Latest issue of Southern History (volume 41)

Volume 41 (2019) of Southern History contains the following articles:

  • ‘The Cult of St Olaf in Wessex’ by Robert Higham.
  • ‘Civil War and Society: The Impact of the Siege of Rochester in 1264’ by Henry Summerson.
  • ‘The Creation of Piers Gaveston as Earl of Cornwall and the Evolution of the English Peerage’ by Michael Hicks.
  • ‘A Community in the Country? Sir John Sandys and Social Mobility in Later Medieval Hampshire’ by Toby Purser.
  • ‘The Battle to Preserve Bournemouth’s Quiet Sunday: The Tramways Question 1902-13’ by Roger Ottewill.

Book Reviews:

  • Alison Deveson and Sue Lane, The Victoria History of Hampshire: Cliddesden, Hatch and Farleigh Wallop, reviewed by Ralph Houlbrooke.
  • Simon Sandall, John Hare and Cheryl Butler, Jane Austen, Netley Abbey and Gothic Romanticism, reviewed by Alison Daniell.
  • Steven Brindle (ed.), Windsor Castle: A Thousand Years of a Royal Palace, reviewed by Euan C. Roger.
  • Margaret Yates (ed.), Berkshire Feet of Fines, reviewed by Simon Payling.
  • Douglas Crowley (ed.), Braydon Forest and the Forest Law, reviewed by Tom Johnson.
  • Phil Bradford and Alison K. McHardy (eds.), Proctors for Parliament: Clergy, Community and Politics, c.1248-1539, reviewed by Paul Cavill.
  • Marilyn Yurdan (ed.), Records of Holton Park Girls’ Grammar School (1948-1972), reviewed by Catherine Holloway.

Volumes 42 and 43 to follow shortly.

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