# The influence and development of English gilds Author: Hibbert, Francis Aidan, 1866-1933 Genre: Category: History - British Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39030 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+influence+and+development+of+English+gilds+Hibbert&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary In these days of convenience and easy transit, when distance has been annihilated by the telegraph wire and the express train, we can hardly realise, even with an effort, the extent to which such changes have revolutionised the social life of Englishmen. Of local sentiment there can be now but little, yet local sentiment has played a greater part in our history than perhaps any other motive. The England of to-day is little more than a great suburb of its capital. Yet it is a peculiar feature of the England of the past that its local life was always singularly varied, not only in the Middle Ages but down to quite recent times. Indeed the characteristic is still more than traceable in some... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/1/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-influence-and-development-of-english-gilds-39030/chapters/2/index.md)