Work in Progress on agrarian and rural history, 2007*

Compiled by Nicola Verdon atkins, Dr Peter, Department of Geography, Uni- tol from c.1750; research strategy in industrial archae- versity of Durham, Durham, dh1 3le, p.j.atkins@ ology for the south-west region durham.ac.uk brammer, Mrs Betty (postgraduate, Centre for Eng- Nineteenth- and twentieth-century food systems; lish Local History, University of Leicester), Bramlea, food and health Station Road, Hubberts Bridge, Boston, Lincs., pe20 bailey, Dr Mark (Senior Visiting Lecturer, University 3qt, [email protected] of ), Leeds Grammar School, Alwoodley Gates, The Holland Fen: topographical and social changes in Leeds, ls17 8gs, [email protected] a fenland environment, 1750–1945 focusing on drain- Economic history of 1200–1500, especially age and legal procedures agriculture in brassley, Dr Paul, School of Geography, University bangor-jones, Dr Malcolm, 1 North Somerville of Plymouth, 7 Kirkby Place, Plymouth, pl4 8aa, Place, Dundee, dd3 6ju, malcolm.bangor-jones@scot- [email protected] land.gsi.gov.uk Technical change in English agriculture in the twenti- Social and economic history of the northern High- eth century; changes in landownership and tenure in lands of , c.1600–1914 Europe, 1918–1939 beckett, Prof. John, Department of History, Uni- briggs, Dr Chris, Cambridge Group, Dept of Ge- versity Park, Nottingham, ng7 2rd, john.beckett@ ography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, nottingham.ac.uk Cambridge, cb2 3en, [email protected] Landownership in the UK, 1500–2000; sustainability ‘Private law and medieval village society: personal ac- in English agriculture, 1500–2000 tions in manor courts, c.1250–c.1350’ (AHRB-funded); beech, Gareth, Social and Cultural History Depart- rural credit, manorial officials, peasants in royal and ment, St Fagans National History Museum, St Fagans, church courts and medieval land markets Cardiff, cf5 6xb, [email protected] broad, John, Department of Humanities, Arts and Agriculture in from 1945 to 2005, with an em- Languages, Metropolitan University, 166–220 phasis on the lives of farming families Holloway Road, London, n7 8db, j.broad@london- bettey, Dr J. H. (University of Bristol), Clayley Cot- met.ac.uk tage, Hunstrete, Pensford, Bristol, bs39 4nx Rural housing since 1500; dairying and pastoral agri- Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century agriculture and culture, 1600–1870; the south and its agri- rural society in Somerset, Wiltshire and Dorset culture; rural social structure c.1700 bone, Mike, ‘Sunnyside’, Avon Close, Keynsham, Bris- brook, Dr Shirley, 10 Manor Road, Lincoln, ln2 1rj, tol, bs31 2ul, [email protected] [email protected] Brewing and matting trades in the south-west, esp. Victorian High Farming; farm buildings; Lincolnshire Bath, Bristol and Exeter; distilleries in Bath and Bris- agriculture; nineteenth-century land improvement loans; nineteenth-century clergy farming activities

* From time to time the Review has carried listings of Work in Progress, mainly work on British agricultural and rural history being undertaken by historians resident in Britain. The present list is based on forms circulated in the Winter of 2006–7: it makes no claim to being comprehensive. Where a person’s institutional affiliation does not ap- pear from their address, it is given in parentheses. AgHR 55, II, pp.301–309 301 302 agricultural history review

bujak, Dr Edward, Harlaxton College, Harlaxton Manor, churchley, Mr Richard (University of Birming- Grantham, Lincs., ng32 1ag, [email protected] ham), 1293 Evesham Road, Astwood Bank, Redditch, England’s rural realms; comparison of Victorian and Worcestershire, b96 6ay, [email protected] Edwardian estates. Rural crafts and industries in Worcestershire, - War bulmer, Miss Gillian, Little Breinton, Breinton, Her- wickshire and Gloucestershire, 1600–1860: change eford, hr4 7ph, [email protected] and continuity in occupational structure of rural The history of cider fruit – growing, harvesting and ­communities hauling clarke, Dr Gill, School of Education, University burchardt, Dr Jeremy, Department of History, Uni- of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, so17 1bj, versity of Reading, rg6 6aa, j.f.s.burchardt@reading. [email protected] ac.uk The history of the Women’s Land Army and its re- Attitudes to the countryside, esp. during inter-war cruits and the portrayal of the WLA by war artists in period; rural leisure in the nineteenth and twentieth the First and Second World War centuries; village halls, allotments collins, Prof. E. J. T., Department of Agriculture and burnette, Dr Joyce, Department of Economics, Wa- Food Economics, University of Reading, PO Box 237, bash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, 47933 USA, Reading, rg6 6ar, [email protected] [email protected] English woodland histories, nineteenth and twentieth English farm wage accounts, 1740–1850, focusing on centuries; working oxen post-1750; manufacture of ag- women’s wages and employment, child labour and ricultural edge tools in south and south-west England, forms of payment 1750–1939 campbell, Prof. Bruce M. S., School of Geography, conford, Dr Philip (Department of History, Uni- Queen’s University, Belfast, bt7 1nn versity of Reading), 88 St Pancras, Chichester, West Crop yields on English demesnes, 1200–1500; land Sussex, po19 7lr, [email protected] use, agricultural output, population and economic Growth and change in the British organic movement growth in England and beyond, 1200–1800; landlord- from 1946 to the twenty-first century tenant and inter-tenant relations in the Middle Ages cragoe, Professor Matthew, School of Humanities, carrick, Miss Mary (postgraduate, University University of Hertfordshire, College Land, Hatfield, of Hull), 13 Glebe Road, Wawne, Hull, hu7 5xr, Herts, al10 9ab, [email protected] [email protected] Parliamentary enclosures, 1700–1900; the church in Water management in agriculture in the lower Hull the Victorian countryside; aristocracy; rural Wales valley, 1150–1750 croot, Dr Patricia, 165 Russell Court, Woburn Place, caunce, Dr Stephen, Department of Humanities, Uni- London, wc1h 0lr, [email protected] versity of Central , Preston, Lancashire, pr1 The economic and inheritance choices of farming fami- 2he, [email protected] lies in nineteenth-century Somerset; agrarian society Agriculture in , c.1650–1950, and its in the Somerset Levels; agricultural and landownership role in the of that region, specifically history in Westminster (for VCH Middlesex) farm service and hiring fairs, farming in the industrial crosskill, Mr Stuart, 37 South Avenue, Darley Abbey, , and agricultural mechanisation Derby, de22 1fb, [email protected] chapman, Dr John, Geography Department, Uni- A study of the various agricultural implement busi- versity of Portsmouth, Portsmouth, po1 3he, john. nesses founded by William Crosskill in , East [email protected] , carried on by his son and other fam- Formal and informal enclosures in England and Wales ily members in the nineteenth and early twentieth after c.1650; Queen Anne’s bounty as a source for ag- ­centuries ricultural history crowe, Hilary (postgraduate, University of Sussex), chartres, Prof. John A., School of History, Univer- Middle Blakebank, Broom Land, Underbarrow, Cum- sity of Leeds, Leeds, ls2 9jt, [email protected] bria, la8 8hp, [email protected] UK domestic trades in agricultural commodities, 1500– Upland rural communities: the Lake District, 1910– 1900; distilling, pig-keeping and other agricultural 1946, specifically the impact of two world wars and processing industries; mercantile systems and agri- worldwide economic depression on upland farming cultural improvement, 1500–1850; cultures of drinking dewey, Dr Peter, 71 Berwick Road, Marlow, Bucks, and supplying alcoholic beverages, 1600–1850; niche sl7 3as, [email protected] producing and marketing in early modern/modern History of world agricultural engineering industry farming since c.1800 work in progress on agrarian and rural history, 2007 303 dilley, Dr Robert, Department of Geography, Lake- gardiner, Dr Mark, Department of Archaeol- head University, Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, p7b ogy, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, bt7 1nn, 5ei, [email protected] [email protected] Common lands and enclosure in Cumberland The development of farmsteads and farmhouses in dodds, Dr Ben, History Department, University late medieval England; the evolution and character of Durham, 43 North Bailey, Durham, dh1 3ex, of medieval manorial sites; the development of ru- [email protected] ral landscapes in late medieval England, particularly Peasant economy in medieval England; tithes as a changing methods of exploiting the resources of the source for the agricultural historian countryside dyer, Prof. Christopher, Centre for English Local His- gayton, Juliet (postgraduate, University of Exeter), , University of Leicester, Leicester, le1 7qr, cd50@ [email protected] le.ac.uk Changes in customary landholding, 1650–1750, in the Agriculture and trade c.1500 (study of a mer- chalk downlands of Hampshire chant’s account book); rural settlements and land- goddard, Prof. Nicholas (St Mary’s University Col- scape history; poverty and diet, 1200–1550 lege, Twickenham), Chickenden Farmhouse, Staple- dymond, Dr D. P. (University of Cambridge), 4 Honey hurst, Tonbridge, Kent, tn12 0dp, n.p.w.goddard@ Hill, Bury St Edmunds, ip33 1rt anglia.ac.uk Social and economic significance of glebe terriers; Agricultural technology, nineteenth-twentieth centu- medieval parishes and ries; links between agricultural and environmental edwards, Prof. Peter, Schools of Arts, Roehampton history University, Digby Stuart College, Roehampton Lane, goose, Prof. Nigel, Department of Humanities, Uni- London, sw15 5ph, [email protected] versity of Hertfordshire, College Land, Hatfield, Herts, Horses in early modern society; economic, social and al10 9ab, [email protected] cultural roles Nineteenth-century farm service, casualisation of la- everitt, Alan (Centre for English Local History, bour and seasonal unemployment; rural poverty; bas- University of Leicester), Fieldedge, Poultney Lane, tardy; Hertfordshire Kimcote, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire, le17 5rx grace, Mr David (Beauford School, Gloucester), 17, Commonland country: topography, settlement, society Oakbank, Gloucester, gl4 0az, [email protected] (with special reference to the period of transformation The development of the agricultural engineering- in c.1690–1900) dustry in Britain, 1750–1914 falvey, Mrs Heather (University of Warwick), 119 greenaway, Mr R. G., [email protected] Winton Drive, Croxley Green, Rickmansworth, wd3 The archaeology and history of woodland and in 3qs, [email protected] woodland, with particular interest in the Pang Valley The politics of custom: improvement, enclosure and area in West Berkshire social unrest in seventeenth-century England, with greener, Mrs Clare (University of Exeter), 26 Linden special reference to the enclosure of Duffield Frith Road, Dawlish, Devon, ex7 9qa, claregreener@tiscali. () and the draining and enclosure around co.uk Whittlesey (Isle of Ely) Devon allotments; Devon gardeners in the eighteenth- few, Mrs Janet (postgraduate, University of Exeter), nineteenth centuries; market gardeners, nurseries and Coles Manning, Buckland Brewer, Bideford, ex39 5lp, nurserymen of Devon [email protected] grieves, Dr Keith, School of Education, Kingston Faith, fish, farm, family – the impact of kinship links University, Kingston upon Thames, , kt2 7lb, on migration choices and residential persistence in [email protected] north Devon, 1841–1901 Impact of the Great War on rural communities in french, Dr Henry, Department of History, Amory southern England, including war memorial proceed- Building, University of Exeter, ex4 4rj, H.French@ ings, the construction of common meeting places, exeter.ac.uk landscape preservation, the rural soldier poet, food Fate of small landowners in England, 1500–1800; control and military recruitment, 1914–25 sub-tenancy and leasehold land tenancy, 1500–1800; griffin, Dr Carl J., School of Geography, Queen’s urban commons and commoners in England, 1500– University Belfast, bt7 1nn, [email protected] 1800 Popular protest in rural England, 1720–1850; cultures of criminality; the human ecology of forests and ­chases; human and non-human engagements 304 agricultural history review

gritt, Dr Andrew, Department of Humanities, hill, Dr Trevor and Mrs Margaret, 5 Severn Way, ­University of Central Lancashire, Preston, pr1 2he, Cressage, Shrewsbury, sy5 6ds, local.history.doc@vir- [email protected] gin.net Land drainage in Britain since 1560; agricultural la- A demographic and landscape study of fourteen par- bour in England, 1600–1950; agriculture and rural ishes in mid-Shropshire, 1750–1871, comprising fam- society in north-west England, 1600–1950, including ily reconstitution from parish registers and census tenurial systems, 1650–1850 returns haggerty, Mr Martin, 7 Palace Hill, Scarborough, hillman, Anne (University of Central Lancashire), , yo11 1nl, [email protected]. Tailrace Cottage, Mill Land, Milnthorpe, la7 7qr, co.uk [email protected] English cultural history from 1780 to the present, es- Common rights to natural resources, especially stone pecially human relationships with local and regional and peat, in south Westmorland, before and after landscapes and how these have been expressed in enclosure the arts; history of environmentalism, radicalism and hinde, Dr Andrew, Division of Social Statistics, School alternative lifestyles of Social Sciences, Southampton, so17 1bj, PRAHi- hare, Dr John N., Peter Symonds’ College, Owens [email protected] Road, Winchester, so22 6rx, [email protected] Out-migration from rural southern England mid-late Agrarian history, towns and cloth production in nineteenth century, esp. impact of New Poor Law; southern England (especially Wiltshire and Hamp- Morbidity among rural working classes in southern shire), c.1350–1520 England, late nineteenth to early twentieth century harvey, Prof Paul D. A. (University of Durham), (with Prof Bernard Harris and Dr Martin Gorsky, Lyndhurst, Farnley Hey Road, Durham, dh1 4ea, ESRC-funded) [email protected] hindle, Prof. Steve, Department of History, Univer- English estate organisation, tenth-fourteenth centu- sity of Warwick, Coventry, cv4 7nl, steve.hindle@ ries; peasant land market in medieval England warwick.ac.uk havinden, Michael (MERL, University of Reading), Poverty, charity and welfare; dearth and food supply; 38 Bickerton Road, Headington, Oxford, ox3 7ls popular protest; space and the built environment – all History of landownership in Oxfordshire since 1500 in early modern England healey, Mr Jonathan (postgraduate, University of hodges, Mr C. (Archaeology Department, Univer- Oxford), Magdalen College, University of Oxford, ox1 sity of Wales, Lampeter), 35 Coalway Road, Coleford, 4au, [email protected] Gloucestershire, gl16 7hq, [email protected] Poverty and welfare in England, c.1600–1780; dearth, Deserted settlements in the Black Mountains of south- famine and economic crises in England, c.1500–1750; east Wales social history of the uplands c.1400–1850; social his- holland, Mr Michael, 156 Westbury Road, Southend- tory of pre-modern industry, esp cotton-using textiles, on-Sea, ss2 4dn, [email protected] c.1570–1780 Rural Queries; Agricultural unrest hewer, Mrs Sue (University of Dundee), Clintlaw holmes, Dr Heather, [email protected]. Farmhouse, Lintrathen, Kirriemuir, Angus, dd8 5jf, gov.uk [email protected] Production, distribution and reception of the Board Self-sufficiency, surplus and conspicuous consump- of Agriculture and Internal Improvement’s county tion in Scottish country houses from the Restoration agricultural reports (1793–1817); Scottish agricultural to the Enlightenment books in the eighteenth century hey, Professor David (University of ), 12 Ash- holt, Jennifer, 258 Blackburn Road, Haslingden, Ros- ford Road, Dronfield Woodhouse, Dronfield, s18 8rq, sendale, Lancashire, bb4 5jf [email protected] Social and economic history of the Lune Valley, ; Wombwell, the landscape histo- c.1500–1800; textiles and iron industry of the same ry of a Township (with J. S. Rodwell) region in the early modern period hill, Judy (University of Roehampton), High Pines, howkins, Prof Alun, Department of History, Univer- Blackdown Avenue, Pyrford, Woking, Surrey, gu22 sity of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, bn1 9sh, a.j.howkins@ 8qg, [email protected] sussex.ac.uk Poverty and unrest in Surrey, 1815–34; poor emigra- Resistance to enclosure after 1850; the survival of liv- tion to North America ing in farm service in England after 1850; the history of the English farm worker since 1830 work in progress on agrarian and rural history, 2007 305 howlett, Neil, 6 West End, Frome, Somerset, ba11 lanham, Neil, The Helions Bumpstead Gramophone 3ad, [email protected] Co., Ivy Todd, Helions Bumpstead, Suffolk, cb9 7at, Badgers: commodity and food supply in the regions, [email protected] especially the south-west, in the early modern per­ Orality: camcording stories of working life through iod; field names, place names and the distribution of the eyes of the indigenous inhabitants of Suffolk ­literature and ideas lewis, Dr C. P. (VCH Sussex), 102 Magazine Lane, hoyle, Prof. R. W., Department of History, Univer- Wallasey, ch45 1lx, [email protected] sity of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, rg6 6aa, Parish histories for VCH Sussex, currently in area [email protected] between Arundel and Storrington; estates of St Wer- British rural history 1400 to date, including tenu- burgh’s Minster, Chester rial change in England, 1500–1640 and in Britain/ linsley, Dr Barbara (Archivist to the Raveningham Ireland generally; agrarian capitalism, land markets Estate, Norfolk), Ellingham House, 61 Yarmouth 1540–1800, non-agricultural uses of the countryside Road, Ellingham, Bungay, nr35 2ph, bjlinsley@btin- including field sports, popular recreation and water ternet.com gathering, c.1850 to date Rural housing, local government and agriculture in jennings, Professor Bernard, Centre for Lifelong the inter-war period; Bacon family history and Rav- Learning, University of Hull, hu6 7rx eningham estate, south Norfolk farming; History of Kilham and macdougall, Dr Philip, 62 Maybush Drive, Chid- district in the Yorks Wolds ham, Chichester, po18 8ss, Philip.Macdougall@tpc. johnstone, Mr Muir (postgraduate, Department of ac.uk Geography, Lancaster University), 7, Tayinloan Drive, Agricultural changes and social conditions of rural South Lanarkshire, Carluke, ml8 4ls, loujohnstone@ labourers in West Sussex during the French Revolu- tiscali.co.uk tionary and Napoleonic Wars Agrarian change in two Scottish Lowland counties martin, Dr John, Faculty of Humanities, De Montfort (East Lothian and Lanarkshire), 1700–1830 University, The Gateway, Leicester, le1 9bh, jfmar- jones, Mrs Gwendoline, 9 Cockcrow Wood, St Leon- [email protected] ards, , tn37 7hw, [email protected] Twentieth-century agricultural and rural develop- The growth of the hop industry and the development ment with particular reference to the role of the state of the oasthouse in the transformation of the agrarian sector; wartime jones, Mrs Judith, Clwydtrawscae Farm, Bedlinog, mobilisation of the rural workforce, rural sports and Treharris, cf46 6ta, [email protected] leisure activities, counter-urbanisation and sustain- Gelligaer and Merthyr common; South Wales – local able farming agricultural societies; Merthyr and Gelligaer parishes, martin, Dr John M., 11 Quedgeley Court Park, Green- pre-industrial period hill Drive, Quedgeley, Gloucester, gl2 4nh jones, Professor Melvyn (Visiting Professor, Tourism Mortality rates and living standards in two rural dis- and Environmental Change Research Unit, Sheffield tricts (Gloucestershire and north Wiltshire), c.1800– Hallam University), Kirkstead Abbey Grange, 4 Kirk- 1879 stead Abbey Mews, Thorpe Hesley, , s61 matthews, Mr J. S., 7 Riddings Road, Hale, Altring- 2oz, [email protected] ham, wa15 9ds, [email protected] Woodland history and woodland-based industries in Mid nineteenth-century agricultural history, centred south Yorkshire; landscape history of south Yorkshire; on Cheshire; cattle epidemics history of Fitzwilliam Wentworth estates in south meredith, Dr Anne, [email protected] Yorkshire and Ireland Women in horticulture and agriculture from the late kain, Prof. Roger J. P., Northcote House, University of nineteenth century through to 1939, especially women Exeter, Exeter, ex4 4qj, [email protected] and horticultural education and women and dairy History of maps and mapping (tithe surveys and en- education using Somerset as a case study closure maps in particular); landscape history mills, Dr Dennis R., 17 Rectory Lane, Branston, Lin- kirby, Mr Michael, PO Box 1055, Baulkham Hills, coln, ln4 1na, [email protected] NSW, Australia, 1755, mikekirby@e-management. Harvest transport in the nineteenth and early twen- com.au tieth centuries, specifically the hermaphrodite cart/ Social settings and agricultural history to 1840, esp. wagons of the and East Anglia – ori- Kirby yeoman farmers from Blakesley, Northants; re- gins, designs and distribution cently discovered Viking wharf 306 agricultural history review

mitchell, Dr Ian, 4 Church Lane, Kirk Langley, owen, Mr Arthur E. B., Old Manor House, Thimbleby, ­Ashbourne, de6 4ng, [email protected] Horncastle, Lincs., ln9 5re Fairs in England from the late seventeenth to early History of land drainage; coastal erosion, especially nineteenth centuries in eastern England; historical geography of Lindsey moore-colyer, Prof. Richard, Department of His- Marsh (with Prof. Ian Simmons, Durham) tory, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, sy23 3dy, page, Dr Mark, VCH Oxfordshire, Clarendon Build- [email protected] ing, Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, ox1 3bg, The Home Front in the Second World War; rural Eng- [email protected] land and Wales between the wars; French prisoners of Local history; medieval settlement and landscape; war, 1800–15; the history of the horse in Britain; the medieval bishops of Winchester history of the hills and uplands in Wales palgrave, Mr Derek A., Cambridge University Institute morgan, Mr J. C. (Dr William’s Library), 8, Elia Street, of Continuing Education, Crossfield House, Dale Road, Islington, London, n1 8de, jonathan.morgan6@bto- Stanton, Suffolk, ip31 2dy, [email protected] penworld.com History of fertilizers and fertilizer technology; his- Agricultural as context for tory and development of rural technology, including study of High Calvinism in the south of the county in potash farmers and coprolite diggers in East Anglia; the nineteenth century ramifications of occupational surnames and evolution moses, Dr Gary, School of Arts and Humanities, of rural customs ­Nottingham Trent University, Clifton, Nottingham, park, Mr Peter (University of Central Lancashire), ng11 8ns, [email protected] 483 Brook Street North, Fulwood, Preston, pr2 3qe, The marginal workforce and the moral entrepreneur; [email protected] examining perceptions of mobile and marginal work- The movement of people from the agricultural areas ers in English rural society, 1830–1900, focusing on the of southern/eastern England to the in high farming areas of Yorkshire, districts of the north under the Poor Law Commis- Lincs. and Notts. sioners migration scheme, 1835–7 nesbitt, Dr Mark, Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic parrott, Mrs Susan, Bridlington, Yorks. Gardens, Kew, Richmond, tw9 3ab, [email protected] Study of the movement and migration patterns of Rural life through plant materials and artefacts from farmers, families and labour on six Wolds estates in the UK housed in the Economic Botany Collection at East Yorkshire in the late nineteenth century Kew Gardens. Current work on history of and perren, Dr Richard, Department of History, Univer- samples from the Great Exhibition and other sity of Aberdeen, Crombie Avenue, King’s College, sources. Aberdeen, ab24 3fx, [email protected] newton taylor, Mr Paul (postgraduate, University Filth and profit, disease and heath: public and private of Essex), 110 Loose Road, Maidstone, Kent, me15 7ub, impediments to slaughterhouse reform in Victorian [email protected] Britain Nineteenth-century landownership, rural demogra- peters, Dr J. E. C., Malvern Wells, Worcs. phy and rural protest Development of farm buildings up to about 1900, par- nicol, Mr Nic, Sinfin Community School Library, ticularly in Worcestershire, Herefordshire and North Farmhouse Road, Derby, de24 0fl, NicNicol@sinfin. Somersetshire derby.shu.uk phillips, Dr A. D. M., Department of Geography, Use of German POW labour, 1916–19 including site of Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, st5 5bg, camps, numbers held and general usage [email protected] osborne, Dr Harvey (University Campus Suffolk), 44 An historical atlas of Staffordshire; Andrew Thomp- Meadow Cottages, Iken, nr Woodbridge, Suffolk, ip12 son’s report to the inclosure commissioners, 1850–70; 2eu, [email protected] Gregory King’s Staffordshire survey, 1679–80; Land- Rural crime and protest; field sports; poor law distur- lord investment in English agriculture, 1850–1900; bances and administration cropping and land use change in England, 1815–75 overton, Professor Mark, Department of History, pope, Stephen (Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Museum), 26 Hick House Road, Besycay, Dereham, Exeter, ex4 4rj, [email protected] Norfolk, nr20 4by The agrarian , 1500–2000;- pro Early use of combine harvesters; union workhouses; duction and consumption in early modern England; industrial farms; Norfolk agricultural machine manu- economic growth in England 1550–1750 facturers work in progress on agrarian and rural history, 2007 307 postles, Dr Dave, Department of English, University shaw-taylor, Dr Leigh, Faculty of History, Univer- of Leicester, Leicester, le1 7qr, [email protected] sity of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge, lmws2@ An early modern small town: Loughborough; late cam.ac.uk medieval religious commitment and social status in The changing occupational structure of England and the diocese of Lichfield; literature and society in early Wales, 1389–1911; the ; develop- modern England; spatial organisation, representation ment of agrarian capitalism, parliamentary enclosure and experience in early modern England and proletarianisation, common rights and common powell, Bob, (Principal Museums Officer, Highland land; Women’s work, 1600–1881 Council), ‘The Haven’, 23 Hillside Avenue, Kingus- short, Professor Brian, Department of Geography, sie, Inverness-shire, ph21 1pa, Bob.powell53@btopen- Arts C, University of Sussex, Brighton, bn1 9sj, world.com [email protected] National, regional and local traditional management Nineteenth- and twentieth-century agrarian landscape practices and associated culture, material and non- and social change; land ownership; British farming in material, of the heavy horse in British agriculture, the Second World War c.1750–1950 smout, Professor T. C. (University of St Andrews), pratt, Mr D., The Grange, Welsh Frankton, Oswestry, Chesterhill, Shore Road, Anstruther, Fife, ky10 3dz, Shropshire, sy11 4nx [email protected] The 1391 Survey of Wrexham; Seven ‘Inspeximus’ The relationship between farming and biodiversity charters of Valle Crucis Abbey (1295) loss in the UK since 1900 purchon, Mrs Jenny, [email protected] sneddon, Dr Sam (Universities of Surrey and Not- Parliamentary enclosure and commutation of tithes in tingham), 53 Christchurch Close, Stamford, pe9 1hs, Bedfordshire; the rural communities of central south [email protected] Carmarthenshire in mid-nineteenth century Infant health and mortality in the rural Fens of Lincs, readman, Dr Paul, Department of History, King’s Cambs and Norfolk, 1850–1910, with particular regard College London, Strand, London, wc2r 2ls, Paul. to the role of women working in the fields [email protected] spufford, Prof Margaret (University of Roehamp- The ‘land question’ in late nineteenth- and early twen- ton), The Guildhall, Whittlesford, Cambridge, cb2 tieth-century Britain; ‘Englishness’ and the rural; his- 4nz tory of the English landscape in the nineteenth and Fuel (wood and coal) in the sixteenth/seventeenth twentieth centuries centuries; clothing of the ‘common sort’ in sixteenth roberts, Dr Ian D. (Honorary Fellow, Department and seventeenth-century rural England; Hearth Taxes of History, University of Durham), Redewater View, of the 1660/70s in rural England; Reading matter Rochester, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, ne19 1rh available to the poor in rural England in sixteenth/ The Anglo-Irish cattle trade in the Borders, 1922–80; seventeenth centuries beer production, illegal whiskey trading and hostelries stead, Dr David R., Agriculture and Food Science in the Middle March, 1700–1950; Coursing and other Centre, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, field sports in Northumberland, 1750–2000 Ireland, [email protected] ross, Dr Alasdair, Research Centre for Environmental Agriculture, food and environmental policy in Ireland History, University of Stirling, fk9 4la and Britain Land assessment and lordship in medieval Scotland (a taylor, Miss Katherine (Kingston University), 46 monograph on northern Scotland completed, now to Bittams Lane, Chertsey, Surrey, kt16 9qx, taylor@ be extended into other areas of Scotland) katherinej.freeserve.co.uk schofield, Prof. P. R., Dept of History , Dept of His- Reconstructing the agricultural environment of East tory & Welsh History, Hugh Owen Building, The Uni- Sussex, c.1935–59 using aerial photographs and the versity of Wales, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, sy23 3dy National Farm Survey Private litigation in medieval manorial courts: , Dr Joan (St Hilda’s College, University of ­‘Peasants and historians’, the historiography of the ­Oxford), 1 Hadlow Castle, Hadlow, Tonbridge, Kent, medieval English peasantry tn11 0eg, [email protected] shannon, William D., (postgraduate, University of Development of market gardening, 1500–1800; dietary Lancaster), 12A Carleton Avenue, Preston, pr2 6ya, fashions: their transmission across Europe and the [email protected] agricultural consequences Wasteland enclosure in the lowlands of the Northern and Western province of England, c.1500–1700 308 agricultural history review

thompson, F. M. L. (Institute of Historical Research), verney, Miss Caroline (postgraduate, University of Holy Cottage, Sheepcote Lane, Wheathampstead, Exeter), Cheglinch End, West Down, Ilfracombe, Herts, al4 8nj, [email protected] ex34 8nw, [email protected] The country house system, c.1830–1939; the land mar- Family and community in ninteenth-century rural ket in the twentieth century, women landowners in north Devon using family reconstitution England, nineteenth and twentieth centuries wade-martins, Dr S. (School of History, Univer- thompson, Lynn (Honorary Fellow, University of sity of East Anglia), The Longhouse, Eastgate Street, Exeter), 72 Ragbank Road, Carnforth, Lancashire, la5 North Elmham, Dereham, Norfolk, nr20 5hd 9jb, [email protected] The East Anglian landscape, 1870–1950 (Leverhulme- Agricultural education and training in England and funded research project with Dr Tom Williamson) Wales, 1889–1950 with particular reference to the walton, Dr J. 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The development of Waddington from enclosure on- [email protected] wards The National Farm Survey, 1941–3; Forest and wood- tranter, Mr Richard, Museum of English Rural Life, land history; Landownership; landscape aesthetics The University of Reading, Redlands Road, Reading, webster, Dr Sarah, School of Humanities, University rg1 5ex, [email protected] of Hertfordshire, College Land, Hatfield, Herts, al10 The effect of the agricultural recession of 1921–38 on 9ab, [email protected] farming on the Berkshire Downs Transnational landscape improvement, estate manage- turner, Prof. Michael, Department of History, ment and the circulation of ideas, capital and people ­University of Hull, hu6 7rx, [email protected] on the Egremont estates from 1770–1840 Land tenure in England c.1820–1950; the Land Ques- whittle, Dr Jane, History department, University of tion 1880–1940 (with Prof John Beckett) Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, ex4 uttley, Dr David, [email protected] 4rj, [email protected] Changes in the pattern of land ownership in Cumber- The late medieval and early modern history of rural land, 1780–c.1913: the decline of the ‘yeoman’ England. 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L., Department of His- fessional identity; animal plagues and policies for tory, Lancaster University, Lancaster, la1 4yg, their control; the construction of veterinary expertise [email protected] in cattle breeding; the history of herd health, preven- Hill farming in upland Britain, particularly north- tive medicine and ‘farm health planning’ ern England, in medieval and early modern peri- yates, Dr Margaret, Department of History, Univer- ods; management of common land; rural society in sity of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, rg6 6aa, ­ [email protected] wittering, Mrs Shirley (MStud, University of Social and economic change in the late medieval period ­Cambridge), The Spinney, 24a Middle Street, with a special emphasis on conditions in Berkshire Thriplow, Royston, Herts, sg8 7rd, shirley@wittering. young, Dr Mary, Archives, Records Management f2s.com and Museum Services, Tower Building, Nethergate, The ecology of enclosure – a study of the effect of ­Dundee, dd1 4hn, [email protected] parliamentary enclosure on the chalk villages of south Rural communities in the eastern lowlands of Scotland, Cambridgeshire 1600–2000, with particular reference to agricultural, landscape and economic change.