‘Provisions for the people: the food supply of Loughborough, 1851-1897’ by Dave Fogg Postles

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 several 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