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European Perspectives on Cultures of Violence Conference

This two-day conference, organised by Dr Simon Sandall, our former Teaching Fellow in English Local History, and now Lecturer at the University of Winchester, will be held in Marc Fitch House on 27 - 28 June 2013. See the full conference programme.

ELH Fellow wins Battlefields Trust Award

Martin Marix Evans, Honorary Visiting Fellow in English Local History, received the President's Award for his work on the preservation and visitor interpretation of the battlefield of Naseby at the Battlefields Trust Conference, held at the University of Durham in April 2013. Chairman, Frank Baldwin (centre), acting on behalf of Robert Hardy, presented the award which was created on the initiative of the actor and military historian, Robert Hardy and was made for the first time this year. The guest speaker at the conference was Professor Emeritus Michael Prestwich (left).

Turncoats and Renegadoes

Andrew Hopper's monograph examining treachery and side-changing during the English civil wars has just been published Oxford University Press. It is available in hardback, priced at £65.00, but a copy is available in MFH library, the university library and it is also available as an E-Book via the university library catalogue. Further details are available on the OUP website. One of Dr Hopper's lectures to publicise the book is available as a youtube video through the website of the National Army Museum.

The County Community in Seventeenth-Century England and Wales

Jacqueline Eales and Andrew Hopper's edition of the proceedings of the Alan Everitt Memorial conference held at the Centre on 12 December 2009 has now been published as the fifth volume of the Explorations in Local and Regional History series by the University of Hertfordshire Press. The volume comprises seven essays examining Everitt's legacy and new approaches to the topic, with a preface from Professor David Hey. It is available in paperback, priced at £14.99. Further details, including how to purchase a copy, are available on the UHP website.

Centre staff at Appleby Magna Grass Roots Festival, 8 July 2012

Professor Kevin Schurer, Dr Richard Jones, Dr Andrew Hopper and Dr Simon Sandall will be part of a strong University contingent attending this event in association with the BBC's 'Great British Story', hosted by the Sir John Moore Foundation at Appleby Magna. Further details of the event are available from this link. Dr Hopper will be highlighting the work of the Centre and Dr Jones will be presenting on place names, whilst Dr Sandall will be delivering a presentation on 'The Memory Palace of Charnwood Forest', with a series of 'hands on' activities relating to reading the landscape of eighteenth-century Charnwood. Dr Pam Fisher from Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust will also be there, providing information to visitors on how they can unravel the many layers of changes that most parish churches display to discover more about the history of their village, whilst Dr Julie Attard will be giving a talk about the Victoria County History in Leicestershire.

'Spotlight on the Centre', 18 February 2012

The Friends of English Local History have organised a conference day to discuss the recent work of staff and postgraduates in the Centre for English Local History, to be held in 1 Salisbury Road on Saturday 18 February. The line up of speakers and topics, and details of how to reserve your place are available via this link.

Dr Mandy de Belin awarded College Prize

Mandy de Belin has been awarded one of the Doctoral Inaugural Prizes by the College of Arts, Humanities and Law for the academic year 2010-2011. Her thesis was entitled 'Transitional Hunting Landscapes: Deer Hunting and Foxhunting in Northamptonshire, 1600-1850'. It was originally supervised by Harold Fox, with Christopher Dyer and Richard Jones taking over when Harold retired. Dr de Belin will be delivering her doctoral inaugural lecture entitled ‘The Hunting Transition: Deer, Foxes, Horses and the Landscape’ at 5.30pm on Wednesday 29 February, venue to be confirmed. She has also been appointed an Honorary Visiting Fellow in the Centre for English Local History for the valuable work she will be performing for the Naseby Battlefield Project in designing materials for their landscape history galleries.

ELH Christmas Party

15 December , 2011
16:00 - 18:00

Marc Fitch House, 5 Salisbury Rd

The ELH Christmas party will follow the ELH seminar which begins at 2.15 as normal. In a change to the previously advertised programme, Professor Steve King will lead discussion about the recent establishment of his new Centre for the Medical Humanities at Leicester, and explore ways in which this new Centre might collaborate with the staff, students and Friends of ELH.

An Evening with Michael Wood

20 May, 2011
19:30

University of Leicester, Ken Edwards Building, Lecture Theatre 1

Historian and television presenter Michael Wood talks about filming his acclaimed series 'Story of England', and why Leicestershire history matters. Tickets are £10 each, to include wine reception and parking, available from The Administrator, 5 Salisbury Road, Leicester, LE1 7QR (E: lb77@le.ac.uk; T: 0116 252 2762). Please make cheques payable to Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust. All profits will go to Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust (registered charity 1128575; registered company 6683052). Demand is expected to be high, so early booking is recommended.

'Leaving Home: Experiences of Migration in Britain'

The Friends for English Local History's 2010 autumn conference will be held on Saturday 13 November 2010 on the theme of 'Leaving Home: Experiences of Migration in Britain'. The keynote speaker will be Professor Kevin Schurer (Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Leicester) and the conference will be held in the Ken Edwards Building at the University of Leicester.

To book a place at the conference please click here. Bookings must be made by 31 October 2010.

New time for ELH seminar on 7 October 2010

The time has been rearranged for the opening seminar in the ELH series on Thursday 7 October 2010. Due to an unavoidable commitment, our speaker, Prof Steve Hindle, will now present 'Below stairs at Arbury Hall (Warwicks.): Sir Richard Newdigate and his household staff, c. 1670-1710' at 4pm rather than the usual 2.15pm. The venue remains the same. We will have tea at no. 5 from 3pm prior to the presentation. A reception for new postgraduates will follow in no. 5 hosted by Prof. Rob Colls.

Michael Wood's 'Story of England' television series on BBC4

'The Story of England' is told in an exciting new way by Dr Michael Wood in his investigation of the history of Kibworth, Leicestershire. The series, which begins on Wednesday 22 September at 9pm on BBC4, charts this particularly well-documented parish's history from the Anglo-Saxons to the present. Staff at the centre aided with academic advice and many of the local inhabitants also participated in the project. For more details of the series click here.

New appointment to the Victoria County History for Leicestershire

Dr Pam Fisher has been appointed Volunteer Coordinator for Leicestershire VCH Trust. The role involves providing training and support to volunteer historians across the county who want to research and write the history of a Leicestershire parish for inclusion within a future Victoria County History volume. She would be pleased to hear from any potential new volunteers, and can be contacted at pjf7@le.ac.uk.

Dr Richard Jones and 'Living La Vida Local' September 2010

Through the links below you can follow the household of Dr Jones in their exciting experiment to look at the meanings of 'local' in today's Britain: an endeavour to live through the month of September by only consuming food sourced within two miles of their residence.

1. The blog: http://elhleicester.wordpress.com

2. Short YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15-SoNEm_3s

3. Longer YouTube clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cajozqCHqRQ

New book on the Battle of the Somme published by Fellow of the Centre

Martin Marix Evans of the Naseby Battlefield Project, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow of the Centre, has just published a study of the Battle of the Somme based on new primary sources. It is priced at £20 and is published by the History Press. For further details, click here.

Festival of Postgraduate Research, 24 June 2010

Mary-Jane Pamphilon, a PhD student in the Centre will be presenting her research poster at a competition during this event. She would welcome support from staff and history students at this event between 11am and 1pm. Her poster is entitled 'Pauper Prisoners. Punishment in Kent workhouses, 1835-1944.' For more details of the event, see http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/ssds/sd/pgr/events/fpgr.

Four postgraduate scholarships available for new MA and PhD students in Historical Studies

There are 4 x £1,000 partial fee-scholarships for NEW Masters or PhD students across the School of Historical Studies. The scholarships are open to applicants for any of the postgraduate taught or research programmes, full-time or part-time. The scholarships are available for one year only or pro-rata for part-time students. The scholarships will be awarded on the basis of academic merit and successful candidates will be expected to commence their studies in 2010-11. For more information see http://www.le.ac.uk/departments/gradschool/finance/funding/scholarships

Winner of John Nichols Prize 2009 announced

The John Nichols Prize is awarded annually by the Centre for English Local History. It is for the best essay on English Local History, from entries received from anywhere in the world. There is no age limit or other qualification for submissions, and some well-known figures in the historical world are numbered among past prize winners.

This year the prize has been awarded to James Bowen, recently a MA student in the Centre, for an essay entitled 'A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, Chief Agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate, Shropshire, 1720-1820'.

The starting point for the essay was the book published by Loch, advertising his achievements in building new farms and improving a major landed estate. The essay uses landscape and architectural history as well as agrarian and economic history to investigate the validity of Loch's claims. James Bowen is now studying for a PhD at the University of Lancaster on common land in Shropshire. Below is a plan and elevation of one of the house and farm buildings at Tear, built in 1816-20.

'Spotlight on the Centre' Day, 13 March 2010

Frank Galbraith, the new chairman of the Friends of the Centre is organising a 'Spotlight on the Centre' day in Marc Fitch House on Saturday 13 March. Staff and students of the centre will deliver short presentations detailing their current research. There will also be a poster display of recent research conducted in the Centre. Those interested in attending should contact Frank Galbraith on galbers@talktalk.net.

The visit of the Lord Mayor of Leicester to the Centre, 19 January 2010

The Lord Mayor of Leicester and the Lady Mayoress, Roger and Hilary Blackmore (both graduates of Leicester University), made an official visit to the University on Tuesday 19 January. The Lord Mayor asked to visit the School of Social Science and the Centre for English Local History. The local historians were pleased to welcome the civic visitors. We knew that Mr Blackmore was a keen local historian, as he had welcomed delegates at a reception at the local history conference held in July with the theme 'After Hoskins'. He was shown round the building, notably the library based on Marc Fitch's donation, and presentations were made by two members of staff, Richard Jones and Andrew Hopper, and by two MA students, Ronan O'Donnell and Neil Quinn. Their subjects reflected the range of periods and themes pursued in the Centre : villages called Thorp, and their meaning; the location of churches and the reconstruction of early medieval estates; treachery and turncoats in the English Civil Wars; and a nineteenth century school teacher's diary. The visitors saw a display of publications and posters, and were given a glimpse of the many activities of the staff and students of the Centre. They were presented with a copy of the bibliography of publications of the last ten years, recently compiled by the Friends of Centre, and a copy of the latest Friends' Newsletter. The visitors took a lively interest in the work of the Centre, and revealed in comments and questions their own considerable knowledge of the subject.

 

The photograph shows the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress admiring one of the Centre's publications, with from left to right, Andrew Hopper, Richard Jones, Chris Dyer, Ronan O'Donnell and Neil Quinn.

Chris Dyer

The Alan Everitt Memorial Conference

The Alan Everitt Memorial conference drew an audience of over 40 delegates to Marc Fitch House on 12 December. The gathering was honoured to welcome Alan's brother, Professor Francis Everitt, and some of Alan's friends and neighbours. Alan Everitt (1926-2008) succeeded W.G. Hoskins as Head of the Department of English Local History in 1968, serving until his retirement in 1982. The conference re-examined his remarkable book The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion (Leicester, 1966), which advanced the notion that England was ‘a union of partially independent county-states or communities, each with its own distinct ethos and loyalty’. His approach was developed in The Local Community and the Great Rebellion (Historical Association Pamphlet, 1969) to focus on the ‘county community’, rather than the wider political nation as a focus of provincial identity and allegiance. This conference revisited the impact and legacy of this hypothesis, exploring the recent approaches taken by current leading scholars in this field. The speakers included David Hey, Andrew Hopper, Jacqueline Eales, Stephen Roberts, Ian Warren and Jan Broadway.

From left to right, Jan Broadway, David Hey, Francis Everitt, Jacqueline Eales, Andrew Hopper, Ian Warren and Stephen Roberts. Photograph by Ann Pegg

Professor Mick Aston of 'Time Team' visits the Centre

Professor Mick Aston, well known as one of the Channel 4 'Time Team', visited the University on Friday 20 November to make a presentation to the Centre for English Local History on his long-running project on the landscape history of the village of Shapwick in Somerset. He enthralled those attending his seminar with a discussion of the research techniques used at Shapwick, and the lessons learned for the future of research into landscape and settlements. There are many links between the Centre for English Local History and the Shapwick project, as former Leicester students have been drawn into the research, and there are many parallels and comparisons which can be made between Shapwick and projects carried out at Leicester.

Chris Dyer

Centre student wins the Midland History Prize for 2010

Susan Kilby, an ESRC-funded M.A. student, has recently won the Midland History prize for her essay entitled 'Struggle and enterprise: the experience of servile peasants in Wellingborough, 1258-1322'. The essay was a development of her B.A. dissertation in History, and will be published in the spring 2010 edition of the journal, Midland History, vol. 35, no. 1. There was a particularly high standard of entries into the competition this year, so we should all warmly congratulate Susan for this outstanding achievement. The abstract of her essay follows, but interested readers will have to wait until spring to read the finished article!

'Recent studies of peasant welfare during the high point of medieval agriculture have largely overturned the idea that peasants were the constant victims of brutal seigniorial oppression. Using a variety of manorial sources, this study investigates the successes and struggles of servile peasants in the Northamptonshire manor of Wellingborough between 1258-1322.  A growing community is revealed, whose economic survival is firmly tied to the harvest, but, crucially, is not always wholly dependent on the demesne performance. Despite evidence of some struggle, the emergence of a small group of entrepreneurial tenants suggests a ‘hidden’ peasant hierarchy that a brief glance at the manorial sources does not reveal. The findings advocate that peasant welfare cannot be considered in general terms, that lordly oppression was not always as harsh as previously believed, and that the combination of a supportive manorial infrastructure alongside a good harvest performance provided the foundations for nascent peasant enterprise. It suggests that the welfare of Wellingborough’s peasants was more likely to be determined by the vagaries of the weather and the instabilities inherent in making a living from the land than the actions of the lord.'

Andrew Hopper

Overseas scholars visit the Centre from Spain and Canada

In the summer and autumn of 2009 the Centre for English Local History was pleased to welcome two international scholars who have come to work with us, and to discuss common themes in their work and that of members of the Centre. Frederic Aparisi Romero is from the distinguished history department in the University of Valencia in Spain. His work is focussed on the rural elites (rich peasants and villagers) in the county of Safor about 70 km from Valencia. He sees parallels and useful comparisons between Spanish and English peasantries in that period, and notices that in both countries peasants were consuming more luxury goods towards the end of the middle ages. This leads him to examine the relationship between town and country, again a subject high in the concerns of researchers in the Centre. Spanish historians have for many years practised local history, which is a subject with a more immediate political agenda than is the case in England. Shami Gosh is from the Centre for Medieval Studies in the University of Toronto. He has had a remarkable career, having been educated in India and at King's College London, where he did a degree in German. Having completed his thesis at Toronto, he has obtained a post-doctoral fellowship for two years from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, funded by the Canadian Government. He has come to the Centre in Leicester because he is interested in pursuing research into the transition from feudalism to capitalism. He proposes to do this in a comparative programme, in which England's precocious development in its economy and society will be compared with eastern and south-western Germany, and with south India. A particular problem is that these different parts of the world experienced similar developments, such as commercialised agriculture and a lively land market, yet England surged ahead while other societies were for some reason stalled and frustrated in their growth. The Centre is naturally gratified that energetic and enthusiastic scholars with wide horizons have recognised the Centre's leading role in the study of social and economic history, and we expect that important work will result from their time spent at Leicester.

Chris Dyer

Local History in Britain after Hoskins Conference

The Local History in Britain after Hoskins conference was held on 9-12 July 2009 at the University of Leicester. It marked the 50th anniversary of the publication of Local History in England by W.G. Hoskins in 1959. The conference was held in partnership between the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, and the British Association for Local History and was designed to appeal to anyone with an interest in local history.

Launch of the Leicestershire VCH, Quenby Hall, 5 May 2009

The Leicestershire Victoria County History Trust was successfully launched at a reception evening hosted by Squire de Lisle and HM Lord-Lieutenant of Leicestershire, Jennifer, Lady Gretton JP, at Quenby Hall on 5 May 2009. The fundraising effort is underway and a further VCH volume is planned for the southwest of the county. More details can be found at: http://www.victoriacountyhistory.ac.uk/leicestershire

English Local History in China, 14-20 April 2009

Chris Dyer recently participated in a trip by British historians to Beijing for a joint conference with Chinese scholars on British History organised by the Institute of Historical Research and Qian Chengdan of Peking University (PKU) Details and pictures of the trip can be found here

Student Distinction: Malcolm Noble

Malcolm Noble, a PhD student in the Centre for Urban History has been awarded the Nichols Prize for 2008 for his MA dissertation. His dissertation emerged as the winner from a highly competitive field of entries and was entitled: 'The Languages of Common Good: Municipal Reform, Urban Governance, and Charity Administration, Leicester c.1820- 1850'.

Professor Alan Everitt

We have learnt with deep regret of the death on 8 December 2008 of Professor Alan Everitt, Hatton Professor Emeritus of English Local History and former Head of Department at the Centre for English Local History. The funeral is to be held on Tuesday 6 January 2009 at 11am at All Saints' Church, Kimcote, near Lutterworth, Leics.

Dr Andrew Hopper

Dr Andrew Hopper has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

AHRC Research Networks and Workshops Award

Dr Richard Jones has been granted an award from the AHRC to organise a series of workshops on the theme Sense of Place in Anglo- Saxon England. These workshops will bring together historians, archaeologists, historical geographers and place- name scholars to explore place- names such as those in -wic, or -stoc, or -burh, with a view to gaining greater precision about what it was about these places that led them to be so named.

For more details about these workshops and their aims visit www.spase.org.uk.

Graduate creates film on history of local town

Chris Matthews, a graduate from both the School of Historical Studies and the Centre for English Local History has completed a film on the local town on Snienton, Nottinghamshire.

Chris graduated with a BA from the School of Historical Studies in 2003 and with an MA from the Centre in 2005, and now works as a freelance local historian and artist in the East Midlands. The short documentary Chris has created focuses on the landscape of Sneinton by showing how a landscape in the town was regenerated in the 1930s and how the history of Sneinton is linked to the nature of the landscape.

Further details of the film can be found here.

Winter Day Seminar

A day seminar will be held on Saturday 6th December 2008 by the Centre, in collaboration with the Medieval Settlement Research Group and the Society for Landscape Studies, in honour of Harold Fox. The seminar will examine fishing, transhumance and woodland in medieval Britain.

The registration form for the seminar can be found here.

Dr Richard Jones

Dr Richard Jones has recently been appointed a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).

Naseby Day Conference

This conference was held on Sunday 29th June 2008 at Kelmarsh Hall and investigated the past, present and future of Naseby. The conference linked recent successul approaches to the Battle of Naseby by academic historians, archaeologists and landscape analysts, and celebrated and built upon the exciting developments made in recent years by the Naseby Battlefield Project.

The report produced following the day conference can be found by clicking here.

McKinley Prize for 2008 Awarded

The McKinley Prize was jointly awarded to two outstanding MA dissertations, those by Hubertus R. Drobner, entitled 'St Willibord's Calendar and the mutual veneration of local saints in Britain and on the Continent', and by Peter Jennings, entitled 'Plan analysis and the development of Leicester's medieval urban landscape'.

Deserted Villages Revisited Conference

A weekend conference on Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd June 2008 was held by the Centre, in collaboration with the Medieval Settlement Research Group, to mark the 60th anniversary of the gathering in Leicestershire of Hoskins, Beresford, Postan and Steensberg to visit deserted medieval village sites, in June 1948.

W.G. Hoskins and the Making of the British Landscape

This conference was held in July 2005, and attracted excellent speakers and more than 200 enthusiastic participants. Many of the papers given at the conference have now been gathered into three attractive and lavishly illustrated books. They form a 3-volume series under the title Landscape History after Hoskins:

Volume 1. Prehistoric and Roman Landscapes, edited by Andrew Fleming and Richard Hingley (196 pp). Volume 2. Medieval Landscapes, edited by Mark Gardiner and Stephen Rippon (272 pp). Volume 3. Post-Medieval Landscapes, edited by P. S. Barnwell and Marilyn Palmer (226 pp). The whole set costs £65. Each volume is £25.

Copies are available from:
Oxbow
10 Hythe Bridge St.,
Oxford,
OX1 2EW
orders@oxbowbooks.com

ESRC Research Grant Award

Professor Keith Snell is working with Dr Julie Rugg (University of York) on an 3-4 year ESRC funded project from January 2008, entitled 'Death and community in rural settlements: changing burial culture in small towns and villages, c. 1850-2007'.

Modern cemetery history has been dominated by urban themes such as rapid population growth, public health and secularisation. This study will, for the first time, examine change in rural locations, and in doing so explore the local impact of national burial legislation in the second half of the nineteenth century; the religious politics of burial in smaller settlements; and the endurance of ‘traditional’ funerary practice.

The research will focus on rural settlements in Leicestershire and Rutland, and in Yorkshire, and has three substantive stages.

• First, information will be collected on change in burial provision in smaller settlements in the two case study regions, so establishing a robust chronology.
• Second, thirty case study cemeteries will be chosen for more detailed investigation using a range of local documentary sources: this stage will establish a ‘cultural history’ of the selected cemeteries.
• Third, in ten of these sites, oral histories will be completed with local clergy, residents, funeral directors and parish officers to understand the contemporary meaning of burial space in rural communities.

Student Distinction

Dr Celia Cordle, of the Centre for English Local History, has been awarded The Kent Archaeological Society’s new Hasted Prize, a £3,000 Prize for Kent History Research, for the best thesis on any aspect of the archaeology or history of Kent. Her PhD was entitled: Hop Cultivation and Marketing: Wealden Kent and Southwark, 1744-2000 (2006).

The Kent Archaeological Society’s new Hasted Prize aims to encourage scholars to choose Kentish studies for their research, and to promote publications that will advance knowledge of the county’s past. It also guarantees that the PhD will be published as a book.

It was awarded for the first time during the KAS’s 150th anniversary celebrations in 2007. The society says that it is seeks ‘original, eye-catching work that will shed new light on the history of Kent, or areas of London that were once part of the County’. The prize was presented to Dr Celia Cordle during the society’s Sesquicentennial Dinner at the University of Kent in Canterbury in September.

The Hasted Prize is a biennial award. The prize is named in honour of Edward Hasted (1732-1812), one of Kent’s most celebrated historians, author of The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent.

Professor Harold Fox

With great sadness we announce that Harold Fox has died. He retired on 31 July 2007, and died on or soon after 13 August.  He was appointed to a lectureship in 1977, and was promoted to a chair in landscape and social history in 2003. He was much admired for his talents as a teacher, and his work on the landscape and society of the medieval period (mainly in the south-west) was widely respected by geographers, historians and archaeologists. He made original contributions to the study of enclosures, field systems, servants, fishing villages, wolds, taxation and much else. The obituary, written by former colleague Prof. Phythian Adams for The Times, is available here [PDF].

A Memorial Day Conference was held for Prof Harold Fox on 19 July 2008.

New Appointment (September 2007)

Dr Richard Jones has been appointed as Lecturer in Landscape History. Dr Jones has previously worked for the Sussex Archaeological Society and the University of Cardiff, and for 5 years was employed as a researcher on the Whittlewood Project.  This was based successively at the Universities of Birmingham and Leicester, and involved research into settlement and landscapes in a dozen parishes on the Buckinghamshire / Northamptonshire border. See Richard's staff page and recent publications here.

A new publishing venture

The Centre for English Local History is joining with the Centre for Local and Regional History in the University of Hertfordshire to publish a series of books: EXPLORATIONS IN LOCAL AND REGIONAL HISTORY.

This is designed to continue the tradition of the celebrated Occasional Papers series, which was published by the Leicester University Press. The aim is to maintain the high quality and innovative approaches of the Occasional Papers, but the Explorations books will be rather longer, in the region of 40,000 to 60,000 words. The emphasis will be on fresh subjects and novel themes, and the books are aimed at both scholars, and the many who read about local history, and do their own research, outside the formal academic world. The books are written in an accessible style, with illustrations. The first three volumes published have been:

• Deserted villages revisited, edited by Christopher Dyer and Richard Jones (2010)
• Landscapes decoded: the origins and development of Cambridgeshire's medieval fields, by Susan Ooisthuisen (2007)
• The self-contained village ? The social history of rural communities, 1250-1900, edited by Christopher Dyer (2006)

Published by the University of Hertfordshire Press.