A01=Judith Curthoys
Author_Judith Curthoys
Category=NHT
Christ Church
college endowment
college estates
college history
college lands
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Oxford
Oxford University
Product details
- ISBN 9781788162500
- Weight: 760g
- Dimensions: 180 x 248mm
- Publication Date: 03 Oct 2020
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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When Christ Church was founded in 1546, Henry VIII made the college a generous grant of land and other property. This endowment was large enough to ensure the smooth running of the college and cathedral including maintaining its buildings, educating its students and paying its staff. From earliest days up to the present, the endowment and later gifts - in all parts of the country, from Montgomeryshire to Norfolk and Cornwall to Yorkshire - have been managed with varying success, sometimes expertly, at other times less so. The shelves of the college archives are full of maps and plans, account books, manorial records, deeds, photographs and detailed correspondence with tenants and vicars. Drawing on this rich material, Cows and Curates recounts the history of the management of farms, urban dwellings, commercial property and industrial estates against the backdrop of national social change, legislation, agricultural developments and depressions, wars and modernisation.
Judith Curthoys MSt, PGCertArchHist, DAA, FRHistS has been archivist at Christ Church, Oxford, since 1994. She has contributed articles to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004), was for ten years reviews editor of the Oxford archaeological and architectural journal, Oxoniensa, and is the author of The Cardinal's College (2012), The Stones of Christ Church (2017) and The King's Cathedral (2019), all published by Profile.
