Cows and Curates

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27106161957
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Books
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35.00
book_author_name: 
Judith Curthoys
book_type: 
Hardback
publisher: 
Profile Books Ltd
published_date: 
03/10/2020
isbn: 
9781788162500
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Books > History > Historical events & topics
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Judith Curthoys|Hardback|Profile Books Ltd|03/10/2020
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9781788162500
Book Description: 
When Christ Church was founded in 1546, Henry VIII made the college a generous grant of land and other property. This endowment was large enough to ensure the smooth running of the college and cathedral including maintaining its buildings, educating its students and paying its staff. From earliest days up to the present, the endowment and later gifts - in all parts of the country, from Montgomeryshire to Norfolk and Cornwall to Yorkshire - have been managed with varying success, sometimes expertly, at other times less so. The shelves of the college archives are full of maps and plans, account books, manorial records, deeds, photographs and detailed correspondence with tenants and vicars. Drawing on this rich material, Cows and Curates recounts the history of the management of farms, urban dwellings, commercial property and industrial estates against the backdrop of national social change, legislation, agricultural developments and depressions, wars and modernisation.

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