This paper explores the marriage of the Earl and Countess of Downe in the 17th century, and the struggles faced by the Countess when the family were sequestered during the English Civil War
In an era when most women were at the mercy of their husbands and the courts who ruled in their favo...
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's History Review...
The ‘nuclear hardship hypothesis’, argued by Peter Laslett in 1988, holds that that the prevalence o...
During the Civil Wars and Interregnum Parliament sought to fund their war effort by confiscating Roy...
This thesis explores aristocratic female inheritance and property holding in the thirteenth century,...
During the Civil Wars and Interregnum Parliament sought to fund its war effort by confiscating Royal...
The bills introduced in 1660–2 by Charles Stanley, 8th earl of Derby, to reclaim property legally co...
This project investigates the ideals and experience of elite marriage in early modern Britain throug...
This second part of a two-part study of the 14th-century Fleming earls of Wigtown explores the conse...
This paper investigates the legal battles of Joan Armburgh and her family, specifically a question o...
Tudor England experienced crisis levels of poverty and unemployment which manifested in the form of ...
The legal economic position of women within marriage caused the indignation of the first English fem...
The papers in this special issue make an important contribution to a growing body of work, exploring...
This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It ...
This dissertation focuses on the lives of Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, the dowager countess of Der...
In an era when most women were at the mercy of their husbands and the courts who ruled in their favo...
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's History Review...
The ‘nuclear hardship hypothesis’, argued by Peter Laslett in 1988, holds that that the prevalence o...
During the Civil Wars and Interregnum Parliament sought to fund their war effort by confiscating Roy...
This thesis explores aristocratic female inheritance and property holding in the thirteenth century,...
During the Civil Wars and Interregnum Parliament sought to fund its war effort by confiscating Royal...
The bills introduced in 1660–2 by Charles Stanley, 8th earl of Derby, to reclaim property legally co...
This project investigates the ideals and experience of elite marriage in early modern Britain throug...
This second part of a two-part study of the 14th-century Fleming earls of Wigtown explores the conse...
This paper investigates the legal battles of Joan Armburgh and her family, specifically a question o...
Tudor England experienced crisis levels of poverty and unemployment which manifested in the form of ...
The legal economic position of women within marriage caused the indignation of the first English fem...
The papers in this special issue make an important contribution to a growing body of work, exploring...
This article addresses the boundaries of female power within early modern aristocratic families. It ...
This dissertation focuses on the lives of Alice Spencer Stanley Egerton, the dowager countess of Der...
In an era when most women were at the mercy of their husbands and the courts who ruled in their favo...
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's History Review...
The ‘nuclear hardship hypothesis’, argued by Peter Laslett in 1988, holds that that the prevalence o...