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).
Preface and acknowledgements
1. Introduction - belonging and local attachment
2. The culture of local xenophobia
3. Settlement, parochial belonging and entitlement
4. Rural societies and their marriage patterns
5. 'A cruel kindness': parish out-door relief, and the new poor law
6. Nailed to the church door? Parish overseers and the new poor law
7. Three centuries of new parishes
8. `Of this parish': gravestones, belonging and local attachment
9. Conclusion - belonging, parish and community
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