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Robert Schueller
Chobham's geographical position enabled the village to escape the upheavals of the Transport and Industrial Revolutions. Unlike so many other agricultural communities, it was spared the turnpikes, canals and railways which brought new industries, new people and new buildings. Until well into Victorian times the village administration continued, virtually unchanged, as it had for centuries. Chobham was also fortunate in the extraordinary wealth and variety of documentary evidence preserved in the parish chest. From this, Robert Schueller pieced together the story of Chobham's slow development in remarkable detail; pinpointing the individuals, as well as the families and homesteads, who kept the life of the village moving, usually for the benefit of all, generation after generation.
The narrative covers, in broad terms, the entire history of Chobham from A.D. 673, but it is not until the mid-17th century that the picture comes crisply into focus in the records; for the next two centuries the village is revealed with a clarity that is perhaps unique. A significant contribution to the published history of Surrey, the book will fascinate the residents of Chobham, whether newcomers or one of the old Chobham farming families whose ancestors are so vividly recorded in this very readable account of Chobham in the past.
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F.G. Standfield
East Meon is steeped in history. At the head of the Meon Valley, it was farmed from the Neolithic period onwards, as ample archaeological evidence reveals, and the impact on that primitive settlement, first of the Britons, then, after the Roman centuries, of Saxons, is described at the outset in Frederick Standfield's well-researched account of the village. From the Saxon period onwards there is copious documentary evidence, for East Meon belonged to the Saxon monarchs, followed by their Norman successors and, finally, to the bishops of Winchester.
Saxon land charters, pipe rolls, manorial records, the parish chest, wills and inventories, workhouse accounts, school log books and Parish Council minutes are among the many sources searched by the author to produce a vivid account of East Meon's past and its people. For the most recent period, he has had the advantage of the personal reminiscences of elderly inhabitants. From his compelling text a clear picture emerges of gradual changes over the centuries, though some aspects of village life have remained remarkably unchanged. Agriculture, particularly sheep-husbandry, has been dominant for 3,000 years.
The achievements - and failings - of many ordinary and a few extraordinary individuals add greatly to the story. Such sad examples as poor Henry Aburrow, hanged in 1749 for trivial damage to a fishpond; or such humorous ones as the 18th-century sexton Habin who wrote doggerel in the parchment Parish Register; or such unlikely ones as Eleanor, Countess Peel, reputedly the wealthiest woman of her time and certainly one of the most eccentric; they all played their part in East Meon's past and the incidents in their lives add colour to the author's narrative.
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Charles A. Robertson
Hailsham and the surrounding villages have enjoyed nearly 1,000 years of eventful, recorded history. Charles Robertson's entertaining illustrated account sets the story of this part of Sussex against the wider backcloth of English history. The work covers Hellingly, Laughton, East Hoathly, Herstmonceux, Alfriston, Chiddingly, Ripe, Arlington, Heathfield and even the fringes of Eastbourne - not forgetting old Pevensey, with its ancient harbour and inland waterway.
The early priories at Langney, Wilmington, Alciston, Michelham and Warbleton are featured as are old Otham Abbey, a mere two miles from Hailsham, and the now almost unknown but impressive stone structure of religious significance that once stood less than a mile from Hailsham's Market Square. The social history of the people of the area is fully explored: the growth of agriculture and of the historic iron industry; calamities such as the Black Death, that wiped out entire villages; religious persecution; terrible poverty that provoked widespread unrest; and agricultural riots that brought cruel punishments. We learn of pauper families enticed to emigrate to America to relieve the burden on the rates and of Hailsham's link with the American War of Independence, when an American officer fought for the British and after defeat was branded a traitor, robbed of his vast possessions and forced to flee with his family, ending his long life in Hailsham where his name survives in daily use.
A classic of community history, appealing to resident and visitor alike.
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R.G. Rolston
This is the work of a remarkable man with a great affection for Haslemere and its people. It is written in a racy style and vividly portrays the everyday life of Haslemere folk in the past.
Haslemere is a particularly interesting place and Dr Rolston, who served the community as a General Practitioner from 1925 and lived there for 50 years, was well-placed to collect information about its immediate past from conversations with senior members of long-established local families. The history of earlier periods derives from his original research into ancient archives, together with a thorough reading of the relevant scholarly texts, undertaken over the years in the preparation of his immensely popular talks and lectures, which did so much to revive an interest in the history of the district.
No Haslemere resident who cares about the place and its people can fail to be fascinated by the book; it throws a new light on their environment and gives historical perspective to the town as they know it today. For local historians on the Surrey/Sussex/Hampshire borders there is much information not otherwise recorded that contributes significantly to the history of the area. For everyone there is a fund of facts, humour and human interest in this remarkable book by the country doctor who was known affectionately as 'Dr Haslemere'.
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Hugh Owen
Few great families have had their histories chronicled so fully as in this account of the Lowthers, Viscounts and Earls of Lonsdale. From contemporary letters, memoirs and state papers, most of them unpublished, the author has provided a fascinating insight into the lives of men and women in every age from the 13th century to the present day. For over eight hundred years, from father to son, the family's base has been at Lowther in Westmorland and by the 18th century the Lowthers had become the largest land-owners and the most politically powerful family in the north-west. Meanwhile, branches of the family settled in Yorkshire (at Swillington, Marske, Ingleton and Ackworth), at Holker in Lancashire, in Ireland and in London.
This scholarly yet entertaining and very readable account of one of our great families will provide interest and fascination to all who treasure the history of Britain.
"a model of what family history should be." Cumberland & Westmorland Herald
"a work of quite prodigious scholarship and research" Historic House Magazine
"eminently readable because the members of the family are considered in the context of England's history to which so many of them have contributed so often and so much" Coat of Arms
"He has done the Lowthers proud" Country Life
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The history of the Mallorys, one of the oldest armigerous families in the country, is packed with intriguing and attractive characters. In medieval times, many Mallorys fought and died in famous and bloody battles or held appointments as diverse and important as Lord Mayor of London and Prior of the Knights of St John, and the Royal Family are descended, in part, from Mallory ancestors. In this comprehensive history of the Mallory family the author has brought together a wealth of fully-documented evidence, including much new research, and vividly describes several hundred individuals against a backdrop of some eight centuries of turbulent history.
All Mallory family members will be interested in the different theories about the origin of their family. There are many variations on the spelling of the name - including Malory, Mallorie, Malore, Malri and Maleure - but all, however spelt, are connected to the same roots, and this book concerns them all. The different medieval branches have been linked together for the first time in comprehensive pedigrees, which include all known male Mallorys in each generation. This book also serves as a gazetteer for Mallory tourists in Great Britain, as all sites of Mallory interest are given with directions. Mallory links with Studley and the Fountains Abbey Estates in Yorkshire are widely known and Mrs Mallory Smith is continuing that family connection by generously donating royalties from the sale of this book to the National Trust Appeal to preserve the Parks, Fountains Hall and the Studley Royal Mallorie Portrait.
Among the more intriguing unresolved subjects of research is the identity of the elusive Sir Thomas Malory, author of Le Morte d’Arthur. The colonial branches of the family also receive attention, especially in the USA and Canada.
S.V. Mallory Smith was born in Derby in 1923, the eldest daughter of Vera, née Mallory, whose forebears are traced directly back to the 17th-century George Mallorie of the Yorkshire family. After following a scientific career, she married in 1957 and had one son. Her father and her husband both are surnamed Smith, which leads to some confusion, but Mallory is Mallory, whatever the spelling.
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R. Fieldhouse and B. Jennings
This book offers much to those with an interest in the evolution of the local community of Richmond and Swaledale and also to those concerned about the development of a medieval new town, an English market town, a parliamentary pocket borough and a Pennine dale.
This book began many years ago with Professor Jennings' thesis on lead-mining in Swaledale. Some years later, the Richmond W.E.A organised a local history class. Under its tutor, Roger Fieldhouse, it proved very successful. It was converted into a joint W.E.A/Leeds University tutorial class and its researches, together with those of another class at Reeth form the basis of this book. Most northern local historians will find this book essential reading, as it is also for all those in Richmond and throughout Swaledale with an interest in the making of their town, their landscape and their community.
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Moya St Leger
First history of the family and of the horse race at Doncaster. As featured during Amanda Redman's search to discover her family history on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are.
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C.F. Tebbutt
St Neots is an old town with over 1,000 years of recorded history since a Saxon couple, Leofric and Leoflaed, founded a monastery on their land between the Ouse and the Hen Brook and enshrined the bones of the Cornish Saint Neot. From that pre-Conquest beginning C. F. Tebbutt takes his account of his native town through ten centuries in this absorbing and fact-filled book.
This sought-after work satisfies the growing interest of the present population of the town in the making of their environment and the lives of their predecessors in the place. The author spent over forty years collecting his information and, in addition to his 'excellent … long range view of the town's history', as the reviewer in The Local Historian said, he provides vivid human interest in profusion, with 'splendid detail', while 'the strength of the book is in the gazetteer, in which the history of houses and buildings is traced including their successive occupants'. Every resident, new or old, will find this account of St Neots a fascinating and compelling narrative.
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John Waterhouse
Megaliths hold a powerful fascination. Among the hills of the English Lake District are many prehistoric, megalithic monuments. Every year thousands of people visit the great stone circle of Castlerigg, but fewer manage to see the much larger circle of Long Meg and her Daughters, while very few indeed are aware that there are over fifty stone circles, some very difficult to find, in and around the Cumbrian fells.
Though much has been written about the comparable and contemporary monuments of southern Britain and Brittany, this is the first comprehensive account of the Cumbrian circles. It is written for both the interested visitor and the archaeologist, providing a guide with a very readable and well illustrated text and also a fully referenced review of the relevant literature and excavation reports. An account of the prehistory of Cumbria, with a discussion of British stone circles in general, places these mysterious megaliths into the overall pattern as well as their prehistoric and geographical contexts.
Cumbrians, prehistorians and archaeologists alike will welcome the appearance of this important work. For the former, it can but increase understanding of their Lake District predecessors of four to five thousand years ago, and of the silent stones that mark their lives; for the latter groups the author has left no academic stone unturned in this exhaustive study. Though the book adds greatly to our knowledge of the monuments, it does not detract from their atmosphere, antiquity or mystery.
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H.J. Trump
The Teign Estuary has long been a centre of maritime activity. In addition to the coastal and ocean trade generated by the Port of Teignmouth, smaller cargoes passed up and down the river and, much later, on the two canals that were dug to develop the hinterland. The pattern of commerce governed the lives and livelihoods of the communities around the estuary until Teignmouth began to evolve as a seaside resort.
The workaday history of the estuary is recounted in lively detail, drawing on documentary and literary evidence to describe the ships, the people who owned, managed and manned them, and their developing communities. This continuous strand of H.J. Trump's narrative is set alongside the growth of the resort and the resulting tensions within the town between the tourist interest and the interests of the commercial harbour. Sometimes these dual activities helped each other, as shown by outstanding achievements in yacht building, but more frequently they conflicted, as evidenced by two Public Inquiries.
The author's entertaining and lively book is a significant contribution to the history of Devon and of enormous interest to all who live or work in the Teignmouth area and to the visitors who know and love the town and the estuary.
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Alan Crosby
Thetford is different. Few small towns have such a fascinating and varied history, and few are so little-known to outsiders. Thetford was the sixth largest town of Saxon England; a cathedral city in the late 11th century; a sleepy medieval borough with five major monasteries; one of the most corrupt and venal of all pocket boroughs during the 18th century; a town with a death rate in the 1870s higher than that of Whitechapel; the home of the worlds largest manufacturers of traction engines during the age of steam. Its population in the late 1930s was less than it was at the time of the Domesday Survey, but in the second half of the 20th century it was the fastest growing town in Britain.
Alan Crosby's book is the first comprehensive modern account of Thetford's long and remarkable history, tracing its changing fortunes and urban life through 2,000 years from its origins as an agricultural village to a modern period of growth and expansion. Based on extensive original research, the book is scholarly and readable, and will have great appeal and value to all with an interest in the history of Norfolk and of East Anglia.
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Barrie Trinder Banbury was one of the most prosperous of 19th-century market towns, the unchallenged capital of a thriving and extensive agricultural region, and the ‘metropolis of the carrier’s cart’. It was celebrated for its political independence, its religious zeal, the innovative skills of its craftsmen and the diversity of its cultural life. These themes are skilfully woven together in a study which is richly detailed, rigourously penetrating in its analysis and pays equal attention to those who ruled Banbury and those who were ruled by them.
The way of life of the market town was as typical a part of Victorian England as that of the great city or the expanding suburb, yet it has been rather neglected by historians. Barrie Trinder’s study of Banbury triumphantly remedies this neglect. The sources for the study of Banbury are unusually rich, and the author exploits them in masterly fashion, which will make this book a model for local historians and essential reading for anyone who finds delight in Victorian England. The people of Banbury cannot fail to be fascinated by this vivid account of their predecessors and forebears in the town.
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