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the agricultural history review history the agricultural contents the Goose management and rearing in late medieval eastern England, c.1250–1400 agricultural philip slavin Stints and sustainability: managing stock levels on common land in England, c.1600–2006 history angus j.l.winchester and eleanor a.straughton Agricultural change and the development of foxhunting in the eighteenth century review jane bevan ‘1846 and All That’: The rise and fall of British wheat protection in the nineteenth century 58 volume paul sharp Feeding the war effort: agricultural experiences in First World War Devon, 1914–17 bonnie white part i part Annual list of publications on Agrarian History, 2008 peter mcshane Book Reviews a journal of agricultural and rural history 2010 Volume 58, Part I issn 0002-1490 2010 Agricultural History Review Volume 58 Part I 2010 CONTENTS Notes on Contributors iv Forthcoming Conferences vi Goose management and rearing in late medieval eastern philip slavin 1 England, c.1250–1400 Stints and sustainability: managing stock levels on common angus j. l. 30 land in England, c.1600–2006 winchester and eleanor a. straughton Agricultural change and the development of foxhunting in jane bevan 49 the eighteenth century ‘1846 and All That’: the rise and fall of British wheat paul sharp 76 protection in the nineteenth century Feeding the war effort: agricultural experiences in bonnie white 95 First World War Devon, 1914–17 Annual list of publications on Agrarian History, 2008 peter mcshane 113 Book Reviews Great Britain and Ireland M. Audouy and A. Chapman (eds), Raunds: the origin and carenza lewis 128 growth of a Midland village AD 450–1500: excavations in North Raunds, Northamptonshire, 1977–87 Margaret E. Briston and Timothy M. Halliday (eds), The m. j. franklin 129 Pilsgate manor of the Sacrist of Peterborough Abbey, Part B of the Register of George Fraunceys, Sacrist, c.1404 ii agricultural history review Guy Beresford, Caldecote: the development and desertion stephen rippon 130 of a Hertfordshire village Bruce M. S. Campbell, Field systems and farming systems chris briggs 131 in late medieval England Claire Noble (ed.), Calendar of inquisitions post-mortem, X X V, m a r ily n 132 16 to 20 Henry VI (1437–1442) livingstone M. L. Holford (ed.), Calendar of inquisitions post-mortem, XXVI, 21 to 25 Henry VI (1442–1447) Christopher Dyer (ed.), The self-contained village? The social barry reay 132 history of rural communities, 1250–1900 Andrew Mcrae, Literature and domestic travel in early modern mark brayshay 133 England Elizabeth Griffiths and Mark Overton, Farming to halves. paul brassley 135 The hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson, Hedgerow history, ecology, nicola whyte 135 history and character Susanna Wade Martins, Coke of Norfolk 1754–1842: a biography mark rothery 136 J. H. Andrews, Maps in those days. Cartographic methods w. d. shannon 137 before 1850 Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson, The countryside paul readman 138 of East Anglia: changing landscapes, 1870–1950 Kenneth F. Kiple, A movable feast. Ten millennia of food alfred w. crosby 139 globalization T. C. Smout, Exploring environmental history: selected essays alasdair ross 140 Philip Conford (ed.), The poet of ecology: a selection of writings erin gill 141 in memory of Robert Waller Ruth Tittensor, From peat bog to conifer forest. An oral history heather holmes 142 of Whitelee, its community and landscape Miles Glendinning and Susanna Wade Martins, Buildings shirley brook 143 of the land. Scotland’s farms, 1750–2000 Peter Hillis (ed.), Journal of my life and everyday doings heather holmes 144 1879–81, 1885–92, James Wilson, farmer of Banffshire contents iii Europe and elsewhere Nadine Vivier (ed.), Élites et progrès agricole, XVIe–XXe siècle hugh clout 145 Bas J. P. Van Bavel and Phillipp Schofield (eds), The paul warde 146 development of leasehold in north-western Europe, c.1200–1600 Jordi Bolòs and Enric Vicedo (eds), Poblament, Territori i joseph harrison 147 Història Rural. VI Congrés Sobre Sistemes Agraris, Organització Social i Poder Local C. A. Bayly, The C. A. Bayly Omnibus justin jones 148 Lyle Dick, Farmers ‘making good’. The development of the peter a. russell 149 Abernethy district, Saskatchewan, 1880–1920 Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, Creating abundance: w. e. doolittle 150 biological innovation and American agricultural development Conference Report, The Society’s Winter Conference, 2009 jane whittle 151 Notes on Contributors jane bevan works as a lay (non-legal) member of Employment Tribunals in the East of England. Currently she combines this with studying part-time for a PhD on the impact of foxhunting on the pre- twentieth-century landscape of Shropshire and Norfolk. Address: School of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of East Anglia, Norwich, nr4 7tj. email: [email protected] paul sharp is a post-doctoral researcher, funded by a grant from the Carlsberg Foundation, at the Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen. He completed his PhD thesis in June 2009 on ‘Wheat, Globalization and History’, looking at the intercontinental growth of trade in grains in the nineteenth century. He has contributed two chapters to Karl Gunnar Persson’s Economic History of Europe (2010) and is currently studying the emergence and success of the Danish dairy industry in the nineteenth century. Address: Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Oester Farimagsgade 5, building 26, 1353 Copenhagen K, Denmark. email: [email protected] dr philip slavin is a post-doctoral associate at the Economic Growth Center, Yale University. He received his PhD – which examined the process of food production and consumption in late-medieval Norfolk – from the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto in 2008. He is the author of a number of articles on the history of late medieval England, the connection between ecological crises and religious violence in late medieval Europe. He is currently working on a book on food production and consumption in late medieval Norwich Cathedral Priory, tentatively entitled Bread and ale for brethren: Norwich Cathedral Priory and its grain supply, c.1250–1420. email: [email protected] dr eleanor straughton is an honorary research fellow in the History Department at Lancaster University. Her research interests include common resources and environmental governance in the modern historical period; in 2008 she published Common grazing in the northern English uplands, 1800–1965: a history of national policy and local practice with special attention to the case of Cumbria (2008). She was research associate on the project entitled ‘Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance, Law and Sustainable Land Management, c.1600–2006’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Landscape and Environment programme. Address: Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster la1 4yg. email: [email protected] dr bonnie white is a lecturer in Political Science at St. Francis Xavier University. She received her PhD in history from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario in 2008. Since then her research interests have focused on the Women’s Land Army and its subsection, the Women’s Timber Corps, in First World War Britain. Address: Department of Political Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, b2g 2w5. email: [email protected] notes on contributors v dr angus winchester is senior lecturer in History at Lancaster University. His research focus lies in the agrarian and environmental history of upland regions of Britain; his publications include The harvest of the hills: rural life in northern England and the Scottish Borders 1400–1700 (2000) and (with Alan Crosby) England’s landscape 8: the North West (2006). He is currently co-investigator on a three- year project entitled ‘Contested Common Land: Environmental Governance, Law and Sustainable Land Management, c.1600–2006’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of its Landscape and Environment programme. Address: Department of History, Lancaster University, Lancaster la1 4yg. e.mail: [email protected] Forthcoming Conferences Rural History 2010 University of Sussex, 13–16 September 2010 The British Agricultural History Society is sponsoring the first international meeting of rural historians. Over 200 papers are promised covering aspects of the rural history of Britain and Europe, India, China and Japan, and North America, and there will be a ‘conference within the conference’ on the role of cooperation in agriculture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Plenary lectures will be delivered by Professor Bruce Campbell (QUB) Agriculture and national incomes in Europe, c.1300–1850 and Professor Jules Pretty (University of Essex) Sustainability in agricultural and rural systems: recent history and future challenges It is also proposed that the conference will see the establishment of a European Society for Rural History which will organise future international conferences. For the full programme and details of how to register, see www.ruralhistory2010.org British Agricultural History Society Winter Conference, 4 December 2010 Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, London Woods and their uses in medieval to modern Britain The speakers will be Dr Della Hooke, ‘Woodland usage in early medieval England’• Dr John Langton, ‘Early-modern English Forests as human habitats: the clearing of the woods or the running of the deer?’ • Dr Paul Warde, ‘Wood and wood products in the British economy, c.1550–1750’ • Prof. Charles Watkins, ‘English estate forestry in the nineteenth century’ Full details and a booking form can be downloaded from the Society’s website, www.bahs.org.uk A common agricultural heritage? Revising French and British rural divergence Edited by John Broad Agricultural History Review is pleased to announce the publication of its fifth supplement containing 13 papers on Anglo-French themes. It launches a new stage in rural historiography, by showing that England (and certainly Britain) was not as capitalist as is often supposed, and France far from backward.