Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182523
F. Rhodes
{"title":"The Private Life of William Shakespeare","authors":"F. Rhodes","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182523","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182523","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"120 - 121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49231530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2023.2174793
Denise Greany
{"title":"‘We Did Not Go’; Domestic Sociability in Early Nineteenth-Century Lutterworth, Leicestershire","authors":"Denise Greany","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2174793","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2174793","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study of the diary of a middling woman in a rural provincial location in the 1820s, considers the operation of domestic visit culture and argues that the domestic realm was more expansive, productive, and heterosocial than other studies have suggested, characterized by widespread female mobility and agency. This article suggests that care for the sick provided as significant a motivation, location, and routine for provincial female sociable lives as courtship, religious observance, and commercial activity.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"84 - 106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46565548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2023.2170198
James Peate
{"title":"Canvassing, Constituents And Cobblers: Richard Brinsley Sheridan As MP For Stafford 1780-1806 And Late Eighteenth-Century Electioneering","authors":"James Peate","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2170198","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2170198","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores Whig MP, playwright, theatre manager, press manager and orator Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s relationship with his constituency of Stafford and his role as a constituency MP. It addresses the web of patronage that was important for obtaining and maintaining a freeman borough seat such as Stafford in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. It considers a range of electoral behaviours throughout Sheridan’s time as MP for Stafford and how this fits into the unreformed electoral system, as well as the relationships, expectations, and obligations of a constituency MP in Stafford, at that time.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"65 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47284909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182975
Nigel J. Tringham
{"title":"The Staffordshire Archaeological and Historical Society and its Transactions","authors":"Nigel J. Tringham","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182975","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"107 - 108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58883186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729X.2023.2174796
C. Dyer
{"title":"Murder in a Landscape: The Significance of the Death of Henry Flackett in the Staffordshire Moorlands in 1515","authors":"C. Dyer","doi":"10.1080/0047729X.2023.2174796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729X.2023.2174796","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The history of crime offers us insights into private vengeance, community cohesion, social tensions, the defence of honour and property disputes. Henry Flackett of Stanshope in Alstonefield, Staffordshire, was killed by three assailants known to him in 1515, provoked by a contested heap of manure. A combination of sources provides an unusually vivid and detailed picture of the crime, in which gentry honour played a part, provoking an attempt to enforce the law through the conventional channels of inquest, common law, and equity courts. The event is set in the context of the society, economy and landscape of the Staffordshire Moorlands in a period of agrarian change.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"3 - 20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41464288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182518
J. Hunt
{"title":"The March of Ewyas. The Story of Longtown Castle and the de Lacy Dynasty","authors":"J. Hunt","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182518","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182518","url":null,"abstract":"and lengthy accounts of the de Berminghams in Ireland. There are two pages on the friars, though there was no friary in the town, and five illustrations of peasant life in rural Lincolnshire which have no Birmingham connection. At the same time important sources are omitted, such as the early wills, which were published initially before 1902, and in full in 2016; the Old Crown House in Deritend, the only complete medieval building to survive, is not discussed or illustrated; and the town plan could have been interpreted using the methodology devised by the historical geographers. The many errors are to be regretted, such as the belief that twelfth-century kings signed documents, or that aristocratic households employed cleaners, or that Jewish people were living in the town after 1290. More seriously, the term ‘borough’ should have been carefully explained. The late medieval Priory was surely not as large and important as is implied, while the Holy Cross fraternity, like similar institutions in places such as Stratford-upon-Avon and Walsall, came to play an active role in the social life and government of the town. The author has adopted some fruitful approaches, and more could have emerged if like other academic books at an early stage it had been given an expert critical appraisal, and later had gone through a process of thorough editing.","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"115 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42900491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Midland HistoryPub Date : 2023-01-02DOI: 10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182519
J. Pick
{"title":"New Hall: The History of England in One House","authors":"J. Pick","doi":"10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182519","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/0047729x.2023.2182519","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41013,"journal":{"name":"Midland History","volume":"48 1","pages":"116 - 117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47719990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}