Peter Hounsell - Bricks of Victorian London: A social and economic history

Studies in Regional and Local History

General Editor Jane Whittle

Previous titles in this series

Founding Editor Nigel Goose

Volume 1: A Hertfordshire Demesne of Westminster Abbey: Profits, productivity and weatherby Derek Vincent Stern (edited and with an introduction by Christopher Thornton)

Volume 2: From Hellgill to Bridge End: Aspects of economic and social change in the Upper Eden Valley, 184095by Margaret Shepherd

Volume 3: Cambridge and its Economic Region, 14501560by John S. Lee

Volume 4: Cultural Transition in the Chilterns and Essex Region, 350 AD to 650 ADby John T. Baker

Volume 5: A Pleasing Prospect: Society and culture in eighteenth-century Colchesterby Shani DCruze

Volume 6: Agriculture and Rural Society after the Black Death: Common themes and regional variationsby Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell

Volume 7: A Lost Frontier Revealed: Regional separation in the East Midlandsby Alan Fox

Volume 8: Land and Family: Trends and local variations in the peasant land market on the Winchester bishopric estates, 12631415by John Mullan and Richard Britnell

Volume 9: Out of the Hay and into the Hops: Hop cultivation in Wealden Kent and hop marketing in Southwark, 17442000by Celia Cordle

Volume 10: A Prospering Society: Wiltshire in the later Middle Agesby John Hare

Volume 11: Bread and Ale for the Brethren: The provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, 12601536by Philip Slavin

Volume 12: Poor Relief and Community in Hadleigh, Suffolk, 15471600by Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

Volume 13: Rethinking Ancient Woodland: The archaeology and history of woods in Norfolkby Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson

Volume 14: Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postanedited by J.P. Bowen and A.T. Brown

Volume 15: The World of the Small Farmer: Tenure, profit and politics in the early modern Somerset Levelsby Patricia Croot

Volume 16: Communities in Contrast: Doncaster and its rural hinterland, c.18301870by Sarah Holland

Volume 17: Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communitiesby Susan Kilby

Volume 18: Shaping the Past: Theme, time and place in local history essays in honour of David Dymondby Evelyn Lord and Nicholas R. Amor

Volume 19: Lichfield and the Lands of St Chad: Creating community in early medieval Merciaby Andrew Sargent

Volume 20: Histories of People and Landscape: Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Heyedited by R.W. Hoyle

Volume 21: Managing for Posterity: The Norfolk gentry and their estates c.14501700by Elizabeth Griffiths

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