A collection of essays concerned with topographical writers who published work on the west country between c. 1600 and 1900. It provides an assessment of some f

Richard Polwhele was a writer of rare energies. Today known only for The Unsex’d Females and its attack on radical women writers, Polwhele was a historian, tr

This book demonstrates how oral history can provide a valuable way of understanding locality, which is important in light of major issues facing the world today

This fascinating book looks at how local history developed from the antiquarian county studies of the sixteenth century through the growth of 'professional' his

The articles in this second issue of Romantik demonstrate the crucial role of emergent regionalism and nationalism within the Romantic movement. But, the contri