Canwick (Lincolnshire) and Melbourn (Cambridgeshire) in Comparative Perspective within the Open-Closed Village Model

Mills, Dennis

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“…52 However, Spencer's reconstitution primarily revolves around the closed parish thesis. Mills, by 2006, also emphasises the need for a systems approach to be employed alongside one based on the typological model. 53 54 If brief and 'speculative', Mills deals in Lord and Peasant with twentieth-century trajectories for both the historically open and the closed.…”

Section: The Open-closed Model and The Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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“…It strikes a chord with the proposals of Short and Spencer for reconceptualisation and a revised methodology with a greater focus on process rather than pattern, mechanism rather than outcome, concept rather than conceptual 'model'. Mills, by 2006, also emphasises the need for a systems approach to be employed alongside one based on the typological model. 56 The relevance of the 'open-closed' model, 'estate' and 'peasant' systems, and processes of 'closure' and 'opening' for studies of the twentieth-century countryside needs more testing.…”

Section: The Open-closed Model and The Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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The ‘Open-Closed’ Settlement Model and the Interdisciplinary Formulations of Dennis Mills: Conceptualising Local Rural Change

Jackson

2012

Rural History

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This article is an examination of the value of the 'open-closed' settlement model. The model has endured as a helpful point of reference in historical investigations of local rural change in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and in particular in the study of property and class relations and their influence on the evolution of settlement form. The article is also a consideration of the significance of the work of a chief architect of the model, the historical geographer and local historian Dennis Mills. The model and the contribution of Mills are discussed in relation to initiatives seeking to develop local history of the twentieth century, including the promotion of engagement with interdisciplinary historiographies.

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Section: The Open-closed Model and The Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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Section: The Open-closed Model and The Nineteenth Centurymentioning

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The ‘Open-Closed’ Settlement Model and the Interdisciplinary Formulations of Dennis Mills: Conceptualising Local Rural Change

Jackson

2012

Rural History

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“…Here, too, the high hopes for smallholdings were not realized: tenants were hard to find, and the colony lasted barely a decade. Another local study, by Mills, compares the open parish of Melbourn in Cambridgeshire with the closed parish of Canwick, an estate village in Lincolnshire. The physical development of Canwick reflected the level of attention paid to the village by the resident gentry over a long period.…”

Section: (V) 1850–1945 Mark Freeman and Julian Greaves University Of mentioning

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Early Anglo-Saxon settlement sites have been revealed by several excavations. Dickens et al. report a substantial village and associated cemetery at Bloodmoor Hill, Suffolk. Finds included evidence for textile manufacture, but not specialist commodity production; occupation appears to have ceased in the late seventh or early eighth century. The settlement at Gamlingay, Cambridgeshire, published by Murray and McDonald, yielded an enclosed farmstead and cemetery, both in use until c.800. Evidence for textile production and the presence of Ipswich ware suggests the site's participation in an active trading network. Wright, on Orton Waterville, Peterborough, reports a long-lived settlement generating relatively modest material remains. The site at Shepperton, Middlesex, described by Poulton, appears to have been regularly laid out in the later Anglo-Saxon period, replacing a flourishing earlier settlement. Parallel ditches point to the 'toft and croft' arrangement of medieval villages.Debate continues over early population movement. Casting doubt on the historicity of Irish migration to western Britain in the fourth or fifth centuries, Dark postulates the pre-existing presence there of spoken Irish. This would contrast with the evidence for Anglo-Saxon migration, particularly to 'Anglian' areas, considered more secure. Bartholemew offers grounds for identifying 'Angulus', Continental homeland of the Angli described by Bede, as modern Frisia. Possible connections with Procopius's account, usually treated with scepticism, might suggest Frisia as the starting-point for a substantial part of the Anglo-Saxon migration into Britain. Addressing the subject of river-names, generally considered a good indicator of Anglo-Saxon displacement in lowland areas, Yeates offers evidence from the Cotswolds area showing the loss of Brittonic river-names occurring over a far longer period.Though not necessarily incompatible with the orthodox view, this may suggest a greater survival of Brittonic nomenclature originally in the west.In funerary archaeology, Hamerow explores the 'special' deposition of human and animal remains within areas of occupation. The relatively high percentage of dogs and horses, together with cattle, strengthens the impression of ritualistic activity, possibly directed towards fertility, while an association with sunken-featured buildings would make sense if such structures had been used for storage. Reconstructing the ritual of human cremation, Williams places the deceased body at the centre of an elaborate visual spectacle. Rather than a mourner-centred approach to interpretation, the body itself may have had some agency in a complex interrelationship between the living and the dead. Chester-Kadwell, evaluating metal-detector finds in Norfolk, suggests that if used carefully these can supplement the existing corpus of known early cemeteries. Lee's study of textile evidence in funerary contexts shows its value not only in relation to gender but also as an indicator of social status. The model of a 'final phase' o...

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“…English rural villages could be classified as 'closed' or 'open'. A closed village had one proprietor who owned almost all the land and the number of labourers' cottages was strictly limited by the landowner (Mills, 1959(Mills, , 2006Holderness, 1972;Spencer, 2000). The churchwardens tried rigorously to exclude paupers from obtaining a legal settlement there (Spencer, 2000).…”

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Cousin Marriage in South-Western England in the Nineteenth Century

Day

Smith

2012

J. Biosoc. Sci.

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Knowledge of inbreeding levels in historical times is necessary to estimate the health consequences of past inbreeding, and to contextualize the current public debate about cousin marriage in Britain. This research aims to calculate the level of cousin marriage using the intensive technique of multi-source parish reconstitution and to determine whether village organization, religion and occupational class influenced the level of consanguineous marriage. A wide variety of documentary sources were used to create extensive pedigrees of spouses in over 800 marriages in the 19th century in the rural villages of Stourton and Kilmington. The closed village of Stourton had higher levels of inbreeding than the open village of Kilmington. Catholics had lower rates of 1st cousin marriage but higher rates of 2nd cousin marriage than Protestants. Farmers had higher levels of 1st cousin marriage than labourers. The levels of consanguinity in south-western Wiltshire in the 19th century were related to the economic structure of the villages and the religion and social class of the spouses.

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Canwick (Lincolnshire) and Melbourn (Cambridgeshire) in Comparative Perspective within the Open-Closed Village Model

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The ‘Open-Closed’ Settlement Model and the Interdisciplinary Formulations of Dennis Mills: Conceptualising Local Rural Change

The ‘Open-Closed’ Settlement Model and the Interdisciplinary Formulations of Dennis Mills: Conceptualising Local Rural Change

Review of periodical literature published in 2006

Cousin Marriage in South-Western England in the Nineteenth Century

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