Autore	Sturt George
Pubbl/distr/stampa	[New York, New York] : , : Sheba Blake Publishing, , 2015
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (558 p.)
Disciplina	942.009734
Soggetto topico	Villages - England - History - 19th century Peasants - England - History - 19th century Working class - England - History - 19th century
ISBN	1-312-84945-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910163255203321

Autore	French H. R
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Manchester, : Manchester University Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (337 p.)
Disciplina	942.06
Altri autori (Persone)	HoyleR. W
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-78170-071-0 1-84779-140-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Copyright; Contents; List of illustrations; List of tables; A note on Earls Colne sources; A note on measurements; Glossary; List of abbreviations; Preface; 1 The character of rural change; 2 Earls Colne; 3The lords of Earls Colne; 4 The Harlakenden estate; 5 The lord and his copyholders; 6 The land market quantified; 7 The land market anatomised; 8 Subtenancy: the character of Earls Colne, 1722-50; 9 Conclusion; Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465695903321

Autore	Hoggart Keith
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (575 pages)
Disciplina	301.54
Collana	Local and Urban Governance
Soggetto topico	Housing policy - England Regional planning - England
ISBN	3-030-62651-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- About the Author -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Governance and Rural Transformation: An Investigative Approach -- 1.1 Key Themes -- 1.2 Chapter Organisation -- 1.3 Investigative Approach -- 1.3.1 Investigated Districts -- 1.3.2 Data Sources -- References -- Chapter 2: Provoking 1919 and Beyond: Housing Conditions in Rural England -- 2.1 Conceptualising Housing Conditions -- 2.2 Prompts for State Intervention -- 2.2.1 Private Rental Decline -- 2.2.2 Societal Pressures -- 2.3 Specifying Local Responsibilities -- 2.4 Divergence in Housing Conditions -- 2.4.1 Housing Supply -- 2.4.2 The Physical Fabric of Dwellings -- 2.4.3 Household Amenities -- 2.4.4 Rural-Urban Disparities -- 2.5 Contributing to Contrivance -- References -- Chapter 3: Rural Exceptionalism? Local Leader Priorities for Country Homes -- 3.1 Identifying Housing Distress -- 3.1.1 Parish Requests for Action -- 3.1.2 Waiting Lists -- 3.2 Was Rural Council Action Necessary? -- 3.2.1 Landed Estate Impacts -- 3.2.2 Homes for Employers -- 3.3 Rural Values? -- 3.3.1 Divergent Approaches to Housing Supply -- 3.3.2 Rural Councils as Housing Agents -- 3.4 Contributing to Contrivance -- References -- Chapter 4: Uneven Demand: Depopulation, Repopulation and Housing Pressure -- 4.1 The Demographic Imperative -- 4.2 Countervailing Tendencies -- 4.2.1 Outbidding Local Residents -- 4.2.2 1930s Failures to Re-Provision -- 4.3 Restricted Housing Access -- 4.4 Contributing to Contrivance -- References -- Chapter 5: The English Disease: Capacity and Capability for Housing Improvement -- 5.1 Rural Governance Capacities -- 5.1.1 District Council Resources -- 5.1.2 Council Professional Officers -- 5.2 Countryside Builders -- 5.2.1 Rural Construction Company Attributes -- 5.2.2 Builder Reliability. 5.3 Amenity Deficiencies -- 5.3.1 Difficulties Extending Amenity -- 5.3.2 Geographical Diversity -- 5.3.3 Amenity and Housing Numbers -- 5.4 Contributing to Contrivance -- References -- Chapter 6: A Subservient Countryside: National Priorities and Housing -- 6.1 Construction Volumes -- 6.1.1 The Push for Numbers, 1946-1955 -- 6.1.2 Policy Emphases and Diminished Rural Action, 1955-1964 -- 6.1.3 Shortfalls Raise Rural Discomfort, 1964-1970 -- 6.1.4 Housing the Elderly Eases Rural Discomfort -- 6.1.5 Flexible in Rural Responses -- 6.2 Building Styles -- 6.3 Reconditioning the Stock -- 6.4 That Urban Focus -- 6.5 An Information Deficit -- References -- Chapter 7: Rural Implementation: Frustration, Challenge and Compromise as Housing Realities -- 7.1 New-Build Allocations -- 7.2 Dwelling Design and Appearance -- 7.3 Securing Building Sites -- 7.4 Within District Housing Provision -- 7.4.1 An Impetus Towards Centralisation -- 7.4.2 Estates and Coasts -- 7.5 Intra-District Council-Building -- 7.6 Contributing to Contrivance -- References -- Chapter 8: The Political Economy of English Rural Housing -- 8.1 The Political Economic Context -- 8.1.1 A Radical Alternative? -- 8.1.2 Mainstream Urges -- 8.1.3 Geographical Discriminations -- 8.2 The National Conditioning of Rural Housing -- 8.2.1 Prioritising Home Ownership -- 8.2.2 Structuring a 'Laissez-Faire' Economy -- 8.2.3 Intervention for Continuity -- 8.2.4 A Top-Down Worldview -- 8.3 Those Local Inputs -- 8.4 Contrivance -- References -- Index.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910484379403321

Autore	Howkins Alun
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (273 p.)
Disciplina	307.72/0941/0904
Soggetto topico	Country life - England - History - 20th century Landscapes - England - History - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-77249-1 0-203-41444-6 0-203-41415-2 1-280-07279-2 9780203414152
Classificazione	15.70
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 'Blue remembered hills': rural society, 1900 21; The countryside in a new century, 1900 14; The Great War and its aftermath, 1914 21; The 'locust years', 1921 39; The misfortunes of agriculture, 1921 37; Landowners and farmers; The traditionalists: farm workers and domestic servants; New countrymen and women: workers and trippers; The second agricultural revolution, 1937 90; War and state agriculture, 1937 45; 'Tractors plus chemicals': agriculture and farming, 1945 90 What is the countryside for? Rural society, 1945 2001A place to work and a place to play: incomers and outgoers, 1945 90; Defending the natural order? Environment and conservation, 1945 90; The countryside in crisis, 1990 2001; Notes; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910450665003321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Hatfield, : University of Hertfordshire Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (233 p.)
Disciplina	942.009732 942/.009734
Altri autori (Persone)	DyerChristopher <1944-> JonesRichard <1969->
Collana	Explorations in local and regional history
Soggetto topico	Extinct cities - England Migration, Internal - England - History Villages - England - History
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-905313-96-9
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Copyright ; Contents; Figures; 2.1 Changing patterns of desertion in Devon as known in 1968 and 2009; 2.2 Deserted villages and hamlets in Norfolk; 2.3 Deserted villages and hamlets in Rutland; 2.4 East Midlands settlements with particular place-name generics that became parishes; 2.5 East Midlands settlements with particular place-name generics that have been 'lost'; 2.6 Evidence for the abandonment of the village of Lillingstone Dayrell; 2.7 Evidence for the abandonment of the hamlet of Elm Green, Wicken; 3.1 Deserted village sites in Warwickshire and Worcestershire 3.2 Location map of places mentioned in the Stratford guild register 4.1 Hamilton, aerial photographic view looking north-east; 4.2 Ingarsby, aerial photographic view looking north-east; 4.3 Stretton Magna, simplified interpretation of site plan; 4.4 Knaptoft, remains of sixteenth-century house; 4.5 Knaptoft, aerial photographic view from the north; 5.1 Map showing location of sites in the Milton Keynes area; 5.2 Spatial arrangement of the settlement of Westbury; 5.3 Development of Division 2 at Westbury; 5.4 Contrasting archaeological remains of houses at Great Linford and Westbury 6.1 Miscellaneous objects from Woodperry 6.2 The cistern found at Churchill; 6.3 Floor plan of the burnt building found at Dinna Clerks; 6.4 The abandoned building at Pennard on the Gower peninsula; 7.1 The seventeenth- and eighteenth-century infield and outfield at Wharram Percy; 7.2 The late-seventeenth-century dispersal of farmsteads at East Matfen; 8.1 Lincoln diocese, c. 1710; 8.2 Buckinghamshire case studies showing location of Boarstall and Middle Claydon; 8.3 The site of Boarstall village c. 1580; 8.4 The site of Boarstall village c. 1690 8.5 The fate of 1968 listed settlements in the Lincolnshire sample area 9.1 Medieval strip fields on Ffridd Camen in Llandrillo on the western edge of the Berwyn; 9.2 The enclosures of the putative sixteenth-century farmstead at Beili Bedw; 9.3 Foundations of a long hut in the Duhonw valley on Mynydd Epynt in Brecknock; 9.4 The head of a small valley running off Aberedw Common; 9.5 Abandoned cottage encroachments along Cwm Twlch; 10.1 Somerleyton Hall, and its park, as shown on an estate map of 1652; 10.2 Chatsworth Park 10.3 Houghton Hall and park, from Colen Campbell's Vitruvius Britannicus of 172210.4 Earthworks in Houghton Park; 10.5 Edensor village, clustering at the gates of Chatsworth Park; 10.6 Ayott St Lawrence: the parish church, rebuilt within the park in 1764; Tables; 3.1 Recruitment to the Stratford guild from selected villages; 5.1 Details of hearths from excavated buildings at Westbury; 8.1 Middle Claydon: numbers of tenants by farm group size 1648-1787; 8.2 Middle Claydon: percentage of farm acreage by farm size group 8.3 Population change in 'open' and 'close' villages in the Bernwood and Claydon areas
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910453381303321