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A 'grass roots' cultural history of the English parish from the earliest times to Queen Victoria.

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The central theme of this book is the changing spatial pattern of human activities during the last 2, 500 years of Europe's history.

This wide-ranging book traces the development of popular culture in England from the Iron Age, when it first becomes apparent as a whole, to the eighteenth century. The concept of popular culture is here taken to be the body of ideas which is held by a people about itself and its environment, both physical and social, together with the tools and artefacts through which its members related to one another and to the outside world, it follows the...

This book seeks to examine the complex of natural and man-made features that have influenced the course of history and have been influenced by it.

This book is the last of three and continues the Historical Geography of Europe down to the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

Most writings on church history have been concerned mainly with church hierarchy, and with theology, liturgy and canon law. This book looks at the church 'from below', from the lowest stratum of its organisation - the parish - in which the church building is seen as the parishioners' handiwork and as a reflection of local popular culture. The book discusses in turn the origin and development of the system of precisely-defined parishes, their f...