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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Edward Minchinton, FRHistS was a British historian and academic. He was Professor of Economic History at the University of Exeter from 1964 to 1986. Life Minchinton was the son of Walter Edward Minchinton and his wife Annie Border Minchinton. A graduate of the London School of Economics, the younger Minchinton served as an officer in the Second World War and in 1948 was appointed to an assistant lectureship at University College Swansea; he was promoted to a full lectureship in 1950, and then to be a senior lecturer in 1959. In 1964, the University of Exeter established its Economic History Department, and appointed Minchinton as its head; he served in that capacity until 1984. He was also Professor of Economic History at Exeter from 1964 to 1986, during which time he was also editor of the Exeter Papers in Economic History series. Among a range of other commitments, he was chairman of the Devon History Society from 1967 to 1986, of the Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group from 1967 to 1992, and of the British Agricultural History Society from 1968 to 1971. He was also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and won the RHS's Alexander Prize in 1953 for his article "Bristol – metropolis of the west in the eighteenth century".
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- Sugar and Slaves: The Rise of the Planter Class in the English West Indies, 1624-1713. (1974) (70)
- Bristol—Metropolis of the West in the Eighteenth Century The Alexander Prize Essay (1954) (56)
- The Atlantic Slave Trade and British Abolition, 1760-1810. (1976) (39)
- British Commercial Policy and Trade Expansion 1750-1850. (1973) (30)
- Aleppo and Devonshire Square: English Traders in the Levant in the Eighteenth Century. (1970) (28)
- The British tinplate industry : a history (1957) (27)
- Lead Mining in Wales (1967) (21)
- Local Social Status in England and Wales (1962) (19)
- The Trade of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century. (1957) (19)
- Characteristics of British Slaving Vessels, 1698-1775 (1989) (16)
- Wage regulation in pre-industrial England (1972) (16)
- Early Tide Mills: Some Problems (1979) (13)
- World industrial archaeology: a survey (1983) (11)
- Politics and the port of Bristol in the eighteenth century : the petitions of the Society of Merchant Venturers, 1698-1803 (1967) (10)
- Liverpool and the Mersey. The Development of a Port, 1700-1970. (1972) (9)
- The Growth of English Overseas Trade in the 17th and 18th Centuries. (1970) (8)
- Virginia slave-trade statistics, 1698-1775 (1984) (8)
- Essays in agrarian history (1968) (6)
- Rathbones of Liverpool, 1845-73. (1961) (6)
- The Merchants in England in the Eighteenth Century (1965) (6)
- Williams and Drescher: Abolition and Emancipation (1983) (5)
- John Norton and Sons, Merchants of London and Virginia. (1969) (4)
- Mercantilism : system or expediency? (1969) (4)
- Hobson, Veblen and America (1959) (4)
- THE VOYAGE OF THE SNOW AFRICA (1951) (4)
- John Taylor, Mining Entrepreneur and Engineer, 1779-1863 (1979) (3)
- The Study of Urban History. The Proceedings of an International Round-Table Conference of the Urban History Group at Gilbert Murray Hall, University of Leicester, on 23-26 September 1966 (1971) (3)
- New Evidence on the Virginia Slave Trade@@@Virginia Slave Trade Statistics, 1698-1775 (1987) (2)
- THE DIFFUSION OF TINPLATE MANUFACTURE (1956) (2)
- THE ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN METROPOLITAN COUNTRIES AND THE CARIBBEAN: SOME PROBLEMS (1977) (2)
- Corporate Ship Operation from the Late Sixteenth to the Late Eighteenth Century (1990) (2)
- Population and marketing : two studies in the history of the South-west (1976) (2)
- The Naval Office shipping lists for Jamaica 1683-1818 in the Public Record Office London (1977) (2)
- BRITISH PORTS OF CALL IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1976) (2)
- Liverpool and Slavery: an historical account of the Liverpool-African slave trade (1971) (2)
- The Rhondda Valleys, A Study on Industrial Development from 1800 to the Present Day . By E. D. Lewis. London: Phoenix House, 1959. Pp. 312. 25s. (1960) (1)
- DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGES (1972) (1)
- Britain and the northern seas : some essays : papers presented at the Fourth Conference of the Association for the History of the Northern Seas, Dartington, Devon, 16-20 September 1985 (1988) (1)
- The Pre-Industrial Economy in England, 1500–1750. By Leslie A. Clarkson. New York, Schocken Books, 1972. Pp. 268. $10.00 (1973) (1)
- The Sierra Leone Diamonds, an Economic Study Covering the Years, 1952–1961. By H. L. van der Laan. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1965. Pp. xi + 234. 25s (1966) (1)
- The role of the british south atlantic islands in sea-borne commerce in the Nineteenth Century (1982) (1)
- Cider and Folklore (1975) (1)
- The Atlantic Slave Trade : New Approaches. An Introduction (1975) (1)
- American papers in the House of Lords Record Office : a guide (1983) (1)
- Devon at work: past and present (1974) (1)
- A Guide to industrial archaeology sites in Britain (1984) (1)
- Western Europe and the Atlantic economy in the eighteenth century (1976) (1)
- Her Majesty's Coastguard (1992) (0)
- Coal and Steel in Western Europe: The Influence of Resources and Techniques on Production . By Norman J. G. Pounds and William N. Parker. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1957. Pp. 381. $6.00. (1959) (0)
- Tin Cans and Tin Plate. A Study of Competition in Two Related Markets. (1961) (0)
- Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Economic History (Munich 1965) Volume V.@@@Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Economic History (Bloomington 1968). (1976) (0)
- Book Review:The Brewing Industry in England, 1700-1830 Peter Mathias (1961) (0)
- White's Devon : a reprint of history, gazetteer and directory of Devonshire (1968) (0)
- Slavery and British Society 1776–1846. Edited by James Walvin. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press, 1982. Pp. 272. $24.95 (1983) (0)
- The Raimo Guide (1980) (0)
- The Canaries as ports of call (1984) (0)
- Trade and Transport: Essays in Economic History in Honour of T. S. Willan . Edited by William H. Chaloner and Barrie M. Ratcliffe. Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1977; distributed for Manchester University Press. Pp. x, 293. $26.50. (1979) (0)
- The British Paper Industry, 1495–1860, A Study in Industrial Growth. By D. C. Coleman. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1958. Pp. xvi, 367. $8.80 (1959) (0)
- BHR volume 45 issue 4 Cover and Front matter (1971) (0)
- The Hobhouse letters, 1722-1755 : letters and other papers of Isaac Hobhouse & Co., Bristol Merchants (1963) (0)
- Trade Castles and Forts of West Africa . By A. W. Lawrence. Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1964. Pp. 389. $10.00. (1965) (0)
- Hull in the Eighteenth Century: A Study in Economic and Social History@@@Gentlemen Merchants: The Merchant Community in Leeds, 1700-1830 (1973) (0)
- Tilting at tidemills (1993) (0)
- Toilers of the Hills. Book review. (1960) (0)
- Geoffrey Hampson (ed.), Southampton Notarial Protest Books 1756–1810. Southampton Records Series vol. XVI. Southampton: Southampton University Press, 1973. xv + 133 pp. Plates. Bibliography. Price not stated. (1975) (0)
- Bristol presentments, 1770-1917 in Bristol Central Library (1986) (0)
- IX.—THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1787–1914 (1969) (0)
- Visitors to Swansea in the 19th Century (1950) (0)
- Jamaica plantation records from the Dickinson papers, 1675-1849, in Somerset Record Office and the Wiltshire & Swindon Record Office (1978) (0)
- LOUIS M. CULLEN. An Economic History of Ireland Since 1660. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. $8.50 (1973) (0)
- Abolición y emancipación: historiografía británica desde 1975 (1990) (0)
- Rïce (C. Duncan) : The Rise and Fall of Black Slavery (1975) (0)
- Sir John Brunner, Radical Plutocrat, 1842–1919. By Stephen E. Koss. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1970. Pp. xii + 314. £4.25 (1971) (0)
- John J. McCusker and Russell R. Menard, The Economy of British America, 1607–1789 (Chapel Hill and London: University of North Carolina Press for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1985, $35.00). Pp. 509. ISBN 08079 1635 0. (1986) (0)
- British Shipping, the Netherlands and the Baltic 1784–1795 (1983) (0)
- The Inhabitants of Bristol in 1696. (1970) (0)
- "Tidemills of Devon & Cornwall", Ealter Minchinton, John Perkins, 1971 : [recenzja] / Henryk Jost. (1976) (0)
- Bristol presentments 1770-1800 in the Central Reference Library, Bristol (1967) (0)
- Theodore A. Sande, Industrial Archeology: a New Look at the American Heritage (Brattleboro, Vermont: Stephen Greene Press, 1976, $18.95). Pp. viii, 152. (1978) (0)
- History Is Multifaceted (1988) (0)
- ERNEST EDWIN WILLIAMS (1970) (0)
- The Canaries in the British trading World of the Eighteenth Century (1990) (0)
- Visitors to the Gower in the 18th Century (1949) (0)
- Book Review: London and the English Economy, 1500–1700 (1991) (0)
- Iron in the Making. Dowlais Iron Company Letters, 1782–1860 . Edited by Madeleine Elsas. Cardiff: Glamorgan County Records Committee, 1960. Pp. xix, 247. (1961) (0)
- Tinman's progress : the South Wales tinplate and steel sheet industry in three centuries : Book review. (1964) (0)
- LESLIE A. CLARKSON. The Pre-Industrial Economy in England, 1500-1750. Pp. 268. New York: Schocken Books, 1972. $10.00 (1973) (0)
- Contents of Volume XLVIII (1974) (0)
- IX. ‐ THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, 1783–1914 (1963) (0)
- Transport and Shipowning in the West-Country. (1975) (0)
- The diaries of Sir Horace Plunkett, 1881-1931 (0)
- Davis (David Brion) : The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1823 (1975) (0)
- Book Review: Atlantic Port Cities: Economy, Culture, and Society in the Atlantic World, 1650–1850 (1992) (0)
- An old Gower coal mine (1951) (0)
- MICHAEL OPPENHEIM 1853–1927, A MEMOIR (1968) (0)
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