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The Lay Subsidy of 1334
Inbunden, 1975
651 kr
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This volume publishes the 1334 Lay Subsidy assessments for the whole of England. The medieval lay subsidies were taxes on personal wealth, levied on the laity from time to time to meet the increasingly urgent demands of the Crown for revenue over and above its regular income, particularly for …
Warwickshire Grazier and London Skinner 1532-1555
The account book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage
Av Alcock, N.W Alcock
1981
1071 kr
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A scholarly edition of the Account Book of Peter Temple and Thomas Heritage, a Warwickshire Grazier and a London Skinner. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
The Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1642
With a Glossary and Linguistic Commentary by Peter McClure
Inbunden, 1984
1023 kr
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In the early 1640s Henry Best, a gentleman farmer of Elmswell in the East Riding of Yorkshire, composed an account of his farming practices. The resulting Farming Book provides a unique account of seventeenth-century farming, of the marketing of agricultural produce, and of rural customs. It is …
Keynes and his Critics
Treasury Responses to the Keynesian Revolution, 1925-1946
Av Peden, G. C. Peden
Inbunden, 2004
1426 kr
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These documents, published here for the first time, present the Treasury's counter-arguments during the period when Keynes was developing the ideas that led to the Keynesian revolution in economic policy. Keynes spent much effort trying to persuade the Treasury to adopt policies designed to raise …
The Business and Household Accounts of Joyce Jeffreys, Spinster of Hereford, 1638-1648
Inbunden, 2012
1662 kr
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The accounts of Joyce Jeffreys offer a rare opportunity to enter the social world of the early modern spinster - her daily life, personal circumstances, social activities and family relationships are all reflected through the entries in her manuscript. The accounts also reveal extensive evidence of …
The Book of Privileges of the Merchant Adventurers of England, 1296-1483
Av Anne F. Sutton, Anne F. Sutton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
1604 kr
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This is a full edition of the trading privileges that had been granted to the Merchant Adventurers' Company of England by the princes of the Low Countries from 1296, copied into one diplomatic reference book in 1484. The sequence of grants reveals the steadily increasing value of the cross-Channel …
The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 1
1684-1733 (Somerset, Oxfordshire, Berkshire)
Av John Money
Inbunden, 2010
1158 kr
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John Cannon, known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', was the self-taught son of a Somerset farmer. Though some episodes in Cannon's life have been partially drawn upon in other studies, this edition is the first full scale study enabling Cannon and his world to be understood in their entirety.The …
The Chronicles of John Cannon, Excise Officer and Writing Master, Part 2
1734-43 (Somerset)
Av Money, John Money
Inbunden, 2010
1653 kr
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John Cannon, known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', was the self-taught son of a Somerset farmer. Though some episodes in Cannon's life have been partially drawn upon in other studies, this edition is the first full scale study enabling Cannon and his world to be understood in their entirety.The …
Nehemiah Grew and England's Economic Development
The Means of a Most Ample Increase of the Wealth and Strength of England (1706-7)
Inbunden, 2012
717 kr
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This edition publishes for the first time a little-known work on improving England's economy, written around 1706 and presented to Queen Anne on the eve of the parliamentary Union of England and Scotland. As such it contributed to a growing body of writing about managing the economy in Britain. …
Inside the Department of Economic Affairs
Samuel Brittan, the Diary of an 'Irregular', 1964-6
Inbunden, 2012
954 kr
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The rise and fall of the Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) parallels the promised but eventually unfulfilled modernization agenda of the 1964-6 Wilson government. The diary kept by Samuel Brittan (in contravention of civil service rules) for the fourteen months in which he served as an …
Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1705-15, Part 1
Lincolnshire
Av John Broad
Inbunden, 2012
1815 kr
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The Visitation returns of William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln 1705-16, shed light on the history of over 1200 villages and the people who lived in them in six counties of England in the early years of the eighteenth century. Covering Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, …
Bishop Wake's Summary of Visitation Returns from the Diocese of Lincoln 1706-15, Part 2
Huntingdonshire, Hertfordshire (part), Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Buckinghamshire
Av Broad, John Broad
Inbunden, 2012
1815 kr
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The Visitation returns of William Wake, Bishop of Lincoln 1705-16, shed light on the history of over 1200 villages and the people who lived in them in six counties of England in the early years of the eighteenth century. Covering Buckinghamshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, …
The Elizabethan New Year's Gift Exchanges, 1559-1603
Inbunden, 2013
2668 kr
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The records of Queen Elizabeth's New Year's gift exchanges convey a wealth of information about the late Tudor court. Records of twenty-four exchanges survive from the forty-five years of Elizabeth's reign, naming more than 1,200 participants. The vellum rolls record what was given to the Queen and …
The Latin Cartulary of Godstow Abbey
Av Emilie Amt
Inbunden, 2014
1902 kr
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This first published edition of the Latin cartulary of Godstow Abbey outside Oxford is an important text for the history of medieval religious women. Compiled in the early fifteenth century, and probably written by Godstow's prioress Alice of Eaton, it contains more than 900 documents written for …
The Bordeaux-Dublin Letters, 1757
Correspondence of an Irish Community Abroad
Av Cullen, Louis Cullen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
1502 kr
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The book presents 125 letters carried aboard a ship, the Two Sisters of Dublin, captured at sea in 1757, in the midst of the Seven Years War (1756-1763). Most of the letters lay unopened for 250 years until they were rediscovered in the UK National Archives in 2011.The letters from members of the …
Treasury Control and Public Expenditure in Scotland 1885-1979
Av Ian Levitt
Inbunden, 2014
1071 kr
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The book sets out to establish the Treasury view of Scottish claims for public expenditure from the establishment of the Scottish Office in 1885 to the failed referendum on political devolution in 1979. Drawn largely from previously unresearched (and partly uncatalogued) Treasury documents held at …
Documents of the First chambers of Commerce in Britain and Ireland, 1767-1839
Inbunden, 2018
2136 kr
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This book is the first systematic collection of documents for the history of early chambers of commerce. The documents cover all local chambers founded 1767-1839 as well as those that were unsuccessful in establishment. It covers all chambers in the UK and Ireland, and the significant developments …
The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye, 1640-1736
Inbunden, 2018
1249 kr
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The letters in The Worlds of the Jeake Family of Rye create a narrative across more than a century and through three generations of the Jeake family. With Samuel Jeake junior and his wife Elizabeth at its centre, this collection also touches on the lives of their parents and their children. It …
The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 1
Av Barbara Harvey, Christopher Woolgar
Inbunden, 2020
1338 kr
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Westminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded £2,800 p.a. These assets supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in …
The States of the Manors of Westminster Abbey c.1300 to 1422 Part 2
Av Barbara Harvey, Christopher Woolgar
Inbunden, 2020
1604 kr
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Westminster Abbey was one of the wealthiest and most influential monastic houses in medieval England: c.1300 it held some 38,000 acres, largely in the Home Counties and West Midlands, and its revenues at the Dissolution exceeded £2,800 p.a. These assets supported a complement of 50 to 60 monks in …
Norfolk Pauper Inventories, c.1690-1834
Inbunden, 2020
1373 kr
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Pauper inventories were made by poor law officials to record the possessions that people on poor relief owned. These inventories have been known to exist for decades, yet they are notoriously difficult to find and have been under-utilised by generations of historians.For the first time, this book …
Business and Family in the North of England During the Early Industrial Revolution
Records of the Lives of Men and Women in Trade, 1788-1832
Av Hannah Barker, David Hughes
Inbunden, 2020
1604 kr
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This volume focuses on the lives of tradesmen and women in the northern 'industrial' and commercial towns of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool between 1788 and 1832. It incorporates the correspondence of the Wilson family of Sheffield snuff manufacturers (1788-95); the memoir of a …
Navigating the Old English Poor Law
The Kirkby Lonsdale Letters, 1809-1836
Inbunden, 2020
1836 kr
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This edition of over 600 letters written by or for the poor in the early nineteenth-century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique window onto the experiences, views and conditions of a much-neglected group in English society. At the most human level, these letters are replete with …
The Diaries and Letters of Lord Woolton 1940-1945
Av Michael Kandiah, Judith Rowbotham
Inbunden, 2020
1653 kr
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This book is the first academic survey of Lord Woolton's important wartime role, first as Minister of Food and then as Minister of Reconstruction. Using Woolton's Diaries and correspondence (including letters between Woolton and Churchill), it provides key insights into how the Ministry of Food …
The Cantelowe Accounts
Multilingual merchant records from Tuscany, 1450-1451
Inbunden, 2022
894 kr
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The Cantelowe Accounts appear to offer the earliest evidence of an English merchant using Italian as a second language. They were written by John Balmayn, an unknown Londoner, who travelled to Tuscany to oversee the sale of a valuable wool shipment in 1450-51 on behalf of his master - the Mercer, …
The Household Accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)
From the Archives of St John's College, Cambridge
Av Susan Powell
Inbunden, 2022
2579 kr
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Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509) was the mother of Henry Tudor (1457-1509) by her first husband, Edmund Tudor, who died before his son was born. A strong and determined woman, after many vicissitudes she was instrumental in the overthrow of Richard III and the accession of her son to the throne …
The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury
Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part One
Av Brown, David Brown
Inbunden, 2023
1653 kr
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Lord Ashley (later the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury), the 'Poor Man's Earl', is widely remembered as a leading aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian 'progress' saw him champion a range of social, industrial, educational, and health reforms. A …
The Diaries of Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury
Vol. 1: 1825-1845, Part Two
Av Brown, David Brown
Inbunden, 2023
1744 kr
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Lord Ashley (later the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury), the 'Poor Man's Earl', is widely remembered as a leading aristocratic philanthropist whose concern for suffering and the oppressed victims of Victorian 'progress' saw him champion a range of social, industrial, educational, and health reforms. A …
Servants Abroad
Travel Journals by British Working People, 1765-1798
Av Richard Ansell, Richard Ansell
Inbunden, 2024
2544 kr
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Servants Abroad presents manuscript journals by four British domestic servants who travelled to continental Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century, a period that tends to be seen as the golden age of a quintessentially aristocratic form of travel, the 'Grand Tour'. Yet if each wealthy …
The Amity Papers, 1690
The Siege of Limerick and Franco-Irish Mercantile Networks
Av Truxes, Thomas M. Truxes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2544 kr
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The Amity Papers, 1690 reproduces 74 documents seized from the Irish vessel Amity trading with France at the height of the Williamite War (1689-1691). Mostly letters written by merchants (with a smaller number penned by Jacobite soldiers), the ship's papers illustrate particularly the plight of …
