A collection that celebrates the research of Margaret Spufford, a "game-changing" historian who shifted the focus away from the political and social elite in urban communities to the "other 98%" in local and rural areas.

Trevor Dean, Glyn Parry, Edward Vallance

Introduction - Trevor Dean and Glyn Parry and Edward Vallance
Margaret - Peter Spufford
Religious Divisions in the Localities: Catholics, Puritans and the Established Church before the Civil Wars - William Sheils
'Neither Godly professors, nor dumb dogges': Reconstructing Conformist Protestant Beliefs and Practice in Earls Colne, Essex, c.1570-1620 - Henry French
The Sad Fortunes of the Reverend John Perkins: Scenes of Clerical Life in Late Seventeenth-Century England - Steve Hindle
The Heralds and the Hearth Tax - Adrian Ailes
The Hearth Tax and the Poor in Post-Restoration Woking - Catherine Ferguson
Reassessing the English 'Financial Revolution': Credit Transferability in Probate Records of Sedbergh and Maidstone, 1610-1790 - Patricia Wyllie
'Flowered silk is little worn but gold and silver striped is much worn': Metropolitan Clothing Consumption in Late Seventeenth-Century Sussex - Danae Tankard
A Cuckold in Space: The 'Ballading' of Stephen Seagar, 1669 - Christopher W. Marsh
Marginal People in a Stressful Culture: Itinerants, Gypsies and 'Counterfeit Egyptians' in Margaret Spufford's England - David Cressy
Bibliography of Margaret Spufford's works
Index