesfield Hundred of Cheshire' (1993);
• S. Wright, 'Kingsthorpe, village or suburb? A study of a Northamptonshire parish, 1700- 1931' (1998);
• D. K. Davis, 'The Glastonbury manor of Sowy, 1086-1308' (1993);
• M. Garven, 'Change or continuity? An evaluation of the economy and society of Suffolk through nominal and fiscal evidence within the lay subsidy rolls of 1327 and 1524' (1993);
• J. D. Harrison, 'The composite manor of Brent, 1189-1307' (1987);
• G. McHarg, 'Cell by the sea. The study of the priory of St Bees ... within the Barony of Coupland and Cumbria as a whole' (1997);
• P. J. Langworth, 'Glebeland and field systems in Cambridgeshire' (1992);
• B. Palmer, 'Landscape, economy and peasant society: the Ramsey Abbey manor of Elton, 1275-1347' (1997);
• K. Parkin, 'The commercialisation of the Cambridgeshire economy, c.1300' (1993);
• R. Parsons, 'Status, occupation and landholding: the emergence of an independent peasantry of the High Weald of East Sussex in the late thirteenth century: the evidence of Ashdown Forest and its region' (1996);
• J. Pitt, 'Land and people in a late-medieval forest: an investigation of woodland society' (1994);
• A. B. Crossman, 'The Buckinghamshire posse comitatus, 1798' (1972);
• S. Farrell, 'The chaining of the countryside: an evaluation of Parliamentary enclosure with reference to three Northamptonshire parishes' (1998);
• A. W. Fox, 'The agrarian economy of six parishes in the Wreake Valley, 1540- 1680' (1997);
• Clive R. Hart, 'Bolsover and its manor, A.D. 1600-1700' (1985);
• B. Haigh, 'A West Riding clothing community: Kirkburton, 1664-1816' (1973);
• C. Ironfield, 'The parish of Chipping during the seventeenth century' (1975);
• T.M. Neill, 'Minchinhampton, 1550-1700: a study of a clothing parish' (1973);
• S. J. Pawley, 'Land, labour and locality: Braunstone and the typology of the closed village' (1982);
• A. J. Petford, 'Saddleworth: the enclosure of an upland parish' (1978);
• W. Raybould, 'Around the gap: an investigation into the character of a group of parishes and the relationship between them in the Northamptonshire Uplands at the end of the eighteenth and beginning of the nineteenth century' (1994);
• C. E. Tester, 'Halberton, 1751-1851: the community of an east Devon parish' (1975);
• P. Warren, 'The agrarian economy of S. Walsham, c.1566-1774' (1982);
• P. Wilcox, 'Enclosure in Leicestershire: the case of three villages enclosed between 1652 and 1780' (1998);
• N. K. Williams, 'The levies of the constables: the account for Wymeswold, 1602-1668' (1986);
• J. Alderson, 'A study of the landscape and population of the parish of Coleorton in N.W. Leics' (1998);
• L. Ali, 'The social and economic history of the Hope Valley from the mid to the late nineteenth century' (1991);
• M. Bonsall, 'The land tax evidence for S. Derbyshire in 1793-1830' (1981);
• S. P. Butler, 'Contrasting rural communities in mid-nineteenth-century Leics.' (1977);
• R. A. Carter, 'Aspects of the economic history of Kirkburton (Yorkshire) in the nineteenth century' (1975);
• T. D. C. Cooper, 'Enclosure and the creation of isolated farmsteads in Rutland, 1781-1887' (1983);
• C. Cordle, 'The culture of the hop: Wealden Kent, 1830-1996' (1997);
• H. A. Cummins, 'Higher Walton: an industrial community, 1851-1871' (1985);
• C. Debney, 'A village community, Greetham, c.1840-1871' (1981);
• P. De Clerq, 'A Leicestershire framework knitters' community: Earl Shilton, 1845-1871' (1979);
• E. J. M. Edwards, 'The agricultural societies of the upper Eden valley, 1840-1900' (1975);
• D. Goodwin, 'The relationship between landlord and tenant in nineteenth-century N. Wales' (1993);
• J. L. Hall, '"Let agriculture flourish": the diffusion of new ideas among agricultural improvers in Richmondshire, 1815-1870' (1979);
• I. D. J. Hunt, 'A change of direction: for the rural economy of N. W. Leics, 1791-1841' (1997);
• G. Lewitt, '"The last bastion". Agriculture and landownership in Medbourne in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries' (1985);
• L. Phelan, 'Commoning in the New Forest in the nineteenth century' (1993);
• I. Babington, 'The hand-made nail industry of the Black Country: a study of an occupational culture' (1994);
• J. Brooker, 'Prosperity and decline in fourteenth-century Hertfordshire: an evaluation of commerce, mobility and wealth distribution' (1992);
• A. W. Cooper, 'Newark, 1830-1901' (1969);
• P. J. Crouch, 'Cheese-making in E. Leics, 1610-1911: the genesis of Stilton cheese' (1988);
• C. Davenport, 'Daventry's craft companies, 1590-1675' (1998);
• E. M. Greenfield, 'The social and economic effects of the decline of leadmining on villages in N. Derbyshire, 1851-1891' (1996);
• C. Hammond, 'Aspects of the occupational structures of four villages in S. Notts., 1851-1871' (1998);
• K. Hawker, '"Instructed in the art and mystery": Leicestershire apprentices in Hanoverian and early Victorian times' (1998);
• D. Inglesant, 'Retailing furniture, 1850-1950' (1996);
• J. W. Kelley, 'The medieval markets and fairs of Leics.' (1986);
• M. Moore, 'Stone quarrying in the Isle of Purbeck: an oral history' (1992);
• S. G. Morris, 'An investigation into an early industrial neighbourhood: its status and nature [Sheffield]' (1987);
• H. B. Smith, 'Communities of butchers and tanners of the borough of Leicester, 1520-1640' (1992);
• G. Walkley, 'Occupations as indices of industrialization and social change: St Helens, 1751-1840' (1986);
• J. S. Clarke, 'Turnpike roads in Shropshire: part of the development of communications in the W. Midlands' (1997);
• S. J. S. Hampton, 'Country carriers of West Surrey: a study of the Guildford area' (1972);
• C. A. Moss, 'The carriers of Nottinghamshire, 1834-1936...' (1982);
• M. Sherrington, 'Preston carriers, 1841-1932: from the railway to the motor age' (1973);
• F. J. R. Gent, 'The development of Strangeways, 1768-1868' (1973);
• S. R. Moss, 'The community of Towcester, 1750-1842' (1976);
• M. Shettle, 'The development of fire protection in Surrey, 1666-1941, with special reference to S.W. Surrey' (1990);
• E. Edwards, 'The market town of Solihull, 1200-1580' (1992);
• J. Laughton, 'Prologemena to a societal history of late medieval Chester' (1987);
• P. Richardson, 'Market vills and the development of boroughs in medieval Suffolk' (1997);
• I. G. Watson, 'Career and community: a study of the officeholders of the town council of Leicester, 1485-1535' (1988);
• S. J. Wright, 'A study of the Gild of High Cross, the Blessed Mary and St John the Baptist of Stratford-upon-Avon from 1406 to 1545' (1978);
• P. A. Berryman, 'The manufacturing crafts in York, 1740-1784' (1978);
• S. C. Bird, 'Watlington, 1660-1740: a market town?' (1991);
• R. D. Bone, 'The inns of Leicester in the reign of George III' (1976);
• P. Bowen, 'The inns and public houses of Birmingham, 1767-1812' (1978);
• J. J. Greenwood, 'Reigate, 1700-1821: its turnpikes and its economy' (1980);
• D. Haley, 'Aspects of the economic history and the demography of the parish of Buckingham, c.1560-1710, a preliminary study' (1982);
• H. M. J. Hunt, 'The ruling elite in Coventry, 1675-1720' (1975);
• T. M. James, 'The inns of Croydon, 1640-1830' (1970);
• P. Moore, 'Rothwell: town or village? 1750-1850. A case study of the changing pattern of urban status in the small town' (1986);
• S. J. Peet, 'The magisterial elite of Southampton, 1550-1600' (1992);
• D. G. Robson, 'Scarborough in the reign of George III: the town, its people and trade' (1975);
• P. Thornborow, 'Mortality crises in Northampton, 1571-1640' (1997);
• A. A. Upton, 'Sixteenth-century Foleshill: population, economy and religion in a Coventry suburban parish' (1997);
• N. C. Adams, 'The local Coventry society as revealed by five autobiographies' (1992);
• M. Aldis, 'One man's Nuneaton, 1810-1854' (1992);
• J. D. Allan, 'Pickering: the community of a Yorkshire market town in the nineteenth century' (1970);
• A. P. Autton, 'The forgotten boroughs of Devon: a study of the structure and composition of the village boroughs of Bow, Colyford, Newton Poppleford and South Zeal during the nineteenth century' (1988);
• C. J. Britton, 'Thornbury, 1841-1851: a study of a small market town in Glos.' (1976);
• J. Brown, 'The nineteenth-century industrialization of a primary market town: Grantham, Lincolnshire' (1994);
• J. L. Brown, 'South Highfields, Leicester: the evolution of a suburb' (1992);
• S. F. Coltman, 'The role of decayed minor market towns in the mid-Victorian countryside: two Oxfordshire examples, Hook Norton and Charlbury' (1985);
• M. D. Eaton, 'Victorian Market Harborough: the structure and functions of a nineteenth-century market town' (1970);
• L. E. Edwards, 'A study of Coalville from the census returns' (1992);
• S. J. C. Fletcher, 'Crime in Cheltenham, 1848-1851' (1989);
• A. J. Fleming, 'Newport Pagnell: a hundred town, 1825-1875' (1972);
• M. Graham, 'Tavistock, 1825-1875' (1971);
• A. C. Hemming, 'A study of social relationships in late Victorian London: the diaries of Hannah Cullwick and Arthur Munby' (1987);
• T. G. Hill, 'The trading community of Shifnal and its geographical and genealogical linkages: a case study, 1841-1861' (1989);
• M. Hobson, 'The occupational structure of West Malling, 1841-1871' (1978);
• J. S. Hodgkinson, 'Changing standards of living in the smaller house in the Northampton area, 1850-1940' (1991);
• P. Jackson, 'Sawley, from principal settlement to suburb: a study of rural decline in the nineteenth century' (1993);
• P. J. B. Kennedy, 'The air raids on Smethwick and Oldbury, 1940-1942' (1993);
• M. J. Kingman, ' Chester, 1801-1861' (1970);
• M. Lowndes, 'The Caldmore district of Walsall in the nineteenth century with special reference to the decade 1861-1871' (1976);
• J. W. Mitchell, 'The population and industries of Victorian Melton Mowbray, 1851-1871' (1975);
• E. Musson, 'Retail trading in Chesterfield, 1835-1872' (1975);
• D. Page, 'Ashby-de-la-Zouch: the social structure of a mid-Victorian market town' (1974);
• J. Roles, '"The dull haunts of business": a study of retailing in Cheltenham, 1800-1851' (1982);
• M. Rogerson, 'People, poverty and occupations: Worcester, 1779-1821' (1981);
• H. L. Scott, 'The changing fortunes of the Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1830-1882' (1997);
• J. O. Stedman, 'Aspects of the economic history of Winchester, 1770-1810' (1979);
• R. Stuttard, 'People with small means and high hopes -- co-operators in Leicester, 1860-1990' (1991);
• J. R. Surgey, 'Transport, trade and industry in Mansfield, 1800-1850' (1973);
• S. Toole, 'Liverpool in the mid Victorian era -- its pride and shame' (1993);
• E. M. Willshaw, 'The inns of Chester, 1775-1832. The functions of provincial inns and their importance to the local community' (1979);
• J. Wisdom, 'The making of a West London suburb: housing in Chiswick, 1861-1914' (1977);
• R. Wise, 'Corby: the growth and decline of a steel town, 1930-1990' (1995);
• S. E. Wise, 'Coalville: the origins and growth of a nineteenth-century mining town' (1969);
• J. S. Adams, 'Crisis in crippledom: some aspects of the history of the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey, 1908-1962' (1993);
• D. H. Aldred, 'Poor relief in Winchcombe, Glos., 1800-1851' (1973);
• G. R. Ambrose, 'The administration of the Old Poor Law in Wells from 1776' (1971);
• W. F. G. Hayes, 'The working poor in mid-nineteenth-century Torquay' (1991);
• K. A. Hillier, 'The welfare and education of working-class children in Ashby de la Zouch in the nineteenth century' (1996);
• N. F. Hoare, 'The community of Croydon and its poor, 1800-1850' (1974);
• J. D. Hutchin, 'Attitudes to the relief of poverty in Leicester, 1901-1914' (1994);
• T. E. Owen, 'Enclosure, poor relief expenditure and the labouring poor in Leicestershire, 1750-1830' (1991);
• S. Pinches, 'Roman Catholic charities and voluntary societies in the diocese of Birmingham, 1834-1945' (1997);
• M. B. McDermott, 'The administration of the Poor Law in the Somerset parish of Langford Budville during the periods 1657-1730 and 1782-1836' (1974);
• J. F. Watson, 'The Chesterfield Poor Law Union: the first ten years, 1837-1847' (1976).

post-Bibliography [1998- ]

• K. Andrews, 'World War II: its effect on the work of working-class women in Boston, Lincs.' (1998);
• P. Aucott, 'Economic and social developments in S.E. Leicestershire in the late middle ages: the formation of a region around a developing town (Market Harborough' (2000);
• M. Badcock, 'Landownership, rents and tenures on Dartmoor, 1840-1910' (2000);
• J-P. Carr, 'The working world: Irchester in Northamptonshire, 1841-1891' (2000);
• J. Gilbert, 'Off the beaten track: Glenfield (1871-1939). Village or suburb?' (1999);
• A. Godfrey, 'Industry and class: a study of two Leicestershire villages, 1850-1900 (2000);
• L. Humber, 'The health and safety of women workers in munitions factories during the First World War' (2000);
• B. Johsnon, 'The General Strike in the Mansfield area 1926' (2000);
• R. Lee, '"Midnight crimes and guilty consciences". Rural war in N.E. Norfolk, 1815-1875: the search for a radical agenda' (2000);
• D. M. Lofas, 'The introduction of Parish Councils' (1999);
• H. Rainsford, 'The growth of Margate as a popular seaside resort through the development of transport and leisure activities, 1840-1939' (1999);
• R. Roden, 'Dens of iniquity? The public house in the Victorian slums of Manchester and Salford' (2000);
• R. Selden, 'Policing Bedfordshire prior to the Rural Constabulary Act 1839' (1999);
• A. Thomson, 'A study of roles and relationships in a Rutland village in the mid-Victorian period' (1999);
• D. Thomson, 'Charities in Rutland' (1999);
• B. Tracey, '"Discord among the ratepayers". The story of the installation of a piped water supply and drainage system in the District of Market Harborough, Leics.' (2000)

Population, family and kinship

• S. G. Doree, 'Aspects of mortality crises in eleven parishes in East Hertfordshire between 1550 and 1670':
• I. M. Morley, 'A demographic study of the parish of Otley in the 17th and 18th centuries';
• R. G. Newey, 'East Hendred, Berkshire. A social and demographic study, 1800-1840' (1979);
• R. A. Peebles Brown, 'Population changes and the railway age. Aspects of the railway industry's influence on two localities in south Cheshire' (1981);
• P. Thornborow, 'Mortality crises in Northampton, 1571-1640' (1996);
• G. P. Brown, 'Population and mobility: a study using marriage registers of the Leicester and Nottinghamshire borders during the 18th and 19th centuries' (1986);
• V. E. L. Davies, 'A sweet prison: aspects of the origin and establishment of the Leicester Asian community' (1993);
• J. Frye, 'Population migration in a selected region of N.E. Leics. in the mid nineteenth century' (1974);
• L. Garrison, 'Post-war immigration and settlement of West Indians in Nottingham, 1948-1968' (1992);
• J. A. Hume. 'Settlement and migration in Dorset, 1704-1862: a study of the migrational patterns of paupers' (1989):
• S. Luxton, 'A small Poland? A portrait of the Polish community in Leicester' (1994);
• E. Newman, 'Surname development, 1279-1332, in the Kineton Hundred of Warwickshire' (1995);
• M. F. Sekulla, 'Patterns of naming in the parish of Dry Drayton, Cambs., 1550-1850' (1993);
• K. Thomas, 'The surnames of Warwick, 1185-1500' (1986);
• R. Marks, 'Padbury: kinship and community, c.1538-1634' (1994);
• C. D. Short, 'Hearths, people and status: a study of the social structure of three areas of Hertfordshire in the late 17th century' (1986);
• C. M. Thomas, 'Population, poverty and partible inheritance ...?' (1991);
• K. Andrews, 'World War II: its effect on the work of working-class women in Boston, Lincs.' (1998);
• R. E. DeLong, 'Women, widows and witches. A study of four Huntingdonshire villages, 1630-1650' (1987);
• H. Edwards, 'Farmers' wives of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire: their working lives, 1918-1950' (1988);
• A. Simkin, 'Community participation and the role of women in the court rolls of the manor of Wakefield, 1274-1352' (1993);
• S. Stewart, 'The status of women in Surrey, c.1235-1348' (1997);
• N. Verdon, 'Women's work in the inter-war period: a study of Nottingham' (1996).

Cultures

• B. Arnold, 'The saints' dedications of Somerset' (1986);
• J. Bateman, 'Those who fought, those who prayed, those who worked: the secular clergy in the archdeaconry of Northampton in the late middle ages' (1997);
• N. Cooper, 'The church in Anglo-Saxon Northumberland' (1994);
• D. E. Fox, 'The spread of Christianity and Christian churches in the wapentake of Langbargh, North Riding of Yorkshire, 600-1300' (1993);
• D. Kaye, 'Church dedications in Lincolnshire' (1974);
• P. Lloyd, 'A study of the dedications given to religious buildings in Leicestershire before the Reformation' (1974);
• P. J. Masters, 'The minsters, territories and proprietary churches of Saxon West Sussex' (1993);
• H. Reed, 'The Cornish saints in their background' (1996);
• W. Bates, 'The churches' mission in South Derbyshire and North-West Leicestershire, 1901-1911' (1997);
• W. Bower, 'The congregation of the Dover General Baptist Church, 1660-1700' (1983);
• A. Cooper, 'Patterns of nonconformity and social change in nineteenth-century Cardiganshire' (1993);
• J. Crompton, 'The pattern of dissent in Staffordshire in 1851' (1987);
• P. S. Ell, 'A quantitative analysis of variables allegedly influencing the pattern of religious observance in 1851: a case study in Warwickshire' (1987);
• D. H. Gladden, 'Nonconformity in Newark, 1850-1882' (1976);
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