Latest issue of Southern History (volume 43)

Volume 43 (2021) of Southern History contains the following articles:

  • ‘The enduring cult of Edward the Martyr’ by Tom Watson.
  • ‘An island lordship and its contexts: the Island of Lundy and its lords, 1327-1461’ by Tim Thornton.
  • ‘Unmasking “Browche the Painter”: the possibilities of portraiture in Exeter and beyond, c.1580-1620’ by Robert Tittler.
  • ‘”At their uttermost perils”: the urgent preparation of the Elizabethan militia amidst the 1599 Spanish Armada crisis in Hampshire, from the perspective of Sir Richard Paulet and the Lieutenancy’ by Joshua Harper.
  • ‘Troubled tithings: the local context of the “Swallowfield Articles” of 1596’ by Ralph Houlbrooke.
  • ‘Imagined wives and children in the settlement certificates of eighteenth and early nineteenth century Reading’ by Margaret Ounsley.

Book Reviews:

  • S.J. Drake, Cornwall, Connectivity and Identity in the Fourteenth Century, reviewed by Nicholas Kingwell.
  • F. Donal Logan (ed.), The Register of Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1375-1381, reviewed by Cindy Wood.
  • C.R. Elrington (ed.), The Forced Loan and Men Fit to Serve as Soldiers, 1523, reviewed by Neil Murphy.
  • Rose Hewlett (ed.), The Gloucestershire Court of Sewers 1583-1642, reviewed by Michael Hicks.

Volume 44 to follow shortly.

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