The Midland Peasant
Economic and Social History of a Leicestershire VIllage
Will be published approx. on 1. December 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-86077-525-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Midland Peasant, one of Hoskins' most admired works, portrays, with the aid of local records, a monumentally stable peasant society, which greatly strengthened its roots during the 16th and 17th centuries. English agrarian life in this period is seen through Wigston Magna in Leicestershire, one of the largest villages in the Midlands, and the free peasantry were the largest single class within it. An open-field village of the 'classic' type, its three fields remained unchanged until their disappearance in 1766.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Stroud
United Kingdom
Publishing group
The History Press Ltd
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
840 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86077-525-3 (9781860775253)
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The late W.G. HOSKINS was a prolific author of local history books. Born in Exeter in 1908, William George Hoskins was educated at Hele's School and the University of the South West; he then went on to teach at the then University College, Leicester (1931-51) where he founded the influential School of English Local History - the first department of its kind in Britain. In 1951 he became Reader in Economic History at Oxford, and it is during his time there that both Devon (1954) and The Making of the English Landscape (1955) appeared, both highly influential works, both still in great demand. Returning as Professor to Leicester, now a University, after a few years he withdrew to return to his beloved Devon: to campaign against wholesale re-development - destruction - and to champion similar environmental causes. He enjoyed a national reputation and high regard, which led to radio, television and press appearances - this Devon man changed not only our approach to the study of local history, but also our concern about the conservation of our environment. He died at Cullompton, Devon, in January 1992.