The English Town, 1680–1840

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“…118 The Whig view looked back further to a romanticized Anglo-Saxon past, with good but unincorporated local governance. 119 The lack of improvement acts and commissions, and a generally unambitious scope for municipal action, heightened the effect. In other boroughs the change was less dramatic, or seemed so.…”

Section: The New Council and The Common Goodmentioning

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The Common Good and Borough Reform: Leicesterc. 1820–50

Noble

2016

Midland History

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Section: The New Council and The Common Goodmentioning

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The Common Good and Borough Reform: Leicesterc. 1820–50

Noble

2016

Midland History

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“…This pattern resembles the spatial distribution of different serving and restaurant entrepreneurs in eighteenth-century English towns. 46 In the case of Turku it is noteworthy that the most distant areas of the town lacked taverns.…”

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The Meaning of Urban Centrality in a Medium-Sized Eighteenth-Century Town

Savolainen

2018

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In May 1777, the council of the elders of the Swedish town of Turku (Åbo) decided to establish a new principle for the taxation of taverns. Previously, the taverns had been taxed at the same level, but that arrangement had been unpopular because some taverns were located in more convenient places than others and, thus, had higher product sales. The new taxation system divided the taverns into four categories according to their location and ease of access in the topography of the town; those in the 'best' places were to pay four times as much tax a month as those in the 'less attractive' places. 1 Reading between the lines, the tax reform reveals that there was an understanding of the town as a symbolic topography of more central and more peripheral places. But what did eighteenth-century townspeople mean when they wrote about 'better' or 'worse' places? More generally, how can we use historical sources and methods to approach early modern symbolic understandings of urban topography?In human geography and economic geography, the exploration of centrality stems from Walter Christaller's central place theory (1933), which describes an abstract model for generating hierarchical levels of centrality in human residential settlements. 2 Since Christaller's time, central place theory has been revaluated and thoroughly debated, and the phenomenon of centrality and centralisation has been studied in human geography from a wide range of standpoints, including urban land value, traffic and distance, accessibility, power and administration, and qualitative and imagined dimensions of the urban experience. 3 Recent developments in the research on centrality and central places include, among other things, the use of big data and a shift towards networks and clusters. 4 In the field of history, however, relatively few scholars have immersed themselves in the study of urban centrality as a historical phenomenon. One of the earliest examples is Hans-Heinrich Blotevogel's research on eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century Westphalia, where he investigated the relationship

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“…Thus, these urban centres require separate attention, as they did not possess citizens outside the guild -the criterion which has formed the basis for this study. 89…”

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“…Walker based his work on members of the guild who paid quarterage. According to Youings, only guild members on their own account paid the quarterage and became citizens(Tuckers Hall Exeter, 63,89). As a consequence, I have used the list of guild members who were citizens for comparison with other name lists (seeFigure 2).30 Youings, Tuckers Hall Exeter, 118.31 Ibid., 119.449terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms.…”

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The decline of guilds and their monopoly in English provincial towns, with particular reference to Exeter

Yoneyama

2018

Urban History

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This article examines the decline of the craft guilds in early modern England by way of a case-study of the Tuckers’ Company in Exeter. From the 1980s, this case figured prominently in the historiographical debate concerning guild decline; however, it has not been examined recently. The current study reveals the Tuckers’ Company is not a case of decline in guild membership so much as a case of the loss of guild monopoly and a concomitant transition to charitable functions. On the basis of empirical sources, this study also reveals the mechanisms and context of this transformation in the post-Civil War politics of the city of Exeter. Specific attention is given to first, the decline of royal authority bolstering the guild against the city government and secondly, the shift of power in the guild with the ascendance of the merchant fullers. Finally, the historiographical implications of the article's findings are discussed.

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The English Town, 1680–1840

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The Common Good and Borough Reform: Leicesterc. 1820–50

The Common Good and Borough Reform: Leicesterc. 1820–50

The Meaning of Urban Centrality in a Medium-Sized Eighteenth-Century Town

The decline of guilds and their monopoly in English provincial towns, with particular reference to Exeter

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