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surveying occupations in the Needle District, 57 while various articles by Martin about the
Vale of Evesham and south Warwickshire parishes have also been informative. 58
Buchanan’s survey of Worcestershire industries in the seventeenth century gave insight
into the local geography of early industrialisation, while books by Court, Rowlands,
Hopkins and Peter Jones amongst others help to set my study area in a regional context. 59
Many books dealing more generally with industrialisation, urbanisation and rural
society have proved useful including those by Crafts, Clark, Clarkson, Hudson, Berg,
Zell and Thirsk. 60
Studies of particular industries have also provided a useful
background to this study, for instance Clarkson on the leather industry and De L. Mann
on the cloth industry. 61
Similarities to or contrasts with the findings of these studies are
commented on in Chapters 4 to 8, as relevant.
57 S. R. H. Jones, ‘The development of needle manufacturing in the West Midlands before 1750’, Econ.
Hist. Rev., 31, (1978)
58 J. M. Martin, ‘The parliamentary enclosure movement and rural society in Warwickshire’, Ag. Hist. Rev.,
15, (1967), ‘The rise in population in eighteenth-century Warwickshire’, Dugdale Soc., OP23, (1976), ‘The
social and economic origins of the Vale of Evesham market gardening industry’, Ag. Hist. Rev., 33, (1985),
and ‘Village traders and the emergence of a proletariat in South Warwickshire, 1750-1851’, Ag. Hist. Rev.,
32, (1984).
59 For example, K. Buchanan, ‘Studies in the localisation of seventeenth century Worcestershire industries,
1600-1650’, Trans. of Worcestershire Arch. Soc., 17, 18 and 19, (1940-2), W. Court, The Rise of the
Midland Industries, 1600-1838, (Oxford, OUP, 1938), M. Rowlands, Masters and Men in the West
Midland Metalware Trades before the Industrial Revolution, (Manchester, MUP, 1975), E. Hopkins, The
Rise of the Manufacturing Town, (Stroud, Sutton, 1998), and P. M. Jones, Industrial Enlightenment,
(Manchester, MUP, 2008).
60 N. Crafts, British Economic Growth during the Industrial Revolution, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1985),
P. Hudson, ed., Regions and Industries, (Cambridge, CUP, 1989), P. Clark, ed., The Cambridge Urban
History of Britain, vol. 2, (Cambridge, CUP, 2000), P. Clark, ed., The Transformation of English Provincial
Towns, 1600-1800, (London, Hutchinson, 1984), L. A. Clarkson, Proto-industrialization: The First Phase
of Industrialization?, (London, Macmillan, 1985), P. Hudson, The Industrial Revolution, (London, Edward
Arnold, 1992), M. Berg, The Age of Manufactures 1700-1820, (London, Routledge, 1994), M. Zell,
Industry in the Countryside, (Cambridge, CUP, 1994), J. Thirsk, ed., The Agrarian History of England and
Wales, 1500-1640, vol. IV, (Cambridge, CUP, 1967), and J. Thirsk, ed., The Agrarian History of England
and Wales, 1640-1750, vol. V, (Cambridge, CUP, 1985).
61 For example, L. A. Clarkson, ‘The leather crafts in Tudor and Stuart England’, Ag. Hist. Rev., 14, (1966),
and J. de L. Mann, The Cloth Industry in the West of England, (Gloucester, Alan Sutton, 1987).
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