Essex harvest
Subtitle: a collection of essays in memory of Arthur Brown
By: edited by M. Holland and J. Cooper
Contributors: Essex Record Office
Series: Essex Record publication -- no. 146
Publisher: Essex Record Office
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Chelmsford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781898529200
Subjects: History; Rural conditions; Social conditions
Description: "Arthur Brown...was for many years the mainstay of the Centre for Local History at the University. He wrote extensively on Essex rural history.... This collection of essays in his memory reflects the debt of gratitude that Essex history owes to Arthur. They have been written to reflect his interest in Essex rural history and of the encouragement that he gave to each of the essayists as colleagues and students." -- from back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: : Figure in a landscape : the county of Essex in 1766 through the eyes of its clergy; title: John Player, gentleman of Saffron Walden 1823-1832; title: Under the influence?; title: Malaria, Machismo and the original Essex man : the limits of poor relief in the early 1830s; title: The Dengie Hundred coal miners : a study of the migration of agricultural workers from the Dengie Hundred to the Durham coalfields; title: The parish of Waltham and the Foundling Hospital in the mid-eighteenth century; title: Guilty as charged : the trial of an Essex swing incendiary; title: The chartist challenge in Chelmsford; title: Thomas Churchman Darby and his steam digging machines of Pleshey; title: 'Taking the tailoring' : rural outwork and the Colchester clothing industry 1840-1914; title: The countryside, its old culture and change, 1900-1950.