Table of Contents

Introduction Roger Kain
1 Environmental Setting Christopher Caseldine
2 Traditional building materials and their influence on vernacular styles Veronica Chesher
THE DEEP PAST: BEFORE THE NORMAN CONQUEST
3 Palaeolithic: the earliest human occupation Allan Straw
4 Late Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic hunting-gathering communities Alison Roberts
5 Neolithic settlement, land use and resources Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
6 Barrow and ceremonial sites in the Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
7 Settlement c.2500 BC to c.AD 600 Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
8 The Bronze Age metalwork of Devon and Cornwall Susan M. Pearce
9 Iron Age to Roman buildings, structures, and coin and other findspots Frances Griffith and Henrietta Quinnell
10 The Roman Army in the South West Valerie Maxfield
11 Classical Sources for the Ancient South West Malcolm Todd
12 Early Christian Dumnonia A.C. Thomas
13 Place names in Devon and Cornwall O.J. Padel
14 Saxon conquest and settlement Della Hooke
THEMES IN THE HISTORY OF POST-MEDIEVAL SOUTH-WEST ENGLAND
15-18 POPULATION
15 Population distribution from the Domesday Book of 1806 William Ravenhill
16 Population distribution and growth in early modern England Jonathan Barry
17 Population change in south-west England, 1811-1911 Andrew Alexander and Gareth Shaw
18 Population changes in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
19-25 POLITICAL AND MILITARY HISTORY
19 Castles, fortified houses and fortified towns, 1300-1500 Robert Higham
20 Representation and rebellion in the later middle ages Nicholas Orme
21 Civil wars of the seventeenth century Peter Gaunt
22 Coastal defences and garrisons, 1480-1914 Michael Duffy
23 Defence and disruption: World Wars I and II Mark Blacksell
24 Antecedents of the modern administrative map: local areas and local authorities, 1801-1998 Jeffrey Stanyer
25 Parlimentary boundaries and political affiliations, 1918-1997 Michael Rush
26-30 RELIGION AND RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
26 Ecclesiastical institutions in 1086 and monastic houses c.1300 Christopher Holdsworth
27 The Church in Devon and Cornwall from c.1300 to the Reformation Nicholas Orme
28 Religion and the spread of nonconformity before 1800 Jonathan Barry
29 Religious Worship in 1851 Bruce Coleman
30 Religion and ecclesiastical practices in the twentieth century Grace Davie and Derek Hearl
31-34 EDUCATION/DISSEMINATION OF KNOWLEDGE/LANGUAGE
31 Printing, the book trade, and newspapers, c.1500-1860 Ian Maxted
32 Education in Cornwall in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries L. Burge and F.L. Harris
33 Education in Devon in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Roger Sellman
34 The retreat of the Cornish language Philip Payton
35-39 AGRICULTURE
35 Agriculture and rural settlement in 1086 F.R. Thorn and C.M.J. Thorn
36 Medieval farming and rural settlement Harold Fox
37 Agriculture and rural settlement, 1500-1800 Michael Havinden and Robin Stanes
38 Farming in the nineteenth century Sarah Wilmot
39 Agriculture, forestry and landscape conservation in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
40-44 INDUSTRY AND MINING
40 Medieval rural industry Harold Fox
41 The tin industry in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Cornwall G.A.M. Gerrard
42 The woollen, lime, tanning and leather working, and paper making industries c.1500 to c.1800 Michael Havinden
43 Metal mining in Cornwall and Devon since the eighteenth century Roger Burt
44 Employment in Devon and Cornwall in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
44 -47 INLAND TRANSPORT
44 Turnpike roads in Devon and Cornwall John Kanefsky
45 Canals and railways in the South West in the nineteenth century Richard Oliver
46 Railways and roads in the twentieth century Malyn Newitt
48-50 MARITIME ACTIVITIES
48 Fisheries, exploration, shipping and mariners in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Todd Gray
49 Maritime Devon, 1660-1815 Stephen Fisher
50 Seaborne trade, fishing and marine recreation since 1800 David Starkey
51-55 TOWNS
51 Medieval urban development Harold Fox
52 Medieval town plans T.R. Slater
53 Towns and processes of urbanisation in the early modern period Jonathan Barry
54 Post-medieval morphological development of towns Mark Brayshay
55 Town and country planning in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
56-60 SERVICE INDUSTRIES: TOURISM AND RETAILING
56 Early tourist destinations: artists' changing landscape preferences Peter Howard
57 The growth of tourism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Gareth Shaw, Justin Greenwood and Allan Williams
58 Retail trading, 1850-1939 Andrew Alexander and Gareth Shaw
59 Commerce and marketing, 1800-1914: co-operative retailing Martin Purvis
60 Retail development in the late twentieth century Gareth Shaw and Andrew Alexander
61-65 EXETER AND PLYMOUTH
61 The city of Exeter from AD50 to the early nineteenth century C.G. Henderson
62 Exeter Cathedral Nicholas Orme and C.G. Henderson
63 Map evidence of the growth of Exeter during the nineteenth century Richard Oliver
64 Exeter in the twentieth century Andrew Gilg
65 Plymouth Mark Brayshay, Cynthia Gaskell Brown and James Barber