Introduction | |
Environmental Setting | |
Traditional building materials and their influence on vernacular styles | |
The Deep Past: Before The Norman Conquest | |
Palaeolithic: the earliest human occupation | |
Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunting-gathering communities | |
Neolithic settlement, land use and resources | |
Barrow and ceremonial sites in the Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age | |
Settlement c.2500 BC to c.AD 600 | |
The Bronze Age metalwork of Devon and Cornwall | |
Iron Age to Roman buildings, structures, and coin and other findspots | |
The Roman Army in the South West | |
Classical Sources for the Ancient South West | |
Early Christian | |
Place names in Devon and Cornwall | |
Saxon conquest and settlement | |
Themes in the History of Post-Medieval South-West England | |
Population | |
Population distribution from the Domesday Book of 1806 | |
Population distribution and growth in early modern England | |
Population change in south-west England, 1811-1911 | |
Population changes in the twentieth century | |
Political and Military History | |
Castles, fortified houses and fortified towns, 1300-1500 | |
Representation and rebellion in the later middle ages | |
Civil wars of the seventeenth century | |
Coastal defences and garrisons, 1480-1914 | |
Defence and disruption: World Wars I and II | |
Antecedents of the modern administrative map: local areas and local authorities, 1801-1998 | |
Parlimentary boundaries and political affiliations, 1918-1997 | |
Religion and Religious Institutions | |
Ecclesiastical institutions in 1086 and monastic houses c.1300 | |
The Church in Devon and Cornwall from c.1300 to the Reformation | |
Religion and the spread of nonconformity before 1800 | |
Religious Worship in 1851 | |
Religion and ecclesiastical practices in the twentieth century | |
Education/Dissemination of Knowledge/Language | |
Printing, the book trade, and newspapers, c.1500-1860 | |
Education in Cornwall in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | |
Education in Devon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | |
The retreat of the Cornish language | |
Agriculture | |
Agriculture and rural settlement in 1086 | |
Medieval farming and rural settlement | |
Agriculture and rural settlement, 1500-1800 | |
Farming in the nineteenth century | |
Agriculture, forestry and landscape conservation in the twentieth century | |
Industry and Mining | |
Medieval rural industry | |
The tin industry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Cornwall | |
The woollen, lime, tanning and leather working, and paper making industries c.1500 to c.1800 | |
Metal mining in Cornwall and Devon since the eighteenth century | |
Employment in Devon and Cornwall in the twentieth century | |
Inland Transport | |
Turnpike roads in Devon and Cornwall | |
Canals and railways in the South West in the nineteenth century | |
Railways and roads in the twentieth century | |
Maritime Activities | |
Fisheries, exploration, shipping and mariners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries | |
Maritime Devon, 1660-1815 | |
Seaborne trade, fishing and marine recreation since 1800 | |
Towns | |
Medieval urban development | |
Medieval town plans | |
Towns and processes of urbanisation in the early modern period | |
Post-medieval morphological development of towns | |
Town and country planning in the twentieth century | |
Service Industries: Tourism and Retailing | |
Early tourist destinations: artists' changing landscape preferences | |
The growth of tourism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries | |
Retail trading, 1850-1939 | |
Commerce and marketing, 1800-1914: co-operative retailing | |
Retail development in the late twentieth century | |
Exeter and Plymouth | |
The city of Exeter from AD50 to the early nineteenth century | |
Exeter Cathedral | |
Map evidence of the growth of Exeter during the nineteenth century | |
Exeter in the twentieth century | |
Plymouth Mark Brayshay, Cynthia | |
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