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{"title":"Revealing Fragments: Close and Distant Reading of Working-Class Autobiography","authors":"H. Rogers, E. Cuming","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1555951","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555951","url":null,"abstract":"Focusing on the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, one of the largest collections of life-writing ‘from below’, this article explores the process of writing and the emotional framework within which they were penned. The autobiographies vary in length but, essentially, all are fragments of a life and memories shared. Some are fragmentary by nature of their brevity, while others seem to be incomplete. Often these autobiographical fragments provide snippets of a voice, remembered conversations, or work as collective histories of the common people. Amidst renewed interest in the ways that autobiographical writings can be used to trace changes in British culture and society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this article investigates both individual memoirs and the Archive as a whole to explore how even the smallest fragment can illuminate our collective past and present.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"180 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1555951","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48111690","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}

{"title":"Sickness, Medical Welfare and the English Poor, 1750–1834","authors":"A. Tomkins","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1567992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1567992","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"230 - 243"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1567992","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43877180","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}

{"title":"Editorial","authors":"Carol A. Beardmore","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1495467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495467","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"59 - 60"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45687372","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}

{"title":"Communities of kin and English landed gentry families of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries","authors":"M. Rothery","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1495470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495470","url":null,"abstract":"This article focuses on the kinship networks of the landed gentry of Devon, Lincolnshire and Hertfordshire in the modern period. Using national census household returns, the visitors’ books of a Devon gentry family and correspondence the article reveals dense and meaningful kinship networks centred on the main country house but also woven into the wider familial world of the gentry. Whenever possible, the inheritance of landed estates passed through the male line. But kin networks were bilateral, founded on both birth and marriage, on relations both through the male and the female line. Kin relations provided a range of services within a culture of visiting, epistolary practice and affection, which generated close and cherished family ties.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"112 - 128"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495470","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47679061","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}

{"title":"William Scott Owen, 1853–1920: an English-born land agent in mid Wales","authors":"Rachael Jones","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1495468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495468","url":null,"abstract":"William Scott Owen figured prominently in Montgomeryshire history by being deeply involved with the lives of working people and active in local politics. He was an incomer from the south of England and a stalwart of the Anglican faith and the Tory party. He spent the whole of his working life in Montgomeryshire and came to be deeply respected in a part of Britain noted for its Nonconformity and Liberalism. Scott Owen was agent on the Gregynog Estate, which lies in the south east of the county, much of it now belonging to the University of Wales. This study of his life provides a vivid picture of the county in the late Victorian and Edwardian period and discusses why he became so well regarded.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"82 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495468","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49383417","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}

{"title":"William Gould, Land Agent and the Rural Community in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire 1783–1788","authors":"Geoff Monks","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1495469","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495469","url":null,"abstract":"The land agent played an important role in community relationships. His position was frequently one of mediator and liaison between landowner and tenant, although his role often extended to settling disputes more generally. These relationships are often hidden in estate correspondence but in the case of William Gould agent to the Duke of Portland are more readily available through his diaries. This article will utilise this valuable resource to explore how the land agent of a large estate which was entering a period of industrialisation interacted with both agricultural and industrial communities.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"67 - 81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495469","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48672546","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}

{"title":"Introduction","authors":"Carol A. Beardmore","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1495465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495465","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been a renewed interest in the country house, the people who resided within its walls both above and below stairs and the contents of luxurious goods that it contained. Sumptuous dramas like Downton Abbey have given a romantic view of the ups and downs of life in these houses before and just after the First World War. The East India at Home Leverhulme Project showed the extent to which global forces impacted on the d ecor and fabric of the interiors. While Jon Stobart and Mark Rothery have explored consumption and the country house with a focus on Warwickshire and Northamptonshire. Carol Beardmore, Steven King and Geoff Monks have taken a different approach with a primary focus on the outer estate and in particular the role of the land agent. There is no one size fits all when it comes to the country estate and whilst the popular fascination with these power houses continues to grow, historians are again looking at the ways in which they tell the stories of economic and social history often picking up where Mark Girouard’s seminal work left off. It is unsurprising that the house itself has attracted so much attention for it is the central and foremost physical symbol of the status and wealth of its occupants. In fact, it was the ownership of land that was the most important factor and arbiter of the type of house that might be built. Many landowners did not farm the land they owned personally beyond maintaining a home farm which the land agent might manage. Land, however, brought tenant farmers and with them rents and political loyalty. The latter was especially important in the days before the Great Reform Act of 1832 and the other political reforms of the late nineteenth century which eventually led in 1872 to the Secret Ballots Act. Money could, of course be obtained by other means for example, trade, commerce, shipping, fighting or by providing useful services to the government or monarch. Yet without acquiring and owning a substantial landed estate, capital could be plundered, and power was subject to many exogenous factors such as the loss of a benefactor or a fall in economic fortunes. Acquiring land therefore was a direct reflection of the three main aims of those with capital to spend that is ‘status, consumption and investment’. The landowners were the dominating class who held sway both on their rural estates and in Parliament. Their pivotal role in running the nation meant that their interests were always foremost in the policies and laws passed and little was ever considered which threatened this fundamental principle. The landed estate reached its ‘zenith’ in the 1880s. In the period up to 1914, around 800,000 acres were sold although this was small","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"61 - 66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495465","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44453949","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}

{"title":"Housekeeper, correspondent and confidante: the under-told story of Mrs Hayes of Charlecote Park, 1744–73","authors":"J. Stobart","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1495471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495471","url":null,"abstract":"All too often, servants are accorded limited space in country house studies: rarely allowed to venture beyond the kitchen and service rooms, either in academic studies or interpretations for visitors. They are defined by their work not their lives and are seen as serving the physical rather than social or emotional needs of the owner. This paper challenges this viewpoint by exploring the relationship between George Lucy, owner of Charlecote Park in Warwickshire and his housekeeper, Mrs Phillipa Hayes. Drawing on their mutual correspondence, on other letters to and from Mrs Hayes, and on her Household Book, I construct a richer and more nuanced picture of the multiple roles that could be played by a senior servant. She was a housekeeper, but also a correspondent, confidante and hostess, who offered comfort and pleasure to her employer as well as sound economic and social management of his household. Although in some ways unusual, this case study illustrates the importance of placing senior servants more centrally when exploring the country house.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"111 - 96"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1495471","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48190287","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}

{"title":"The wealthier inhabitants of Croydon in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries","authors":"Richard F. Dyson","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1469869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1469869","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the wealthier inhabitants of Croydon in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, focusing on differences in wealth, ownership of property and social relationships. Using wills and subsidy lists, four broad categories of people were identified: gentlemen, yeomen, tradesmen and craftsmen and widows. There was no simple gradation of wealth between these groups; although gentlemen were generally among the richest subsidy payers, yeomen and tradesmen could also figure. In terms of social relationships and the ownership of property, there were differences. Gentlemen tended to marry within their own social group, appoint other gentlemen as overseers in their wills and were more likely to own land outside Croydon. The social relationships of yeomen and tradesmen/craftsmen were more focused on the town itself, as were their land purchases. Two groups of individuals can therefore be seen, not one homogenous entity as some scholars have argued.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"14 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1469869","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42133236","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}

{"title":"An investigation into the testamentary content of Stafford wills 1761–1860*","authors":"Lynda Holland","doi":"10.1080/14631180.2018.1469871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14631180.2018.1469871","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This research investigates the testamentary elements contained in the wills of Stafford residents during the period 1761–1860, a period of paradigm change which resulted in Stafford transforming from a small County Town with a population of almost four thousand in 1801, to an industrial centre of over twelve thousand by 1860. The article explores only a small portion of the testamentary content found in Stafford wills, but the results give a unique insight into aspects of life not always covered by other historical documents. Industrialisation resulted in cheaper goods being made available to more people, so the testamentary elements of Stafford wills were investigated to see if bequests of personal and household items increased. The nineteenth century also raised many social concerns, of which funerals were one. The first half of the nineteenth century was known for its extravagant and expensive funerals, so testator’s instructions were investigated to see what type of funeral arrangements were requested. The results highlight that changes cannot always be identified unless research covers a long enough timespan. Also, that despite campaigns to promote will making, in Stafford the number of testators as a percentage of the population declined in the nineteenth century. Industrialisation and the availability of cheaper goods also did not, as might have been expected result in an increase in testamentary bequests of specific ‘things’, but rather a decline. Using the preamble of a will for funeral arrangements also became less common in the nineteenth century.","PeriodicalId":41391,"journal":{"name":"FAMILY & COMMUNITY HISTORY","volume":"21 1","pages":"15 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14631180.2018.1469871","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46756710","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}