The South East from 1000 AD - 9781138407961

Taylor & Francis

In discussing the regional and local history of South East England, the authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found within the region as well as common characteristics which illustrate local peculiarities. Emphasis is on life as experienced by the great majority of the population. > A volume dealing with the regional and local history of South East England, this covers the landcape and society of the modern counties of Surrey, Kent, East and West Sussex and Greater London, south of the Thames from late Anglo-Saxon times to the present. The authors have tried to show the diversity that can be found within the region as well as common characteristics which illustrate the local peculiarities of the area. The works in the series offer a synthesis of both historical and archaeological work in local areas. Each region is covered in two linked but independent volumes, the first covering the period up to AD 1000 and necessarily relying on archaeological data, and the secondm