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Date Name Title of Dissertation 2020 BROOKES, J. Shaping Worfield: lordly avarice, neighbourhood watch or wider forces: social change in rural , 1440-1660. 2020 COYNE, A. ‘The Wool, the Lamb and the Flock’, a study of Newark-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, during the fourteenth century. 2020 DONEGANI, K.L. Apprenticeship in in the mid-nineteenth century.

2020 IMMINS, P. The experience of a working-class woman: Leicester in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

2019 BOURNE, S. Bolton, parish conflict and the legacy of the English Revolution, 1640-1680.

2019 BRYCELAND, M. The new village of South Wigston, 1880-1910: the place, the people and the communities.

2019 PARKER, J. Proto-industrialization and family life: an examination of the framework knitting industry in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, from the 1851 census.

2019 RUSSELL, D. Merely a lake? The fluidity of Whittlesey Mere in medieval and early modern 2019 SHAW, P. Terroir and tradition: how farming choice influenced settlement in Leicestershire’s Wreake valley

2018 HARGREAVES, S. Population and society in Hopton, a township in , 1660-1705. 2018 HARVEY, B. Service and mobility. 2017 BROWN, L. Power, charity and brotherly love: local government and society in two towns: Thaxted and Braintree, 1580-1660.

2016 EVANS, J. The ethnic sense of the English in nineteenth-century emigrants’ letters.

2016 HANLEY, K. Leicester: the metropolis of Dissent by 1848? 2016 HARGREAVES, P. Physicians in seventeenth-century . 2016 JONES, T. An examination of the tripartite relationship between women, clothing and emancipation during the period 1890-1920s: what factors influenced changes to female clothing and did this expedite female emancipation?

2016 PULLIN, J. The LBSCR drivers: a study of the engine drivers employed by the , Brighton and South Coast Railway, 1850-1885

2016 ROUND, L. ‘Be kindly affectioned to one another’: love and parish politics in Stanton Lacy, Shropshire

2016 SUTHERLAND, A. Using manorial custumals to explore the peasant experience in medieval England, c.1251-1354

2015 BLACKLAWS, N. Outdoor relief in Blaby poor law union: Leicestershire, c. 1916-1926.

2015 BUTLER, A. Leicester’s cultural catastrophe: an investigation into the complete closure of Leicester’s professional theatres in the 1950s.

2015 COTTON, C. ‘Black Roods, Rang Back and Dob Headland’: a study of Thrussington field-names. 2015 HAMMOND, P. The effect of improvement in a selected area of north-west Leicestershire, 1750-1800. 2015 HAWORTH, C. The origin and development of the street plan of Oakham in John Speed’s town plan. 2015 LEONARD, P. Poor relief in Stow in Lindsey, 1750- 1833. 2015 MARSHALL, A. The psyche of the landowner and the development of the country house estate: an examination of the woodland and avenues at Boughton House, 1700-1750.

2015 RILEY, J. Holmfirth: a study in regional and local identity and community.

2015 ROBINSON, D. Charnwood Forest and its visitors, 1500-1900 2015 SHEA, K. A comparative study of the feminization of the teaching profession in United Kingdom and United States of America from 1890 to 1930.

2015 SPIERS, A. Bread supplied for London, 1750-1830.

2015 TAYLOR, J. A national phenomenon in local context: Victorian church restorations in Nottinghamshire.

2014 ALLEY WILBUR, E. A humble petition: war widows, 1642-1679. 2014 EMERY, J. ‘The future beckons bright': senses of place and placelessness in the Newark and Sherwood coalfield, c.1960s to present.

2014 FAGG, J. Occupation, migration and the elderly: aspects of life in three parishes, 1871-1901.

2014 GIBSON, N.H. Comparing poor relief in the parishes of Wallsend and Longbenton, 1750- 1850. 2014 MEE, R. 'Leaden heels, but iron hands’: prosecution associations in Derbyshire, 1703-2013. 2014 MUSGRAVE, D. The River Soar and Leicester: a neglected relationship. 2014 POULTON, W. The parish of West Langton in the Age of Improvement: a study based on a ‘Book of Accounts and Memorandums’ for 18191822 written by William Price, farmer and grazier of West Langton, Leicestershire.

2014 TONGE, H. Social mobility in later medieval England: the Pouger family and their kinship and patronage networks.

2013 BLAND, J. The impact of a coal mine on a small agricultural community: the creation of a hybrid society.

2013 (ISS) BONNETTE-ANDERSON, D. The social implications of church seating in .

2013 CAWS, S. Continuity or change? The and the Agricultural Revolution, 1750-1850. 2013 (ISS) GADD, T. St George, , 1750- 1850: social and economic relations in a marginal parish.

2013 GRISTWOOD, H. Puerperal insanity: a study of women admitted to the county asylums at Brookwood in , Colney Hatch in and Knowle in between the years 1870 and 1900.

2013 MOSS, S. The Embroiderers’ Guild, 1906-2012: elitist, exclusive and outmoded or professional, influential and avant- garde? 2013 MULCAHEY, K. Perceptions of peddling: a study of the reputation of Hawkers and Pedlars, 1780 to 1914. 2013 PATERSON, M. Sir Nathan Wright, 1653-1721, Recorder of Leicester, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and his ‘Notebook’.

2013 RICHARDS, D. The culture of nonconformity in Castle Donington, 1650-1950.

2013 STONES, A. Estate mentalities: changing sense of place on a Leicester council estate, 1947-2012. 2013 WALTON, C. Coal and wood in late medieval Coleorton and some surrounding manors. 2012 (ISS) BATMAN, P. The survival of rural core families: Bolton Percy and Poppleton in the Ainsty of York from Enclosure to the Second World War.

2012 (ISS) BEARDMORE, C. The rural community through the eyes of the land-agent. 2012 BROWNESS, S. Witnesses to change: early domestic travel writing in the Fens.

2012 CHARLESWORTH, D. The development of the churches and their landscapes in northwest Gloucestershire, 1000-1300.

2012 FRENCH, P.R. The ‘making’ of a local regiment: a case study of the Leicestershire regiment and its antecedents, c.1770- 1902. 2012 HARVEY, B. Swinton, south – a very ‘northern’ parish? Pauper narratives, 1799-1837. 2012 (ISS) HORTON, B. The Kidderminster carpet weaver: his migration response to the technological change from hand loom to power loom weaving between 1851 and 1881.

2012 LEEDHAM, A. Gravestones and identity from the five ancient parish churches and churchyards of Leicester. 2012 QUINN, N. Rates and reform: the Lancaster poor law union, 1870-1911.

2012 (ISS) SIDE, C. Migration from the village of Chute during the nineteenth century.

2012 WELLER, V. Coercion, compliance or conversion? The impact of religious change in north-east Warwickshire between 1530 and 1559.

2012 (ISS) WHITING, A. Merely ‘mechanical’, ‘ministerial’ and ‘menial’, or much, much more? What was the role of professional attorneys in late thirteenth-century litigation as revealed by evidence from the 1268 Buckinghamshire eyre?

2011 (ISS) HEATON, M. The influence of Parliamentary Enclosure on Grassing-Down in Northamptonshire. 2011 (ISS) JAKEWAY, J. Manifestations of madness: a study of the patients of County Asylum, 1846-1870.

2011 (ISS) JONES, R. The collapse of Luddism in the West Riding, 1811-13. 2011 KILBY, S. A different world? Reconstructing the peasant environment in medieval Elton. 2011 O’DONNELL, R. Beyond the origins debate: developing dynamic models of Leicestershire open fields. 2011 (ISS) PARRY, J. The marriage market in market towns: Diss and Guildford in the Commonwealth. 2011 PEARSON, H. Of cows, ploughs and more than a few sheep: an oral history of farming in Walton-on-the-Wolds, 1939-2010.

2011 (ISS) PHIPPS, S. Schoolmistresses in Swindon, 1870- 1902. 2011 SEGRT, M. landscapes of myth and legend: perceived landscapes and landscapes of belief.

2011 SHIPMAN, P. An investigation into the early development and running of Countesthorpe cottage homes and the education and welfare of Leicester pauper children under the Poor Law, 1881-1914.

2011 (ISS) WILEMAN, D. The pauper and parish policy: Southwell Union, 1820-1850. 2010 BOWEN, J. A landscape of improvement: the impact of James Loch, chief agent to the Marquis of Stafford on the Lilleshall estate, Shropshire, 1720- 1820. 2010 DAVIDSON, E. The evolution and secularisation of the funeral in Leicester and Leicestershire, 1830-2010.

2010 FLACK, H. The River Severn – barrier or bridge? The impact on communities of the River Severn in Worcestershire in the period c.850 to 1500.

2010 (ISS) HARDY, M. Exe-Dart : some social and economic effects of the Newfoundland trade. 2010 HAWKINS, M. The impact of the building of the Grand Junction Canal on selected settlements in Northamptonshire, 1793-1850. 2010 (ISS) JAMIESON, D. Willington: landscape and society from 1380 to 1540. 2010 (ISS) LOMAS, C. The dynamics of early medieval town development in .

2010 (ISS) O’NEILL, M. Medieval women as food providers.

2010 SCHMIDT, A. Getting there ... a review of the roads and track ways of northeast Leicestershire: particularly those that may have been used by drovers. 2010 STEWART, S. The impact of enclosure in Leicestershire on the parson and his glebe land 1760-1830: Billesdon, Lutterworth and Rothley.

2010 TEDD, M. Naming in Anstey 1850-1950: a mirror of social structure. 2010 TYLER, S. The silk ribbon weaving industry of Coventry. With a case study: Bulkington an outdoor working community in the Coventry silk ribbon weaving trade, 1818-1863.

2010 (ISS) WHITEHEAD, M. What happened in, and what happened to, Sunday Schools Ashton- under-Lyne, Lancashire 1800-2000?

2009 BARBOUR, R Gundogs in nineteenth-century Warwickshire: a guide to social change. 2009 (ISS) COWEN, P.E. The transformation of a yeoman society: Windermere 1640-1841.

2009 DOW, D. Stockport, the prototype mill town: the why, wherefore and therefore.

2009 PLOM, A.J. The demise of slavery in early England, ecclesiastic erosion or economic evolution? 2008 BUTTREY, P. Quiet and orderly: the administration, placement and treatment of pauper lunatics in Croydon from 1875 to 1914.

2008 CAMBERS, C. Water, shelter and centricity: were post-enclosure farmers persuaded?

2008 (ISS) DROBNER, H. St Willibrord’s calendar and the mutual veneration of local saints in Britain and on the Continent.

2008 FEAREY, A. Nineteenth-century Northamptonshire shoe-workers: where did they come from? 2008 FLETCHER, L. Local charity: its role and social meaning in the area of the Oundle Poor Law Union, 1800-1900.

2008 HIROSUE, M. Avebury, World Heritage Site management planning issues. 2008 JENNINGS, P. Plan analysis and the development of Leicester’s medieval urban landscape.

2008 (ISS) JONES, R. The Gregynog estate, , 1880-1920. 2008 (ISS) MUIR, M. Independent and leisure travel, 1635- 1850. 2008 PETERSEN, C.L. The impact of the Reformation in Derbyshire: the evidence from wills in four communities. 2008 (ISS) RAMSEY, P. Cumnor parish: a parochial perspective on the English agricultural revolution.

2008 RAPHAEL, F. An exploration of the life and opinions of John Smedley (180374), inventor of the mild system of hydrothapy, in relation to the development of water cures in Matlock Bank and Matlock Bath.

2008 STONE, R. Woodland in the east landscape. 2008 (ISS) WAGER, A. The effect of early railways on landscape and communities in Derbyshire. 2007 BUSBY, M. Leicestershire settlements through the late fourteenth-century poll tax records – urban or rural?

2007 CAMPBELL, D. The local politics of improvement: debating the Ashby canal, 1781-1794.

2007 PEGRAM, J. The cemeteries from Victorian distinction to ethnic pluralism.

2007 RUCK, R. The common, custom, conflict and control: a study of Defford Common, Worcestershire. 2007 TORNBOHM, N. Facets of enclosure in a mid- Derbyshire manor, 1760-1860. 2006 CARTER, S. Leicestershire mercers, 1660-1710.

2006 DAY, A. churches: location, relationships and change. 2006 DYNDOR, Z. Capital punishment and the press in Northamptonshire, 17801834.

2006 FITTON-BROWN, O. Conflict over church ritualism: Thorpe, Surrey, 1910. 2006 HASELDINE, A. Milling hydro-power in Domesday . 2006 JONES, S. A lasting revolution? Outworking practices in the boot and shoe trade.

2006 (ISS) RAY, S. A study of Atcham Union Workhouse at Crosshouses, Shropshire 1794-1894.

2006 TAYLOR-MOORE, K. The comparative development of Aylesbury and Buckingham up to c. 1550. 2005 COOPER, K. Out-migration from the land, 1850- 1912: Cardiganshire. 2005 DIPLOCK, P. The introduction of three utilities (gas, electricity and telephone) into three market towns (Marlow, Oakham and Stamford).

2005 GILPIN, S. Growth and development of the rural parish of Flixton between 1841 and 1891. 2005 MATTHEWS, C. What’s the point of a spire? A religious symbol and social tool in Louth on the eve of the Reformation.

2005 MILLER, E. Variations in the administrative prevalence of pauper insanity in England, 1850-1900. 2005 MURPHY, N. W. Devon’s supply of indentured servants 1655-1660. 2005 REED, J. The foundation of Mount St Bernard Abbey and its effect on the secular community. 2005 ROLL, P. Twentieth-century developments in rural life: a study of population change in two Northamptonshire parishes.

2005 STATHAM, E. Cromwell’s wars to Cook’s tours: Leicestershire Baptists, 1650-1850.

2005 TAYLOR, P. The social history of eighteenth- century domestic medicine in the south Midlands.

2005 TOMLINSON, J. A sense of place in Eden Phillpotts’ Dartmoor cycle. 2004 BAILEY, M. The effects of industry on the “close” village model. 2004 COOPER, J. A study of limestone quarrying in Ketton, Rutland: the influence of the industry during the middle of the late nineteenth century on the village and its community, taking in both the landscape and cultural aspects.

2004 CROWDEN, H. Boundaries and borders: the battle for Rutland, the identity of an English rural community in the late twentieth century. 2004 DACK, C. The distinguishing features of a rural middling sort: a socioeconomic and cultural study of Alstonefield, Staffordshire.

2004 DAVIS, P. From poverty to mud, money and music: the industrialisation of a Northamptonshire village in the nineteenth century. 2004 DE BELIN, M The landscape of foxhunting: Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland, 1750-1900.

2004 GRUNDY, P. The impact of industrialization on the rural community of Barrow upon Soar, Leicestershire, 1700-2000. 2004 JENKINS, P. What sort of people needed poor law relief in Cardington, , April 1817 - March 1818? What help did they receive?

2004 LAITNER, A. Private and charity apprentices in Birmingham, 1700-1816. 2004 SOUTHIN, R. Whitwick: from woodland settlement to mining village, a change of character within eighty years, 1800-1880.

2004 WHELAN, E. An examination of the continuity of poor relief between the Old Poor law and the New Poor Law: a study of the Oundle and Thrapston unions of Northamptonshire

2003 DIXON, P. The new Domesdays: continuity and change in three parishes. 2003 ELSWORTH, M. The proof of a town. 2003 FISHER, P. An object of ambition? The office and role of the coroner in two Midland counties, 1751-1888.

2003 MEE, S. Localisation and/or approbation? Examination of the legend of Robin Hood within Nottinghamshire.

2003 PEGG, A. Kettering, Rothwell and Oundle, 1680- 1840. 2003 WHALLEY, M. The buildings of dissent: the architecture of chapels in rural Northamptonshire. 2002 BURNS, S. The socio-economic history of a south- west Leicestershire village: Leire, 1870- 1945. 2002 CASSON, P. Churches and ritual landscapes in the Sparkenhoe hundred of Leicestershire.

2002 DAVIES, S. Co-operation, anti-fascism and pacifism in an alternative youth movement: the Woodcraft Folk in Sheffield, 1929-1950. 2002 HAYTER, D.G. Pastures and profits: sheep and enclosure in sixteenth-century south Northamptonshire. 2002 HOLMES, D. Creating an industrial society: a history of the shoe industry in Desborough since 1850 2002 SHILHAN, S. Women and superstition: a study of superstitions concerning the female life-cycle in south Lincolnshire in the first half of the twentieth century.

2002 SMITH, M. New churches, rebuilding and restoration and their relationship to economy and landownership in nineteenth-century Leicestershire.

2002 WARD-LANGMAN, C. The effects of evacuation on Leicestershire 1939-1945: an oral history project. 2001 BREWIN, M. The eighteenth-century English urban renaissance and its effects on three market towns of Leicestershire.

2001 CULLEN, M. The churches and chapels of Leamington Priors. 2001 FENN, A. C. W. Settlement patterns in early medieval Rhwng Gwy a Hafren. 2001 HIGGINS, D.M.M. In search of Bromswold. 2001 HURST, A.J. The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia.

2001 JESSOP, P. Medieval Framland: the spatial development of churches in north-east Leicestershire. 2001 LEWIS, J.O. At the sign of the hop leaf: the rise of H. and G. Simonds Ltd, a brewer. 2001 SALTER, J. Witches and devils: a comparative study of the experience of witchcraft in and , 1670-1700.

2001 TOMPKINS, M. Emerging pays and peasant migration in Buckinghamshire c. 1332-1552: the evidence from surnames. 2001 YORK, T.O. Church and churchyard memorials of the lower Soar valley 1540-1850.

2000 ALLAN, J. R. A Cambridgeshire parish – Bassingbourn, 1487-1557: observations on the context and practice of piety. 2000 AUCOTT, P.J. Economic and social developments in South-East Leicestershire in late Middle Ages – the formation of a region around a developing town (Market Harborough).

2000 AYRES, M. Beyond the rural idyll: housing ’s labouring poor in the early nineteenth century. 2000 BOWES, A. G. G Landscapes in Nottinghamshire: a study of four villages and their historic landscape characterisation.

2000 GALBRAITH, F. Changes in upland parishes in Derbyshire. 2000 GODFREY, A. Industry and class: a study of two Leicestershire villages, 1850-1900.

2000 HARDEN, N. Living stones living water: a study of the siting of churches in southern Warwickshire. 2000 HUMBER, L. The health and safety of women workers in munitions factories during the First World War.

2000 LINDLEY, M. Land use and occupations in Brassington, Derbyshire, during the nineteenth century. 2000 MERRIMAN, R. The use of Swithland slate gravestones, and their engravers.

2000 MURRAY, J. New Forest marlpits and the right of common of marl. 2000 ROBINSON, C. The smock: a garment of distinction.

2000 SMART, P. J. The influence of the hosiery trade on the growth and development of Leicester’s satellite villages, 1700- 1851. 1999 BADCOCK, M. Landownership, rents and tenures on Dartmoor, 1840-1910.

1999 BARRY, P. J. S. Reconstructing the pre-enclosure social and topographic conditions of a Breckland village: Roudham.

1999 BUCKHAM, P.E. Representations of artisans from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century. 1999 BURRELL, K. Identity and integration: a study of the Polish community in Leicester.

1999 CARPENTER, C. Rural transformation: cause and effect in the landscape evolution of Churchill and Blakedown since 1850.

1999 CARR, J-P. The working world: Irchester in Northamptonshire, 1841-1891. 1999 GILBERT, J. Off the beaten track: Glenfield (1871- 1939) village or suburb? 1999 HADEN, J. Church wall paintings. 1999 JOHNSON, B. The General Strike in the Mansfield area 1926. 1999 LEE, R. ‘Midnight crimes and guilty consciences’: rural war in Norfolk 1815-1875, the search for a radical agenda. 1999 O’FLANAGAN, P. Sense of place in the novels of Maeve Binchy. 1999 RODEN, R. Dens of iniquity? The public house in the Victorian slums of Manchester and Salford. 1999 ROWLEY, J. W. Scraptoft: settlement to enclosure.

1999 SELDEN, R. Policing Bedfordshire prior to the Rural Constabulary Act, 1839

1999 THOMSON, A. A study of roles and relationships in a Rutland village in the midVictorian period: Glaston c.1860-1890.

1999 THOMSON, D. Charities in Rutland. 1999 TOON, S. Swithland slate headstones in Leicestershire. 1999 TRACEY, B. “Discord among the ratepayers”: the story of the installation of a piped water supply and drainage system in the district of Market Harborough, Leicestershire.

1998 ALDERSON, J. A study of the landscape and population of the parish of Coleorton in north-west Leicestershire.

1998 FARRELL, S. The chaining of the countryside: an evaluation of parliamentary enclosure with reference to three Northamptonshire parishes.

1998 FOX, D Crosses of the North York Moors: a study of the stone crosses of the North York Moors, their origins and purposes.

1998 HAMMOND, C. Aspects of the occupational structures of four villages in south Nottinghamshire, 1851-1871.

1998 HAWKER, K. ‘Instructed in the art and mystery’, Leicestershire apprentices in Hanoverian and early Victorian times.

1998 HEATHCOTE BALL, J. An attempt to analyse the development of the alabaster effigy tombs of Leicestershire 1350-1605.

1998 JONES, C. Aspects of society in the Vale of Belvoir in the first half of the nineteenth century, looking particularly at the relationship between the Nonconformist and Established sectors of society.

1998 RAINSFORD, C. H. The growth of Margate as a popular seaside resort through the development of transport and leisure activities, 1840-1939.

1998 REDPATH, C.R. The Ishams of Lamport and their rôle as Justices of the Peace, 1660-1737. 1998 REDPATH, F.M. A Northamptonshire gentry family in the age of watering places.

1997 BATEMAN, J. Those who fought, those who prayed, those who worked: the secular clergy and laity in the archdeaconry of Northampton in the late Middle Ages.

1997 BATES, W The churches’ mission in south Derbyshire and north-west Leicestershire, 1901-1911. 1997 BRADY, R.L. A comparison of attitudes towards domestic service in England during the Victorian period and the early to mid- twentieth century.

1997 CLARKE, J.S. Turnpike roads in Shropshire: part of the development of communications in the West Midlands.

1997 CORDLE, C. The culture of the hop: Wealden , 1830-1996. 1997 FOX, A.W. The agrarian economy of six parishes in the Wreake Valley from 1540-1680.

1997 HADLEY A. Hill-tops, cyninges-tuns and wics: central places and trade in the south- west from Roman to Saxon times.

1997 HUNT, I.D.J. A change of direction: for the rural economy of north-west Leicestershire, 1791-1841. 1997 JOYCE, R. Intellectual, cultural and religious life in late eighteenth-century Derby.

1997 LOFAS, D. M. The introduction of parish councils.

1997 LYND-EVANS, P. Morphology of villages in the central region of Lincolnshire from the early Saxon period. 1997 McHARG, G. Cell by the sea: the study of the priory of Saint Bees in its religious, economic and cultural setting within the barony of Coupland and Cumbria as a whole. 1997 OLIVER, D.P. First duties, truest pleasures: an examination of cottage building on the Russell estates in Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire between 1802-1914.

1997 SLATER, D. Summary justice in Northamptonshire - eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1997 STEWART, S. The status of women in Surrey, c.1235- 1348. 1997 UPTON, A.A. Sixteenth-century Foleshill: population, economy and religion in a Coventry suburban parish.

1997 UPTON, P. Place-names of Warwickshire revisited. 1997 WILCOX, P. Enclosure in Leicestershire: the case of three villages enclosed between 1652 and 1780. 1997 WOLFE, G. Keeping the peace: Warwickshire 1630-1700. 1997 WRIGHT, S. Kingsthorpe, village or suburb: a study of a Northamptonshire parish 1700- 1931. 1996 ANDREWS, K. World War II: its effect on the work of working-class women in Boston, Lincolnshire. 1996 DAVENPORT, C. Daventry's craft companies, 1590- 1675. 1996 EDWARDS, J. Brewham Lodge, Somerset: from receivership to sale - highlighting legal matters of the period 1799-1816.

1996 GREENFIELD, E.M. The social and economic effects of the decline of lead mining on villages in north Derbyshire, 1851-1891.

1996 HILLIER, K. The welfare and education of working- class children in Ashby de la Zouch in the nineteenth century.

1996 INGLESANT, D. Retailing furniture, 1850-1950. 1996 PALMER, B. Landscape, economy and peasant society: the Ramsey manor of Elton, 1275-1347. 1996 PINCHES, S. Roman Catholic charities and voluntary societies in the diocese of Birmingham, 1834-1945.

1996 RICHARDSON, P. Market vills and the development of boroughs in medieval Suffolk.

1996 SCOTT, H.L. The changing fortunes of the Royal Arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1830- 1882. 1996 SHEPPARD, D. In search of the Forest of Arden.

1996 SNELLING, J. Early-modern and modern society reflected in memorials: a local perspective - the Welland valley.

1996 STOKES, P.A. The organisation of landscape and territory on the estates of Glastonbury Abbey: a case study of the manors of Ditcheat and Pennard.

1996 THORNBOROW, P. Mortality crises in Northampton, 1571- 1640. 1996 THORNTON, M. Women peasants in Bedfordshire and Huntingdonshire before the Black Death.

1995 BABINGTON, I. The hand-made nail industry of the Black Country: a study of an occupational culture. 1995 BROWN, E. Leicester Mechanics’ Institute, 1833- 1870: studied in its local and national context. 1995 BROWN, J. The nineteenth century industrialization of a primary market town: Grantham, Lincolnshire.

1995 COOPER, N. The church in Anglo-Saxon . 1995 DOWNER, S. Settlement rank, status and territory in north Worcestershire in the eighth to eleventh centuries. 1995 HALL, J. Poems and songs of Staffordshire in the modern period and their depiction of people and region.

1995 LUXTON, S. A small ? A portrait of the Polish community in Leicester.

1995 MARKS, R. Padbury: kinship and community c. 1538-1634. 1995 ORME, P. Alabaster monuments as a reflection of changes in liturgy. 1995 PARSONS, B. Status, occupations and land-holding: the emergence of an independent peasantry in the High Weald of East in the late thirteenth century - the evidence of Ashdown Forest and its region.

1995 RAYBOULD, W. 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 century and the beginning of the nineteenth century.

1995 REED, H. The Cornish saints in their background.

1995 VERDON, N. Women's work in the inter-war period: a study of Nottingham. 1995 WILLARS, G. A view from the 1/9s: a sense of place: the English regional novel in film.

1994 BATES, D. Industrial location: cotton spinning in Northampton – a case study.

1994 BENNETT, C.I. A devouring nostalgia and an infinite repulsion: the impact of D.H. Lawrence on the town and country of Eastwood.

1994 BENNETT, J. The ecclesiastical topography of the Fenland: the Anglo-Saxon period.

1994 BROWN, J.L. South Highfields, Leicester: the evolution of a suburb, 1891-1991. 1994 BURNS, H. Aspects of the Portsmouth area in fiction from 1814. 1994 CAMERON, J. The lives of female vagrants in the casual ward of St Mary’s workhouse, Nottingham, April 1899-1900.

1994 HENDY, S. Bedfordshire in 1851: an exploration of the patterns of worship of the major religious denominations in the registration district of Bedfordshire at the time of the religious census.

1994 HUTCHIN, J.D. Attitudes to the relief of poverty in Leicester, 1901-14. 1994 JACKSON, P. Sawley, from principal settlement to suburb: a study of rural decline in the nineteenth century.

1994 KENNEDY, P.J.B. The air raids on Smethwick and Oldbury 1940-1942. 1994 NEWMAN, E. Surname development 1279-1332 in the Kineton Hundred of Warwickshire.

1994 PARR, M. The churchyard in the modern period: function, idea and place.

1994 PITT, J. Land and people in a late-medieval forest: an investigation of woodland society.

1994 STANIFORTH, L. Rural and urban cotton plantations: some reasons for their establishment and the resultant effects upon the Macclesfield hundred of , 1780-1869.

1994 WALLACE, J. Newspapers in Leicester, 1850-1900.

1994 WISE, R. Corby: the growth and decline of a steel town 1930-1990. 1993 ADAMS, J.S. Crisis in Crippledom: some aspects of the history of the Rowley Bristow Orthopaedic Hospital, Pyrford, Surrey, 1908-1962. 1993 AUSTIN, J.P. The trees and woodlands of the Cecils.

1993 COOPER, A. Patterns of nonconformity and social change in nineteenthcentury Cardiganshire.

1993 DAVIES, V.E.L. A sweet prison: aspects of the origin and establishment of the Leicester Asian community. 1993 DAVIS, D.K. The Glastonbury manor of Sowy, 1086- 1308. 1993 DRAYCOTT, C. The : a study of the early history of Peterborough Abbey and its dependent local settlements, up to the time of the Domesday Survey with special emphasis on the Anglo-Saxon period.

1993 FOX, D.E. The spread of Christianity and Christian churches in the wapentake of Langbargh, North Riding of Yorkshire 600-1300.

1993 GARRISON, L. Post-war immigration and settlement of West Indians in Nottingham, 1948- 1968. 1993 GARVEN, M. 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 GOODWIN, D. The relationship between landlord and tenant in nineteenth-century North .

1993 INDER, P.M. Topographical prints and the development of seaside resorts: case studies of Scarborough and Sidmouth.

1993 MASTERS, P.J. The minsters, territories and proprietary churches of Saxon West Sussex. 1993 MERRALL, I. The sense of belonging amongst people in the Midlands. 1993 PARKIN, K. The commercialization of the Cambridgeshire economy, c.1300.

1993 PHELAN, L. Commoning in the New Forest in the nineteenth century. 1993 SEKULLA, M.F. Patterns of naming in the parish of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, 1550-1850.

1993 SIMKIN, A. Community participation and the role of women in the court rolls of the manor of Wakefield, 1274-1352.

1993 TOOLE, S. Liverpool in the mid-Victorian era: its pride and shame. 1993 WAINWRIGHT, J.A. The evolution of parish and township boundaries on the Yorkshire wolds.

1992 ADAMS, N.C. The local Coventry society as revealed by five autobiographies.

1992 ALDIS, M. One man’s Nuneaton, 1810-1854.

1992 BIRD, S.C. Watlington, 1660-1740: a market town? 1992 BROOKER, J. Prosperity and decline in fourteenth- century : an evaluation of commerce, mobility and wealth distribution.

1992 EDWARDS, E. The medieval market town of Solihull, 1200-1580. 1992 EDWARDS, L.E. A study of Coalville from the census returns. 1992 EVELEIGH, N.G. Landscape and environment: their contribution to the evolution of settlement in early medieval Kesteven.

1992 HAYES, W.F.G. The working poor in mid-nineteenth century Torquay. 1992 JACKSON, A.J.H. The country house estate economy in decline: east Devon 1870-1939.

1992 KING, J. George Eliot's legacy: local history revisited. 1992 LANGWORTH, P.J. Glebeland and field systems in Cambridgeshire. 1992 MASSAM, M. Ballads and the nineteenth-century transition from Britain to Australia.

1992 McINTOSH, T. The decline of Stourbridge Fair 1770- 1934: deliberate suppression or inevitable collapse?

1992 MOORE, M. Stone quarrying in the Isle of Purbeck: an oral history. 1992 PAGETT, K. Image problems: the ambiguous identity of Birmingham as represented in novels set in the city, c.1870-1950.

1992 PEET, S.J. The magisterial elite of Southampton, 1550-1600. 1992 SMITH, H.B. Communities of butchers and tanners of the Borough of Leicester, 1520- 1640. 1992 SPARLING, T. An enquiry into the effect of drainage and watersheds on settlement from the end of the Roman period to the Norman period.

1992 TURNOCK, B.M. Land use in parts of Leicestershire as revealed in Domesday Book.

1991 ALI, L.S. The social and economic history of the Hope valley from the mid- to the late- nineteenth century.

1991 HARRIS, K.S. Some aspects of education and society in Market Harborough 1869-1913 as seen through schools' log books.

1991 HODGKINSON, J.S. Changing standards of living in the smaller house in the Northampton area, 1850-1940. 1991 NURSS, K. The transmission of culture: process of naming, marriage and death in the American colonial Chesapeake.

1991 OWEN, T.E. Enclosure, poor relief expenditure and the labouring poor in Leicestershire, 1750-1830. 1991 STUTTARD, R. People with small means and high hopes: co-operators in Leicester, 1860- 1990. 1991 THOMAS, C.M. Population, poverty and partible inheritance: Rothley, 1660-1760: a century of economic and social change in a Leicestershire village.

1990 KEEP, R.I. Settlement and territory in east : a study of the complex and dynamic patterns of settlement and territory in east Herefordshire in the Anglo-Saxon and medieval periods.

1990 SHETTLE, M. The development of fire protection in Surrey 1666-1941 with especial reference to south-west Surrey.

1989 BAINBRIDGE, J. The social and cultural life of Great Malvern in 1871. 1989 FLETCHER, S.J.C. Crime in Cheltenham 1848-1851.

1989 HILL, T.G. The trading community of Shifnal and its geographical and genealogical linkages: a case study, 1841-1861.

1989 HUME, J.A. Settlement and migration in Dorset 1704-1862: a study of the migrational patterns of paupers.

1989 REEVE, D. Pity the poor labourer: English protest folksongs and their effects on the study of popular culture during the Industrial Revolution.

1988 AUTTON, A.P. 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 CROUCH, P.J. Cheese-making in east Leicestershire 1610-1911: the genesis of Stilton cheese. 1988 DELONG, R.E. Women, widows and witches. A study of four Huntingdonshire villages, 1630- 1650.

1988 EDWARDS, H. Farmers' wives of Leicestershire and Northamptonshire: their working lives, 1918-1950.

1988 MORRIS, S.G. An investigation into an early industrial neighbourhood - its status and its nature [Sheffield].

1988 WATSON, I.G. Career and community: a study of the officeholders of the town council of Leicester, 1485-1535.

1988 WILLIS, S.R. The Stroudwater Primitive Methodist circuit. 1987 CLIFFORD, M.C.S. Fifteen Leicestershire villages: a study of their morphology and location.

1987 CROMPTON, J. The pattern of dissent in Staffordshire in 1851. 1987 ELL, P.S. A quantitative analysis of variables allegedly influencing the pattern of religious observance in 1851: a case study in Warwickshire.

1987 HARRISON, J.D. The composite manor of Brent, 1189- 1307. 1987 HEMMING, A.C. A study of social relationships in late- Victorian London: the diaries of Hannah Cullwick and Arthur Munby.

1987 LAUGHTON, J. Prolegomena to a societal history of late-medieval .

1986 ARNOLD, B. The saints' dedications of Somerset.

1986 BARKER, A. Insular farms and muddy lanes: pre- conquest and medieval settlement on the Culm Measures of Devon. 1986 BROWN, G.P. Population and mobility: a study using marriage registers of the Leicester and Nottinghamshire borders during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1986 BURT, J. Northamptonshire gardens and parks, 1660-1825. 1986 KELLEY, J.W. The medieval markets and fairs of Leicestershire. 1986 MOORE, P. Rothwell: town or village? 1750-1850. A case-study of the changing pattern of urban status in the small town.

1986 SHORT, C.D. Hearths, people and status: a study of the social structure of three areas of Hertfordshire in the late seventeenth century. 1986 THOMAS, K. The surnames of Warwick, 1185-1500.

1986 TOWNSEND, S.N. George Morland: a source for rural social conditions in southern England, 1790-1800, Volumes I and II.

1986 WALKEY, G. Occupations as indices of industrialization and social change, St Helens, 1751-1840. 1985 COLTMAN, S.F. The role of decayed minor market towns in the mid-Victorian countryside: two Oxfordshire examples, Hook Norton and Charlbury.

1985 HART, C. R. Bolsover and its manor, 1600-1700.

1985 HUFFORD, M. R. ‘The sacred and the profane’: civic ceremonial in York, 14851585.

1985 PARRY, D. ‘An uninviting place of wholesome restraint’: the workhouse of St. Mary Islington, 1777-1872.

1985 PINKHAM, L. Starcross, Devon: ‘a small creek...noted only for a small fishery of oysters and cockles’. 1985 WILLIAMS, N.K. The levies of the constables - the account for Wymeswold, Leicestershire 1602-1668. 1984 CUMMINS, H.A. Higher Walton: an industrial community, 1851-1871. 1984 LEWITT, G. ‘The last bastion’: agriculture and landownership in Medbourne in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

1984 MALTON, P.N. The functions and importance of a chartered sanctuary: Beverley minster 1478-1539. 1983 BOWER, J. The congregation of the Dover General Baptist Church, 1660-1700.

1983 CAFFYN, S.J. Land tenure and social structure in nineteenth-century Newick.

1983 COOPER, T.D.C. Enclosure and the creation of isolated farmsteads in Rutland, 1781-1887.

1983 FLETCHER, S. M. The Old Cricket Ground, Leicester: a study of two contrasting areas of nineteenth-century development.

1983 GLASSON, M. A downland common and its enclosure: Broadfield, 1750-1850.

1983 GOODE, A. J. The society and economy of Loughborough, 1660-1690. 1983 HARRATT, S. Leicestershire parish clergy during the archdeaconate of Andrew Burnaby, 1786-1812: origins, education and intellectual pursuits.

1983 JAMES, S. A. The cultural and social life of Buxton in 1871. 1983 TERRY,C. The church in the landscape: two case studies from Norfolk. 1983 WHITE, H. J. An urban riverside community in the nineteenth century: the St. Peter’s district of Greenwich, 1851-1881.

1982 CORCOS, N. J. Shapwick: the enclosure of a Somerset parish, 1515-1839. 1982 HALEY, D. Aspects of the economic history and the demography of the parish of Buckingham, c.1560-1710, a preliminary study.

1982 MITSON, A. Selected Aspects of Population and Mortality Crises in Eight Nottinghamshire Parishes between 1541 and 1700. 1982 MOSS, C.A. The carriers of Nottinghamshire 1834- 1936: a study of the growth and decline of the country carrier and the effects of the change in transport upon the networks.

1982 ROLES, J. ‘The dull haunts of business’: a study of retailing in Cheltenham 1800-1851.

1982 WARREN, P. The agrarian economy of South Walsham, c.1566-1774. 1981 BONSALL, M. The land tax evidence for south Derbyshire in 1793-1830. 1981 BOURNE, J.M. Kingstons and cyninges tuns. 1981 DEBNEY, C. A village community, Greetham, c.1840-1871. 1981 JONES, L. Ceremonial and community in fifteenth and sixteenth-century Norwich. 1981 PAWLEY, S.J. Land, labour and the locality: Braunstone and the typology of the closed village. 1981 PEEBLES BROWN, R.A. Population changes and the railway: aspects of the railway industry’s influence on two localities of south Cheshire, 1850-1875.

1981 ROGERSON, M. People, poverty and occupations: Worcester 1779-1821.

1980 CAHILL, N.J. Conquest and colonisation on the Isle of Wight: the effects of the island’s strategic importance on early medieval organisation and settlement. 1980 GREENWOOD, J.J. Reigate, 1700-1821: its turnpikes and its economy. 1980 JONES, G. The pattern and development of religious, popular and municipal ceremonial in the Borough of Leicester, c.1450-1600.

1980 KILBURN, T. Popular culture in late-Victorian West Bromwich, 1875-1900.

1980 LEWITT, S.M. 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, Sussex.

1980 PAUL, E. D. The manor of Budbrooke, Warwickshire, 1506-1526: a study of its social structure. 1980 WICKES, M. J. L. The social structure of the parish of Hartland, north Devon, 1558-1620.

1979 BOASE, S. The Leicester pleasure fairs in Humberstone Gate, 1837-1904.

1979 COURTNEY, P. The early history of the Eight Hundreds of Oundle. 1979 HALL, J.L. (Née Bickerton) ‘Let agriculture flourish’: the diffusion of new ideas among agricultural improvers in Richmondshire 1815- 1870. 1979 HORNBY, E. Aspects of social, intellectual and leisured life in Salisbury in the eighteenth century. 1979 NEWEY, R.G. East Hendred, Berkshire: a social and demographic study, 1800-1840.

1979 POSTLES, S. Barkby: the anatomy of a closed township, 1535-1780. 1979 STEDMAN, J.O. Aspects of the economic history of Winchester, 1770-1810.

1979 WILLSHAW, E.M. The inns of Chester 1775-1832: the functions of provincial inns and their importance to the local community. 1978 DE CLERCQ, P. A Leicestershire framework knitters’ community: Earl Shilton, 1845-1871.

1978 ELLIOTT, B. S. The building of a provincial town: Newcastle- under-Lyme, 17801840.

1978 HAIGH, D. The evolution of settlement in eastern Cambridgeshire. 1978 HEARMON, C. M. The social structure of a Buckinghamshire village: Denham, 1749-1800. 1978 HOBSON, M. The occupational structure of West Malling, 1841-1871. 1978 HORTON, M. An investigation into the ‘manor’ of Auckland, : the evolution and structure of a medieval estate. 1978 PETFORD, A.J. Saddleworth: the enclosure of an upland parish. 1978 STORM, A. Robin Hood’s Bay: a character study of a coastal community with special reference to the period 1780-1880 and the shipping boom.

1978 WRIGHT, S.J. A study of the Gild of High Cross, the Blessed Mary and St John the Baptist of Stratford-upon-Avon, 1406-1545.

1977 BERRYMAN, P.A. The manufacturing crafts in York, 1740-1784. 1977 BOWEN, P. The inns and public houses of Birmingham, 1767-1812. 1977 FRIEL, I. The regio of the Hicce: a tribal unit of the Hitchin area. 1976 BARROW, V. The regio of the Sunningas: an early Saxon tribal area in the mid-Thames valley. 1976 BONE, R.D. The inns of Leicester in the reign of George III, 1760-1820. 1976 BRITTON, C.J. Thornbury, 1841-1851: a study of a small market town in Gloucestershire.

1976 BUTLER, S.P. Contrasting rural communities in mid- nineteenth century Leicestershire. 1976 DOREE, S.G. Aspects of mortality crises in eleven parishes in east Hertfordshire between 1560 and 1670.

1976 FLEMING, D. Some aspects of the gentry in Jacobean and Caroline Leicestershire.

1976 GENT, K.S. Leisure activities in Leicester, 1870- 1901, with special reference to the working class. 1976 WISDOM, J. The making of a West London suburb: housing in Chiswick, 1861-1914.

1975 EDWARDS, E.J.M. The relationship between landlord and tenant in nineteenth-century North Wales.

1975 GILES, C. Domestic architecture in the north Staffordshire moorlands: the vernacular buildings of Grindon and Waterfall. 1975 GLADDEN, D.H. Nonconformity in Newark, 1850-1882.

1975 HUNT, H.M.J. The ruling elite in Coventry, 1675- 1720. 1975? IRONFIELD, C. The parish of Chipping during the seventeenth century. 1975 JENKINS, S.C. Victorian Witney and its railway.

1975 LOWNDES, M. The Caldmore district of Walsall in the nineteenth century with special reference to the decade, 1861-1871.

1975 MITCHELL, J.W. The population and industries of Victorian Melton Mowbray, 1851- 1871. 1975 MORRIS, C.I. Surveyors and commissioners of enclosure in Bedfordshire, 1760-1820: the growth of professionalism.

1975 MOSS, S.R. The community of Towcester, 1750- 1842. 1975 WATSON, A.F. The Chesterfield Poor Law Union: the first ten years, 1837-1847. 1974 FRYE, J. Population migration in a selected region of north-east Leicestershire in the mid-nineteenth century.

1974 HOGAN, C.J. The distribution of puritanism in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1603-1642.

1974 MUSSON, E. Retail trading in Chesterfield, 1835- 1872. 1974 ROBSON, D.G. Scarborough in the reign of George III: the town, its people and trade.

1974 TESTER, C.E. Halberton, 1751-1851: the community of an east Devon parish.

1974 TRANTER, E.M. Aspects of the development of dissent in rural Derbyshire, 1662-1851.

1973 CARTER, R.A. Aspects of the economic history of Kirkburton (Yorkshire) in the nineteenth century.

1973 EDWARDS, P.R. Farming in a north Worcestershire parish: Rushock, 1572-1972.

1973 FORD, W.J. The pattern of settlement in the central region of the Warwickshire Avon. 1973 GENT, F.J.R. The development of Strangeways, 1768-1868. 1973 GREWCOCK, C.E.S. Social and intellectual life in Leicester, 1763-1835. 1973 HOARE, N.F. The community of Colyton and its poor, 1800-1850. 1973 KAYE, D. Church dedications in Lincolnshire.

1973 LLOYD, P. A study of the dedications given to religious buildings in Leicestershire before the Reformation.

1973 McDERMOTT, M.B. The administration of the Poor Law in the Somerset parish of Langford Budville during the periods 1657-1730 and 1782-1836. 1973 NEAVE, G.R. The clergy of the Gartree deanery in the diocese of Leicester, c.1600-1640.

1973 NICHOLS, H. Local maps of Derbyshire to 1770: an inventory and introduction.

1973 PAGE, D. Ashby de la Zouch: the social structure of a mid-Victorian market town.

1973 SHERRINGTON, M. Preston carriers, 1841-1932: from the railway to the motor age.

1973 SURGEY, J.R. Transport, trade, and industry in Mansfield, 1800-1850. 1972 ALDRED, D.H. Poor relief in Winchcombe, Gloucestershire 1800-1851. 1972 CROSSMAN, A.B. The Buckinghamshire posse comitatus, 1798. 1972 HAIGH, B. A West Riding clothing community: Kirkburton, 1664-1816.

1972 NEILL, T.M. Minchinhampton, 1550-1700: a study of a clothing parish. 1971 FLEMING, A.J. Newport Pagnell: a hundred town, 1825-1875. 1971 HAMPTON, S.J.S. Country carriers of West Surrey: a study of the Guildford area.

1971 MORTON-THORPE, A.M. The gentry of Derbyshire, 1640-1660.

1971 POTTS, R.A.J. A calendar of Cornish glebe terriers and allied documents, 1679-1727.

1970 AMBROSE, G.R. The administration of the Old Poor Law in Wells from 1776. 1970 BULLEN, S.C. The cultural life of Preston, 1742-1842.

1970 GRAHAM, M. Tavistock, 1825-1875. 1970 KINGMAN, M.J. Chester, 1801-1861. 1969 ALLAN, J.D. Pickering: the community of a Yorkshire market town in the nineteenth century. 1969 EATON, M.D. Victorian Market Harborough: the structure and functions of a nineteenth-century market town. 1969 JAMES, T.M. The inns of Croydon, 1640-1830.

1969 SKEMPTON, K.G.B. Gypsum plaster panels in timber- framed buildings: a study of a local building material in part of the Trent valley.

1968 COOPER, A.W. Newark, 1830-1901. 1968 McWHIRR, A. D. The relationship between fort and town on the northern sector of the Fosse Way.

1968 MORLEY, I.M. A demographic study of the parish of Otley in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

1968 PHYTHIAN-ADAMS, H.V. Domestic life in Wingham: a study of the probate inventories of a Kentish parish, 1631-1750.

1968 SELL, M.R. Farmsteads in the parishes of Holmesfield, Barlow and Brampton in north-east Derbyshire.

1968 WISE, S.E. Coalville: the origins and growth of a nineteenth-century mining town.

1967 listed as FREEBODY, N.K. A history of Scraptoft, Leicestershire. thesis Volume 1 – Thesis Volume 2 – Maps and photographs

1967 HEY, D.G. The parish of Ecclesfield in an era of change, 1672-1851. 1967 NEWTON, K.C. The manor of Writtle, Essex, c.1086- c.1500. 1967 SIBBIT, C. The development of rural settlement in the Isle of Wight before 1086.

1966 COX, R.C.W. Some aspects of the urban development of Croydon, 1870-1940. 1965 DYER, J. The hillforts of the Chilterns in relation to the Icknield Way. 1962 SPUFFORD, H.M. Rural Cambridgeshire, 1520-1680.

?? * HAYHURST, Yvonne M. The development of an early 1985 Victorian suburb: Southfields – a case study.

* On list of completed Dissertations. No trace of Dissertation and not included on any previous bibliography.