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Northamptonshire Parish Registers - Marriages (Phillimore transcript), Vols 1 and 2
Medium: CD
Publisher:
Archive CD Books
Two volumes on one CD
Transcripts of the parish marriage registers for various parishes from the earliest preserved registers in the 1500s through to 1812. Includes Castor, Croughton, Dodford, Everdon, Farthingstone, Faxton, Glinton, Harpole, Heyford, Lamport, Northampton St. Peter's, Northborough, Peakirk, Stoke Bruerne, Stowe ix Churches, Weston by Welland and Sutton Bassett.
Price:
£9.79
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Protesting about Pauperism
Author:
Elizabeth T. Hurren
Published:
2007
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
The consequences of extreme poverty were a grim reality for all too many people in Victorian England. The various poor laws implemented to try to deal with it contained a number of controversial measures, one of the most radical and unpopular being the crusade against outdoor relief, during which central government sought to halt all welfare payments at home. Via a close case study of Brixworth union in Northamptonshire, which offers an unusually rich corpus of primary material and evidence, the author looks at what happened to those impoverished men and women who struggled to live independently in a world-without-welfare outside the workhouse. She retraces the experiences of elderly paupers evicted from almshouses, of the children of the aged poor prosecuted for parental maintenance, of dying paupers who were refused medical care in their homes, and of women begging for funeral costs in an attempt to prevent the bodies of their loved ones being taken for dissection by anatomists. She then shows how increasing democratisation gave the labouring poor the means to win control of the poor law.
ELIZABETH T. HURREN is Senior Lecturer in the History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University, Centre for Health, Medicine and Society, Past and Present.
hardback
ISBN 978-0-861-93292-4
Price:
£50.00
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The Victoria History of the County of Northampton, Volume V: The Hundred of Cleley
Author:
Philip Riden
Published:
2002
Medium: Book
Publisher:
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
This new volume, the first to be published for Northamptonshire since 1937, deals with a group of a dozen parishes in the south of the county, on either side of Watling Street between Towcester and Stony Stratford. Essentially a group of typical Midland open-field parishes, the main interest of the area lies in the creation of a great royal estate, the honor of Grafton, in 1542, which occupied about half the hundred. In 1706 the honor passed to the secondDuke of Grafton under a grant made by his grandfather, Charles II. The dukes remained the principal owners in the district until a series of sales just after the First World War.Researched with the thoroughness for which the Victoria County History has long been well known, and illustrated with numerous maps and plates, this volume will be of great interest to local residents who wish to know about the past history of their community, and also to a widerange of academic readers, especially historians interested in landed estates between the sixteenth and the twenty-first century.
hardback
ISBN 978-1-904-35602-8
Price:
£90.00
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