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Notice of new book – England’s Second Domesday and the Expulsion of the English Peasantry, by Spencer Dimmock, coming in 2023
Spencer Dimmock’s new work will be published soon by Brill, the preface is up on Spencer’s academia.edu page. Preface here – https://www.academia.edu/92694222/Preface_to_Englands_Second_Domesday_and_the_Expulsion_of_the_English_Peasantry_by_Spencer_Dimmock?email_work_card=title
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