Economic History of Rossendale

G. H. Tupling's seminal Economic History of Rossendale (1927) is to be brought back into print. A facsimile of the original, the book will have a new introduction and guide to further reading by Professor Roger Richardson of the University of Winchester (author of many books on early modern England), who like so many historians regards the work as a landmark study. Tupling (1883-1962) lived and worked in the Rossendale valley for most of his life and wrote this path-finding study of that region on the basis of intimate first-hand knowledge. In his highly original, probing and well-written examination of the long-lasting dual economy of agriculture and industry there from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, he was way ahead of his time in using fieldwork as well as written sources. This history classic still has much to teach historians today, more than ninety years after it was first published. Copies of the original have long been very difficult and expensive to obtain, so an a affordable reprint is long overdue and is sure to be warmly welcomed. See more