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A History of the County of Durham, Volume IV
Author:
Gillian Cookson
Published:
2005
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This latest volume in the Victoria Country History of Durham (the first for over eighty years) presents a study of the township of Darlington, part of the parish of the same name. It traces the history of Darlington from the earliest times: a small Anglo-Saxon settlement becoming a flourishing bishop's borough in the middle ages; its growth as an important staging post on the Great North Road during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; and the town'sprosperity during the nineteenth century, reinforced by its situation on the railway network. The story is taken up to the present time, with accounts of Darlington's social, political, topographical and economic history. The latter includes thorough accounts of major industries, including iron and engineering, leather, and the little-known but highly significant worsted and linen manufacturing industries.GILLIAN COOKSON is County Editor, VictoriaCounty History of Durham.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-904-35626-4
Price:
£95.00
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Darlington Wills and Inventories, 1600-1625
Author:
J.A. Atkinson
Published:
1993
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Forty-six deathbed wills and fifty-seven inventories of fifty-eight persons, seven of whom were women. Introduction covers areas such as the documents, the making of the wills and inventories, family and executors, the religiouspreamble, charitable bequests, valuations, the house and its contents, occupations, the clergy, the land and its occupiers and funerals. Includes glossary and list of the books of Isaac Lowden (priest, d. 1612).
hardback
ISBN 978-0-854-44058-0
Price:
£25.00
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Durham Cathedral Priory Rentals: Volume I Bursar's Rentals
Author:
R.A. Lomas
Published:
1986
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
An introduction to the office of bursar and its records precedes the five documents dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries. Covers the period of transition in the management of estates when, between 1350 and 1418,the direct exploitation of demesnes gave way to a system of leasing. The five documents are: I. Valuation, [c. 1230?]; II. Rent-roll, Pentecost 1270; III. Bursar's Rental, 1340-1 and Sale of Tithes, 1343; IV. Bursar's Rental, 1396-7; V. Bursar's Rent-Book, 1495-6. Ends with a gazeteer giving a description of all the properties accounted for, under the headings of temporalities, spiritualities and obedientiary property.
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ISBN 978-0-854-44055-9
Price:
£25.00
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Lay Religious Life in Late Medieval Durham
Author:
Margaret Harvey
Published:
2006
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Although religious life in medieval Durham was ruled by its prince bishop and priory, the laity flourished and played a major role in the affairs of the parish, as Margaret Harvey demonstrates. Using a variety of sources, she provides a complete account of its history from the Conquest to the Dissolution of the priory, with a particular emphasis on the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. She shows how the laity interacted vigorously with both bishop and priory, and the relations between them, with the priory providing schools, hospitals, chantries and regular sermons, but also acting as a disciplinary force. On a wider level, she also looks at the whole question of lay religion andwhat can be discovered about it. She finishes by an examination of local reactions to the Reformation.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83277-5
Price:
£50.00
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North-East England, 1569-1625: Governance, Culture and Identity
Author:
Diana Newton
Published:
2006
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This study of England's north-eastern parts examines counties Durham and Northumberland as well as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, with its central theme the extent to which the county gentry and urban elites possessed a sense of regional identity. It concentrates on these elites' social, political, religious and cultural connections which extended beyond the purely administrative jurisdictions of the county or town. By concentrating on a series of seismic changes in the area - the demise of its great regional magnates, the rapid upsurge of the coal industry and the union of the crowns - it offers a distinctive chronological coverage, from the latter half of the sixteenth century through to the early seventeenth century. Old stereotypes of the north-eastern landed elites as isolated and backward are overturned while their response to state formation reveals their political sophistication. Traditional views of the religious conservatism of the north-eastern parts are reassessed to demonstrate its multi-faceted complexion. And contrasting cultural patterns are analysed, through ballad literature, the cult of St Cuthbert and increasing exposure to metropolitan 'civility', to reveal a series of sub-regions within the north-eastern reaches of the kingdom. Dr DIANA NEWTON is Lecturer in History at the University of Teesside.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-843-83254-6
Price:
£50.00
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The Justicing Notebook (1750-64) of Edmund Tew, Rector of Boldon
Author:
Gwenda Morgan
Published:
2000
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Edmund Tew's notebook is a remarkable if cryptic record of the troublesome relationships of local people in a rapidly developing area of North-East England. In the coal-exporting towns of Sunderland and South Shields, notorious for the collective violence of their industrial conflicts, there were no formal structures of local government, and so, as the notebook indicates, it was the lone magistrate who provided the opportunity for judicial intervention into and resolution of the many individual and personal disputes which arose. As magistrate, Tew dealt with many problems, such as vagrancy, the poor law and employment disputes, as well as accusations of theft, assault and rape, resolving most problems in his home rather than taking them further to court. The notebook is presented here with an introduction, giving details of what is known of Tew's life, and putting the notebook into context, a glossary, andindex.
Dr GWENDA MORGAN is Reader in History, and Dr PETER RUSHTON is Reader in Historical Sociology, at the University of Sunderland.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-854-44044-3
Price:
£40.00
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The Story of Some English Shires
Author:
Rev. Mandell Creighton
Published:
1897
Medium: CD
Publisher:
Archive CD Books
Wonderful historical accounts of these English counties: Northumberland, Durham, Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Cheshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Derbyshire, Worcestershire, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire.
Price:
£15.11
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Ward's Directory Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, North & South Shields, Jarrow, Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne 1936
Published:
1936
Medium: CD
Publisher:
Archive CD Books
An incredibly detailed directory of the North Eastern towns of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Wallsend, Jarrow, North & South Shields, Tynemouth and Whitley Bay. Each place has a virtually house by house street directory with names of residents and their occupations; plus alphabetical lists of all households and trades directories.
You could even find your grandparents in this book, and walk down the street to see who their neighbours were.
It is a really good way to put meat on the bones of your family history.
Price:
£8.50
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Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham. Part III.
Author:
J.C. Hodgson
Published:
2006
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Documents dating 1543-1602. Expands the selection in previous parts by covering gentry, clergy, yeomen and merchants. Indexes of wills and inventories, names and places. See volumes 2, 38, 142.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-854-44014-6
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