Church, land and people
Subtitle: essays presented to John Beckett
By: edited by Richard A. Gaunt
Contributors: Beckett, J. V., honoree; Thoroton Society
Series: Thoroton Society Record Series -- volume 50; Record series (Thoroton Society) -- v. 50.
Publisher: Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Nottingham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780902719286
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: History; Festschriften
Description: "Few historians are more closely associated with Nottinghamshire than Professor John Beckett. The purpose of this Festschrift is to mark John's contribution to regional history, and especially the history of Nottinghamshire, at a significant intersection of events in his life. First, John's retirement from the University of Nottingham, after forty one years' continuous employment. Second, John's retirement as Chair of Council of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire, after twenty eight years' service. Third, and by no means least, John's seventieth birthday. The contributors represent some of the individuals with whom John has collaborated - as teacher, mentor, supervisor, researcher, author, colleague, coadjutor and friend - on topics relating to the history of Nottinghamshire. There are also essays considering Derbyshire and Lincolnshire, the two other east Midland counties with which John has been principally concerned. The chronological range of the volume largely mirrors that with which John's academic career has been concerned, from the mid-17th century onwards, and comprises a suitably wide range of subjects. The volume's title hints at three of the larger themes in John's mature output as a historian - Church, Land and People"--Page 2 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Regionalism and localism : conflict and war in the Midlands, 1642-48  -- Martyn Bennett; title: Nottingham, Robin Hood and the coronation of Charles II  -- David Crook; title: "Nothing less than a duke". Henry 2nd Duke of Newcastle and the marriages of his daughters  -- Trevor Foulds; title: Life in a Nottinghamshire parish, c. 1664-1725 : the churchwardens of Norwell and their accounts  -- Michael and Elizabeth Jones; title: Early posts in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire : evidence from the archives at Chatsworth  -- Philip Riden; title: Newark as a coaching centre, c. 1600-1850  -- Stanley Chapman; title: Cranmer Kenrick : merchant and patriot  -- David Marcombe; title: A work in progress. Early developments at Welbeck Park by the 3rd Duke of Portland  -- Dorothy Johnston; title: Trials and the retribution : the fate of the Pentrich rebels  -- Richard A. Gaunt; title: From Georgian laxity to Victorian values? Social and economic change in two east Midland market towns during the 1840s  -- Adrian Henstock; title: The making of "New Nottingham" : enclosure and architecture in the 1850s  -- Ken Brand; title: Discovering groups in ecclesiastical data : the use of cluster analysis in the Southwell and Nottingham Church History Project  -- Christopher J. Brooke; title: In search of the Nottinghamshire yeoman  -- Michael Turner; title: Bibliography of the works of John Beckett (J. V. Beckett) -- Denise Amos and Andy Nicholson.