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“... societies, gradually created social bonds that enabled a different kind of material support. Steve Hindle has spent his career examining the social ties that sustained parish life. The Social Topography of a Rural Community is an impressive work of historical archaeology. Hindle describes the lives of 780 ...”

“... best history is currently being written from the bottom up, and this is, admittedly, a fashion. Steve Hindle is probing ever deeper into the politics of the parish. One thinks of Andy Wood’s The Politics of Social Conflict (1999), its subject the illiterate but well-informed and litigious lead miners of the Peak Country; or of John Walter’s ...”