Interview with recent PhD graduate, Dr Louise Fairbrother
What was the subject of your research?
My research looked in detail at how the town governments of Southampton and various other English towns organised their industry and trade in the sixteenth century. It focussed specifically on the way in which they controlled the groups involved. In Southampton’s case, this was by the use of devices such as licences, oaths and ordinances on the three groups of the burgesses, the freemen and the strangers.
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