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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Mance Beresford who was already undertaking fieldwork on sites in Warwickshire. The meeting was also attended by Axel Steensberg a Danish archaeologist whose innovative excavation practices would later be adopted at Wharram Percy Grahame Clark whose Archaeology and Society had appeared in 1939 and two young and rising stars of social and economic history Rodney Hilton who had just published on Leicestershire estates in the later Middle Ages and Edward Miller who was preparing his work on the estates of the abbey and bishopric of Ely. With such a cast assembled it is perhaps no surprise that the outcome of this seminar and field visit would prove to be so influential. Although as Hoskins would later recollect of the event itself ‘Postan’s brilliant driving at times might have ended the subject for ever by extinguishing all the scholars interested in the subject. (LL)