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The incidence and nature of illegitimacy in East Yorkshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (2014)
Thesis
Oliver, M. S. (2014). The incidence and nature of illegitimacy in East Yorkshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4217363

Many historians have studied illegitimacy as a national economic and social problem. Today, in the early years of the 21st century, when many couples enjoy long and stable relationships without the formality of certified marriage, even the word itsel... Read More about The incidence and nature of illegitimacy in East Yorkshire in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The buildings of high farming : Lincolnshire farm buildings, 1840-1910 (2005)
Thesis
Brook, A. S. (2005). The buildings of high farming : Lincolnshire farm buildings, 1840-1910. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218680

This study examines the nature offann building provision in Lincolnshire 1840-1910, posing the questions who built what. where, when and why. Consideration of these questions is undertaken within a framework which interprets the county's nineteenth-c... Read More about The buildings of high farming : Lincolnshire farm buildings, 1840-1910.

Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925 (2002)
Thesis
Craven, M. (. T. 1. (2002). Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4215291

The aim of this thesis is two-fold: first to trace and quantify the persistence of an ancient tenure, namely copyhold, in the Holderness area of East Yorkshire from the mid-eighteenth century; and second to plot its subsequent rate of extinction down... Read More about Copyhold tenure and its survival in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire from c.1750 to 1925.