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associated with arguments for wider historical meanings and criteria affecting the quality of life; for the historical and geographical diversity of regional cultures in
Britain and Ireland, notably focusing upon religion and regional fiction; for the enduring administrative and cultural features of localism and the parish well into British industrialization; and concerning the changing nature of ‘community’, migration, belonging, personal isolation and lone-living over the past three centuries. It is characterised methodologically by high levels of quantification coupled with extensive cultural, literary and qualitative evidence.
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His work stresses the relevance of history for present concerns: the quality of life, the family economy, unemployment, regional cultures, 'community' and localism, 'belonging', and modern loneliness. Thus he uses archival and other historical sources for new and different ends. He is especially
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system and the history of welfare, migration and settlement law, rural history, the history of the community, the history of the family in
Britain, the regional novel in Britain and Ireland, the Irish famine, Victorian English and Welsh religion, churchyards and cemeteries, motifs and styles of
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Cultural History. He was Director of the Centre for English Local History, University of Leicester, 2009–2018, when he took early retirement. He has since worked in Health Sciences in the University of Leicester on the phenomenon of loneliness. He has supervised 92 PhD students.
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400:`Deferential bitterness: the social outlook of the rural proletariat in eighteenth and nineteenth century England and Wales', in Michael Bush (ed.),
246:‘Churchyard memorials, ‘dispensing with God gradually’: rustication, decline of the Gothic and the emergence of Art Deco in the British Isles’,
57:(PhD), supervised by Professor Sir Tony Wrigley at The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, was awarded in 1979.
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Lecturer in Regional Popular Cultures in the university's postgraduate Department of English Local History; he was subsequently promoted to
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Whistler at the Plough: Containing Travels, Statistics and Descriptions of Scenery and Agricultural Customs in Most Parts of England
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25:, is an Anglo-Welsh academic historian who holds a personal chair as Professor of Rural and Cultural History at the
379:`From the Compton Census of 1676 to the 1851 Census of Religious Worship: religious continuity or discontinuity?',
351:`The Sunday-school movement in England and Wales: child labour, denominational control and working-class culture',
393:`Japanese women and oral history: European comparison and Japanese development', in G. Daniels and H. Todd (eds),
463:`Agricultural seasonal unemployment, the standard of living and women's work in the south and east, 1690 1860',
288:‘Churchyard closures, rural cemeteries and the village community in Leicestershire and Rutland, 1800-2010’,
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295:‘Belonging and community: understandings of `home' and `friends' among the English poor, 1750-1850’,
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Snell's research is on the social and economic history of modern
Britain (1650–2020), including the
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194:(Cambridge University Press, 1985). Winner of the Royal Historical Society's Whitfield Prize;
386:`The apprenticeship system in British history: the fragmentation of a cultural institution',
323:‘A drop of water from a stagnant pool? Inter-war detective fiction and the rural community’,
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Cambridge University Press journal
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456:`Proto industrialisation? Cottage industry, social change and the Industrial Revolution',
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Church and Chapel in the North
Midlands: Religious Observance in the Nineteenth Century
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Parish and
Belonging: Community, Identity and Welfare in England and Wales, 1700–1950
365:`The regional novel: themes for interdisciplinary research', in K.D.M. Snell (ed.),
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Grosser Hunger: Briefe und Reportagen aus Irland Während der Hungersnot 1847
316:‘‘Go with the stream’: H.E. Bates and social change in Northamptonshire and Kent’,
407:`Settlement, poor law and the rural historian: new approaches and opportunities',
358:`Famine letters and eye-witness accounts', in G.R. Barterian and D. Evans (eds),
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memorialization, the history of loneliness, and industrialization and folk art.
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239:‘Angels in English and Welsh churchyard and cemetery memorials, 1660–2020’,
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Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
218:‘Parishes, pandemics and paths to take: post-Covid-19 historical options’,
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Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England, 1660–1900
435:`Rural history and folklore studies: towards new forms of association',
344:`English rural societies and geographical marital endogamy, 1700-1837’,
274:‘In or out of their place: the migrant poor in English art, 1740-1900’,
414:`Pauper settlement and the right to poor relief in England and Wales',
309:‘Parish pond to Lake Nyasa: parish magazines and senses of community’,
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The Bibliography of Regional Fiction in Britain and Ireland, 1800–2000
330:`Gravestones, belonging and local attachment in England, 1700-2000',
232:‘A realist evaluation of loneliness interventions for older people’,
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Spirits of Community: English Senses of Belonging and Loss, 1750–2000
260:‘Modern loneliness in historical perspective’, in Ami Rokach (ed.),
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208:'The history of loneliness: what we know so far', (with Fred Cooper
267:‘Agendas for the historical study of loneliness and lone living’,
442:`Lone-parent families and the Welfare State: past and present',
171:(Irish Academic Press, Dublin, 1994). Translated into German as
428:`English historical continuity and the culture of capitalism',
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449:`Parish registration and the study of labour mobility',
253:‘The rise of living alone and loneliness in history’,
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Social Orders and Social Classes in Europe since 1500
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Rival Jerusalems: the Geography of Victorian Religion
372:`Japanese oral history and women's historiography',
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The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800-1990
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The Regional Novel in Britain and Ireland, 1800–1990
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International Journal of Regional and Local Studies
511:`Talking to Friends: Keith Snell', interview in
318:Yearbook of the Alliance of Literary Societies
225:‘Ronald Blythe: ‘Just a voice for his time’’,
169:Letters from Ireland During the Famine of 1847
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45:(BA) first-class degree. He remained at the
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181:(Leicester University Press, 1991)
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290:Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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281:‘Re-politicising local history’,
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175:(Unvast-Verlag, Munster, 1996).
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311:Family and Community History
304:100 Places that made Britain
262:The Correlates of Loneliness
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465:Economic History Review
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