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Changing Fortunes during the Fifteenth Century Recession
Posted on March 24, 2013 | No CommentsHow far did the fifteenth-century recession change the relationship between landlords and tenants in Durham? There can be little doubt that this was a period of hardship for landowners. -
‘A Hand Prepared to be Red’: Manliness and Violence on Britain’s Colonial Frontiers
Posted on February 25, 2013 | No CommentsOn the frontiers of Queensland and British Columbia in the mid-nineteenth century, a culture of violence prevailed. Frontier men accommodated violence in their lives as a routine and normal part of frontier living. The Victorian ethos of 'manliness' - the possession of essential virtues such as self-restraint, courage and strenuous effort - had within it the potential for violence. On the frontier the practice of manliness often entailed violence and the manly ethos could be distorted to justify and legitimise violent acts. -
In a Short Time There Were None Almost Left: The Success and Failure of the Tudor Conquest in Ireland
Posted on December 29, 2012 | No CommentsWhile England succeeded in pacifying the Irish with ‘fire and sword’ during the Desmond Rebellion (1579-1584) and again in the Nine Years’ War, its success came at an enormous cost, both in terms of lives and coin. Furthermore, the goal of ‘reforming’ Ireland religiously, socially, and agriculturally--so frequently expressed in contemporary English writing--was not achieved in any meaningful or lasting way during this period. -
Poor Relief in Edinburgh and the Famine of 1621-24
Posted on October 22, 2012 | No CommentsAlthough Scottish (and English) historians have not ignored the famine of 1621-24, the crisis still needs to be adequately contextualised within investigations into the development of poor relief in the early seventeenth century. -
The 1738–41 Harvest Crisis in Scotland
Posted on October 5, 2012 | No CommentsTo demonstrate this, the harvest and mortality crisis or macroeconomic depression of 1738–41, a hitherto largely unexplored event in Scotland’s eighteenth-century economic history, has been chosen. -
The justice of the peace and county government in the East Riding of Yorkshire, 1782-1836
Posted on August 21, 2012 | No CommentsThe Riding was dominated by its geology and geography. It was predominantly agricultural with few major settlements and very little industrial development. -
An arbor of one’s own? Aemilia Lanyer and the early modern garden
Posted on June 13, 2012 | No CommentsGardens, women, and poetry had long been associated in sixteenth-cen- tury verse written by men, typically as sources of analogous pleasures. Num- erous lyric mistresses walk or sit among cultured flowers that mirror their charms, enticing viewers’ senses to more or less unsettling effect. -
Local Government and Society in Early Modern England: Hertfordshire and Essex, C. 1590-1630
Posted on April 11, 2012 | No CommentsIn this dissertation, I propose to study the administrative and social history of two adjoining English counties, Essex and Hertfordshire, for the period of 1590 through 1630. As a political and social history, this study will track the careers and social relationships of the justices of the peace, as well as other county officials, such as the sheriff, the deputy lieutenants, and the lord lieutenant (usually the resident nobleman of a county). -
Garden seeds in England before the late eighteenth century: I. Seed growing
Posted on February 19, 2012 | No CommentsPeculiar elements which shaped the development of garden seed production and marketing include the important role of foreigners in the process of innovation, technical difficulties and uncertainties of production balanced by the possibility of high profits, competition from imports, dependence on a retail market subject to fashion, and the emergence of seed growing from another innovation-market gardening. -
English Almanacs and Animal Health Care in the Seventeenth Century
Posted on January 18, 2012 | No CommentsIn seventeenth-century England, the health and welfare of nonhuman animals rested almost solely on the shoulders of their keepers. Veterinary institutions had not yet been founded, and academically trained animal doctors did not exist. -
English hunger and industrial disorders : a study of social conflict during the first decade of George III’s reign
Posted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsThis dissertation will argue that while the distress of the industrious poor, which followed sudden fluctuations in food prices and declining employment was the common denominator in the numerous riots of the 1760's, the disorders were merely the surface manifestation of underlying political, economic, social and intellectual ferment which affected all levels of society. -
Coke of Norfolk (1754-1842): A Biography
Posted on March 14, 2010 | No CommentsCoke of Norfolk (1754-1842): A Biography By Susanna Wade Martins Boydell, 2010 ISBN: 9781843835318 Thomas William Coke ('Coke of Norfolk') (1754-1842) is best known as one of the main promoters... -
Statute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England
Posted on February 16, 2010 | No CommentsStatute and Local Custom: Village Byelaws and the Governance of Common Land in Medieval and Early-modern England By Angus Winchester Confernce Paper (2008) Abstract: The role of seigniorial courts in... -
Plan of an Agricultural Society and Experimental Farm in Northumberland
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsPlan of an Agricultural Society and Experimental Farm in Northumberland Pawson, Cecil H. Agricultural History Review, Volume 8 part 1 (1960) Abstract The title is taken from a printed document... -
Eighteenth, Century Changes in Hampshire Chalkland Farming
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsEighteenth, Century Changes in Hampshire Chalkland Farming Jones, E.L. Agricultural History Review, Volume 8 part 1 (1960) Abstract The early decades of the eighteenth century may only be taken as... -
Social Mobility in Nineteenth.Century Devon
Posted on January 18, 2010 | No CommentsSocial Mobility in Nineteenth Century Devon Mitchell, Duncan Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Devon is an area of small farms. The tradition is not a new... -
Agricultural Rent in South, East England, 1788-1825
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsAgricultural Rent in South, East England, 1788-1825 Hunt, H. G. Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Most of our knowledge concerning the development of agriculture and the... -
Enclosure in Kesteven
Posted on January 17, 2010 | No CommentsEnclosure in Kesteven Mills, Dennis R. Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 2 (1959) Abstract Generally speaking, the enclosure movements of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries assumed their greatest importance... -
Plough Rituals in England and Scotland
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsPlough Rituals in England and Scotland Davidson, Thomas Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 1 (1959) Abstract Until late into the eighteenth century Clydesdale ploughmen chanted the following rhyme three... -
The Tithe Surveys of the Mid-Nineteenth Century
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsThe Tithe Surveys of the Mid-Nineteenth Century Prince, H.C. Agricultural History Review, Volume 7 part 1 (1959) Abstract The rural landscape of England and Wales in the 1840's is depicted... -
Some Agricultural History Salvaged
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsSome Agricultural History Salvaged Pawson, Cecil Agricultural History Review, Volume 7, part 1 (1959) Abstract A chance remark, made almost casually by my friend the late Major J. G. G.... -
The Lost Village and the Landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds
Posted on January 14, 2010 | No CommentsThe Lost Village and the Landscape of the Yorkshire Wolds Harris, Alan Agricultural History Review, Volume 6 part 2 (1958) Abstract The enquiries of the historian and the archaeologist have... -
Labour Relations in Scottish Agriculture before 1870
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsLabour Relations in Scottish Agriculture before 1870 Houston, George Agricultural History Review, Volume 6 part 1 (1958) Abstract An outstanding feature of Scottish economic development in the eighteenth and nineteenth... -
The Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsThe Agricultural Activities of John Wilkinson, Ironmaster Chaloner, W.H. Agricultural History Review, Volume 5 part 1 (1957) Abstract It is not generally known that besides being a large-scale industrialist, John... -
The Consolidation of the Crofting System
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsThe Consolidation of the Crofting System Gray, Malcolm Agricultural History Review, Volume 5 part 1 (1957) Abstract One of the most notable results, perhaps, of local study has been to... -
The Sheep,Corn Husbandry of Norfolk in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
Posted on January 13, 2010 | No CommentsThe Sheep,Corn Husbandry of Norfolk in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Allison, K. J Agricultural History Review, Volume 5 part 1 (1957) Abstract During the later seventeenth century and throughout... -
The Development of Feeding Standards for Livestock
Posted on January 12, 2010 | No CommentsThe Development of Feeding Standards for Livestock Tyler, Cyril Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 2 (1956) Abstract When writing of the historical development of a scientific concept, it is... -
Rhosili Open Field and Related South Wales Field Patterns
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsRhosili Open Field and Related South Wales Field Patterns Davies, Margaret Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 2 (1956) Abstract In the manor of Rhosili there are two sharply contrasting... -
The Statistical Assessment of British Agriculture (Continued from page 21) Evaluation of the Returns
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsThe Statistical Assessment of British Agriculture (Continued from page 21) Evaluation of the Returns Coppock, J. T Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 2 (1956) Abstract The returns have continued... -
An Answer to Poverty in Sussex
Posted on January 11, 2010 | No CommentsAn Answer to Poverty in Sussex Todd, A.C. Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 1 (1956) Abstract Though the founding of the Royal Agricultural Society in 1838 arose out of... -
The Statistical Assessment of British Agriculture
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsThe Statistical Assessment of British Agriculture Coppock, J.T Agricultural History Review, Volume 4 part 1 (1956) Abstract England is fertile in paradoxes, and not the least of them is the... -
The Cattle Trade of Aberdeenshire in the Nineteenth Century
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsThe Cattle Trade of Aberdeenshire in the Nineteenth Century Smith, J. H Agricultural History Review, Volume 3, No. 2 (1955) Abstract Before the introduction of sea and rail transport only... -
Crop Nutrition in Tudor and Early Stuart England
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsCrop Nutrition in Tudor and Early Stuart England Fussell, G. E. Agricultural History Review, Volume 3, No. 2 (1955) Abstract Records of actual farming practice in Tudor and Stuart England... -
The Content and Sources of English Agrarian History after 1500
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsThe Content and Sources of English Agrarian History after 1500 Thirsk, Joan Agricultural History Review, Volume 3, No. 2 (1955) Abstract Present knowledge concerning the agrarian history of England after... -
The Untilled Field
Posted on January 9, 2010 | No CommentsThe Untilled Field Davidson, T.D. Agricultural History Review, Volume 3, no. 1(1955) Abstract Among the earliest records of the reformed Church of Scotland occurs the following entry. "In the district... -
Some Early Ideas on the Agricultural Regions of England
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsSome Early Ideas on the Agricultural Regions of England Darby, H. C. Agricultural History Review, Volume 2 (1954) Abstract One of the features of English literature in the modern period--from... -
The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, I549, (Continued from Vol. 1, p. 15)
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, I549, (Continued from Vol. 1, p. 15) Beresford, M. W. Agricultural History Review,Volume 2 (1954) Abstract It is in this atmosphere of proposals... -
Regional Farming in England
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsRegional Farming in England Hoskins, W. G. Agricultural History Review, Volume 2 (1954) Abstract It is gratifying to be asked to address what is, I believe, the first full meeting... -
A Cornish Farmer in Ontario I83O-7I
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsA Cornish Farmer in Ontario I83O-7I Rowe, John Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract The following letter by Charles Julyan, who had lived at Penpoll near Truro, written from Edgewater... -
Agricultural Returns and the Government during the Napoleonic Wars
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsAgricultural Returns and the Government during the Napoleonic Wars Minchington, W. E. Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract In the course of the second half of the eighteenth century Great... -
The Isle of Axholme before Vermuyden
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Isle of Axholme before Vermuyden Thirsk, Joan Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract It is the purpose of this article to examine farming practice in the Isle of Axholme... -
The Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, 1549
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsThe Poll Tax and Census of Sheep, 1549 Beresford, M.W. Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract In March 1549 Parliament granted Edward VI the proceeds of a tax on sheep... -
Some Traditional Farming Beliefs in the light of Modern Science
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsSome Traditional Farming Beliefs in the light of Modern Science Watson, Sir James Scott Agricultural History Review, Volume 1 (1953) Abstract I can lay claim to no competence in folklore. However,... -
Male occupations in a rural Middlesex parish (1574–92)
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsMale occupations in a rural Middlesex parish (1574–92) Avery, David Local Population Studies Number 2 (Spring 1969) Abstract For the pre-census periods little work, if any at all, has been... -
Easingwold Marriage Horizons
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsEasingwold Marriage Horizons Maltby, Bessie Local Population Studies Number 2 (Spring 1969) Abstract The problem of how mobile people were in the past is of interest in many contexts, yet... -
Population and agrarian change in an eighteenth century Shropshire village
Posted on January 7, 2010 | No CommentsPopulation and agrarian change in an eighteenth century Shropshire village Jones, R.E. Local Population Studies Number 1 (Autumn 1968) Abstract This study is an attempt to outline the demographic history...