... in the industrial towns of the north of England.Moreover, we remain largely ignorant of the ways in which society inthese places operated more generally: about, for example, the rise of the ... Estabrook’s reminder of the influence of ‘topographical setting’, localism, and the cultural affinity of individuals with their place of provenance.²⁸ The importance of place and of civic pride are ... centuries witnessed profound changes in the nature of the familyand in the ways in which familial hierarchies operated.¹⁴ The evidencefrom this study suggests that the bulk of the lower middling...