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An accessible introduction to researching English local history from original records and written sources.

This title was first published in 2000. Practised since the Middle Ages, it is only over the course of the last century that English local history attained prof

Paul Jennings traces the history of the British pub, and looks at how it evolved from the eighteenth century's coaching inns and humble alehouses, back-street b

This wide-ranging volume collects together twelve of the author’s longer essays, mainly drawn from those first published in the last two decades. Chiefly cons

This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.