Bridges, Law and Power in Medieval England, 700-1400

From the time of Alfred the Great until beyond the end of the Middle Ages, bridges were vital to the rulers and people of England, but they were expensive and difficult to maintain. Who then was responsible for their upkeep? The answer to this question changes over the centuries, and the way in which it changes reveals much about law and power in medieval England.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83275-1

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, preserved in the Public Record Office

This volume of the Calendar of State Papers Domestic for the reign of Queen Anne covers the period from May 1704 to October 1705. It includes not only the main series of state papers domestic but also the related series of state papers Ireland, Scotland, military and naval; entry books and Signet Office letter books and docket books.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83145-7

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Calendar of State Papers, Domestic Series, of the Reign of Anne, Preserved in the Public Record Office

This volume brings the Domestic Calendar to the end of the secretaryship of Sir Charles Hedges, and the appointment of Lord Sutherland in his place. Drawn from several categories of State Papers, the records contain the usual mixture of high politics and local concerns, though they are far from insular: Marlborough's second great victory, at Ramillies, is reported and celebrated, for example, and communications are improved with the forces in northern Europe.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83251-5

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Charles II and the Politics of Access

In an era dominated by monarchs like Louis XIV and Philip IV who used distance to generate awe, Charles II's reputation for accessibility stands out. Most scholars enamored with anecdotes about the restored monarch's many mistresses, his rakish companions, and his spaniels have assumed that Charles's personality inevitably led him to open access and that such accessibility remained a constant throughout his reign.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83020-7

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Chartism in the North Riding of Yorkshire and south Durham, 1838-1848

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.     ISBN 1-904497-09-8

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Cornwall Politics in the Age of Reform, 1790-1885

This detailed case-study offers a penetrating analysis of the changing political culture in Cornwall up to and after the introduction of the 1832 electoral system. It spans a century in which the county's parliamentary over-representation and notorious political corruption was replaced by a politicised electorate for whom issues and principles were usually paramount.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93243-6

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Creating Capitalism

The emergence of the joint-stock company in nineteenth-century Britain was a culture shock for many Victorians. Though the home of the industrial revolution, the nation's economy was dominated by the private partnership, seen as the most efficient as well as the most ethical form of business organisation. The large, impersonal company and the rampant speculation it was thought to encourage were viewed with suspicion and downright hostility.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93284-9

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East Anglian Society and the Political Community of Late Medieval England

The essays and articles produced by Roger Virgoe (1932-1996) over a period of thirty-five years make a notable contribution to the study of political life in late medieval England, and to our knowledge of the workings of East Anglian gentry society.   paperback   ISBN 978-0-906-21944-7

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Electoral Reform at Work

This book charts the political transformation of Britain that resulted from the 'Great' Reform Act of 1832. It argues that this extensively debated parliamentary reform, aided by the workings of the New Poor Law (1834) and Municipal Corporations Act (1835), moved the nation far closer to a 'modern' type of representative system than has previously been supposed.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93261-0

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English Government in the Thirteenth Century

The size and jurisdiction of English royal government underwent sustained development in the thirteenth century, an understanding of which is crucial to a balanced view of medieval English society. The papers here follow three central themes: the development of central government, law and justice, and the crown and the localities.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83056-6

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Government and Politics in Kent, 1640-1914

This volume, the seventh in the Kent History Project, complements those already published on The Economy of Kent and Religion and Society in Kent between 1640 and 1914. The volume begins with an important new assessment of the impact of the Civil Wars and Interregnum in Kent, which challenges some of the interpretations of previous studies of this period of Kent's history.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15586-9

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Henry III of England and the Staufen Empire, 1216-1272

Modern historians have frequently maligned Henry III of England [1216-1272] for his entanglements in European affairs. However, this book moves past orthodox opinion to offer a reappraisal of his activities.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93280-1

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Kingship and Crown Finance under James VI and I, 1603-1625

This book rejects outright the stereotypical image of James VI and I as mindlessly extravagant and integrates crown finance with James's kingship. It offers both a fresh view of crown finance - one of the blackest elements in James's historical reputation - and a reconstruction of how the king who wrote on divine right monarchy operated his kingship in practice.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93259-7

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Language, Print and Electoral Politics, 1790-1832

In the half century before 1790, there had been only one contested election in Newcastle, but between 1790 and 1832 there were a dozen. This new and heated political climate prompted the production of a vast array of printed propaganda and political commentary, aimed at voters and non-voters alike. Most of this material took the form of single printed sheets, or broadsides, produced in great numbers and distributed amongst the town's inhabitants for free.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15810-5

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Lloyd George, Liberalism and the Land

In the late nineteenth century Britain was one of the most urbanised societies in the world, yet land reform remained an important element in its politics. This book explores this paradox through an examination of the Liberal Party's increasing interest in the English dimension of the land question.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93252-8

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Managing the British Empire

The Crown Agents Office played a crucial role in colonial development. Acting in the United Kingdom as the commercial and financial agent for the crown colonies, the Agency supplied all non-locally manufactured stores required by colonial governments, issued their London loans, managed their UK investments, and supervised the construction of their railways, harbours and other public works.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93267-2

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Order and Equipoise

Dr McCahill contends that the role of the House of Lords in the 18th and 19th centuries and that of the peers in their individual capacities has hitherto been underestimated.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05044-1

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Popular Conservatism in Imperial London, 1868-1906

The Conservatives achieved huge electoral success in London between 1868 and 1906, but the reasons why have never been rigorously examined, with historians tending to explain the late-Victorian party's `transformation' in terms of the political preferences of the suburban middle classes. This work, the first in-depth survey of London Conservatism during this period, challenges that view.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93288-7

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Prophecy, Politics and the People in Early Modern England

The influence of the non-Biblical vernacular prophetic traditions in early modern England was considerable; they had both a mass appeal, and a specific relevance to the conduct of politics by elites.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83259-1

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Protection and Politics

The complex and troubled relationship between protectionism and Conservatism in nineteenth-century Britain is the focus of this book. It looks at how the developing free-trade orthodoxy was challenged within Conservatism, and offers new perspectives on the intellectual controversies which precipitated the Conservative party's split of 1846 and the intricate denouement of 1846-52.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93244-3

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Protesting about Pauperism

The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, during which central government sought to halt all welfare payments at home.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93292-4

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Revolution and Consumption in Late Medieval England

The essays in this volume focus on the sources and resources of political power, on consumption (royal and lay, conspicuous and everyday) on political revolution and on economic regulation in the later middle ages.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15832-7

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Royal Writs addressed to John Buckingham, Bishop of Lincoln 1363-1398

The many commands which the crown addressed to bishops represent a rich source of information about the history of government, law, and lay society, as well as about the church itself. The writs collected in this volume touch on many aspects of life in the later fourteenth century, including tax gathering, political upheaval, property disputes, Lollardy, and foreign warfare.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-907-23958-1

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Royalism, Print and Censorship in Revolutionary England

This is a study of a remarkable set of royalist newsbooks produced in conditions of strict secrecy in London during the late 1640s. It uses these flimsy, ephemeral sheets of paper to rethink the nature of both royalism and Civil War allegiance.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83323-9

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Science, Religion and Politics in Restoration England

Richard Cumberland is one of the seventeenth century's most interesting political theorists. His masterpiece, the De legibus naturae(1672), has rarely been examined on its own terms, but by tracing the political, religious and intellectual circumstances of the composition of this puzzling work, and showing its importance as a critique of Thomas Hobbes, author of the Leviathan, Dr Parkin demonstrates how Cumberland created a new political and ethical theory which absorbed and neutralised many of Hobbes's insights..   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93241-2

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The Anglican Clergy and Yorkshire politics in the 18th century

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp 34   ISBN 0-903857-52-9

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The Constitution of England

A candid description of early nineteenth century English government, written by J.L. De Lolme, Advocate and Citizen of Geneva. Written in French and published in Holland this is the English translation. An account of the English government, comparing it to republics and monarchies of Europe. Survey of the English constitution powers and civil and criminal laws. Advantages of the English government and of the rights and liberties of the people.    

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The Government of Medieval York: essays in commemoration of the 1396 Royal Charter

One of a series of Borthwick Studies in History   pp 163   ISBN 0-903857-67-7

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The Haskins Society Journal 10

The latest volume of the Haskins Society Journal presents research on the Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman, Viking and Angevin worlds of the eleventh and twelfth centuries, and includes topics ranging from church reform - represented here by a complete panel of papers - to legal and administrative history, the social structure of the Anglo-Norman nobility, memory and identity in post-Conquest England, and more. This volume of the Haskins Society Journal includes papers read at the 19th Annual Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society at Cornell University in October 2000 and at other conferences in the year following the Haskins.
Contributors JUDITH A. GREEN, SHASHIJAYAKUMAR, VALERIE RAMSEYER, RICHARD DACE, ROBERT HELMERICHS, JENNIFER PAXTON, WILLIAM L. NORTH, JAY RUBENSTEIN, JOHN D. COTTS, J.C. HOLT.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15911-9

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The Haskins Society Journal 6

The 1993 International Conference of the Haskins Society, held at the University of Houston, produced a varied collection of papers on numerous aspects of the medieval history of the British Isles, with related material on other Western European countries. The articles in this volume, most of which derive from the conference, focus strongly on the topic of religion, with stimulating essays on women religious, Archbishop Lanfranc and the Anglo-Saxon hagiographic tradition; however, other subjects are also explored, including Anglo-Norman litigation and the turbulent state of Denmark in the ninth century.
Contributors: CARY L. DIER, SUSAN J. RIDYARD, K.L. MAUND, EDWARD J. SCHOENFELD, ROBIN FLEMING, BERNARD S. BACHRACH, PATRICIA HALPIN, EMILY ALBU HANAWALT, DANIEL F. CALLAHAN, H.E.J. COWDREY, DAVID ROFFE   hardback   ISBN 978-0-851-15604-0

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The Inevitable March of Labour? Electoral Politics in York 1900 -1914

This is one of an on-going series of publications from the Borthwick Insitute for Archives, intended to provide insights into new research concerning the history of Yorkshire and the North of England.   pp 28   ISBN 0-903857-47-2

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The Labour Party and the Planned Economy, 1931-1951

In the general election of 1931, the Labour Party campaigned on the slogan `Plan or Perish'. The party's pledge to create a planned socialist economy was a novelty, and marked the rejection of the gradualist, evolutionary socialism to which Labour had adhered under the leadership of Ramsay MacDonald. Although heavily defeated in that election, Labour stuck to its commitment. The Attlee government came to power in 1945 determined to plan comprehensively. Yet, the aspiration to create a fully planned economy was not met. This book explores the origins and evolution of the promise, in order to explain why it was not fulfilled.
RICHARD TOYE lectures in history at Homerton College, Cambridge.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93262-7

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The Life and Family of Robert Large, mercer

Mayor of London 1439-1440, first employer of William Caxton. Robert Large's career followed a route from apprenticeship to membership of the influential Mercers Company, where he became warden. He developed trading activities overseas as a merchant of the Calais staple, emerging as a ship-owner able to make substantial loans to the Crown.   Paperback   ISBN 978-0-9546812-2-7

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The Parliamentary Agents

An examination of the origins of modern private legislation and parliamentary agency, concentrating on their development during the second and third quarters of the 19th century.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05053-3

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The Personal Rule of Charles II, 1681-85

This book is concerned with political culture, government, and religion during the personal rule of Charles II, the period between the dissolution of his last English Parliament in 1681 and his death in 1685. The author argues that the nature of this phase of Stuart personal rule was different to that of Charles I in 1629-40.   hardback   ISBN 978-1-843-83305-5

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The Politics of Stability

By the fifteenth century, although ultimate authority over London rested in the crown's hands, the City's autonomy was no longer in dispute. The aldermen were the true rulers in London, and they further strengthened their hold on civic government. What had seemed an emerging democracy in the mid-fourteenth century was modified and reassembled around what proved to be the stabilizing influence of an elitist merchant oligarchy.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-901-05031-1

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War, Politics and Finance in Late Medieval English Towns

The strengthening of ties between crown and locality in the fourteenth century is epitomised by the relationships between York and Bristol [then amongst the largest and wealthiest urban communities in England] and the crown.   hardback   ISBN 978-0-861-93274-0

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