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Book reviews Robin A. Butlin The Drainage of Wilbraham Fulbourn and Teversham Fens T. D. Hawkins (2000), Greyfriars, Little Wilbraham Cambridge, 2nd edition. An Atlas of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire History Edited by Tony Kirby and Susan Oosthuizen (2000), Centre for Regional Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University. Regional and local history grows apace, notwithstand- modern drainage plans. The story is well told, and ing the increasing complexities of finding outlets and follows the familiar Fenland pattern of constant battles commercial support for publication and in some cases against the natural hazard of flooding and against of the logistics of assembling multi-authored works. human neglect of keeping watercourses clear, notwith- Much credit in this respect is due to individuals and standing the technical progress in land drainage from groups who see the need for such work and find the the seventeenth century onwards. The story is, how- energies and means to produce valuable contributions ever, a selective one: the focus is almost exclusively on to regional and local history. The two works here the history of drainage, and other key aspects of local reviewed are good examples of scholarly insights linked history, including the history of population, social to determined entrepreneurial initiatives. groupings, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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Taylor & Francis
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© 2001 Maney
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2040-8153
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10.1179/lan.2001.2.1.88
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Robin A. Butlin The Drainage of Wilbraham Fulbourn and Teversham Fens T. D. Hawkins (2000), Greyfriars, Little Wilbraham Cambridge, 2nd edition. An Atlas of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire History Edited by Tony Kirby and Susan Oosthuizen (2000), Centre for Regional Studies, Anglia Polytechnic University. Regional and local history grows apace, notwithstand- modern drainage plans. The story is well told, and ing the increasing complexities of finding outlets and follows the familiar Fenland pattern of constant battles commercial support for publication and in some cases against the natural hazard of flooding and against of the logistics of assembling multi-authored works. human neglect of keeping watercourses clear, notwith- Much credit in this respect is due to individuals and standing the technical progress in land drainage from groups who see the need for such work and find the the seventeenth century onwards. The story is, how- energies and means to produce valuable contributions ever, a selective one: the focus is almost exclusively on to regional and local history. The two works here the history of drainage, and other key aspects of local reviewed are good examples of scholarly insights linked history, including the history of population, social to determined entrepreneurial initiatives. groupings, and

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