K D M Snell
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 973190 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | K D M Snell |
| NOMBRES | K D M |
| APELLIDO | Snell |
| FIRMA | SNELL K D M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Leicester |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 85 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1958 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Parishes, Pandemics and Paths to Take
This article asks how Covid-19 should affect historical research, especially into local and parish history. It does so by addressing a number of key themes, such as the conduct of welfare history, and how Covid might influence historical medical research and ideas of locality. The effects of Covid on religion and the parish are examined, with an eye to historical precedent. The pandemic raises salient issues about the history of community and lon…
Angels in English and Welsh churchyard and cemetery memorials, 1660–2020
Churchyard and cemetery memorials are increasingly important to historians for themes such as family and community history, demography, artistic styles, and changing attitudes to mortality. In this article, via analysis of 250 Anglican, Nonconformist and cemetery burial sites in England and Wales, the authors investigate the use of angels and cherubs as gravestone features and look closely at the chronology of such representations. Building on hi…
Ronald Blythe
Ronald Blythe is often seen as Britain’s finest living rural writer. He has published over thirty books, some of them, like Akenfield and The View in Winter , widely acknowledged as classics, inspiring a film and follow-up books by others. His literary output has been extraordinary: novels, short stories, poetry, rural documentary writing, oral history, ‘parish’ writing, religious books, his own autobiographical work (among a remarkable milieu of…
Eric L. Jones, Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History
Eric L. Jones, Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History: From the Mid-Seventeenth Century to the Present. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. 9783319748689. £44.99. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74869-6 ebook. £35.99 - Volume 29 Issue 2
Churchyard Memorials, ‘Dispensing with God Gradually’
This article considers rusticated memorials in many churchyards and cemeteries in England and Wales, between c. 1850 and the present day, analysing their forms, chronology, and their wider social and artistic significances. These memorials have hitherto been a neglected form among British memorial styles. The discussion here focuses on the English Midlands, Kensal Green Cemetery (London), and Montgomeryshire in Wales. It appraises how such memori…
The rise of living alone and loneliness in history
This article connects two current debates: the rise of single-person households or of ‘solitaries’, and the so-called ‘loneliness epidemic’. It raises questions about how these are associated, via social-science literature on loneliness as a social, contextual and subjective experience, and findings in that literature about the relevance of lone-person households. The article is concerned to explore the history of living alone as a form of family…
In or Out of their Place
This article considers how depictions of the migrant poor in English landscape art changed between 1740 and 1900. A painting by Edward Haytley (1744) is used to illustrate some prevailing themes and representations of the rural poor in the early eighteenth century, with the labouring poor being shown ‘in their place’ socially and spatially. This is then contrasted with the signs of a restless and migrant poor which appear in a few of Gainsborough…
Churchyard Closures, Rural Cemeteries and the Village Community in Leicestershire and Rutland, 1800–2010
This article comprises a close analysis of churchyard extensions, closures and new cemetery provision in the English midland counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. It provides a graphic outline of these changes, and so extends cemetery history to rural as well as urban areas. The main periods of change examined are the 1850s, 1880–1900 and from the 1960s to 2010. Such a chronology, and its detailed processes and problems, has not hitherto been a…
Belonging and community
This article is based on unique 'narratives of the poor', that is, letters from poor people to their parishes of settlement, petitions to the London Refuge of the Destitute, and letters from mothers to the London Foundling Hospital, with supportive evidence from newspapers. These display fundamental concepts among the English poor, who were often poorly literate, and who comprised the majority of the population. Discussion focuses upon their unde…
Parish Pond to Lake Nyasa
What can historians of 'community' learn from 150 years of parish magazines? This article examines these magazines (between 1860 and 2010, largely for England), and considers them as a source for historical community studies. These 150 years are often conceived as seeing the decline of the parish, yet Anglican parish magazines expanded remarkably over this time. They raise important themes in family and community history. They conveyed key ideas …
A drop of water from a stagnant pool? Inter-war detective fiction and the rural community
Detective fiction has been little considered by historians of the British inter-war village. This is despite the phenomenal publishing and sales in this literary genre. Agatha Christie is the bestselling writer of books of all time, and millions of people world-wide have learnt about English villages by reading her. This article discusses why inter-war fiction is instructive to social historians. It concentrates on the so-called ‘Golden Age’ of t…
Parish and Belonging
Vicarious vagrants
Parish and Belonging
What role did the parish play in people's lives in England and Wales between 1700 and the mid-twentieth century? By comparison with globalisation and its dislocating effects, the book stresses how important parochial belonging once was. Professor Snell discusses themes such as settlement law and practice, marriage patterns, cultures of local xenophobia, the continuance of out-door relief in people's own parishes under the new poor law, the many n…
The culture of local xenophobia
This article tackles the subject of 'local xenophobia' in rural and cottage-industrial areas of England and Wales in the period c. 1700-1938. It argues that historians have neglected the historical record of such sentiments towards 'foreigners' from other parishes, and it suggests that these attitudes were so widespread in the countryside (and rural workers so numerous within the population) as to lead one to doubt arguments for the early, post-1…
Gravestones, Belonging and Local Attachment in England 1700-2000
This paper was published as Past and Present, 2003, 179 (1), pp.97-134. It is available from http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/179/1/97. Doi: 10.1093/past/179.1.97
Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840
1. Introduction: historiography, sources and methods 2. Agricultural protest 3. Food riots 4. Industrial protest 5. Political protest 6. Policing protest 7. A revolutionary challenge? 8. Conclusion
English rural societies and geographical marital endogamy, 1700-1837
This article studies 69 rural parishes in eight English counties, examining changes in geographical marital endogamy. It discovers a consistent upward trend in the proportions of marriages that were parochially endogamous, coupled with a decline in so -called 'foreign' marriages following Hardwickes's Act (1753), and a striking shift towards marriages taking place in the brides' parishes. It explores regional variability in parochial endogamy and…
Rival Jerusalems
This pioneering book is based upon very extensive analysis of the famous 1851 Census of Religious Worship and earlier sources such as the 1676 Compton Census. The authors stress contextual and regional understanding of religion. Among the subjects covered for all of England and Wales are the geography of the Church of England, Roman Catholicism, the old and new dissenting denominations, the spatial complementarity of denominations, and their impo…
The Sunday-school movement in England and Wales
This paper was published as Past and Present, 1999, 164 (1), pp. 122-168. It is available from http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/164/1/122. Doi: 10.1093/past/164.1.122
From the 1676 Compton Census to the 1851 Census of Religious Worship
The two major censuses of religion that have most preoccupied historians and cultural geographers have, without question, been the Compton census of 1676 and the Census of Religious Worship of 1851. Over more than two centuries, probably indeed throughout British history, no other religious censuses were conducted to rival these two sources. The religious history of the intervening period has however, been researched by using other documentation,…
Women and Rural History
This is a special issue on Women and Rural History — a subject which needs no editorial justification. It represents, especially for agricultural history, an enormous breadth of historical experience that has been sadly neglected over many decades. In commissioning and then reading the work produced for this issue, we became ever more convinced that there are huge areas of debate and research, into questions at the heart of rural history, that in…
Rural History and Popular Culture
This issue of Rural History has greater thematic coherence than previous numbers, with all the papers having some relation to the study of ‘popular culture’, while coming from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Each of the articles develops a key area of analysis, but their juxtaposition helps to raise further questions – about the kinds of sources that can be used to redress the bias towards the elite that has tended to dominate the study o…
Settlement, Poor Law and the Rural Historian
English and Welsh agrarian society, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was intimately tied to the poor law. That law was extensive in scope, encompassing settlement and removal, apprenticeship, illegitimacy, parochial rating and taxation, as well as welfare and unemployment provision. It continually swayed the rural labour market. It underlay the development of so-called ‘open’ and ‘close’ parishes, or as I would prefer to express it, th…
An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850
The rise of living alone and loneliness in history
This article connects two current debates: the rise of single-person households or of ‘solitaries’, and the so-called ‘loneliness epidemic’. It raises questions about how these are associated, via social-science literature on loneliness as a social, contextual and subjective experience, and findings in that literature about the relevance of lone-person households. The article is concerned to explore the history of living alone as a form of family…
Proto-Industrialization? Cottage Industry, Social Change, and Industrial Revolution
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The culture of local xenophobia
This article tackles the subject of 'local xenophobia' in rural and cottage-industrial areas of England and Wales in the period c. 1700-1938. It argues that historians have neglected the historical record of such sentiments towards 'foreigners' from other parishes, and it suggests that these attitudes were so widespread in the countryside (and rural workers so numerous within the population) as to lead one to doubt arguments for the early, post-1…
The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland
The regional novel has been remarkably neglected as a subject, despite the enormous number of authors who can be classified as having written regional fiction. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from leading literary critics, historians and cultural geographers, addresses the regional novel in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. It establishes the broader social and political contexts in which these novels emerged, and by combining his…
Pauper settlement and the right to poor relief in England and Wales
Cet article donne une évaluation des lois anglaises et galloises concernant le droit d'établissement des pauvres, particulièrement pour la période de 1662 jusqu'au milieu du 19è. siècle. II souligne qu'il y avait une relation intime, qui se faissait sentir partout, entre le droit à la résidence et la loi sur I'assistance publique. Cette résidence elle même était un élément indispensable du I'assistance publique et fonctionnait comme telle. II met…
Lone-parent families and the Welfare State
Cet article examine l'incidence des families à parent unique au cours des trois derniers siècles, etablissant un rapport entre les découvertes historiques et la croissance rapide et récente, et compare les allocations versées à ces families au début du dix-neuviéme siécle avec celles d'aujourd'hui. On constate que l'incidence historique des ces families était généralement plus élevée que ce n'est le cas aujourd'hui. De plus, il ressort que la val…
Gravestones, Belonging and Local Attachment in England 1700-2000
This paper was published as Past and Present, 2003, 179 (1), pp.97-134. It is available from http://past.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/179/1/97. Doi: 10.1093/past/179.1.97
Settlement, Poor Law and the Rural Historian
English and Welsh agrarian society, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was intimately tied to the poor law. That law was extensive in scope, encompassing settlement and removal, apprenticeship, illegitimacy, parochial rating and taxation, as well as welfare and unemployment provision. It continually swayed the rural labour market. It underlay the development of so-called ‘open’ and ‘close’ parishes, or as I would prefer to express it, th…
In or Out of their Place
This article considers how depictions of the migrant poor in English landscape art changed between 1740 and 1900. A painting by Edward Haytley (1744) is used to illustrate some prevailing themes and representations of the rural poor in the early eighteenth century, with the labouring poor being shown ‘in their place’ socially and spatially. This is then contrasted with the signs of a restless and migrant poor which appear in a few of Gainsborough…
Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England, 1780-1840
1. Introduction: historiography, sources and methods 2. Agricultural protest 3. Food riots 4. Industrial protest 5. Political protest 6. Policing protest 7. A revolutionary challenge? 8. Conclusion
Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690-18601
Churchyard Closures, Rural Cemeteries and the Village Community in Leicestershire and Rutland, 1800–2010
This article comprises a close analysis of churchyard extensions, closures and new cemetery provision in the English midland counties of Leicestershire and Rutland. It provides a graphic outline of these changes, and so extends cemetery history to rural as well as urban areas. The main periods of change examined are the 1850s, 1880–1900 and from the 1960s to 2010. Such a chronology, and its detailed processes and problems, has not hitherto been a…
Agrarian histories and our rural past
Rural History
Two questions will no doubt greet the arrival of this journal: why rural history? and why now? The current economic climate is hardly favourable for ventures of this kind. But recent developments in the numerous fields which touch on matters rural indicate a real academic need for a new forum for interdisciplinary exchange. Much exciting and innovative work has been carried out over the past decade – on the nature and structure of rural communiti…
Rural History and Folklore Studies
This paper was published as Folklore, 1989, 100 (2), pp. 218-220. It is available from http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0015587x.asp or http://www.jstor.org/stable/1260298
Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690-1860
K. D. M. Snell, Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690-1860, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug., 1981), pp. 407-437
The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland
The regional novel has been remarkably neglected as a subject, despite the enormous number of authors who can be classified as having written regional fiction. This interdisciplinary collection of essays from leading literary critics, historians and cultural geographers, addresses the regional novel in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and England. It establishes the broader social and political contexts in which these novels emerged, and by combining his…
Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690-18601
Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690-1860
K. D. M. Snell, Agricultural Seasonal Unemployment, the Standard of Living, and Women's Work in the South and East, 1690-1860, The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 34, No. 3 (Aug., 1981), pp. 407-437
Proto-Industrialization? Cottage Industry, Social Change, and Industrial Revolution
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Annals of the Labouring Poor
This collection of inter-connected essays is concerned with the impact of social and economic change upon the rural labouring poor and artisans in England, and combines a sensitive understanding of their social priorities with innovative quantitative analysis. It is based on an impressive range of sources, and its particular significance arises from the pioneering use made of a largely neglected archival source - settlement records - to address q…
Reproductive Rituals
Land, Kinship, and Life-Cycle
Lone-parent families and the Welfare State
Cet article examine l'incidence des families à parent unique au cours des trois derniers siècles, etablissant un rapport entre les découvertes historiques et la croissance rapide et récente, et compare les allocations versées à ces families au début du dix-neuviéme siécle avec celles d'aujourd'hui. On constate que l'incidence historique des ces families était généralement plus élevée que ce n'est le cas aujourd'hui. De plus, il ressort que la val…
Annals of the Labouring Poor
Annals of the Labouring Poor
Rural History and Folklore Studies
This paper was published as Folklore, 1989, 100 (2), pp. 218-220. It is available from http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0015587x.asp or http://www.jstor.org/stable/1260298
English Historical Continuity and the Culture of Capitalism
This paper was published as History Workshop Journal, 1989, 27 (1), pp. 154-164. It is available from http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol27/issue1/index.dtl. Doi: 10.1093/hwj/27.1.154
Annals of the Labour Poor
Rural History
'Agricultural history', that historiographical offshoot of the growth of economic history, increasingly cannot be said to typify rural history broadly and adventurously conceived. It captures little of the way the subject is developing. In its received form, it is probable in the future that it will replicate and refine without momentum the pattern of studies over the past thirty or more years. In name, and in its traditional scope and expression…
Short notices
Urs Bitterli, Cultures in Conflict: Encounters Between European and Non‐European Cultures, 1492–1800, translated by Ritchie Robertson (1989), 215 (Polity Press, Oxford, £25.00). Alice T. Friedman, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton Hall and the Willoughby Family (1989), xvi + 227 (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, £24.95). David Morse, England's Time of Crisis from Shakespeare to Milton. A Cultural History (1989). vii + ‐391…
McGlinchey Charles, The Last of the Name, Belfast
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Rural History
Two questions will no doubt greet the arrival of this journal: why rural history? and why now? The current economic climate is hardly favourable for ventures of this kind. But recent developments in the numerous fields which touch on matters rural indicate a real academic need for a new forum for interdisciplinary exchange. Much exciting and innovative work has been carried out over the past decade – on the nature and structure of rural communiti…
Defining the rural
This paper was published as Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture, 1990, 1 (2), pp. 143-145. It is available from http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2639544. Doi: 10.1017/S0956793300003289
Agrarian histories and our rural past
Pauper settlement and the right to poor relief in England and Wales
Cet article donne une évaluation des lois anglaises et galloises concernant le droit d'établissement des pauvres, particulièrement pour la période de 1662 jusqu'au milieu du 19è. siècle. II souligne qu'il y avait une relation intime, qui se faissait sentir partout, entre le droit à la résidence et la loi sur I'assistance publique. Cette résidence elle même était un élément indispensable du I'assistance publique et fonctionnait comme telle. II met…
Settlement, Poor Law and the Rural Historian
English and Welsh agrarian society, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was intimately tied to the poor law. That law was extensive in scope, encompassing settlement and removal, apprenticeship, illegitimacy, parochial rating and taxation, as well as welfare and unemployment provision. It continually swayed the rural labour market. It underlay the development of so-called ‘open’ and ‘close’ parishes, or as I would prefer to express it, th…
An Economic History of the English Poor Law, 1750-1850
Rural History and Popular Culture
This issue of Rural History has greater thematic coherence than previous numbers, with all the papers having some relation to the study of ‘popular culture’, while coming from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Each of the articles develops a key area of analysis, but their juxtaposition helps to raise further questions – about the kinds of sources that can be used to redress the bias towards the elite that has tended to dominate the study o…
Women and Rural History
This is a special issue on Women and Rural History — a subject which needs no editorial justification. It represents, especially for agricultural history, an enormous breadth of historical experience that has been sadly neglected over many decades. In commissioning and then reading the work produced for this issue, we became ever more convinced that there are huge areas of debate and research, into questions at the heart of rural history, that in…
From the 1676 Compton Census to the 1851 Census of Religious Worship
The two major censuses of religion that have most preoccupied historians and cultural geographers have, without question, been the Compton census of 1676 and the Census of Religious Worship of 1851. Over more than two centuries, probably indeed throughout British history, no other religious censuses were conducted to rival these two sources. The religious history of the intervening period has however, been researched by using other documentation,…
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