A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From
A History of English Place Names and Where They Came From

Author: John Moss

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2020-05-30

Total Pages: 457

ISBN-13: 1526722852

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An enlightening journey into the languages, meanings, and history behind the names on England’s map. The origins of the names of many English towns, hamlets, and villages date as far back as Saxon times, when kings like Alfred the Great established fortified borough towns to defend against the Danes. A number of settlements were established and named by French Normans following the Conquest. Many are even older and are derived from Roman place names. Some hark back to the Vikings who invaded and established settlements in the eighth and ninth centuries. Most began as simple descriptions of the location; some identified its founder, marked territorial limits, or gave tribal people a sense of their place in the grand scheme of things. Whatever their derivation, place names are inextricably bound up in history—and these are the stories behind them.

British Regionalism and Devolution
British Regionalism and Devolution

Author: Jonathan Bradbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-04

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 113603496X

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This contributors provide a range of perspectives on the increasingly central issues of state reform, European integration and British regionalism in the 1990s. Using case material, the contributors examine: the effects of state reform and European integration on British regionalism and the devolution debate; and the nature of recent central responses to the re-emergence of regional and devolution issues, with a particular focus on the recent policies of the Major governments and the policies of the Opposition parties. They also present some evidence which suggests that state reform and EC/EU developments have determined and accentuated important new trends in British regionalism, and underpin the plausibility of far-reaching regional and devolution reforms.

The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, 1348-1500

Author: Edward Miller

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1967

Total Pages: 1036

ISBN-13: 9780521200745

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The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, which was first published in 1991, deals with the last century and a half of the Middle Ages. It concerns itself with the new demographic and economic circumstances created in large measure by endemic plague.