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Book Synopsis How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735: 1685-1715 by : James Collett-White
Download or read book How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735: 1685-1715 written by James Collett-White and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poll books tell the story of local people and their link with natural history. This text contains transcripts of the poll books for the County and Borough seats of Bedford and some election accounts showing candidates' expenditure.
Book Synopsis How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735: 1716-1735 by : James Collett-White
Download or read book How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735: 1716-1735 written by James Collett-White and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735 by : James Collett-White
Download or read book How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735 written by James Collett-White and published by Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poll books tell the story of local people and their link with national history, and can provide a treasure trove of information. This volume, following on from the first which covered the years from 1685-1716, continues the story of how Bedfordshire voted in the context of local and national politics to the election in 1734. It contains transcriptions of the poll books for four Bedford borough elections and three county elections held between 1722 and 1734, which apart from the 1722 county election have never been previously published. The introduction to each chapter draws upon letters, giving insights into the political alliances and manoeuvres which occurred in selecting candidates, including the part played by the Duchess of Marlborough. And the 10,000 names (fully indexed), added to the 8,500 names in the first volume, provide evidence for an in-depth study of the people, places and landholding in Bedfordshire, and will offer a crucial resource for local historians. JAMES COLLETT-WHITE is an archivist at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, and Archivist to S. C. Whitbread, Southill Park.
Book Synopsis How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735 by : James Collett-White
Download or read book How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1735 written by James Collett-White and published by Bedfordshire Historical Record Society. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poll books tell the story of local people and their link with national history, and can provide a treasure trove of information. This volume, following on from the first which covered the years from 1685-1716, continues the story of how Bedfordshire voted in the context of local and national politics to the election in 1734. It contains transcriptions of the poll books for four Bedford borough elections and three county elections held between 1722 and 1734, which apart from the 1722 county election have never been previously published. The introduction to each chapter draws upon letters, giving insights into the political alliances and manoeuvres which occurred in selecting candidates, including the part played by the Duchess of Marlborough. And the 10,000 names (fully indexed), added to the 8,500 names in the first volume, provide evidence for an in-depth study of the people, places and landholding in Bedfordshire, and will offer a crucial resource for local historians. JAMES COLLETT-WHITE is an archivist at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, and Archivist to S. C. Whitbread, Southill Park.
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Book Synopsis How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784 by : Bedfordshire Historical Record Society
Download or read book How Bedfordshire Voted, 1735-1784 written by Bedfordshire Historical Record Society and published by Bedfordshire Historical Record Soc. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third in Bedfordshire Historical Record Society's series of poll books covers the years from the fall of Walpole to the rise of William Pitt the younger. It was a period when Britain was constantly at war, when it suffered a dangerous Jacobite rebellion and when the American colonies were lost. Yet this constant warfare did not produce the revolutionary changes to the national and local economy that the Napoleonic wars subsequently created. There is only one complete poll book for the county (1774) but surviving lists from Bedford borough, including a partial poll book of 1747, enable political allegiance to be gauged. Lack of contested elections does not mean an absence of political activity. Detectable trends are illustrated from the Duke of Bedford's archives and the Hardwicke manuscripts in the British Library. They include the attempts of the Duke to increase his power, which was successfully challenged in Bedford Borough by the creation in 1769 of many new out-of-town freemen to detach it from his influence; the decline of formerly prominent political families; and, from the 1760s, the rise of the Whitbreads. The volume also details the political dimension of the legal cases about the appointment of the rector of St John's, Bedford; the administration of the Harpur Trust; and turnpike and enclosure acts. JAMES COLLETT-WHITE is an archivist at Bedfordshire and Luton Archives and Records Service, and to Sir Samuel Whitbread.
Book Synopsis How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1715 by : James Collett-White
Download or read book How Bedfordshire Voted, 1685-1715 written by James Collett-White and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Tracing Your Ancestors in County Records by : Stuart A. Raymond
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Book Synopsis Geographies of an Imperial Power by : Jeremy Black
Download or read book Geographies of an Imperial Power written by Jeremy Black and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From explorers tracing rivers to navigators hunting for longitude, spatial awareness and the need for empirical understanding were linked to British strategy in the 1700s. This strategy, in turn, aided in the assertion of British power and authority on a global scale. In this sweeping consideration of Britain in the 18th century, Jeremy Black explores the interconnected roles of power and geography in the creation of a global empire. Geography was at the heart of Britain's expansion into India, its response to uprisings in Scotland and America, and its revolutionary development of railways. Geographical dominance was reinforced as newspapers stoked the fires of xenophobia and defined the limits of cosmopolitan Europe as compared to the "barbarism" beyond. Geography provided a system of analysis and classification which gave Britain political, cultural, and scientific sovereignty. Black considers geographical knowledge not just as a tool for creating a shared cultural identity but also as a key mechanism in the formation of one of the most powerful and far-reaching empires the world has ever known.
Book Synopsis A History of Luton by : Anne Allsopp
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Book Synopsis Witchcraft, Witch-Hunting, and Politics in Early Modern England by : Peter Elmer
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Download or read book Church Life written by Michael Davies and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Church Life: Pastors, Congregations, and the Experience of Dissent in Seventeenth-Century England addresses the rich, complex, and varied nature of 'church life' experienced by England's Baptists, Congregationalists, and Presbyterians during the seventeenth century. Spanning the period from the English Revolution to the Glorious Revolution, and beyond, the contributors examine the social, political, and religious character of England's 'gathered' churches and reformed parishes: how pastors and their congregations interacted; how Dissenters related to their meetings as religious communities; and what the experience of church life was like for ordinary members as well as their ministers, including notably John Owen and Richard Baxter alongside less well-known figures, such as Ebenezer Chandler. Moving beyond the religious experience of the solitary individual, often exemplified by conversion, Church Life redefines the experience of Dissent, concentrating instead on the collective concerns of a communally-centred church life through a wide spectrum of issues: from questions of liberty and pastoral reform to matters of church discipline and respectability. With a substantial introduction that puts into context the key concepts of 'church life' and the 'Dissenting experience', the contributors offer fresh ways of understanding Protestant Dissent in seventeenth-century England: through differences in ecclesiology and pastoral theory, and via the buildings in which Dissent was nurtured to the building-up of Dissent during periods of civil war, persecution, and revolution. They draw on a broad range of printed and archival materials: from the minutes of the Westminster Assembly to the manuscript church books of early Dissenting congregations.
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