Displaced Heritage

Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability. Ian Convery is Professor of Environment & Society at the University of Cumbria. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and is a director of the Lifescapes Project conservation charity. Peter Davis is Emeritus Professor of Museology in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests relate to the connections between place, nature, heritage, communities and sustainability.

Introduction: Women, Property and Land
Women, Work and Land: The Spatial Dynamics of Gender Relations in Early Modern England 1550-1750
Spinsters with Land in Early Modern England: Inheritance, Possession and Use
Becoming Anne Clifford
The Heiress Reconsidered: Contexts for Understanding the Abduction of Arabella Alleyn
From Magnificent Houses to Disagreeable Country: Lady Sophia Newdigate's Tour of Southern England and Derbyshire, 1748
On Being 'fully and completely mistress of the whole business': Gender, Land and Estate Accounting in Georgian England
Negotiating Men: Elizabeth Montagu, 'Capability' Brown, and the Construction of Pastoral
Women's Involvement in Property in the North Riding of Yorkshire in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Invisible Women: Small-scale Landed Proprietors in Nineteenth Century England
More than just a Caretaker: Women's Role in the Intergenerational Transfer of Real and Personal Property in Nineteenth-Century Urban England, 1840-1900
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