Social change and social conflict in nineteenth‐century England: The use of the open‐closed village model

Mills, Dennis R.; Shortt, Brian M.

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“…Charlesworth also asserted that it was the overt forms of protest which continued to be the ones most frequently resorted to till at least 1830. 45 This debate continued with a retort from Wells and a further four direct responses by other scholars, 46 prompting Wells to make several minor revisions to his original scenario. 47 The potential potency of the important understandings developed in the WellseCharlesworth debate remains flawed though due to the fact that it did not consider the many problems in understanding the nature of arson or the fact that reporting practices distorts our knowledge of both the resorting to, and geographies, of arson.…”

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Knowable geographies? The reporting of incendiarism in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English provincial press

Griffin

2006

Journal of Historical Geography

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Knowable geographies? The reporting of incendiarism in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English provincial press

Griffin

2006

Journal of Historical Geography

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“…Although the gazetteers were funded as a resource for local historians, linkage to the GIS creates analytic potentials. For example, Mills and Short (1983) used the Imperial Gazetteer for a local study of the distribution of "open" and "closed" parishes under the Settlement Acts (Holderness 1972). Figure 1 replicates this nationally, phrases such as "the property is considerably subdivided" indicating open parishes, "the property is divided among four" indicating close.…”

Section: Descriptive Gazetteersmentioning

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Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 3:Integrating Qualitative Content for a Sense of Place

Southall

2014

Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdiscipli

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We describe the integration of old maps, descriptive gazetteers and a large library of travel writing into the Great Britain Historical GIS, presenting a range of approaches to geo-referencing diverse historical sources. While previous parts focused on legally defined administrative areas and statistical reporting units, these qualitative sources concern a less formal geography of "places". We link these to administrative units in two ways: places are contained within units, but units are named after places and are consequently subsidiary to them. While rejecting existing gazetteer data standards, the approach aligns well with that of historical place-name researchers. The final section describes how the structure interacts with search engines to support a very popular web site for lifelong learners.

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“…At Holkham ( Figure 3) in 1886, the Earl of Leicester, the principal landowner in Norfolk with 44,090 acres, 26 constructed 'a beautiful building in the Swiss cottage style, with a tower . 34 In 'open' parishes, authority and control were exercised by several landowners, a situation which contemporary commentators identified as a cause of poverty, insanitary conditions and discontent. .…”

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“…33 The 'open-closed' model is a useful way of describing 'the differential distribution of power within different types of village social structures'. 34 In 'open' parishes, authority and control were exercised by several landowners, a situation which contemporary commentators identified as a cause of poverty, insanitary conditions and discontent. As one would expect, the reading rooms in such places differed greatly from the imposing buildings described above, being cheap and small but still functional, as in the examples at Buxton, Ingworth and Roughton.…”

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The Rise and Decline of Village Reading Rooms

King

2009

Rural History

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This article describes the development of the reading room, from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century. Reading rooms were originally imposed upon the working classes by the upper classes, mainly the church and local landowners. Their establishment reflected contemporary attitudes to philanthropy, recreation and self-help and confirmed the great class divide. Little research has been carried out on this subject, and this article focuses particularly on rural Norfolk, explaining the distribution of the one hundred and sixty village reading rooms identified, their varying location and architectural styles, membership profile and differing methods of financing, including fund-raising social events. The article uses local and national archives and contemporary Ordnance Survey maps, as well as information from many local people. Reading rooms offered a much needed alternative to the public house for the working classes, although they tended to appeal more to the lower middle classes, and membership was mostly restricted to males. The difference between reading rooms in 'open' and 'closed' parishes is discussed. In the twentieth century, as other diversions appeared and the countryside became more democratised, reading rooms gradually declined. They were an important part of village life and have left interesting evidence of former lifestyles and attitudes.

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Social change and social conflict in nineteenth‐century England: The use of the open‐closed village model

Cited by 8 publications

References 5 publications

Knowable geographies? The reporting of incendiarism in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English provincial press

Knowable geographies? The reporting of incendiarism in the eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century English provincial press

Rebuilding the Great Britain Historical GIS, Part 3:Integrating Qualitative Content for a Sense of Place

The Rise and Decline of Village Reading Rooms

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