The Medieval English Borough
The Medieval English Borough

Author: James Tait

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780719003394

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Tait's classic study explores the origins and growth of English towns, from their emergence as a response to the Dnish threat, to their later constitutional affairs and municipal governance, guilds and merchants.

The Cambridge Urban History of Britain
The Cambridge Urban History of Britain

Author: Peter Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780521444613

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Surveys the history of British towns from their post-Roman origins down to the sixteenth century.

The English Town, 1680-1840
The English Town, 1680-1840

Author: Rosemary Sweet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1317882946

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An impressively thorough exploration of the changing functions, character and experience of English towns in a key age of transition which includes smaller communities as well as the larger industrialising towns. Among the issues examined are demography, social stratification, manners, religion, gender, dissent, amenities and entertainment, and the resilience of provincial culture in the face of the growing influence of London. At its heart is an authoritative study of urban politics: the structures of authority, the realities of civic administration, and the general movement for reform that climaxed in the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835.