Books in the Studies in Regional and Local History series

Securing the survival and status of the family has always been the principal concern of the English gentry. Central to that ambition has been the successful management of their landed estates. After 700 years the Le Stranges at Hunstanton are the longest surviving gentry family in Norfolk. This book presents new research into their success.

An in-depth study of the changing patterns and fortunes of the provisioning of Norwich Cathedral Priory, c.1260 to 1536. The study of the food supply of late-medieval conventual households sheds much light on the wider process of decline and eventual collapse of direct demesne management and feudalism in the post-Black Death era.

At the cutting edge of 'the new social and demographic history', this book provides a detailed picture of the most comprehensive system of poor relief operated by any Elizabethan town.

This book seeks to explore the changing nature of English society through a case study of countryside and town in southern England during the period from c.1380 to c.1520.