This Table of Contents is intended as a comprehensive listing of the individual elements that currently make up this website. Most of the elements are individual downloadable documents in PDF format.
The Table divides the contents into five areas: Gateway; Approaches; Epochs; Themes; and Appendices.
Many documents are available under more than one area. For example, the document “The Victorian Parish Church, 1840-1950” is available under the Theme Religious Life and the Epoch Victorian and Edwardian Transformations, 1830-1914.
GATEWAY TO HOOKY HISTORY
Village History Website: introduction
Table of Contents
Recommended Reading
APPROACHES
Overviews
Hook Norton’s Place in History
The Bad Reputation of Hooky Folk
Population, Now and Then
Interested in Your Family History?
Understanding Local Place Names
Exploring the Village
Introduction to Exploring the Village
Hook Norton Village Trail
Visible Remains of the Railway
Much in Little – A Pictorial Tour of Down End
Film and Sound Recordings
Introduction to Film and Sound Recordings
Hook Norton on the Radio
Hook Norton on Film and Television
Entertaining Creations of the 1990s:
A Passion for the Countryside
Bare Bones
Folk in the Field
The Hooky Insurrection of 1991
EPOCHS
Before Written Records
Introduction to Before Written Records
Geological Foundations
Hooky’s Dinosaur
Ancient Britons and Romans
New Light on Roman Hook Norton
Invaders of the Dark Ages
Where was the original Hook Norton ?
The Middle Ages, 1066-1540
Introduction to the Middle Ages
Medieval Life
Hook Norton in the Domesday Book
Building the Parish Church
Community Farming
The Manors of Hook Norton -What is a Manor?
The Secular Lords of the Manor:
The D’Oilly Dynasty, 1066-1253
Decline of the Barony, 1253-1414
The Wars of the Roses, 1414-1553
The Ecclesiastical Manor:
Oseney Abbey
Fall of Oseney Abbey
Reformation, Revolution and Reaction, 1540-1830
Introduction to Reformation, Revolution and Reaction
Secular Concerns
Avoiding a Squire – The Crokers and their Foes, 1530-1670
The Great Civil War, 1642-1646
Passages in Village Life, 1640-1820
Enclosure: Winners and Losers
Duke of Buccleuch and Enclosure in Hook Norton
Religion
The Reformed Parish Church, 1538-1689
Baptists in Hook Norton
The Quakers
The Superior Parish Church, 1690-1840
Wesleyan Methodists
Victorian and Edwardian Transformations, 1830-1914
Introduction to Victorian and Edwardian Transformations
Economic Developments
Agricultural Crisis and Industrial Salvation, 1850-1901
The Railway at Hook Norton
Ironstone Industry, 1887-1948
Hook Norton Brewery
Transformation of Village Life, 1870-1920
Religion
The Victorian Parish Church, 1840-1950
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
Strict Baptists
Welfare
Mental Health and Mad Houses, 1720-1854
Education – Early Years
Health and Disease
Looking After The Poor
Emigration Stories
Emigration from Hook Norton
William and Ann Richards, 1831
Dinah French, 1837 and 1848
Luke Phipps, 1850
Edward Salter & NZ 1858
The Gibbins Family, 1911
William Bloxham, 1912
William Theodore Darby Littleboy, 1919
Richard and Anna Goffe, 1929
Total War and Anxious Peace, 1914-1975
Introduction to Total War and Anxious Peace, 1914-1975
The Great Wars
In Memoriam, 1914-1918
[Hook Norton’s Second World War]
Memories
Scenes of Village Life: 1920-1970
The Nostalgic Verse of George Dumbleton
Dougie Marshall and Memories of Mid-Century
Joan Lawrence’s Pictures of Hook Norton
Education & Health
The Growth of our Health Services
Education Since 1900
Adult Education
Religious Life
St Peter’s Within Living Memory, 1930-2015
Wesleyan Methodists
Roman Catholics
THEMES
Religious Life
Introduction to Religious Life
THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH
The Story of St Peter’s Church
Building the Parish Church 1000-1450
The Reformed Parish Church, 1538-1689
The Superior Parish Church, 1690-1840
The Victorian Parish Church, 1840-1950
St Peter’s Within Living Memory, 1930-2015
Features of St Peter’s Church
Vicars and Rectors, 1224-2015
St Peter’s Wall Paintings
Modern Developments
OTHER FAITHS
Baptists in Hook Norton
Quakers
Wesleyan Methodists
Primitive Methodists
Strict Baptists
Roman Catholics
Buddhists
Economic Life
Community Farming
Enclosure: Winners and Losers
Agricultural Crisis and Industrial Salvation 1850-1901
Hook Norton Brewery
The Railway at Hook Norton
Ironstone Industry
Health, Education and Welfare
Introduction to Health, Education and Welfare
Health
Mental Health and Mad Houses, 1720-1854
Health and Disease
Growth of our Health Services
Education
Education – the Early Years
Education since 1900
Adult Education
Welfare
Looking After the Poor
Emigration from Hook Norton
APPENDICES
- Rob Woolley: Hooky (1978 pamphlet)
- Margaret Dickins: June 29th 1774 – A Day in the Life of Hook Norton (1925)
- Percy Hackling: Hook Norton Footpaths – Four Walks around the Village (about 1985)
- Dinah French: The Beginnings of Methodism in Hook Norton (1853)
- Gill White: Female Agricultural Employees in Hook Norton after 1945 (1994)
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