Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950Cambridge University Press, 16. nov 2006 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 new parishes of the period and their effects upon people's local attachments. The book highlights the continuing vitality of the parish as a unit in people's lives, and the administration associated with it. It employs a variety of historical methods, and makes important contributions to the history of welfare, community identity and belonging. It is highly relevant to the modern themes of globalisation, de-localisation, and the decline of community, helping to set such changes and their consequences into local historical perspective. |
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... boundaries that people set in the exercise of their humanity to others. Given centralising and globalising trends, the significance of the larger. 5 On the processes of globalisation, among a very large literature, see D. Massey and P ...
... boundaries that people set in the exercise of their humanity to others. Given centralising and globalising trends, the significance of the larger. 5 On the processes of globalisation, among a very large literature, see D. Massey and P ...
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... boundaries. We need to consider questions about how they operated, how long they lasted, and why they declined. Many of the chapters go well into the twentieth century, as I am interested in long-term change. They are intended to ...
... boundaries. We need to consider questions about how they operated, how long they lasted, and why they declined. Many of the chapters go well into the twentieth century, as I am interested in long-term change. They are intended to ...
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... boundaries that were fixed in the mind, of long medieval lineage, and they were strong legal entities of obligation and control. We will see that this has many implications for community and belonging. Closely related to this theme is ...
... boundaries that were fixed in the mind, of long medieval lineage, and they were strong legal entities of obligation and control. We will see that this has many implications for community and belonging. Closely related to this theme is ...
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... boundaries, and inter alia the implications which such attitudes had for ideas of belonging and the emergence of the working class. This book is no simple commendation of the historical parish, which certainly had its shadowy and ...
... boundaries, and inter alia the implications which such attitudes had for ideas of belonging and the emergence of the working class. This book is no simple commendation of the historical parish, which certainly had its shadowy and ...
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... boundaries, and the effects of changing property ownership come to mind as important issues. Then there is the revealing subject of local and civic pride in place – one may think of city, town and village halls, chapel building, church ...
... boundaries, and the effects of changing property ownership come to mind as important issues. Then there is the revealing subject of local and civic pride in place – one may think of city, town and village halls, chapel building, church ...
Contents
28 | |
Section 2 | 81 |
Section 3 | 94 |
Section 4 | 115 |
Section 5 | 162 |
Section 6 | 179 |
Section 7 | 181 |
Section 8 | 183 |
Section 17 | 218 |
Section 18 | 220 |
Section 19 | 225 |
Section 20 | 227 |
Section 21 | 234 |
Section 22 | 292 |
Section 23 | 339 |
Section 24 | 366 |
Section 9 | 184 |
Section 10 | 185 |
Section 11 | 189 |
Section 12 | 200 |
Section 13 | 207 |
Section 14 | 213 |
Section 15 | 214 |
Section 16 | 216 |
Section 25 | 413 |
Section 26 | 423 |
Section 27 | 429 |
Section 28 | 454 |
Section 29 | 472 |
Section 30 | 474 |
Section 31 | 476 |
Section 32 | 496 |
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Popular passages
Page 58 - And Royston men in the far South Are black and fierce and strange of mouth; At Over they fling oaths at one, And worse than oaths at Trumpington, And Ditton girls are mean and dirty, And there's none in Harston under thirty, And folks in Shelford and those parts Have twisted lips and twisted hearts, And Barton men make Cockney rhymes, And Colon's full of nameless crimes, And things are done you'd not believe At Madingley, on Christmas Eve.
Page 468 - I am a stranger and a sojourner with you : give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Page 25 - And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new.
Page 57 - For England's the one land, I know, Where men with Splendid Hearts may go ; And Cambridgeshire, of all England, The shire for Men who Understand; And of that district I prefer The lovely hamlet Grantchester. For Cambridge people rarely smile, Being urban, squat, and packed with guile...
Page 186 - ... chapel of or belonging to the parish or chapelry, within which the usual place of abode of one of the persons to be married shall have been for the space of four weeks immediately before the granting of such licence...
Page 249 - WE, THE POOR LAW COMMISSIONERS, in pursuance of the authorities vested in Us by an Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of His late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled "An Act for the Amendment and better Administration of the Laws relating to the Poor in England and Wales...
Page 58 - And things are done you'd not believe At Madingley, on Christmas Eve. Strong men have run for miles and miles, When one from Cherry Hinton smiles; Strong men have blanched, and shot their wives, Rather than send them to St. Ives; Strong men have cried like babes, bydam, To hear what happened at Babraham. But Grantchester ! ah, Grantchester ! There's peace and holy quiet there, Great clouds along pacific skies, And men and women with straight eyes...