K. D. M. Snell

Penelope Lane

Neil Raven

Women's employment was significant both for its contribution to industrialisation and to family economies; its range and the rewards are explored.

Women, Work, and Wages in England, 1600-1850

What role did the parish play in people's lives in England and Wales between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, the book stresses how important parochial belonging once was. Professor Snell discusses themes such as settlement law and practice, marriage patterns, cultures of local xenophobia, the continuance of out-door relief in people's own parishes under the new poor law, the many new parishes of the period and their effects upon people's local attachments. The book highlights the continuing vitality of the parish as a unit in people's lives, and the administration associated with it. It employs a variety of historical methods, and makes important contributions to the history of welfare, community identity and belonging. It is highly relevant to the modern themes of globalisation, de-localisation, and the decline of community, helping to set such changes and their consequences into local historical perspective.

Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950

Parish and Belonging

Paul S. Ell

This pioneering book, exhaustive in the scope of its computerized analysis, explores many aspects of the geography of religion in England and Wales. It describes the geographical patterns of the major English and Welsh religious denominations, before moving on to explore issues such as regional continuities in religion, the growth of religious pluralism, Sunday schools, child labor, religious seating prerogatives, the effects of landownership, urbanization and regional "secularization." It bears especially on the disciplines of history, historical and cultural geography, religious sociology, and religious studies.

The Geography of Victorian Religion

Rival Jerusalems

Research Fellow Paul S Ell

A complete geography of religion in England and Wales, including exhaustive analyses of many religious questions and debates.

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