English Local History, M

English Local History, M.PhilDate2019AuthorTitle of thesisKupfermann, The role of the castle and town of NewEliasWindsor during the English Civil Wars, 16421651.DegreeM.Phil.2016Bagnas,ValerieA micro-history of the poor relief response tocrisis and dearth: Quainton, 1796-1804.M.Phil.2014Ray, SylviaAnglo-Welsh border welfare: Atcham Unionand Forden Incorporation, 1790-1930.M.Phil.2013Francis,Sarah E.‘Worthy citizens’: middle-class women and thepublic sphere in Leicester, c.1850-1900.M.Phil.2007Carlton, AnnThe political culture of Boston, 1540-1640.M.Phil.2007Featherby,RupertPartible inheritance: the family's contributionto Swaledale's ruin?M.Phil.2002Adams, JohnStephenThe politics and administration of financialsupport for the elderly, with special referenceto Northamptonshire, 1900-1948.M.Phil.1998Dexter, JCustom, protest and self-help in miningcommunities of north-east Somerset, 17501930.M.Phil.1998Fox, DorothyE.Families, farming and faith.M.Phil.1997Hall, TeresaAnneMinster churches in the Dorset landscape.M.Phil.1995Bhatt,JenniferMargaret Miller and the campaign for theright of the married woman to earn.M.Phil.1995Scott, PeterG.The influence of railway station names on thenames of places in suburbia in the nineteenthand twentieth centuries: Harrow Borough.M.Phil.

1989Heath, JulianNicholasSettlement and land use in north Wiltshirewith special reference to the first to theeleventh centuries A.D.M.Phil.1985Bone, RogerThe inns of Nottingham, Derby and Leicester,1720-1820.M.Phil.1984Moir,MiriamChurch and society in n,M. A.Population change and agrarian development:the parishes of Bradley, Scartho, andHumberston, c.1520-1730.M.Phil.1981Smith, JohnRaymondThe borough of Maldon, 1688-1768: a study inEnglish urban history.M.Phil.1980Schumer,BerylThe woodland landscape of the Wychwoodregion in the centuries before A.D. 1400.M.Phil.1977Tennant, A.J.Brailes: a Feldon community, 1550-1800.M.Phil.

English Local History Ph.D.DateAuthorTitle of thesisDegree2020Batman, PhilA comparison of kinship family survival in York andin the nineteenth century.Ph.D.2020Mitchell, ChrisRoger of Hereford’s ‘Liber de arte astronomiceiudicandi’: England’s first astrology textbook?Ph.D.2020Sutherland,AlisterPeasant seals and sealing practices in easternEngland, c. 1200-1500Ph.D.2019Blacklaws, NicolaThe twentieth-century Poor Law in the midlandsand Wales, 1900-1930.Ph.D.2019BonnetteAnderson, DeniseThe culture of Anglican Church redundancy:Leicestershire and Lincolnshire, 1945-1995.Ph.D.2019Gadd, Trixie‘Tis my lot by faith to be sustained’: clericalprosperity in seventeenth-century DorsetPh.D.2019Lampert, JodieAn investigation of differentiation betweenCornwall and Devon based on history, surnamesand Y-chromosonesPh.D.2019McMullon, SadieUrban migration and the parish of Fletton, c.18411891.Ph.D.2018Beale, StewartThe experience of war widows during and afterthe British civil wars, with particular reference tothe Midlands.Ph.D.2018Bridger, KatieLandscape, environment and gentry identity inlate medieval Leicestershire.Ph.D.2018Side, ChrisTransient industrialization: needle-making innineteenth-century HathersagePh.D.2018Stones, AnnConnecting Charnwood: a medieval woodlandlandscape, its External and internal links.Ph.D.2017Blake, MatthewStories from the edge: creating an identity in earlyMedieval north-west Staffordshire.Ph.D.2017Crowden, HilaryRutland: the development of a county communityin the modern age.Ph.D.2017Gilbert, MichaelThe changing landscape and economy of WisbechHundred, 1250-1550.Ph.D.2017Rowling, JaneFarming community and identity in LowerWharfedale, Yorkshire, 1914-1951Ph.D.

2017Talbot, RichardThe north-south divide of poverty in a northStaffordshire industrial conurbation, 1870-1901.Ph.D.2017Watkinson, M.The micro-history of a Lincolnshire parish:Humberston, 1750-1850.Ph.D.2017Worthen, HannahThe experience of war widows in midseventeenth-century England, with specialreference to Kent and Sussex.Ph.D.2016Coveney, Natasha The moated site: exploring the shiftingrelationship between people and place in theEnglish medieval countryside.Ph.D.2016Harley, Joseph N.Material lives of the English poor: a regionalperspective, c.1670-1834.Ph.D.2016Love, RobertPolicing and police reform in a rural county:Somerset, c.1830-1856.Ph.D.2016Monks, GeoffreyThe country house and the professionalisation ofestate management, 1700-1914.Ph.D.2015Bailey, IanUnifiers and dividers in a North Staffordshireparish: Audley, 1840-1939.Ph.D.2015Harris, Maureen‘A schismatical people’: conflict between ministersand their parishioners in Warwickshire between1660 and 1714.Ph.D.2015Harvey, BenPauper narratives in the Welsh borders, 17901840.Ph.D.2015Heaton, MichaelEnglish interwar farming: a study of the financialoutcomes of individual farms, 1919-1939.Ph.D.2014Beardmore, CarolThe rural community through the eyes of the landagent on the Marquis of Anglesey’s Dorset andSomerset estate: William Castleman and his sons,c.1812-1854.Ph.D.2014Brueton, AnnaIllegitimacy in south and south-west Wales in theeighteenth and nineteenth centuries.Ph.D.2014Duck, Jonathan‘Space, segregation and spirituality’: expressionsof meaning and belief in the domestic buildings ofsouthern fenland, Cambridgeshire, c.1500-1700.Ph.D.2013Campbell, DrewThe politics of canal construction: the Ashby canal,1781-1804.Ph.D.

2013Dockerill, BertieLocal government reform, urban expansion andidentity: Nottingham and Derby, 1945-1968.Ph.D.2013Hooker, GeoffreyLlandilofawr Poor Law Union, 1836–1886: ’Themost difficult union in Wales’.Ph.D.2013Kilby, SusanEncountering the environment: rural communitiesin England, 1086-1348.Ph.D.2013Taylor-Moore,KimBorderlands: the Buckinghamshire /Northamptonshire border, c.650-1350.Ph.D.2012Allan, LizChepyng Walden / Saffron Walden, 1439-1490: asmall town.Ph.D.20122011Brown, Grahamde Belin, MandyStanley Abbey and its estates, 1150- c.1640.Transitional hunting landscapes: deer hunting andfoxhunting in Northamptonshire, 1600-1850.Ph.D.Ph.D.2009Brammer, B.The Holland Fen: social and topographical changesin a Fenland environment, 1750-1945.Ph.D.2009Seal, ChristinePoor relief and welfare: a comparative study ofthe Belper and Cheltenham poor law unions,1780-1914.Ph.D.2008Negrine, AngelaMedicine and poverty: a study of the poor lawmedical services of the Leicester union, 18671914.Ph.D.2007Fisher, PamelaJaneThe politics of sudden death: the office and role ofthe coroner in England and Wales, 1726-1888.Ph.D.2007Holmes, DavidAndrewDevelopment of the East Midlands boot and shoeindustry in a national perspective, 1815-1914.Ph.D.2007Ito, KotaThe making of the civic community: Newcastleupon-Tyne, 1850-1900.Ph.D.2006McLoughlin,VanessaMedieval Rothley, Leicestershire: manor, soke andparish.Ph.D.2006Sheppard, DavidTechniques for reconstructing landscapes: a studyof Allesley, Coundon and Stoneleigh parishes inthe Warwickshire Arden.Ph.D.2006Tompkins,MatthewPeasant society in a Midlands manor, GreatHorwood 1400-1600.Ph.D.2006Townsend, ClaireTown, county and region: spatial integration in theEast Midlands, 1700-1830.Ph.D.2005Cordle, CeliaElizabethHop cultivation and marketing: Wealden Kent andSouthwark, 1744-2000.Ph.D.

2005Crossan, RoseMarie AnneGuernsey, 1814-1914: migration in a modernisingsociety.Ph.D.2005Hunt, Ian D. J.Rural production in transition: three parishesaround Coleorton Moor, north-westLeicestershire, c.1650-1850Ph.D.2004Davis,VernonEdward LloydCharnwood Forest: population, landownershipand environmental perception, c.1775-1914.Ph.D.2004Thornton,Michael John.Lee, RobertJamesRural society in the manor courts ofNorthamptonshire, 1350-1500.Encountering and managing the poor: rural societyand the Anglican clergy in Norfolk, 1815-1914.Ph.D.20032003Marston, LynnUpton, A. A.The town of Glastonbury, c.1086-1400.Parochial clergy of the Archdeaconry of Coventry,c. 1500-1600.Ph.D.Ph.D.2002Brown, ElaineWorking-class education and illiteracy in Leicester,1780-1870.Ph.D.2002Fox, Alan WilliamThe Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border in theeighteenth century: a cultural frontier?Ph.D.2002Paul, ElizabethDerryanThe care of country churches in Herefordshire,c.1662-1762, with special reference to thearchdeaconry of Hereford and the capitularpeculiars.Ph.D.2002Upton, PenelopeJayne GeorgeChange and decay: the Warwickshire manors ofthe Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield from the latethirteenth to the late sixteenth centuries.Ph.D.2001Masters, PhilipJohnChurch, land and lordship in West Sussex, 6801200.Ph.D.2001Phillips, SibylMargarettaWomen and evangelical religion in Kent andNorthamptonshire, 1800-1850.Ph.D.2001Pinches, SylviaMargaretCharities in Warwickshire in the eighteenth andnineteenth centuries.Ph.D.2001Stuart, Denis G.The early Quaker movement in Staffordshire,1651-1743: from open fellowship to closed sect.Ph.D.2000Hurren, ElizabethT.Ph.D.2000Robinson-Pyne,Elizabeth MaryThe ‘Bury-al Board’: poverty, politics and poorrelief in the Brixworth Union, Northamptonshire,c.1870-1900.Rugby working women: choices and experiences,1920-1950.2003Ph.D.Ph.D.

1999Starr, ChristopherThe Essex gentry, 1381-1450.Ph.D.1999Vialls, ChristineMaryThe laws of settlement: their impact on the poorinhabitants of the Daventry area ofNorthamptonshire, 1750-1834.Ph.D.1998Crockett, AlasdairCharlesA secularising geography? Patterns and processesof religious change in England and Wales, 16761851.Ph.D.1998Harrison, J. D.The composite manor of Brent: a study of a largewetland-edge estate up to 1350.Ph.D.1998Hill, Trevor G.From packhorse to railway: changing transportsystems from the seventeenth to the nineteenthcenturies and their impact upon trade andindustry in the Shropshire area.Ph.D.1998Parkin, KateCourts and the community: reconstructing thefourteenth-century peasant society of WisbechHundred, Cambridgeshire, from manor court rolls.Ph.D.1998Rollings, A.Aspects of Anglo-Saxon history in the EastMidlands with special reference to the lower Soarvalley.Ph.D.1997Thompson,Michael GrayThe Polden Hill manors of Glastonbury Abbey:land and people c. 1260-1351.Ph.D.1996Jones, GrahamRoderickChurch dedications and landed units of lordshipand administration in the pre-ReformationDiocese of Worcester.Ph.D.1995Bowman, P.Settlement, territory and land use in the EastMidlands: the Langton hundred, c. 150 B.C. - c.A.D. 1350.Ph.D.1995Brown, MargeryEllenAspects of parliamentary enclosure inNottinghamshire.Ph.D.1994Carpenter,Rebecca MayPeasants and stockingers: socio-economic changein Guthlaxton Hundred, Leicestershire, 1700-1851.Ph.D.1994Peberdy, RobertBernardThe economy, society and government of a smalltown in late medieval England: a study of Henleyon-Thames from c.1300 to c.1540.Ph.D.1991Nix, MichaelA maritime history of the ports of Bideford andBarnstaple, 1786-1841.Ph.D.1991Storm, AlanFamily and maritime community: Robin Hood’sBay, c. 1653 - c. 1867.Ph.D.