Provincial England: Essays in social and economic history

Abstract

In this book I have gathered together a number of essays which have been published in various places during the last dozen years or so. They have two things in common : they are concerned entirely with various aspects of English social and economic history, and they are devoted to what might be called the Provinces of England. Hence the title of the book. Some of these essays were published in places difficult of access for interested readers, and some are now difficult to obtain at all. Two essays have not hitherto been published. Of these, that on 'The Highland Zone in Domesday Book' was written especially for this book. The other, on 'The Rediscovery of England' was first given as three talks in the Third Programme of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and I am indebted to the Corporation for permission to publish them here, slightly amended in style but not in substance.