Country, County and Town
Patterns of Regional Evolution in England
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11005643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Everitt (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1979 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Pages | 79-108 |
| Publication date | 1979-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0080-4401 • E-ISSN: 1474-0648 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3679114 |
| OpenAlex | W2144766973 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 21 |
| References cited | 17 |
It is a remarkable fact, and one that needs to be pondered, that almost all our current regional terms in this country are of very recent origin. Expressions like Tyneside and Merseyside, the West Midlands and the North-East, have no very lengthy lineage; such phrases as the Home Counties cannot be traced back beyond the early decades of the railway era; the present usage even of a genuine historic name like Wessex is no more than an antiquarian revival; while the current reanimation of Mercia seems to be chiefly attributable to a contemporary police force. Perhaps the only regional name of this kind with a continuous history to the present day is East Anglia. In other words, behind most of our modern expressions, ideas and preconceptions lie implicit that were not necessarily of much significance to the people of earlier centuries. A phrase like the Home Counties, for example, implies a kind of regional unity between the shires surrounding London which until recent centuries—and in many respects until recent generations—is entirely fallacious. There was no connexion between the origins of settlement, for example, in Hertfordshire and in Sussex, and next to none between settlement in Essex and in Kent. Even in the Civil War period there was singularly little contact and no cohesion, as parliament quickly found to its cost, between the counties surrounding the capital
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Geography and History
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Revel, Riot and Rebellion
Gentry and Community in Medieval England
The Industrial Revolution and the Regional Geography of England
An eighteenth-century revolution? Investigating urban growth in north-west England, 1664–1801
De-industrialization and re-industrialization
Current Bibliography of Urban History
Sojourners and lodgers in a provincial town
Society and Place in Nineteenth-Century North Lincolnshire
Migration and mobility in a less mature economy
The bourgeois soul of John Smyth of Nibley
The unreformed electorate of Hanoverian England
County versus region? Migrational connections in the East Midlands, 1700–1830
Communities and their contexts
Northern echoes
Historic Landscape Character and Sense of Place
Women traders in medieval England
The social history of indstrialization
Regions, Localities, and Industrialisation
Counting the industrial revolution
Contrasting Communities
Early Technological Innovation in the British Footwear Industry
English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution
The English urban renaissance
Early Cotswold woodland
Reflections on the historical origin of regions and pays
Country Carriers in the Nineteenth Century
Essays in the Economic and Social History of Tudor and Stuart England
Medieval Settlement
The Journeys of Celia Fiennes
A County Community in Peace and War
Medieval Settlement
Road Carrying in England in the Seventeenth Century
The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion
English Provincial Society from the Reformation to the Revolution
| Unique citing works | 21 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,48 |
| Citation span | 1982 - 2022 (41) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |