English Local History M.A. Dissertations Date Name Title of Dissertation 2020 BROOKES, J. Shaping Worfield: lordly avarice, neighbourhood watch or wider forces: social change in rural Shropshire, 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 Leicestershire 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 England 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 Derbyshire, 1660-1705. 2018 HARVEY, B. Service and mobility. 2017 BROWN, L. Power, charity and brotherly love: local government and society in two Essex 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 Northamptonshire. 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 London, 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: Lancashire 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 Worcestershire 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 Warwickshire agricultural community: the creation of a hybrid society. 2013 (ISS) BONNETTE-ANDERSON, D. The social implications of church seating in Buckinghamshire. 2013 CAWS, S. Continuity or change? The Isle of Wight and the Agricultural Revolution, 1750-1850. 2013 (ISS) GADD, T. St George, Gloucestershire, 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 Surrey, Colney Hatch in Middlesex and Knowle in Hampshire 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 Yorkshire – 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 Wiltshire 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 Norfolk 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. Oxfordshire 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 Devon: 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 Somerset. 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.