The Centre for English Local History

Theses Completed and in Preparation

The following theses are selected works in progress and completed by students in the Centre. If you are interested in pursuing research within the Centre, see our information on research degrees.

• Landscape History
• Society and Economy
• Population, Family and Kinship
• Cultures

Landscape History

• 'Settlement, territory and land use in the East Midlands: the Langton Hundred c.150 B.C. - c.A.D. 1350' (Completed);
• 'The origins of the village in South Wales: a study in landscape archaeology' (Completed);
• 'Deserted settlements in Warwickshire';
• 'Medieval settlement in Essex';
• 'Anglo-Saxon and Norman minsters and territories in Sussex';
• 'Medieval and early modern landscapes of the Warwickshire Arden';
• 'Deserted villages in Northamptonshire, c.1300-c.1500'
• 'A historical/archaeological study of Swaledale'

Society and Economy

• 'Lincolnshire coastal villages and the sea' (Completed);
• 'The Polden Hill manors of Glastonbury Abbey: land and people c.1260 to 1352' (Completed);
• 'The demesne of Rimpton 938 to 1412: a study in economic development' (Completed);
• 'Community, parish and poverty: Old Swinford, 1660-1730' (Completed);
• 'A local market system: Melton Mowbray and the Wreake Valley, 1549-1720' (Completed);
• 'Lutterworth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: a market town and its area' (Completed);
• 'Peasants and stockingers: socio-economic change in Guthlaxton Hundred, Leicestershire, 1700-1851' (Completed);
• 'The economy, society, and government of a small town in late medieval England: a study of Henley-on-Thames from c.1300 to c.1540' (Completed);
• 'An urban society and its hinterland: St Ives in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries' (Completed);
• 'The growth of Gloucester, 1820-1852. Tradition and innovation in a county town' (Completed);
• 'Community and neighbourhood in medieval society: a local study in Cambridgeshire [Wisbech]' (Completed)
• 'Economics, exploitation and environment, N. W. Leics, c.1870';
• 'Social structure in late medieval Solihull';
• 'Aspects of agrarian change in the Wreake Valley in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries';
• 'Growth of rural industries in the parishes of N. W. Leics';
• 'Medieval Glastonbury';
• 'Local government and society in Glos., c.1870-1920';
• 'Land ownership, tenurial patterns and social conditions in rural Devon, 1840-1910';
• 'Centre and locality: Boston and Grimsby, 1530-1630';
• 'The hosiery trade in S. W. Leics, c.1750-1945';
• 'Attaining, maintaining and transferring gentry status in fourteenth-century Essex'

Population, Family and Kinship

• 'Spatial and social interaction in S.E. Surrey, 1750-1850' (Completed);
• 'Social, economic and kinship networks in rural south-west Nottinghamshire, c.1580-1700' (Completed);
• 'Family and maritime community: Robin Hood's Bay, c.1653-c. 1867' (Completed);
• 'Poor law and settlement in Northamptonshire, 1662-1834' (Completed)
• 'Profile of Rugby working women, 1870-1950';
• 'Charities and relations with statutory bodies and the provision of poor relief'

Cultures

• 'Church dedications and landed units of lordship and administration in the pre-Reformation diocese of Worcester' (Completed);
• 'A secularising geography? Religious change in England and Wales, 1676- 1851' (Completed)
• 'Warwickshire parishes: their clergy and the Reformation';
• 'Education, literacy and society: Leicester, 1800-1870';
• 'The culture of the hop';
• 'Nineteenth-century religious societies in the West Midlands';
• 'Church monuments as reflections of culture and society in medieval Warwickshire';
• 'Rural communities and their churches, 1660-1830';
• 'Nineteenth-century evangelism';
• 'Church and society in Warwickshire, 1350-1540';
• 'Nineteenth-century parish society and the country clergy: the politics of the Anglican Church and its effects in rural Norfolk';
• 'The early history of Quakerism in Staffordshire, 1651-1743';
• 'Manx folklore: a continuous or changing tradition?'
• 'Translating the Nation: Polish, Greek-Cypriot and Italian National Identity in Leicester since 1945'