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Robert Dunning.
Local History for Beginners, revised edition. 
Published Chichester: Phillimore, 1980 (previous edition published by Muller, 1973).
ISBN 0850333776.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Garden City Press, Letchworth.
Size: 141x221x15mm.
Page count: text xiv,114pp; plates 16pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: this copy has some mild wear to the dustjacket, a little staining at its lower edge and some foxing on its unprinted side, price-clipped on its front flyleaf; text pages yellowed with age, some foxing to the edges and a few spots internally; previous owner’s name on the front endpaper, but the main text appears to be free of marking.

This item £3.00
plus P&P £2.00 within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

Weight without packaging: 296g.

How to order this book

No particular medieval emphasis. Contents:
Part 1: Maps; Maps on the ground; People of the parish; Houses, farms & factories; Parish church; Transport; Towns & villages in the 19th c.; Recording memories;
Part 2: The parish of Wilton, Somerset [case study].

Notes: no
Tables: no
Illustrations: 16 pages of monochrome plates
Maps & plans: 7
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 2pp
Index: yes

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See also | Local history | Historiography |
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