Agricultural History
Books to explore
Managing for Posterity
Author: Elizabeth Griffiths
Format: Paperback
The Norfolk Gentry and their Estates c.1450–1700
William Ellis
Author: Malcolm Thick
Format: Paperback
William Ellis, who lived and farmed at Little Gaddesden in Hertfordshire in the first half of the eighteenth century (d. 1759), is an important figure in English agricultural history.
Assembling Enclosure
Author: Ronan O'Donnell
Format: Paperback
Transformations in the rural landscape of post-medieval north-east England.
Communities in Contrast
Author: Sarah Holland
Format: Paperback
This book investigates what a case study of a northern market town and its rural hinterland can tell us about village differentiation, exploring how and why rural communities developed in what was chiefly an industrial region and, notably, how the relationship between town and country influenced rural communities.
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society
Editor: James P Bowen , A.T. Brown
Format: Paperback
This book has an intentionally broad chronological span, ranging from the thirteenth century through to the eighteenth, exploring the interactions between custom and commercialisation during a key period in the economic development of English rural society.
Farmers, Consumers, Innovators
Editor: Richard Jones , Christopher Dyer
Format: Paperback
Joan Thirsk was the leading English agrarian historian of the late 20th century. This book is based on a conference held in her honour that was intended not to look back but rather to identify her relevance for historians now, and to present new work influenced and inspired by her.
From the Deer to the Fox
Author: Mandy de Belin
Format: Paperback
“This meticulously researched and much-needed study explores the shift from deer- to fox-hunting from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century and its effects on the landscape of Northamptonshire.” Amanda Richardson, Landscape History
Land and Family
Author: John Mullan , Richard Britnell
Format: Paperback
Trends and local variations in the peasant land market on the Winchester bishopric estates, 1263-1415.
Landscapes Decoded
Author: Susan Oosthuizen
The origin and development of Cambridgeshire's medieval fields
Out of the Hay and Into the Hops
Author: Celia Cordle
Format: Paperback
Hop cultivation in Wealden Kent and hop marketing in Southwark, 1744–2000
Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape
Author: Susan Kilby
Format: Hardback
This compelling new study forms part of a new wave of scholarship on the medieval rural environment in which the focus moves beyond purely socio-economic concerns to incorporate the lived experience of peasants.
Rethinking Ancient Woodland
Author: Tom Williamson , Gerry Barnes
Format: Ebook
This important volume will be essential reading for all those interested in the history of the English countryside, nature conservation and environmental history.
The Orchards of Eastern England
Author: Tom Williamson , Gerry Barnes
Format: Paperback
Drawing on far-reaching archival research, an extensive survey of surviving orchards and biodiversity surveys, the authors tell the fascinating story of orchards in the east since the late Middle Ages.
The World of the Small Farmer
Author: Patricia Croot
Format: Paperback
This detailed and original study of early-modern agrarian society in the Somerset Levels examines the small landholders in a group of sixteen contiguous parishes in the area known as Brent Marsh.