Browsing by Author "Beardmore, Carol A."

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    Doctoring the Country House: Edward Wrench and Chatsworth
    (Taylor and Francis, 2019-11-04) Beardmore, Carol A.
    This article explores the role of Edward Wrench in doctoring Chatsworth House. He purchased the practice in Baslow in 1862 and from the beginning sought to become the doctor of choice for the Devonshire family when in residence and the numerous staff that they employed. Edward Wrench’s diaries which exists in an unbroken run until his death in 1912 create a prism through which to explore the country house and its consumption history from a different angle. It will examine the importance of men like the Duke of Devonshire in establishing a practice both in the medical marketplace and within society. While the local GP might call in a consultant when conditions appeared to be anything other than minor this did not mean that they did not play an important role in the health of an aristocratic family and their staff. Overall it gives a sense of the conditions suffered and treated locally. More importantly for a young GP setting up in practice and gaining the trust of a wealthy patient could mean the difference between success and failure. While historians have explored the evolution of General Practice, the historiography remains short of detailed case studies and this article will start to fill this gap.
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    Family Life in Britain, 1650–1910
    (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) Beardmore, Carol A.; Dobbing, Cara; King, Steven
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    The land agent in Britain : past, present and future
    (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016) Beardmore, Carol A.; King, Steven; Monks, Geoff
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    Landowner, Tenant and Agent on the Marquis of Anglesey's Dorset and Somerset Estate, 1814–44
    (Cambridge University Press, 2015-09-02) Beardmore, Carol A.
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    The Marquis of Anglesey: Working and Social Relationships on a Dorset Estate, c. 1812-1844
    (Cambridge University Press, 2020-01-31) Beardmore, Carol A.
    The Marquis of Anglesey on his Dorset estate was an absentee landlord who maintained close relationships with his estate through extensive correspondence with his land agent William Castleman. The surviving letters are a very rich source by which to examine the minutiae of rural life and a way to reconstruct social and working relationships within the nineteenth-century English landed estate. By focusing on a range of customary and unwritten rights, this article will consider issues such as how tenants navigated re-negotiation of their leases, sought rent abatements or compensation for damage to their crops from hunting. Working and social relationships on such an estate were closely interlinked, as is widely shown here. The article also raises more contentious estate issues such as who had the rights to fallen and standing timber, the customs affecting courts, the repair of churches, and the responsibilities for building and maintaining schools. Together the range of documented work and social interactions provide a fuller picture of the functioning of a southern English great estate in the early nineteenth century, and allow us to examine this rural community beyond the remit of its agricultural history.