Walter Minchinton – författare

This volume brings together the proceedings of two seminars that took place at Dartington Hall in the early 1970s. The first half concerns population, and the second considers marketing.Individual papers in Part I cover: the population of Cornwall before the first census; the association between mortality and poverty in Exeter from the seventeenth century to the present day; interaction between population growth and economic circumstances in the eighteenth century; Wembworthy: a Devon parish in the eighteenth century; reconstitution and census: Colytonians in parish register and enumerator’s book.Part II includes offerings on: sources for the history of food supplies and marketing during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in local record offices; food production and distribution in pre-industrial Cornwall; the home market and the sea fisheries of Devon and Cornwall in the nineteenth century.

The formation of capital has long been a key element underpinning British economic history. This brief but perspicacious volume contains four papers: an economist’s view on capital formation (Jeffrey H. Coates); availability of capital in the West of England woollen industry (Kenneth Ponting); capital formation and technological change in South-West England metal mining in the nineteenth century (Christopher Schmitz); a note on housebuilding in Exeter, 1867–1940 (Brian Clapp).

The middle of the eighteenth century up to the Second World War was a period of dramatic and rapid social and economic change in Britain. This volume, collect five papers, covering: - Ceremony, custom and ritual: some observations on social conflict in the rural community, 1750–1850 - The social structure of Lostwithiel in the early nineteenth century - Secularisation and the care of the poor in Scotland - Unemployment relief works in Southampton between the wars - The voluntary response to mass unemployment in South Wales