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Book Synopsis The Origins and Early Development of Witham, Essex by : Warwick Rodwell
Download or read book The Origins and Early Development of Witham, Essex written by Warwick Rodwell and published by American Oriental Series. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witham Camp has often been equated with Edward the Elder's burh, but excavations since the 1930's have demonstrated it to be an Iron Age earthwork, in which a castle was planted in the 12th century; here also was the hundredal meeting place and focus of a royal manor. Next to the earthwork lies a minster church, early market site and a small planned settlement, and a short distance away the Knights Templar laid out a substantial new town over the remains of a possible Viking camp. This book reports on this whole remarkable complex, using all available topographical, archaeological and documentary evidence to trace the development of Witham from the prehistoric era to the Middle Ages.
Book Synopsis A history of Witham by : Janet Gyford
Download or read book A history of Witham written by Janet Gyford and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early History of Witham by : Maurice Lindsay Smith
Download or read book Early History of Witham written by Maurice Lindsay Smith and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essex Archaeology and History written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beyond the Medieval Village by : Stephen Rippon
Download or read book Beyond the Medieval Village written by Stephen Rippon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The varied character of Britain's countryside and towns provides communities with a strong sense of local identity. One of the most significant features of the southern British landscape is the way that its character differs from region to region, with compact villages in the Midlands contrasting with the sprawling hamlets of East Anglia and isolated farmsteads of Devon. Even more remarkable is the very 'English' feel of the landscape in southern Pembrokeshire, in the far south west of Wales. Hoskins described the English landscape as 'the richest historical record we possess', and in this book Stephen Rippon explores the origins of regional variations in landscape character, arguing that while some landscapes date back to the centuries either side of the Norman Conquest, other areas across southern Britain underwent a profound change around the 8th century AD.
Book Synopsis Witham Through Time by : John Palombi
Download or read book Witham Through Time written by John Palombi and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2009-11-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating history of Witham, illustrated through old and modern pictures.
Book Synopsis Kingdom, Civitas, and County by : Stephen Rippon
Download or read book Kingdom, Civitas, and County written by Stephen Rippon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-19 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the development of territorial identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and early medieval periods. Over the course of the Iron Age, a series of marked regional variations in material culture and landscape character emerged across eastern England that reflect the development of discrete zones of social and economic interaction. The boundaries between these zones appear to have run through sparsely settled areas of the landscape on high ground, and corresponded to a series of kingdoms that emerged during the Late Iron Age. In eastern England at least, these pre-Roman socio-economic territories appear to have survived throughout the Roman period despite a trend towards cultural homogenization brought about by Romanization. Although there is no direct evidence for the relationship between these socio-economic zones and the Roman administrative territories known as civitates, they probably corresponded very closely. The fifth century saw some Anglo-Saxon immigration but whereas in East Anglia these communities spread out across much of the landscape, in the Northern Thames Basin they appear to have been restricted to certain coastal and estuarine districts. The remaining areas continued to be occupied by a substantial native British population, including much of the East Saxon kingdom (very little of which appears to have been 'Saxon'). By the sixth century a series of regionally distinct identities - that can be regarded as separate ethnic groups - had developed which corresponded very closely to those that had emerged during the late prehistoric and Roman periods. These ancient regional identities survived through to the Viking incursions, whereafter they were swept away following the English re-conquest and replaced with the counties with which we are familiar today.
Download or read book Templars written by Steve Tibble and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of the Knights Templar, challenging received wisdom to show how these devout medieval knights played a profound role in making modern Britain The Knights Templar have an enduring reputation--but not one they would recognize. Originally established in the twelfth century to protect pilgrims, the Order is remembered today for heresy, fanaticism, and even satanism. In this bold new interpretation, Steve Tibble sets out to correct the record. The Templars, famous for their battles on Christendom's eastern front, were in fact dedicated peace-mongers at home. They influenced royal strategy and policy, created financial structures, and brokered international peace treaties--primarily to ensure that men, money, and material could be transferred more readily to the east. Charting the rise of the Order under Henry I through to its violent suppression following the fall of Acre, Tibble argues that these medieval knights were essential to the emergence of an early English state. Revealing the true legacy of the British Templars, he shows how a small group helped shape medieval Britain while simultaneously fighting in the name of the Christian Middle East.
Book Synopsis Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape by : Stephen Rippon
Download or read book Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape written by Stephen Rippon and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.
Book Synopsis Landscapes of Monastic Foundation by : Tim Pestell
Download or read book Landscapes of Monastic Foundation written by Tim Pestell and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pre-Conquest monastic foundations, (in the present-day counties of Norfolk and Suffolk) in their topographical, social, economic and political environment; evolution of religious devotion in East Anglia since the 7th-century Conversion; the influence of the Anglo-Saxon past on the post-Conquest monastic landscape.
Book Synopsis The Fields of Britannia by : Stephen Rippon
Download or read book The Fields of Britannia written by Stephen Rippon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been recognized that the landscape of Britain is one of the 'richest historical records we possess', but just how old is it? The Fields of Britannia is the first book to explore how far the countryside of Roman Britain has survived in use through to the present day, shaping the character of our modern countryside. Commencing with a discussion of the differing views of what happened to the landscape at the end of Roman Britain, the volume then brings together the results from hundreds of archaeological excavations and palaeoenvironmental investigations in order to map patterns of land-use across Roman and early medieval Britain. In compiling such extensive data, the volume is able to reconstruct regional variations in Romano-British and early medieval land-use using pollen, animal bones, and charred cereal grains to demonstrate that agricultural regimes varied considerably and were heavily influenced by underlying geology. We are shown that, in the fifth and sixth centuries, there was a shift away from intensive farming but very few areas of the landscape were abandoned completely. What is revealed is a surprising degree of continuity: the Roman Empire may have collapsed, but British farmers carried on regardless, and the result is that now, across large parts of Britain, many of these Roman field systems are still in use.
Book Synopsis Cultural Transition in the Chilterns and Essex Region, 350 AD to 650 AD by : John T. Baker
Download or read book Cultural Transition in the Chilterns and Essex Region, 350 AD to 650 AD written by John T. Baker and published by Univ of Hertfordshire Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comparison of the archaeological evidence from the fourth to seventh centuries AD in the Chilterns and Essex regions focuses on the considerable body of place–name data from the area. The counties of Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, and parts of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, and Cambridgeshire are included.
Book Synopsis Journal by : English Place-Name Society
Download or read book Journal written by English Place-Name Society and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1968/68- include the Society's Annual report, 45th-
Book Synopsis An Oral History, Witham England by : Helen Margaret Bannerman
Download or read book An Oral History, Witham England written by Helen Margaret Bannerman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History is rarely concerned with ordinary peopleyet that is the group which is most directly affected, in its daily life, by the decisions of which history is made. Ordinary people and their town are the concern of this research. The town, Witham, has a recorded history of over one thousand years. Basically rural, the town had changed little during that time, the population increasing even more slowly than it had throughout England in general. In the last fifteen years the change in Witham has been dramatic. Selected to participate in a scheme to alleviate over- crowding in London, Witham has doubled in size since 1966. To understand the impact on the people of Witham, newcomers and old-timers, one can read documents and analyse statistics, but only a fragment of an incomplete story would appear. Talking to a cross section of the population gives a more informed and accurate picture of how the re development of Witham has changed the daily lives of over twenty thousand people. This is, therefore, an oral history of the town. There is a researched section which traces the history of Witham from its earliest days up to 1979. This section also included the factual background to the thoughts and feelings of the residents. The major section is the interviews themselves. An attempt has been made to include people from all age groups, from all walks of life, and more importantly, from among the old and the new residents of Witham. Chapter One deals specifically with the history of Witham prior to the twentieth century, while Chapter Two details the Town Development Act and its implication for the town. The history of the town since 1910 is the subject of Chapter Three. The interviews follow, with a very brief biography of each person involved. Those interviewed include the local Member of Parliament, a retired blacksmith, women councillors, the Clerk of the Council, schoolteachers, a farmer, students, a retired army officer, factory workers, a retired carpenter and his wife, and the con- stituency Labour Agent. Comments range from hatred of Witham to hatred of Londoners. Some see the town as completely spoiled while other rec-ognise the inevitability of change. The majority believe that the plan-ning for the redevelopment was inadequate. Most look at the change from a purely subjective viewpoint, something bare facts neglect. The value in this type of history lies both in the possibly in-creased awareness by people of the attitudes of others within their com-munity, and perhaps the increasing concern of those in power for the needs and desires of the residents. Just in talking to Witham people it was possible to recognise the beginning of a concern for other groups. Some had not been aware of the attitudes of any but their own peer group. This distance, added to the fact that even in a democracy it is possible for the masses to be without a voice or, more importantly, perceive them-selves to be without a voice, creates problems which may have solutions. Even if the solutions for Witham may be too late, for this generation, for some people in some other community, faced with this kind of sitution, a solution may be the result. People are more willing to accept decisions when they have been adequately informed and consulted. This was not done in Witham. The town had undoubtedly changed more than any town of comparable size in England, and apparently without the consent of the ordinary people, the residents of that town."--Document.
Book Synopsis The History of India from the Earliest Ages by : James Talboys Wheeler
Download or read book The History of India from the Earliest Ages written by James Talboys Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Knights Templar in Britain by : Evelyn Lord
Download or read book Knights Templar in Britain written by Evelyn Lord and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Knights Templar In Britain examines exactly who became knights, what rituals sustained them, where the power bases were, and how their tentacles spread through the political and economic worlds of Britain before their defeat at the hands of the Inquisition some two hundred years later. Founded in the early twelfth century, the mysterious Knights Templar rose to be the most powerful military order of the Middle Ages. While their campaign in the Middle East and travels are well-known, their huge influence across the British isles remains virtually uncharted. For readers interested in Medieval History.
Book Synopsis Maldon—A History by : Charles Phillips
Download or read book Maldon—A History written by Charles Phillips and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-02-07 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maldon – A History is the story of Maldon, which is the second oldest town in Essex, from pre-historic times until the present day. It has information on Bronze and Iron Age Maldon, Roman Maldon , Anglo-Saxon Maldon including the Battle of Maldon, Medieval Maldon including the granting of the first charter of the borough in 1171 by King Henry 2, its monastic institutions, Maldon’s port and its involvement in wars, Maldon at the time of the reformation, its involvement in the civil war, its Parliamentary representation, the town in the 18th and early centuries including the building of the Chelmer and Blackwater Navigation, the dissolution and subsequent reinstatement of the town’s charter, the Napoleonic Wars, the building of the two railways to the town in the 19th century and their closure in the 20th century, the rise of municipal institutions in the 19th and 20th centuries, Maldon’s police force and abolition and subsuming into the Essex County Police force, industrial developments including its iron foundries and salt works, Maldon during the two world wars and the abolition of the borough in 1974. Also included is the parish of Heybridge which subsequently became a part of the borough as well as the hamlet of Beeleigh. It was researched using previously published works and contemporary documents.
