A Lost Frontier Revealed
A Lost Frontier Revealed

Author: Alan Fox

Publisher: Univ of Hertfordshire Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9781902806976

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A traveller through the length and breadth of England is soon aware of cultural differences, some of which are clearly visible in the landscape. The eminent English historian Charles Phythian-Adams has put forth that England, through much of the last millennium, could be divided into regional societies, which broadly coincided with groups of pre-1974 counties. These shire assemblages in turn lay largely within the major river drainage systems of the country. In this unusual study Alan Fox tests for, and establishes, the presence of an informal frontier between two of the proposed societies astride the Leicestershire-Lincolnshire border, which lies on the watershed between the Trent and Witham drainage basins. The evidence presented suggests a strong case for a cultural frontier zone, which is announced by a largely empty landscape astride the border between the contrasting settlement patterns of these neighbouring counties.

The Origins of Primitive Methodism
The Origins of Primitive Methodism

Author: Sandy Calder

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1783270810

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The Primitive Methodist Connexion's mature social character may have been working-class, but this did not reflect its social origins.

Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield
Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield

Author: Gaynor Haliday

Publisher: Pen and Sword History

Published: 2019-06-27

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 1526717751

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Much has been written about the men of Wakefield, but apart from a couple of well-documented individuals, the women of Wakefield have remained largely ignored. Yet many women in this prosperous West Riding town worked hard to improve their lives and those of other women. Whether this was healthcare, housing, working conditions or providing refuge and training so that girls with no means of support could be made fit for employment, Wakefield’s women worked separately and together to achieve their mutual goals. Some were active campaigners and lobbyists, others chose vocations that quietly improved the lives of the women around them. Struggle and Suffrage in Wakefield uses historical newspaper articles, minutes of meetings, annual reports, first-hand stories and research into census returns to illustrate how women’s lives changed over a 100 year period and reveal some of those Wakefield women whose influence made things happen.