‘Provisions for the people: the food supply of Loughborough, 1851-1897’ by Dave Fogg Postles.
This is part of Dave’s new book on the food supply of Loughborough and is available as a FREE download.
This is a temporary location until the full book is published. The parts will be available here as they are completed. The print run will only be 50 copies.
Dave Fogg Postles is a former academic, now retired. In 1967, he was awarded an Open Exhibition at the University of Oxford, from which he graduated in 1970. During his career as an archivist (1970-1988), he wrote a PhD thesis on a medieval subject. In 1988, he was appointed Marc Fitch Research Fellow at the University of Leicester, from which he took early retirement in 2005, although he held a University Research Fellowship in the School of English there from 2005-2010. He is currently Hon. Snr Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire.
Dave is a member of the Friends of the Centre for English Local History, Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society and probably other local history groups. He has published several books and articles including:
- Microcynicon: Aspects of Early-modern England
- A Town in its Parish: Loughborough, Origins to 1640 with Errata
- Literary and Imaginary Geographies: Aspects of E. M. Forster’s Novels
- Some Medieval Taxation Returns with Errata, front cover and back cover
- Talking ballocs
- The Earliest Leicestershire Wills epub version pdf version
- Spinsters and Sisters: The Transformation of a Female Sphere in Leicestershire, 1851-1903 with front cover and back cover
- Characteristics of the Clergy: the Anglican Experience in the Late-Victorian Transition in Leicestershire with cover
- Becoming a Borough: Loughborough, 1851-1897 epub .pdf
