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Joyce Jeffreys' accounts overturn our perceptions of the social, cultural and economic world of the 17th century spinster. The unusual wealth of detail reveals her business dealings, mainly as a moneylender (and how she suffered financially in the civil war), and also her vibrant kinship network which linked her with prominent local people.

The first comprehensive survey of Lord Woolton's wartime role, based on selections from Diaries and Letters 1940-1945, covering his time as Minister of Food (1940-1943) and less familiarly, as Minister of Reconstruction (1943-1945).

At the heart of this book are the stories, in their own words, of ordinary people who fell into need and required the help of the local state in the early nineteenth century. We read their hopes, fears, detailed experiences of illness, and aspects of material conditions across a spectrum from nakedness and starvation to homelessness and eviction.

In c.1300, the manors of Westminster Abbey were one of the wealthiest monasteries in late medieval England. This book documents the agricultural economy of the Abbey and demonstrates the sophisticated financial and administrative systems the monks employed in a transition from the direct management of their lands, to systems of leaseholds.

The 300 letters written by members of the Jeake family create a narrative of business and family life in 17th and 18th century England. They reveal the importance of kinship in ensuring business and family survival during religious and political upheavals, and provide a rare glimpse into the life and work of 'middling-sort' woman, Elizabeth Jeake.

Early chamber of commerce documents are valuable sources for economic and political history. They shed new light on a world of collective action for political campaigns and business services. This volume collects documents from all chambers in the UK and Ireland founded 1767-1839, setting them in context and providing scholarly notes.

At a time of acute interest in Scottish independence, the book charts the Treasury's response to Scottish claims from the late 19th century until the 1979 referendum. Key issues include Highland depopulation, fisheries, universities, support for farming, new towns, regional policy, North Sea Oil, budgetary responsibility and the Barnett formula.

This is a fully-annotated and cross-indexed edition of the 24 extant New Year's gift rolls of Queen Elizabeth 1, now transcribed and collected in one volume for the first time. Important appendices include biographical sketches of participants in the exchanges, a listing of gift items, and a glossary of unusual or obsolete words.

Transcriptions of the summary returns illuminate the life of the Archdeaconries of Huntingdon, Bedford, Leicester and Buckingham in the early eighteenth century, providing detailed information about the villages: their population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, and church attendance.

Transcriptions of the summary returns illuminate the life of the Archdeaconries of Stow and Lincoln in the early eighteenth century, providing detailed information about the villages: their population, religious affiliations, schooling, charities, and church attendance.

The book is a scholarly edition of a manuscript written in about 1706 which has not previously been published. The main text considers England's economic potential, and puts forward ways in which that potential could be maximized.

An insider's account of the Wilson government from the perspective of Sir Samuel Brittan, an economic journalist who went on to become one of Britain's most influential commentators. It provides a unique account, both of what went wrong in economic policy, and also why activist economic policies are so difficult to deliver effectively in Britain.

This volume of annotated primary sources focuses on the lives of tradesmen and women in the northern 'industrial' and commercial towns of Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester and Liverpool from 1788 to 1832. Insights are offered into their domestic, familial, 'personal' and spiritual lives, their business dealings and links with their wider communities.

This volume gives details of a wide range of day-to-day transactions mainly during the period 1617 to 1645. The editor adds greatly to our knowledge of Henry Best, his family, and estate in a substantial introduction, and much ancillary documentary evidence is provided in a series of appendices.

This edition of the trading privileges granted to the merchants of England by the princes of the Low Countries reveals the increasing value of cross-Channel trade throughout the 14th and 15th centuries. French, Latin, and Dutch texts are accompanied by the 15th century English translations, forming a unique historical and linguistic tool.

These documents present the Treasury's counter-arguments during the period when Keynes was developing the ideas that led to the Keynesian revolution in economic policy. The topics covered include the return to the gold standard, unemployment, inflation and the international economy.

Pauper inventories were made by officials to record the possessions that people on poor relief owned. This book contains transcriptions of 230 of these inventories from Norfolk alongside four comprehensive chapters which detail the source's importance to readers. These documents reveal powerful insights into the living conditions of the poor.

The ship Two Sisters, captured in 1757 in the midst of the Seven Years War, was carrying letters from the Irish community in Bordeaux. Most of the 125 letters lay unopened until 2011. Now, translated and annotated, they communicate the everyday concerns of people separated in wartime and shed light on early modern trade and expatriate communities.

This medieval record book was compiled in the early 15th century by the nuns of Godstow Abbey near Oxford. Although the records are mainly in Latin, this edition summarises and indexes them in English. The introduction provides new information about the abbey, sheds light on women's literacy, and social relations in the diocese of Lincoln.

This edition is the first full scale study of John Cannon and his chronicles. Known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', Cannon wrote a remarkably candid autobiography, during a crucial period of change in British history. Part 2 covers the time Cannon spent as a schoolmaster in Glastonbury.

The 1334 Lay Subsidy assessments for the whole of England.provide an invaluable index to the relative wealth of different districts and individual places in early fourteenth-century England, and afford many sidelights on the state of the country immediately before the Black Death.

This edition is the first full scale study of John Cannon and his chronicles. Known to some as 'the poor man's Pepys', Cannon wrote a remarkably candid autobiography, during a crucial period of change in British history. Part 1 includes Cannon's account of his service in the Country Excise.

In c.1300, the manors of Westminster Abbey were one of the wealthiest monasteries in late medieval England. This book documents the agricultural economy of the Abbey and demonstrates the sophisticated financial and administrative systems the monks employed in a transition from the direct management of their lands, to systems of leaseholds.