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Rebel without a Cause? Robert de Ferrers III and the Barons’ War in the Midlands, 1263–1265 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-17 Luke Foddy
Robert de Ferrers III, the sixth earl of Derby, is generally considered an outlier in the events of the civil war in England between 1264 and 1266. His involvement in the rebellion centred on Simon...
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Trust Betrayed: The Failure of the Birmingham Penny Bank, 1865 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Michelle Cale
Penny banks were Victorian institutions intended to encourage thrift among working-class people. Initially considered a model of its type, the Birmingham Penny Bank (1850–1865) collapsed because of...
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Capitalism, Social Improvement and Spiritual Wellbeing: The Various Schemes of Emerson Bainbridge 1877-1911 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-09 Michael Pollard
Emerson Bainbridge was an important entrepreneur, philanthropist and (briefly) Liberal M.P. whose influence has been overlooked and under-estimated by historians. His wide-ranging industrial succes...
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THE HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the University of Warwick, 1987-1994 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Joseph Price
This article explores the handling of HIV/AIDS in the student community of Warwick University between 1987–1994. It investigates the perception, management, and navigation of the crisis within the ...
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Muster Rolls of the Edgbaston Garrison 1644–1646 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-03 Richard Dace
Colonel John ‘Tinker’ Fox, governor of the Edgbaston garrison, has been studied by several historians in recent years, overturning the older view that he was a radical or an independent force. This...
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Midland History Summer 2024 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Imogen Peck, James Doherty
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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The Madman and the Churchrobber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern England Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Richard Cust
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Saints, Crooks & Slavers: History of a Bristol House and its People Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-24 Jonathan Reinarz
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Thomas Baskerville: Journeys in Industrious England Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-19 Charlotte Young
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Church Courts and the People in Seventeenth-Century England: Ecclesiastical Justice in Peril at Winchester, Worcester and Wells Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-06-17 Stephen K. Roberts
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2024)
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Church Goods in Derbyshire 1552-1553 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jonathan Willis
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Financing the English Revolution in Worcestershire: The Sales of Confiscated Church and Crown Property, 1646–60 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Andrew Hopper
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Midland History Spring 2024 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Imogen Peck, James Doherty
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The Welsh Marcher Lordships: 1: Central & North Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Adam Chapman
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Names, Texts and Landscapes in the Middle Ages. A Memorial Volume for Duncan Probert Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 John Hunt
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The Warwickshire Eyre Roll of 1262 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Nigel Tringham
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Generations. Age, Ancestry and Memory in the English Reformations Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Richard Cust
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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Stukeley and Stamford, Part I. Cakes and Curiosity: the Sociable Antiquarian, 1710-1737 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Ruth M. Larsen
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The ‘Acci’: How the Birmingham Accident Hospital led the World in the Management of the Severely Injured Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Jonathan Reinarz
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The Battle of Blore Heath: Sources, Historiography and Implications for the Outbreak of Conflict, 1459-60 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Tim Thornton
Discussion of the battle of Blore Heath (23 September 1459) has focused on the role of Cheshire gentry. This reflects a historiographical tradition that began early in the sixteenth century with Ed...
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Views of England and Wales: A New Online Collection Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Juliet Bailey, Alister Sutherland, William Farrell
Published in Midland History (Vol. 49, No. 1, 2024)
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The Family of Aethelwig, Abbot of Evesham 1058–78 and Acting Justiciar of the Mercian Province Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Sally Dickson
This article arises from research into people named in the Worcestershire Domesday Book. Counties were administrative units rather than limits on landholding, and estates could stretch across many ...
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Bricks, Brickmaking, and the Economies of the Old Poor Law: Staffordshire 1750–1834 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-15 Alannah Tomkins
This article considers the place of brickmaking as an activity supported or promoted by parish poor relief. Parochial work schemes were typically founded on agricultural work, textile manufacturing...
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Economics and the Cult of Death in Late Medieval England: The Guild of St. George in Nottingham, 1459-1546 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Richard Goddard, George Smalley
This paper examines the decline of the fraternity of St. George in Nottingham between 1459 and 1546. It uses the guild’s accounts in conjunction with Nottingham’s rich surviving documentary materia...
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A Ward Level Economic Topography of Sixteenth-Century Coventry Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Donald Leech
Subsidy rolls of the 1540s and 1560s from the collection of Thomas Gregory, Coventry city clerk from 1528 to 1570, provide relative comparisons among Coventry’s wards over time. The various wards r...
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‘That so Ancient a City Should Have Elected a Woman as Mayor Is a Sign of the times’: Women and Local Government in Worcester before 1939 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Anna Muggeridge
This article explores women’s experiences of local government in Worcester between 1907 and 1939. The city saw a limited suffrage movement, and to date has never elected a female MP. Yet while wome...
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Introduction: New Perspectives on Worcester Since the Seventeenth Century Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 N. C. Fleming
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 3, 2023)
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Oliver Cromwell and the Devil in Worcester Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Darren Oldridge
On the eve of the Battle of Worcester in 1651, Oliver Cromwell was reputed to have sold his soul to the Devil. This article examines the construction of this legend and places it in the larger cont...
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Freemasons and Their Contribution to the Economic Development of Worcester c. 1750–1850 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Alan T. Robertson
This article addresses a topic which has been neglected by academic historians – namely, Freemasonry as a business network. Between 1750 and 1850 431 men, predominantly drawn from the business sect...
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Worcester as a Pioneering Provincial Centre of Medical Publishing and Reform, 1828–1854 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Howard Cox
The fact that Worcester Infirmary provided the location for the founding of the Provincial (later British) Medical Association has long been commemorated as a highlight of the city’s history. This ...
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Empire, Community, and the Limits of ‘Sea-Mindedness’: The Navy League and Worcester, c. 1896–1914 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 N. C. Fleming
Worcester was the site of one of the earliest branches of the Navy League. It attracted the support of leading political figures in the area, as well as working- and lower-middle class members. It ...
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Rent Arrears, Food Shortages and Evacuees: How War Enters the Worcester Home in Two World Wars Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Maggie Andrews
The strong military traditions of Worcester may mean the city’s engagement in two world wars is often thought about in terms of the soldiers or even the ammunition produced at Blackpole Munitions W...
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The Soho Manufactory, Mint and Foundry, West Midlands. Where Boulton, Watt and Murdoch Made History Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-11 Malcolm Dick
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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A Spark of Revolution. William Small, Thomas Jefferson and James Watt. The Curious Connection Between the American Revolution and the Industrial Revolution Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Ruth M. Larsen
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Midland History Summer 2023 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Malcolm Dick
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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The Victoria History of the Counties of England. A History of the County of Stafford: Volume XII, Tamworth and Drayton Bassett Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Malcolm Dick
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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Changes in Attitudes to Immigrants in Britain, 1841-1921: From Foreigner to Alien Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-23 Robert Lawson
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 2, 2023)
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A High Street Inheritance: Henley-in-Arden in 1419-20 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Steven Bassett, Sarah Wager
The contents of a previously overlooked rental of the borough of Henley-in-Arden, composed in 1419–20 when the co-heirs to the Freville lands were trying to decide how to share out their inheritanc...
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Out of the Land of Ice and Fire: Icelandic Immigrants in the Midlands During the Fifteenth Century Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-06 Scott C. Lomax
English towns during the medieval period have, in recent years, become increasingly recognised as places of diversity, with some of their inhabitants born in several European regions. Studies of im...
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Women, Late Chartism, and the Land Plan in Nottinghamshire Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-30 Matthew Roberts
This article explores the relationship between working-class women and Chartism, focusing chiefly on Nottingham. It argues that the opportunities for women to participate in the movement were much ...
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Local Magistracy and the Rule of the Major Generals: Robert Beake Coventry’s Godly Mayor 1655-6 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Stewart Fergusson
This paper will explore a local aspect of what Bernard Capp characterized as England’s Culture Wars. Robert Beake, mayor of Coventry in 1655/6, worked closely with the region’s ‘Major General’, Edw...
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The Birmingham Pen Factories, and Their Female Workforce, 1850-1914 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Joan Turner
From the mid-nineteenth century, the Birmingham pen factories supplied the world with steel pens. The industry was completely reliant on the high productivity levels and compliance of its predomina...
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Midlands Industrialists, Liberal Education and the Founding of the University of Warwick Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Josh Patel
The University of Warwick has been subjected to two apparently contradictory critiques. The first, associated with social historian EP Thompson, is that the university had been captured by a cabal ...
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The Private Life of William Shakespeare Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Francesca Rhodes
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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It’s Your History: Birmingham People’s History Archive (BPHA) Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-15 Gill Binnie
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Stratford-Upon-Avon Wills 1348-1701 [2 Vols] Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Joe Saunders
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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New Hall: The History of England in One House Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Justine Pick
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Buildings of England: Birmingham and the Black Country Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-03 Alexander Hibberts
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Editorial Midland History Spring 2023 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Malcolm Dick
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society and its Transactions Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-03-01 Nigel Tringham
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Radical Potter: Josiah Wedgwood and the Transformation of Britain Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Malcolm Dick
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Rise and Decline of England’s Watchmaking Industry, 1550-1930 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Rebecca Struthers
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers, 1523 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Ian Atherton
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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The March of Ewyas. The Story of Longtown Castle and the de Lacy Dynasty Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 John Hunt
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Medieval Birmingham. People and places, 1070–1553 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Christopher Dyer
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Herefordshire Farming through Time. Fellers, Tillers and Cider Makers Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Charles Watkins
Published in Midland History (Vol. 48, No. 1, 2023)
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Murder in a Landscape: The Significance of the Death of Henry Flackett in the Staffordshire Moorlands in 1515 Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Christopher Dyer
ABSTRACT The history of crime offers us insights into private vengeance, community cohesion, social tensions, the defence of honour and property disputes. Henry Flackett of Stanshope in Alstonefield, Staffordshire, was killed by three assailants known to him in 1515, provoked by a contested heap of manure. A combination of sources provides an unusually vivid and detailed picture of the crime, in which
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‘The Shame of Me and My Poor Ruinate House’: The Fourth Earl of Huntingdon and the Decline of Aristocratic Power in Elizabethan Leicestershire Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Richard Cust
ABSTRACT This article focusses on the Leicester parliamentary election of 1601 as a moment that exposed the rapid decline in the power of an aristocratic family. It analyses the various components of the third earl of Huntingdon’s dominance of Leicestershire for much of Elizabeth’s reign and the causes of the unravelling of this following his death in 1595. Foremost among these were the political failings
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‘We Did Not Go’; Domestic Sociability in Early Nineteenth-Century Lutterworth, Leicestershire Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Denise Greany
ABSTRACT This study of the diary of a middling woman in a rural provincial location in the 1820s, considers the operation of domestic visit culture and argues that the domestic realm was more expansive, productive, and heterosocial than other studies have suggested, characterized by widespread female mobility and agency. This article suggests that care for the sick provided as significant a motivation
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‘The Fall of Needwood’: Social Dimensions of Landscape Change in Eighteenth-Century Staffordshire Midland History (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Thomas Banbury
ABSTRACT The 1801 enclosure of Needwood Forest by the Duchy of Lancaster demonstrates the differences in environmental thought across different social classes in Staffordshire. By comparing correspondence and poems from belle-lettres society in Lichfield and Stafford with petitions and pamphlets produced by tenant farmers and cottagers of Needwood, two different motivations for anti-enclosure action