Chipping Norton today is a thriving Oxfordshire market town of some 6,500 people at the eastern edge of the Cotswolds. Its handsome Georgian houses and iconic t

Over six volumes this edited collection of pamphlets, government publications, printed ephemera and manuscript sources looks at the development of the first mod

During the second half of the nineteenth century the enormous increase in agricultural production, unmatched by technical advance in harvesting, drew vast numbe

Britain was the first country in the world to become an essentially urban county. And England is still one of the most urbanized countries in the world. The tow