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Showing 1 to 20 of 1445 for “"Lancashire"”.
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Lancashire and the exclusion crisis
… religious and political framework of Restoration Lancashire up to the era of the alleged "Plot" and the consequent Exclusion Crisis. The fourth and fifth chapters examine the impact the Crisis had upon the county. In particular the reaction of the authorities to religious deviancy between 1678 to …
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Religion in Lancashire 1603-1640
At the close of Elizabeth I's reign, some Lancashire ministers asked Archbishop Matthew Hutton of York, to remember 'the general state of the people amongst whom we live, standing of two sorts, the obstinate papists and the zealous professors of religion'. (1) Such sentiments were echoed in 1608 by …
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Palaeoecological studies on the Rivington Anglezarke uplands, Lancashire
… an important landscape resource in industrial Lancashire. Scattered ancient monuments and farmstead ruins stimulate enquiry and suggest long-term human influence while expansive species poor vegetation over peat suggests little has changed over long periods of time. This study seeks insight …
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The Poor Law in Rural Lancashire 1820-50.
… of the New Poor Law in the rural unions in Lancashire. It explores the effects of the legislation upon policies for poor relief and concludes that they can be most appropriately summarised as resulting in change. However, where attitudes towards the poor are concerned, there was continuity, …
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The fish and fishery of Stocks Reservoir, Lancashire
… of the fish and fishery of Stocks Reservoir, Lancashire, is the result of contract work undertaken by the researcher for North West Water (NWW). In an attempt to describe the location of the study, relevant information covering the catchment, local geology, reservoir construction and flora and …
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The textile industry in early eighteenth century Lancashire
… a fresh interpretation of industrial activity in Lancashire some two to three generations before the arrival of the factory system of textile production. It is based on a county-wide study of occupations recorded in Church of England parish registers for the I 720s, a source which has, with the …
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Aspects of agrarian change in south-west Lancashire
… developments 1650-1850 in a region - south-west Lancashire - that was increasingly dominated by industry and large urban centres. The thesis is firmly located within two distinct historiographical traditions: 'agrarian capitalism' and 'agricultural revolution'. The debates encompassed by these …
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The effectiveness of local air pollution control in Lancashire
… limits, a case study approach was adopted, using Lancashire as the case study area. Under the first phase of the research a questionnaire was used to survey the process operators within the region in order to collect baseline information about their processes and to obtain their views and …
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A study of foreign language training in Lancashire companies
… about foreign languages and their use in Lancashire companies The research was carried out by sending postal questionnaires to both personnel managers and export managers in 174 Lancashire companies with more than 200 employees. The questionnaires were followed up by interviews with …
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Respectable militants : the Lancashire textile machinery makers, c.1800-1939
Lancashire's textile machinery industry developed with the mechanisation of its cotton industry, and by 1914 was the leading branch of mechanical engineering in Britain. Throughout this industry's history its artisans retained characteristics of respectability and militancy allied with a strong …
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Professional Football and its Supporters in Lancashire, circa 1946-1985
… the social make-up of postwar football crowds in Lancashire; to analyse the fall in attendances that occurred at most Lancashire football clubs in the post-war period; to assess the developing relationship between football and social identity in post-war Lancashire; and to evaluate attempts to …
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The role of design in the Lancashire cotton industry, 1900-1939
… the merchant converter on design practice in the Lancashire cotton industry in the period 1900-1939. The thesis aims to supplement the existing design histories of the industry by focusing, firstly, upon the role of design in the context of the industrial and commercial organisation of the …
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Crisis in Lancashire: A survey of the 1720's Demographic Crisis
… examines a suspected demographic crisis in Lancashire in the latter years of the 1720s utilising evidence from a wide selection of parish registers and a number of contemporary accounts. Lancashire has proved to be an excellent county to study this crisis given its diverse topographic and …
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Unemployment and the Working Class: Bolton, Lancashire in the 1930's
This study raises some questions about how unemployment has been studied, concluding that previous efforts have been limited in their ability truly to analyze the impact of unemployment. It places the issue of class at the center, arguing that the study of unemployment not only needs to examine …
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The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360
Abstract The Lancashire Gentry in the Early Fourteenth Century, c. 1300 – 1360 The topic of this dissertation is the gentry of Lancashire in the years from 1298 to 1361. It is a prosopographical study involving a limited number of prominent families, selected on the basis of status, tenure and …
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A study of aspects of crime and distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire
… to economic distress in seventeenth-century Lancashire. It uses evidence drawn from both Lancashire quarter sessions and assize courts. Mainly, however, it concentrates on the quarter sessions evidence. It studies crime at the county, as opposed to the local community, level; and makes use of …
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Informal recreation in upland Britain : a comparative study of two sites in Lancashire
… concentrate on two sites within such a scheme in Lancashire. The major landscape attraction of the areas is the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The sites investigated represent the two extremes of management: an informal, uncontrolled site within the designated area of AONB …
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Aspects of the built environment of rural south west Lancashire, c.1880 - 1914
… establishes resoundingly that in south west Lancashire, rural housing was no longer makeshift and impermanent. No longer crudely built by the tenants themselves as had generally been the case prior to 1850, workers' houses were now solidly and professionally constructed, if somewhat …
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