These essays show how historical revisionism has overturned the view that English villages, before industrialization, had self-sufficient economies and populations largely separated from the outside world. Topics include demography, migration, agriculture, inheritance, politics, employment, industry, and markets, and covers such communities as Norfolk and Westmorland.
Christopher Dyer is professor of regional and local history and the director of the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester. He is the author of Everyday Life in Medieval England and Making a Living in the Middle Ages. Harold Fox is professor of social and local history at the Centre for English Local History at the University of Leicester. Nigel Goose is professor of social and economic history at the University of Hertfordshire.