The Sheffield Book of Days
The Sheffield Book of Days

Author: Margaret Drinkall

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012-02-29

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0752485997

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Taking you through the year day by day, The Sheffield Book of Days contains quirky, eccentric, amusing and important events and facts from different periods of history. Events include matters of national importance such as the Coronation of George IV, as well as local incidents such as the Sheffield Outrages and accounts of riots in the town. There are amusing incidents from the local newspaper, for example the punishments inflicted on young boys for playing 'trip' during Divine Service and an outbreak of people being bitten by 'mad dogs'. Ideal for dipping into, this addictive little book will keep you entertained and informed. Featuring hundreds of snippets of information, it will delight residents and visitors alike.

Conflict and Compromise
Conflict and Compromise

Author: Dennis Smith

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-17

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1317218884

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First published in 1982, this study explores the dynamics of class formation during the vital decades between 1830 and 1914, when a rising urban industrial order was developing in complex interdependence with a declining rural agrarian order. The book follows the divergent paths of two cities - Birmingham and Sheffield – in their social development. These paths reflect the complex process of conflict and compromise as the ‘old’ order was gradually replaced by the ‘new’. It studies in detail many aspects of social life that were affected by these changes such as education, public administration, political structures, public administration, religion, the professions, popular culture and family. This book will be of interest to those studying Victorian history and sociology.

The Reformation and the Towns in England
The Reformation and the Towns in England

Author: Robert Tittler

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780198207184

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This analysis of the secular impact of the Reformation examines the changes within English towns from the mid-16th to the mid-17th century.

Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700
Sanitation in Urban Britain, 1560-1700

Author: Leona J. Skelton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 131721790X

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Popular belief holds that throwing the contents of a chamber pot into the street was a common occurrence during the early modern period. This book challenges this deeply entrenched stereotypical image as the majority of urban inhabitants and their local governors alike valued clean outdoor public spaces, vesting interest in keeping the areas in which they lived and worked clean. Taking an extensive tour of over thirty towns and cities across early modern Britain, focusing on Edinburgh and York as in-depth case studies, this book sheds light on the complex relationship between how governors organised street cleaning, managed waste disposal and regulated the cleanliness of the outdoor environment, top-down, and how typical urban inhabitants self-regulated their neighbourhoods, bottom-up. The urban-rural manure trade, sanitation infrastructure, waste-disposal technology, plague epidemics, contemporary understandings of malodours and miasmatic disease transmission and urban agriculture are also analysed. This book will enable undergraduates, postgraduates and established academics to deepen their understanding of daily life and sensory experiences in the early modern British town. This innovative work will appeal to social, cultural and legal historians as well as researchers of history of medicine and public health.