The Social Topography of a Rural Community is a micro-history of an
exceptionally well-documented seventeenth-century English village:
Chilvers Coton in north-eastern Warwickshire. Drawing on a rich
archive of sources, including an occupational census, detailed
estate maps, account books, private journals, and hundreds of deeds
and wills, and employing a novel micro-spatial methodology, it
reconstructs the life experience of some 780 inhabitants spread
across 176 households. This offers a unique opportunity to
visualize members of an English rural community as they responded
to, and in turn initiated, changes in social and economic activity,
making their own history on their own terms. In so doing the book
brings to the fore the social, economic, and spatial lives of
people who have been marginalized from conventional historical
discourse, and offers an unusual level of detail relating to the
spatial and demographic details of local life. Each of the
substantive chapters focuses on the contributions and experiences
of a particular household in the parish-the mill, the vicarage, the
alehouse, the blacksmith's forge, the hovels of the labourers and
coalminers, the cottages of the nail-smiths and ribbon-weavers, the
farms of the yeomen and craftsmen, and the manor house of Arbury
Hall itself-locating them precisely on specific sites in the
landscape and the built environment; and sketching the evolving
'taskscapes' in which the inhabitants dwelled. A novel contribution
to spatial history, as well as early modern material, social and
economic history more generally, this study represents a highly
original analysis of the significance of place, space, and flow in
the history of English rural communities.
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