Collections for a History of Staffordshire 4th series, XXVII (2022)
ISBN 978 0 901719 18 8
Local Histories: Essays in Honour of Nigel Tringham edited by Ian Atherton, Matthew Blake, Andrew Sargent, Alannah Tomkins
The essays which follow are a tribute to Nigel, reflecting the breadth of his own work and his support of that of others. They include contributions from a variety of often overlapping worlds including doctoral students he has supervised, and colleagues and associates from the English Place-Name Society, Keele University, the Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society, Staffordshire Archive and Heritage Services, the Staffordshire Record Society, the Victoria County History, and the William Salt Library. They range in time from the early-medieval period to the twentieth century, and though the focus is on Staffordshire (with one contribution taking a broader Mercia-and-beyond approach) the essays, like the best of local history, are not geographically narrow but treat their subject as illustrative of wider themes and developments across England.
Introduction: Ian Atherton, Matthew Blake, Andrew Sargent, and Alannah Tomkins
Where was Clofesho? Paul Everson
The Swine Woods of Domesday Staffordshire, Andrew Sargent
Fiefs, Fonts, and Parish Churches: The Emergence of Staffordshire’s Post-Conquest Religious Landscape, John Hunt
The Unlucky Family: Thomas, Earl of Stafford (d. 1392), Philip Morgan
Place-Names, People, and Landscape in Medieval Staffordshire, John Baker, Jayne Carroll, and Susan Kilby
The Archaeological Potential of Staffordshire Churches, Bob Meeson
Settlement and Change in the Upland Parish of Leek, Faith Cleverdon
‘Members of One Another’s Miseries’: The Culture and Politics of War Relief in Seventeenth-Century Staffordshire, David J. Appleby
‘There Never was a Viler Wretch in a Place of Dignity’: Thomas Wood as Dean and Bishop of Lichfield, and the Divisions of the Later Stuart Church, Ian Atherton
Rose Bagnall’s Books: Dissent, Reading, and Gender in Early-Eighteenth-Century Newcastle-under-Lyme, Ann Hughes
Colliers, Nailers, and Shoemakers: Richard Parrott’s Account of Cottages in the Parish of Audley and Hamlet of Talke, James P. Bowen
George Tollet (1725–79), a Neglected Staffordshire Historian, Randle Knight
Stafford Infirmary and the ‘Unreformed’ Nurse, 1765–1820, Alannah Tomkins
Family, Enterprise, Credit, and Community in the Early Nineteenth Century: The Willdeys of Lichfield, Peter Collinge
Ludchurch: A Staffordshire Wonder Revealed, David Horovitz
Clayton and Bell at Keele, Robin Studd
Here Lies the Hare, Matthew Blake
‘An Admirable Collection’: Stafford’s Wragge Museum, its Origins, and its Fate, Chris Copp
A Neglected Source for a Farming Community Snapshot: Land Tax Valuation Survey (1910), Paul Anderton
The Early Days of the Victoria County History in Staffordshire, John Becket
Price to non-members is £40 plus postage and packing: £5 for UK and £15 for rest of the world. Orders to be placed with the Society’s honorary secretary: Dr Matthew Blake, Staffordshire Record Society, William Salt Library, Eastgate Street, STAFFORD, ST16 2LZ or email: matthew.blake@btinternet.com
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