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Journal articles on the topic "Somerset (england), history"

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Cleve, George Van. "Somerset's Caseand Its Antecedents in Imperial Perspective." Law and History Review 24, no. 3 (2006): 601–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s073824800000081x.

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James Somerset was taken from Africa as a slave to the Americas in 1749. He was sold in Virginia to Charles Steuart, a Scottish merchant and slave trader in Norfolk who served after 1765 as a high-ranking British customs official. In 1769, Steuart took Somerset with him to England. After two years in England, Somerset escaped from Steuart, but was recaptured. Steuart decided to sell Somerset back into slavery in Jamaica, and, in late November 1771, Somerset was bound in chains on a ship on the Thames, theAnn and Mary, awaiting shipment.
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Harris, Cheryl I. "“Too Pure an Air:” Somerset’s Legacy From Anti-slavery to Colorblindness." Texas Wesleyan Law Review 13, no. 2 (March 2007): 439–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.37419/twlr.v13.i2.6.

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Canonical cases like Somerset v. Stewart resonate beyond their particular historical context because they change or crystallize critical legal and political debates. Analyzing the legacy of such cases is a complex task, fraught not only with the difficulties attendant to knowing history, but also with the conundrum of reading the past through the present. Somerset's Case has left particularly complicated legacies, partly because of its influence on both sides of the Atlantic. Of course, English law has always shaped American legal doctrine. But because the question at the heart of the case entailed the status of a slave-James Somerset-whose master had brought him to England from the Americas, the transatlantic character and significance of the decision was embedded within the facts of the case itself. Adjudicating the controversy in Somerset required negotiating slavery as a transnational enterprise immersed in multiple bodies of law. Part of the challenge in assessing Somerset then is, that from its inception, it was a case that had multiple audiences and legal trajectories-speaking both directly and implicitly to the issue of slavery and freedom, in England and in the colonies. Given this complex history, it is fair to say that there never was a singular legacy of the case, and certainly not one that can be articulated now. Rather, there are multiple and conflicting trajectories which culminate in the case, becoming one of the most significant in both American and English law.
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Hulsebosch, Daniel J. "Nothing But Liberty: Somerset's Case and the British Empire." Law and History Review 24, no. 3 (2006): 647–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0738248000000821.

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George Van Cleve places Somerset's Case squarely in the middle of Britain's imperial history. It belongs there. After clarifying the “narrow” holding in the case—that Charles Stewart could not forcibly remove James Somerset from England—Van Cleve argues that Chief Justice Mansfield and his Court of King's Bench “creat[ed] a new legal framework for slavery” and “did so quite knowingly at the price of undercutting the legal, economic and moral basis of slavery as an institution throughout the Atlantic Empire.” This argument that Somerset's Case transformed slavery law throughout the British Empire rests on three claims. First, Van Cleve views Somerset's Case as an imperial conflict of laws case because it involved a conflict between the laws of two royal territories, England and Virginia. Second, Van Cleve contends that Mansfield intended the decision and his remarks accompanying it about the positive law foundation of slavery to have abolitionist effects. Finally, these two points are related: Mansfield drew a distinction “between English and colonial law on slavery” in order to undermine slavery across the empire.
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Shaffrey, Ruth. "The Movement of Ideas in Late Iron Age and Early Roman Britain: An Imported Rotary Quern Design in South-Western England." Britannia 50 (May 7, 2019): 393–402. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0068113x19000114.

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ABSTRACTIn 2012, a complete upper stone of a rotary quern with a projecting lug for a vertical handle was found at Hinkley Point in Somerset, south-western England. It is the first late Iron Age to early Roman period quern of this form to be found in England. This note describes its form in detail and discusses its closest parallels in north-eastern Ireland, south-western Scotland, Wales, Isle of Man and Spain. It shows how thin-section analysis demonstrates the quern to have been locally made in Somerset and discusses the movement of ideas about quern design during the late Iron Age to early Roman period.
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Holstun, Jim. "Utopia Pre-Empted: Kett's Rebellion, Commoning, and the Hysterical Sublime." Historical Materialism 16, no. 3 (2008): 3–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156920608x315220.

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AbstractIn 1549, on Mousehold Heath, outside Norwich, the campmen of Kett's Rebellion created the greatest practical utopian project of Tudor England. Using a commoning rhetoric and practice, they tried to restore the moral economy of the county community, ally themselves with the reforming regime of Protector Somerset, and create a Protestant monarchical republic of small producers. In opposition, Tudor gentlemen and their chroniclers used ‘the hysterical sublime’, a rhetoric and practice of pre-emptive decisionist violence, to crush the Norwich commune, overthrow Somerset, and accelerate capitalist primitive accumulation. These two visions of culture and society continued to clash in Tudor England, but the gentlemen had gained the upper hand.
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Chapman, J. "The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Somerset, Vol. VII: South-East Somerset, Robert Dunning." English Historical Review 116, no. 467 (June 1, 2001): 694–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ehr/116.467.694.

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Chapman, John. "The Victoria History of the Counties of England. Somerset, Vol. VII: South-East Somerset, Robert Dunning." English Historical Review 116, no. 467 (June 2001): 694–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/enghis/116.467.694.

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COTTER, WILLIAM R. "The Somerset Case and the Abolition of Slavery in England." History 79, no. 255 (February 1994): 31–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-229x.1994.tb01588.x.

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Luxford, Julian. "Luxury and locality in a late medieval book of hours from south-west England." Antiquaries Journal 93 (June 6, 2013): 225–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003581512001345.

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This paper describes and analyses a previously unrecorded Sarum book of hours of considerable artistic and textual interest. Seven of its pages have bar-frame borders illuminated in a distinctive and remarkable style. Four of these pages also have initials with figure-subjects, some of which are contextually unusual or unique. There is also an initial with a coat of arms displaying a black engrailed cross on a gold field (the arms of Mohun of Dunster in west Somerset). While the manuscript cannot be linked to a member of the Mohun family, the occurrence of a Somerset toponym in an obit dated 1429 in the calendar and the early addition to the litany of St Urith of Chittlehampton show that it was owned by someone who lived in Somerset or Devon in the early fifteenth century. Indeed, the book may also have been made in this region. Several features of its border illumination are paralleled in the Sherborne Missal (London, British Library, Additional ms 74236), produced in north Dorset or Somerset in the decade c 1398–c 1408. The parallels suggest a relationship (not necessarily direct) between the two manuscripts. Certainly, the book of hours discussed here is closer in style to the missal than it is to manuscripts made in or around London in the same period.
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Gretsch, Mechthild. "The Taunton Fragment: a new text from Anglo-Saxon England." Anglo-Saxon England 33 (December 2004): 145–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0263675104000067.

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The Taunton Fragment (now Taunton, Somerset, Somerset County Record Office, DD/SAS C/1193/77) consists of four leaves containing portions of brief expositions or homilies on the pericopes for four successive Sundays after Pentecost. In the Fragment, brief passages in Latin regularly alternate with the Old English translations of these passages. The manuscript to which the four leaves once belonged was written probably at some point around or after the middle of the eleventh century in an unknown (presumably minor) centre in Anglo-Saxon England. Until recently, the existence of the Taunton leaves had escaped the notice of Anglo-Saxonists; the texts which they contain are printed here for the first time. It will be obvious that eight pages, half of which are in Old English prose, add in no negligible way to the corpus of Old English. Through analysis of the texts in the second part of this article, I hope to show that their contribution to our knowledge of various kinds of literary activity in Anglo-Saxon England is significant indeed, and that the linguistic evidence they present has no parallel elsewhere in the corpus of Old English.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Somerset (england), history"

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Davis, Camille Marie. "Why the Fuse Blew: the Reasons for Colonial America’s Transformation From Proto-nationalists to Revolutionary Patriots: 1772-1775." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2015. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc804870/.

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The most well-known events and occurrences that caused the American Revolution are well-documented. No scholar debates the importance of matters such as the colonists’ frustration with taxation without representation, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Coercive Acts. However, very few scholars have paid attention to how the 1772 English court case that freed James Somerset from slavery impacted American Independence. This case occurred during a two-year stall in the conflict between the English government and her colonies that began in 1763. Between 1763 and 1770, there was ongoing conflict between the two parties, but the conflict temporarily subsided in 1770. Two years later, in 1772, the Somerset decision reignited tension and frustration between the mother country and her colonies. This paper does not claim that the Somerset decision was the cause of colonial separation from England. Instead it argues that the Somerset decision played a significant yet rarely discussed role in the colonists’ willingness to begin meeting with one another to discuss their common problem of shared grievance with British governance. It prompted the colonists to begin relating to one another and to the British in a way that they never had previously. This case’s impact on intercolonial relations and relations between the colonies and her mother country are discussed within this work.
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Books on the topic "Somerset (england), history"

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Norris, Dwane V. The Avis family history, Somerset County, England to the U.S.A. Jackson, Mich. (4540 Hendee Rd., Jackson 49201-9414): D.V. Norris, 2000.

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Haydon, R. Thomas Haydon, England to Virginia, 1657. Little Rock, Ark. (12 Fenchly Ct., Little Rock 72212): R. Haydon, 2002.

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Haydon, R. Thomas Haydon, England to Virginia, 1657. Little Rock, Ark. (12 Fenchly Ct., Little Rock 72212): R. Haydon, 1995.

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Scrase, Tony. Somerset towns: Changing fortunes 800-1800. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus, 2005.

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Haydon, R. Thomas Haydon of Somersetshire, England & Virginia, circa 1640-1717. [S.l: R. Haydon, 1991.

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Elton, Margaret Ann. Annals of the Elton family: Bristol merchants & Somerset landowners. Stroud, Glos: A. Sutton, 1994.

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Mowl, Tim. Bristol: Last age of the merchant princes. Bath: Millstream, 1991.

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Society, London Topographical, ed. Somerset House: The palace of England's Queens 1551-1692. London: London Topographical Society, 2009.

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J, Stevenson S., and Musson Chris, eds. Cadbury Castle, Somerset: The early medieval archaeology. Cardiff: University of Wales, 1995.

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Holder, R. W. Taunton Cider and Langdons: West Somerset story of industrial development. Chichester [England]: Phillimore, 2000.

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Book chapters on the topic "Somerset (england), history"

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Stephens, N., S. Campbell, D. G. Croot, A. Gilbert, and R. Cottle. "The Quaternary history of north Devon and west Somerset." In Quaternary of South-West England, 191–247. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4920-4_7.

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Hunt, C. O., S. Campbell, N. Stephens, C. P. Green, and R. A. Shakesby. "The Quaternary history of the Somerset lowland, Mendip Hills and adjacent areas." In Quaternary of South-West England, 285–329. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4920-4_9.

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Pollard, A. J. "Neville against Percy, 1450-1455." In North-Eastern England During The Wars Of The Roses, 245–65. Oxford University PressOxford, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198200871.003.0011.

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Abstract The political history of northern England in the 1450s and early 1460s is dominated by the great feud between the Nevilles of Middle ham and the Percies, which at times threw central Yorkshire into turmoil. The private war between the dominant families was described by one annalist as the beginning of the greatest sorrows in England-the start of the Wars of the Roses. And indeed it is plausible to suggest that what happened in Yorkshire in 1453 and 1454 led directly to the first battle of St Albans, Ludford, and all-out civil war. Not only were the subsequent battles, reaching a climax once more in Yorkshire at Tow ton, a continuation of the feud between Neville and Percy; but also, since the royal dukes of York and Somerset were dragged in as partisans, the struggle between Neville and Percy became inseparable from the struggle between York and Beaufort. The part played by the northern feud in the last years of the house of Lancaster has been clearly established and fully explored; its place in the history of the north-east is central. But, perhaps because the conflict between Neville and Percy has never been considered in its regional context, its genesis has been misunderstood.
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Brain, Timothy. "Fracture: 1980–5." In A History of Policing in England and Wales from 1974: A Turbulent Journey. Oxford University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199218660.003.0003.

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The morning of Wednesday 2 April 1980 in Bristol was warm and sunny, a break after a somewhat cold and wet start to spring. It was the first day of the school holidays, but otherwise had nothing to distinguish it from many other spring days before or since. The officers of ‘C’ Group at the city’s Trinity Road Police Station, which covered the nearby inner-city area of St Paul’s, were finishing their stint of seven days’ duty prior to two days’ leave. One probationary officer performing cell duty that day thought nothing of the charge sergeant’s genial instruction to set up an additional charge sheet. At home, just over three hours later, he listened in disbelief to the 5.00 pm news headlines announcing that three police cars had been burnt in riots in the St Paul’s area of the city. It was the start of a long night of rioting for St Paul’s and the Avon and Somerset force. At a critical point in the early evening the chief constable, Brian Weigh, withdrew his officers from the area, leaving it to the rioters. In the hours that followed a bank and shops were set on fire and looted.
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Conference papers on the topic "Somerset (england), history"

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A. Mann, C. "A Seismic Survey in the Historic City of Bath - Somerset, England." In 62nd EAGE Conference & Exhibition. European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.3997/2214-4609-pdb.28.l10.

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