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Derbyshire Pubs - A Pint Sized History and Miscellany

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Derbyshire Pubs - A Pint Sized History and MiscellanyAlso available in E Book. This book tells the story of Derbyshires pubs, in a lively and informative manner. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating aspect of Derbyshires heritage. Pubs have played a vital role in the history of our nation and have featured in some major events. The plotters of the Glorious Revolution met at a Derbyshire inn and the Pentrich Revolution was planned at the White Horse. Public

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This book tells the story of Derbyshire’s pubs, in a lively and informative manner. It will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn more about this fascinating aspect of Derbyshire’s heritage.

Pubs have played a vital role in the history of our nation and have featured in some major events. The plotters of the Glorious Revolution met at a Derbyshire inn and the Pentrich Revolution was planned at the White Horse.

Public houses were used for auctions, inquests, elections and business meetings. Commercial ventures were planned in the local pub and if a business failed it was in a public house that meetings of creditors were held. Pub entertainment has ranged from cock fighting to quizzes; and sport too has always played a part in pub life.

Over the years many pubs have hosted football teams. In recent years music clubs have also found a home there. Pub names also have their stories to tell and many Derbyshire pubs take their name from local personalities.

The county’s industrial heritage is also commemorated in names such as the Silk Mill and the Miners Standard

About the Author

Michael Smith was born and educated in Derby. After commercial experience with a national group of electrical wholesalers he trained to be a teacher at Bishop Lonsdale College. He retired as Vice-Principal of Castle Donington Community College in 2005.

His academic qualifications include a BA (Hons) from the Open University, a Master's degree from Nottingham University and a specialist qualification in local history from the University of Keele.

A successful author, with several previous books on the East Midlands to his credit, he also worked as a lecturer in local history for the WEA and Nottingham University.

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jdee28
Alexandria, US
★★★★★ 5
Excellent treatment of a narrow subject: how society shaped the church
Format: Paperback
This book is not a comprehensive overview of the church from 700-1500, nor is it a narrative treatment or an introduction. This book is highly selective, focusing on one central theme. Its strengths are in its organization and in the examples it gives to illustrate its theme. These examples are concrete, vivid and use quotations from original documents to excellent effect. The theme of the book is how society shaped the church. Southern examines the main institutions of the church -- the papacy, bishops, religious orders and fringe orders -- and shows how the needs and interests of society molded each. Perhaps having written on 1000-1200 in other books, for me, the strongest insights Southern makes here are on the periods 750-1000 and 1200-1500. Insights that particularly struck me: the importance of magic from 750-1000; the evolution of bishops, from supporting local rulers to supporting the pope; the importance of the Augustinian canons in the twelfth century, seeing them as one end of a pole, with the Cistercians on the other end and the Benedictines in the middle; the role of Franciscans and Dominicans in supporting scholars in the thirteenth century; and the fringe orders -- the book has one of the best treatments of the Brethren of the Common Life from the fourteenth century that I have come across. The book is highly selective. There is no treatment in this book on intellectual life (the "new learning") or artistic life, nor is there much on the heresies of the period or popular religion (the "new piety"). What the book does select to treat, it does so in a deep, highly readable, substantial way. One will definitely come away with how the demands of society molded the church. Highly recommended!!
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Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2021
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Ludwig
Phoenix, US
★★★★★ 4
Wonderful book, but not a general reference on the subject & period
Format: Paperback
Southern's powerful study of the organizational and administrative structures of the medieval church is a wonderful antidote for the popular view of the Middle Ages as a long period of almost continual chaos between the Fall of the Roman Empire and the Renaissance (i.e. the "Dark Ages"). Southern does a fantastically good job of explaining and illustrating the central truth of the Church in the Middle Ages, i.e. that the Church was identical with society to an extent that had never been true before and has never been true since. That said, Southern's disciplined approach is often too much of a good thing and there are a number of topics which one would expect to take pride of place in a typical narrative history of the subject and period that Southern touches on only obliquely and insofar as they are relevant to his primary topic: those neglected stories include the long papal/imperial struggle (Guelps & Ghibellines), the Crusades, the Black Death, etc.. Southern also has a puzzling and sometimes maddening tendency to couch the discussion in terms of implications, roles and epithets instead of being explicit and just naming names. E.g. in the context of the discussion of the fall of Constantinople, Mehmed II is mentioned äs "the conqueror", but not by name; that a pope visited Constantinople in 710 for the first time and last time in premodern history is noted, but the pope is not named (it was Constantine); some of consequences of the "Donation of Constantine" are implied fairly early in the book, but it is not explitly named (and then, to add to the reader's irritation, discussed later as if the topic had already been explitly introduced). These are all characteristic slips of an expert used to addressing other experts in his field attempting in this instance to write a more or less introductory text. They are understandable slips, but they take their toll. The book is generally excellent & well worth reading and it is hard to imagine a better introduction to the topics it does cover, but unfortunately, and unlike Chadwick's initial volume in this series, it does not serve well as a general reference on the history of the Medieval Church.
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Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2010
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W. Taylor
Fort Morgan, US
★★★★★ 5
Concise
Format: Paperback
I recently discovered how little I know about my own faith. This book is the second in a series of Penguin books on the history of the church. The author does an excellent job of providing an overview of the social setting of the middle ages and how the papacy, the East-West schism and the religious orders developed during this time period. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to understand more about how we got to where we are.
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Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2010
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Amazon Customer
Cuba, US
★★★★★ 3
Three Stars
Format: Paperback
a little hard to follow
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Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2015
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The Glide
Lake Worth, US
★★★★★ 5
Sad to say Christians killed "infidels" too
Format: Paperback
A real eye-opener! Christians were killing "infidels" in the middle ages and the infidels were other Christians, Jews and Muslims.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2016

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