J V Beckett
Biographic Data
| ID | 958554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J V Beckett |
| GIVEN NAMES | J V |
| FAMILY NAME | Beckett |
| SIGNATURE | BECKETT J V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nottingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9087-0998 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 72 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 72 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Thoroton Society at 125
The Victoria County History in Warwickshire
Hobhouse, O'Connor and the Nottingham Election of 1847
At the general election in July 1847, to considerable surprise, the Nottingham electors rejected their two sitting Whig members in favour of Feargus O'Connor, the Chartist leader, and a free trade Conservative, John Walter. This article looks at how such a political upset occurred. It examines the political context of elections in the years leading to 1847 and at the contest itself, which ended with the return of O'Connor and the defeat of sittin…
Public parks and urban development during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Nottingham
It is well known that Nottingham was one of the most densely built and overcrowded towns in Victorian England. Following the enclosure, 1845-65, green spaces, including public parks, had to be provided in the new suburbs. This article looks at the creation of parks in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to show how a combination of government policies, local authority commitment to providing open spaces and recreation grounds, and philanthropi…
Fixing the Membership of the Lords and Commons
When Melbourne replaced Grey in 1834 he looked to recruit men with experience to join his government. He enlisted Sir John Cam Hobhouse, but Hobhouse needed a seat in the Commons. This was achieved by a writ of acceleration, whereby Viscount Duncannon, one of the sitting MPs for Nottingham, was called into the Lords in his father's lifetime to release a seat in the Commons. Writs had normally been used to strengthen the power of the government in…
Farming and Society in North Lincolnshire
Politics
Byron’s political interests and views can conveniently be divided between his active political career in the House of Lords (1809–16) and his years of self-imposed exile in Italy and Greece, associated most notably with the liberal-nationalist causes of the Carbonari and Greece.
On the Radar
Spirits of Community
Spirits of Community: English senses of belonging and loss, 1750–2000." Social History, 42(2), pp. 293–294
Politician or Poet? The 6th L ord B yron in the House of Lords, 1809–13
L ord G eorge G ordon B yron, 6th B aron B yron of R ochdale, is known internationally as, perhaps, the most famous R omantic poet of his generation. His work continues to be read across the globe. As a peer (succeeding to the title following the death of his great uncle, the 5th B aron B yron, in 1798) he was entitled to a seat in the L ords, and this article covers the period during which he was active in the H ouse. He took his seat in 1809, b…
Inventing and reinventing the modern city
Three new cities were created in conjunction with Her Majesty the queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012: Chelmsford, Perth and St Asaph. They were the winners of a competition which had no clear rules, no transparency and no proper feedback. The modern style is to create new cities in conjunction with a royal event, the winners to be decided by competition. How has this come to be the case? This article looks at the 2012 competition in the…
The Glorious Revolution, Parliament, and the Making of the First Industrial Nation
Historians have traditionally viewed the Glorious Revolution as essentially a political event, but in recent decades the growing recognition of just how extensively it impacted on British society has led to various reappraisals of its significance. This article argues that the structure of post‐1689 parliamentary activity encouraged both MPs and peers to take a greater interest in the concerns of their constituencies and constituents. In turn, th…
Northern Landscapes
This book began with a conference, but several essays have been added to the original collection since then, so that it now has eighteen separate contributions. It also includes a substantial introduction by two of the editors which pulls many of the themes together. They argue that the north-east was a ‘truly distinctive’ region (p. 10), and that the essays help to strengthen this image. To aid the reader, the essays have been divided into five …
Topography and landscape history
This paper examines the process whereby topographical historical writing has merged into landscape studies, and asks what the role of the Victoria County History was in this process? The author, who was Director and General Editor of the VCH 2005-10, sets into context the changing nature of VCH parish topographical entries and looks at how these have altered and developed through time as a result of both practical and academic shifts in thinking.…
Natural History and Local History in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
In 1899 the Victoria County History (VCH) was established as a ‘National Survey’ of England which was intended to show the present day condition of the country and trace the ‘domestic history’ of all English counties to the ‘earliest times’. Natural history was seen as a key component to be included in the first volume for every county. In this paper we examine the reasons for the prominence given to natural history and demonstrate how the expert…
Estate Landscapes
The Front Line of Freedom
Book Review| July 01 2008 The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War. Brian Short, Charles Watkins and John Martin. J. V. Beckett J. V. Beckett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2008) 82 (3): 396–397. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-82.3.396 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citat…
Local history, family history and the Victoria County History
The study of local history has a long and varied past, but its modern form can be dated to the post-Second World War era. The Victoria County History, although dating from 1899, has been transformed in the years since 1945, and is going through a further mini-revolution as a result of a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to run a project entitled ‘England's Past for Everyone’ (E.P.E.). This article provides the background to these developments,…
Estates, enterprise and investment at the dawn of the industrial revolution
Rural Englands
Book Review| July 01 2007 Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century. Barry Reay. J. V. Beckett J. V. Beckett Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Agricultural History (2007) 81 (3): 420–422. https://doi.org/10.1215/00021482-81.3.420 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation J. V. Beckett; Rural Englands: Labouring Lives i…
The Nottingham Reform Bill Riots of 1831
The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873
1University of Nottingham The Allotment Movement in England, 1793–1873 JeremyBurchardt WoodbridgeBoydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc. 2000287£45
Matthew and George Culley
1University of Nottingham Matthew and George Culley: Travel Journals and Letters, 1765–1798 AnneOrde OxfordOxford U.P., for the British Academy 2002274£35
The Estate and Household Accounts of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall, Westmorland 1688-1701
1University of Nottingham The Estate and Household Accounts of Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal Hall, Westmorland 1688–1701 BlakeTyson KendalCumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Soc. 2001400£40
An Exact and Industrious Tradesman
1University of Nottingham ‘An Exact and Industrious Tradesman’: The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711–1720 S. D.Smith OxfordOxford U.P. 2002cxxxii + 796£65
The Pattern of Landownership in England and Wales, 1660-1880
One of the most hotly debated issues in nineteenth-century England was the land question. An increasingly vociferous reform movement argued that the vast majority of the country's property was in the hands of a comparatively small elite; and this monopoly was regarded by observers both on the continent and in England as a root cause of many social problems.' Statistical evidence drawn from the I 86I census provided grist to the reformers' mill si…
Land Tax or Excise
Land Tax or Excise: the levying of taxation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCV, April 1985, Pages 285–308, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCV.285 Published: 01 April 1985
Animal Husbandry and Agricultural Improvement
Agricultural historians have long been aware that a major increase in productivity and output characterised the so-called ‘agricultural revolution’. Usually, however, this has been measured by indirect means: the fact, for example, that English farmers were able to feed some 3 million more people in 1700 than in 1540, and almost 20 million more in 1880 than in 1750. Since mouths were fed without recourse to massive imports -which would have had s…
English Landownership in the Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
S INCE the publication of SirJohn Habakkuk's seminal article on English landownership2 it has generally been held by historians that in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a discernible trend of change in the pattern of landownership, which produced a period of stability from about I750. Most of Habakkuk's evidence, however, was drawn from two possibly untypical counties, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire,3 and the results of…
Taxation and economic growth in eighteenth-century England
An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
Introduction Eastern counties Southern counties South-Western counties Western counties North-Western counties Northern counties Midland counties Wales England and Wales Place index Subject index Epilogue
The Rise and Fall of the Grenvilles, Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, 1710 to 1921
Part 1 The Grenvilles and the temples: the Grenvilles of Wotton the Temples of Stow Viscount Cobham Cobham and his heirs. Part 2 Richard, Earl Temple, and the building of the family fortunes: Richard Grenville's apprenticeship - Wotton 1727-49 earldom and garter building the estate Temple's legacy. Part 3 The marquessate and the Nugent marriage: early years and marriage Ireland and the marquessate building the estate getting and spending the achi…
The business of improvement’
Regional Variation and the Agricultural Depression, 1730–50 1
The Land Tax Returns as a Source for Studying the English Economy in the Eighteenth Century
The Glorious Revolution, Parliament, and the Making of the First Industrial Nation
Historians have traditionally viewed the Glorious Revolution as essentially a political event, but in recent decades the growing recognition of just how extensively it impacted on British society has led to various reappraisals of its significance. This article argues that the structure of post‐1689 parliamentary activity encouraged both MPs and peers to take a greater interest in the concerns of their constituencies and constituents. In turn, th…
Natural History and Local History in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
In 1899 the Victoria County History (VCH) was established as a ‘National Survey’ of England which was intended to show the present day condition of the country and trace the ‘domestic history’ of all English counties to the ‘earliest times’. Natural history was seen as a key component to be included in the first volume for every county. In this paper we examine the reasons for the prominence given to natural history and demonstrate how the expert…
The Nottingham Reform Bill Riots of 1831
An Exact and Industrious Tradesman
1University of Nottingham ‘An Exact and Industrious Tradesman’: The Letter Book of Joseph Symson of Kendal, 1711–1720 S. D.Smith OxfordOxford U.P. 2002cxxxii + 796£65
Urban renaissance and consumer revolution in Nottingham, 1688–1750
This article looks at ways of relating together two concepts of early modern urban life: the urban renaissance and the consumer revolution. Nottingham passed through a process of urban renewal between c. 1688 and c. 1750, and it is argued that in the absence of any public funding this must have been privately pioneered by the town's ‘middling sort’. Using probate inventory material the members of this social group are identified, and their habits…
Renting The Revolution
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Dr William Brownrigg, F. R. S
Dr William Brownrigg (1712-1800) of Ormathwaite Hall near Keswick in Cumberland, was the first scientist to undertake a systematic investigation of the poisonous gases in coal mines. As a result of his work he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1742 and awarded the Copley Medal in 1766. However, he never gained the reputation which seemed to be merited by the importance of his research, and contemporaries believed this to have been as a…
The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Factory System
(1977). The Eighteenth-Century Origins of the Factory System: A Case Study from the 1740s. Business History: Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 55-67
English Landownership in the Later Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
S INCE the publication of SirJohn Habakkuk's seminal article on English landownership2 it has generally been held by historians that in the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries there was a discernible trend of change in the pattern of landownership, which produced a period of stability from about I750. Most of Habakkuk's evidence, however, was drawn from two possibly untypical counties, Northamptonshire and Bedfordshire,3 and the results of…
The Making of a Pocket Borough
In the last week of September 1756, Sir James Lowther of Lowther, the famous eighteenth-century boroughmonger, spent more than 58,000 pounds securing 134 burgages in the parliamentary borough of Cockermouth. When added to the twenty-four he already possessed this gave him more than half the total. As a result, he was recognized thereafter as being able to return both members for the borough. The Earl of Egremont, whose family had held the stronge…
Coal and Tobacco
Economic historians have long appreciated the important role of the Lowther family in the developing Whitehaven from a tiny fishing village into a flourishing industrial centre. In Coal and Tobacco, Dr Beckett has attempted, by analysing the west Cumberland economy, and the Lowther's entrepreneurial role, to reveal the vital importance of the coal industry. Since much of the coal was sold in Ireland, west Cumberland moved into a relationship with…
The Open Field System and Beyond
The Land Tax Returns as a Source for Studying the English Economy in the Eighteenth Century
T. S. Ashton Prize Essay for 1980. Regional Variation and the Agricultural Depression, 1730-50
A Back‐bench Mp in the Eighteenth Century
Regional Variation and the Agricultural Depression, 1730–50 1
Coal and Tobacco
Short Notices
Journal Article Short Notices Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCVIII, Issue CCCLXXXIX, October 1983, Pages 874-a–874, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCVIII.CCCLXXXIX.874-a Published: 01 October 1983
The Making of a Ruling Class
The Pattern of Landownership in England and Wales, 1660-1880
One of the most hotly debated issues in nineteenth-century England was the land question. An increasingly vociferous reform movement argued that the vast majority of the country's property was in the hands of a comparatively small elite; and this monopoly was regarded by observers both on the continent and in England as a root cause of many social problems.' Statistical evidence drawn from the I 86I census provided grist to the reformers' mill si…
Land Tax or Excise
Land Tax or Excise: the levying of taxation in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume C, Issue CCCXCV, April 1985, Pages 285–308, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/C.CCCXCV.285 Published: 01 April 1985
The Tithe Surveys of England and Wales
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCIX, April 1986, Pages 502-b–503, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCIX.502-b Published: 01 April 1986
Shorter Notices
Journal Article Shorter Notices Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CI, Issue CCCXCIX, April 1986, Pages 507-a–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CI.CCCXCIX.507-a Published: 01 April 1986
The English Aristocracy
An Open Elite? England 1540–1880 . By Lawrence Stone and Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone. Aristocratic Century: The Peerage of Eighteenth‐Century England . By John Cannon. The English Aristocracy: A Comparative Synthesis . By M.L. Bush
An Atlas and Index of the Tithe Files of Mid-Nineteenth-Century England and Wales
Introduction Eastern counties Southern counties South-Western counties Western counties North-Western counties Northern counties Midland counties Wales England and Wales Place index Subject index Epilogue
The Aristocracy in England, 1660-1914
The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, Vol. 8: January 1809 to December 1816
Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism. Bentham became a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law, and a political radical whose ideas influenced the development of welfarism. He advocated individual and economic freedom, the separation of church and state, freedom of expression, equal rights for women, the right to divorce, and the decriminalising …
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CIII, Issue CCCCVI, January 1988, Pages 211-a–211, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CIII.CCCCVI.211-a Published: 01 January 1988
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access J. V. BECKETT J. V. BECKETT University of Nottingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXVI, July 1990, Pages 738–739, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXVI.738 Published: 01 July 1990
Taxation and economic growth in eighteenth-century England
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