Written largely by her former research students, this book honours the varied and creative career of Joan Thirsk.

Between 1540 and 1920 the English elite transformed the countryside and landscape by building up landed estates which were concentrated around their country hou

English rural society underwent fundamental changes between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries with urbanization, commercialization and industrialization p

The book is the first full analysis of the gentry in the early modern period since G.E.Mingay The Gentry: the Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (1976). It offers

A large proportion of late medieval people, were accused of some kind of misdemeanour. This book studies gender and crime in late medieval England. It shows how