Parish and Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950 - Hardcover

Snell, K. D. M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521862922 ISBN 13: 9780521862929

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Book Description:

A major study of local identities across early modern and modern British history. Professor Snell re-examines senses of community and belonging through literature, legislation, folklore, etc. and suggests that the parish identity continued to play a central part in people's lives long after the supposed transition to the nation.

About the Author:

K. D. M. Snell is Professor of Rural and Cultural History, Centre for English Local History, at the University of Leicester. His previous publications include Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660-1900 (1985) and Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion (2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521862922
• ISBN 13: 9780521862929
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 556