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Power in the Land
Get PDFIn 1542 William Ramsden bought his wife’s family home at Longley and so began a long association between the Ramsdens and Huddersfield which lasted until Sir John Frecheville Ramsden sold his greatly increased Huddersfield estate to the Corporation in 1920. This collection of essays is published to commemorate the centenary of that event. Seven local historians examine different aspects of the Ramsden family’s relationship with the town and its inhabitants, especially in the nineteenth century. The book incorporates new research and gives fresh insights into the events which led to Huddersfield becoming ‘the town that bought itself’ a century ago
Book Reviews - Francis J. Bremer, Lay Empowerment and the Development of Puritanism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015). 239 pp. ISBN , £63 hardback
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Known Only to Themselves and to God: Autobiography and Fiction as Sources for Family and Community History
No full textNicola Verdon. Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages. Rochester, N. Y.: The Boydell Press. 2002. Pp. viii, 232. $75.00. ISBN 0-85115-906-0.
No full textThe Hiring Fairs of Northern England, 1890-1930: A Regional Analysis of Commercial and Social Networking
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Power in the Land
Get PDFIn 1542 William Ramsden bought his wife’s family home at Longley and so began a long association between the Ramsdens and Huddersfield which lasted until Sir John Frecheville Ramsden sold his greatly increased Huddersfield estate to the Corporation in 1920. This collection of essays is published to commemorate the centenary of that event. Seven local historians examine different aspects of the Ramsden family’s relationship with the town and its inhabitants, especially in the nineteenth century. The book incorporates new research and gives fresh insights into the events which led to Huddersfield becoming ‘the town that bought itself’ a century ago
