‘Provisions for the people: the food supply of Loughborough, 1851-1897’ by Dave Fogg Postles
This is part of Dave’s new book on the food supply of Loughborough and is available as a FREE download from:
https://davelinux.info/BOOKS/provisioning1.pdf
This is a temporary location until the full book is published. The parts will be available here as they are completed. The print run will only be 50 copies.
Dave Fogg Postles is a former academic, now retired. In 1967, he was awarded an Open Exhibition at the University of Oxford, from which he graduated in 1970. During his career as an archivist (1970-1988), he wrote a PhD thesis on a medieval subject. In 1988, he was appointed Marc Fitch Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, from which he took early retirement in 2005, although he held a University Research Fellowship in the School of English there from 2005-2010. He is currently Hon. Snr Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire.
Dave is a member of the Friends of the Centre for English Local History, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society and probably several other local history groups. He has published several books and articles including:
Dave Fogg Postles Publications
| Title | Date | |
|---|---|---|
| Provisions for the people: the food supply of Loughborough, 1851-1897. | 2024 | View here |
| Northfields Council Estate remembered. | 2024 | View here |
| The persistence of patronage and the composition of the Anglican Clergy in the Archdeaconry of Leicester, c.1850-1903. | 2024 | View here |
| The earliest Leicestershire wills. | 2024 | View here |
| Spinsters and Sisters: The Transformation of a Female Sphere in Leicestershire, 1851-1903. | 2024 | View here |
| Characteristics of the Clergy: the Anglican Experience in the Late-Victorian Transition in Leicestershire. | 2024 | View here |
| A Wife’s Dilemma: Debt and The Married Women’s Property Act. | 2024 | View here |
| Trading Beyond his Capital. | 2022 | View here |
| A Town in its Parish: Loughborough, Origins to 1640. | 2015 | View here |
| Microcynicon: Aspects of Early-modern England. | 2014 | View here |
| Social Dramas: Literature and Language in Early-Modern England. | 2010 | More information here |
| Social Geographies in England 1200-1640 | 2007 | More information here |
| The North Through its Names: A Phenomenology of Medieval and Early-Modern Northern England | 2007 | More information here |
| Social Proprieties: Social Relations in Early-Modern England (1500-1680) | 2006 | More information here |
| Talking ballocs: nicknames and English medieval sociolinguistics. | 2003 | View here |
| Lay Piety in Transition: Local Society and New Religious Houses in England, 1100-1280 | 1998 | More information here |
| The Surnames of Devon | 1995 | More information here |
| Literary and Imaginary Geographies: Aspects of E. M. Forster’s Novels. | View here | |
| Some Medieval Taxation Returns. | View here | |
