Volume 46 (2024) of Southern History contains the following articles:
- ‘So to remain from heir to heir in remembrance of me: the commemorative practices of the Fitzalan women, 1375-1475’, Amy Parkes.
- ‘The costs and burdens of local government in the fifteenth-century south’, Michael Hicks.
- ‘The Holy Ghost Chapel Basingstoke: the changing nature of charity in pre-modern Hampshire’, Alison McKenna.
- ‘The Merchant Fleet and maritime communities of Kent, Hampshire, and Dorset, c.1565-c.1630’, Gary P. Baker, Lucy Huggins, Craig Lambert, John McAleer.
- ‘Property management at Salisbury: how effective were its seventeenth-century ecclesiastical overseers?’, Andrew Thomson.
- ‘The ties that bind: James Brydges, first duke of Chandos (1674-1744) and his cousin George Brydges of Avington Park, Hampshire’, R.C. Richardson.
- ‘Garrisons and the south of England in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries’, Kevin Linch.
- ‘Residents, visitors, and social class: snobbery in inter-war Bournemouth’, Mark Page.
Book Reviews:
- Andrew Pickering & Julia Wiedemann (eds.), Wessex: Landscapes, Histories and Identities (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2024), reviewed by Ryan Lavelle.
- Mary C. Siraut with Matthew Bristow & Adam Chapman (eds.), Minehead, Dunster and Carhampton, The Victoria History of the County of Somerset, XII (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2023), reviewed by Michael Hicks.
- Matthew L. Holford with Paul Dryburgh (eds.), Escheators’ Inquisitions for Gloucestershire and Bristol, c.1260-1485, Gloucestershire Record Series 37 (2022), reviewed by Mark Page.
- Robert Dunning, National, local, family: history from Somerset’s bishops’ registers, 1264-1559, Somerset Record Society: Extra Series 2 (2022), reviewed by Simon Townley.
- Peter Fleming, Late medieval Bristol: time, space and power (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2024), reviewed by Michael Hicks.
- Robert Dunning & Andrew Butcher (eds.), Records of agriculture, justice, religion and trade: a centenary collection, Somerset Record Society 100 (2023), reviewed by Ralph Houlbrooke.
- Charmian Mansell, Female servants in early modern England (Oxford: OUP, 2024), reviewed by R.C. Richardson.
- Eliza Wheaton (ed.), Loving and obedient? Family correspondence of the Mores of Loseley Park, 1537-1686, Surrey Record Society 48 (2023), reviewed by Jackie Eales.
- Joan Dils (ed.), Stanford in the Vale churchwardens’ accounts 1552-1705, Berkshire Record Society 29 (2023), reviewed by Mark Page.
- Andrew Thomson, Church courts and the people in seventeenth-century England. Ecclesiastical justice in peril at Winchester, Worcester and Wells (London: UCL Press, 2022), reviewed by R.C. Richardson.
- John Gaisford (ed.), Clothiers and merchants in Spanish cloth 1627-1665: the Ashe family of Somerset, Wiltshire and London, and their account books, Somerset Record Society 101 (2023), reviewed by Michael Nix.
- Anthea Jones (ed.), Thomas Baskerville, Journeys in industrious England and writings personal and topographical (Gloucester: The Hobnob Press, 2023), reviewed by R.B. Peberdy.
- Todd Gray (ed.), The Exeter cloth dispatch book 1763-1765, Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new series 63 (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2021), reviewed by Jean Morrin.
- Richard Coates (ed.), Shirehampton church-yard book, Bristol Record Society 76 (2023), reviewed by Julie Rugg.
- Adrian J. Webb, Churchill’s secret chart makers: the road to D-Day and beyond in Somerset 1939-1945 (Taunton: Harry Galloway Publishing, 2024), reviewed by George Tatham.
To subscribe to Southern History please visit our Membership page.
For all enquiries please refer to our Contacts page.
Back issues of Southern History, volume 1 (1979)-volume 38 (2016), can be viewed here.