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the agricultural history review a journal of agricultural and rural history Volume 61, Part I 2013 Agricultural History Review Volume 61 Part I 2013 contents CONTENTS Notes on Contributors iv Forthcoming conferences vi Marking the boundaries: William Jordan’s 1633 pre-enclosure heather falvey 1 survey of Duffield Frith (Derbyshire) ‘Living at their own hands’: policing poor households and the tim wales 19 young in early modern rural England Land under pressure: The value of Irish land in a period of peter m. solar and 40 rapid population growth, 1730–1844 luc hens Wagons at work, or a transport revolution from below: the fr edr ik 63 case of southern Sweden, 1750–1850 bergenfeldt, mats olsson and patr ick svensson The Land Question in nineteenth-century Wales, Ireland and david w. howell 83 Scotland: a comparative study Hobby farming among the Birmingham bourgeoisie: the maureen perrie 111 Cadburys and the Chamberlains on their suburban estates, c.1880–1914 Accounting for agriculture: The origins of the Farm paul brassley, 135 Management Survey david harvey, matt lobley and michael winter Annual List of publications on Agrarian History, 2011 peter mcshane 154 ii agricultural history review Book Reviews Britain and Ireland John Aberth, An environmental history of the Middle Ages. christopher dyer 169 The crucible of nature Graeme J. White, The medieval English landscape, 1000–1540 stephen rippon 170 David Noy (ed.), Winslow Manor Court Books, I, 1327–1377; m a r ily n 170 II, 1432–1460 livingstone Sandra Raban (trans. and ed.), The accounts of Godfrey of christopher dyer 171 Crowland, Abbot of Peterborough, 1299–1321 Mark Bailey and Stephen Rigby (eds), Town and countryside philip slavin 172 in the age of the Black Death: essays in honour of John Hatcher Craig Muldrew, Food, energy and the creation of industri- h. r. french 173 ousness. Work and material culture in agrarian England, 1550–1780 Carl J. Griffin, The rural war. Captain Swing and the politics harvey osborne 175 of protest Dorothy Hartley, Lost World. England, 1933–1936 nicola verdon 176 Alec Douet, Breaking New Ground. Agriculture in Norfolk, john martin 177 1914–72 Margaret Derry, Art and science in breeding. Creating better karen sayer 178 chickens Europe and elsewhere Fulgence Delleaux, Les censiers et les mutations des hugh clout 179 campagnes du Hainaut français: la formation originale d’une structure socio-économique (fin XVIIe–début XIXe siècle) Julie Marfany, Land, proto-industry and population in james simpson 179 Catalonia, c.1680–1829. An alternative transition to capitalism? Markus Cerman, Villagers and lords in Eastern Europe, paul warde 180 1300–1800 Sokratis D. Petmezas, Economic history of Greek agriculture in dimitris 181 the ‘long interwar period’ panagiotopoulos contents iii Marcus Popplow (ed.), Landschaften agrarisch-ökonismischen paul warde 182 Wissens. Strategien innovativer Ressourcenntuzung in Zeitschriften und Sozietäten des 18. Jahrhunderts British Agricultural History Society Spring Conference 2012 irene haycock 184 Notes on Contributors notes on contributors fredrik bergenfeldt is a PhD student in Economic History at Lund University. His main research interest lies in economic geography and agricultural transformation. He is currently writing a monograph on the role of road transport costs in the agricultural transformation in southern Sweden, 1750–1850. Address: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Box 7083, 22007, Lund, Sweden; email: [email protected]. paul brassley is Visiting Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter; david harvey is Associate Professor of Historical Cultural Geography, University of Exeter; matt lobley is Co-Director, Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter; michael winter is also Co-Director, Centre for Rural Policy Research, and Director of the Bath/Bristol/Exeter/Rothamsted Food Security and Land Research Alliance. Together they are currently engaged in a study of technical change in English agriculture 1935–1985. Address: Centre for Rural Policy Research, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, Amory building, Rennes Drive, Exeter ex4 4rj; email: [email protected]. heather falvey gained her PhD from the University of Warwick in 2007 and was subsequently the post-doctoral researcher on two academic projects, one at Warwick and the other at the University of Cambridge. She teaches for the Continuing Education departments of Cambridge and Oxford and is the Editorial Assistant for the Economic History Review. Her main research interests are early modern communities and social unrest but she has recently edited a large collection of late eighteenth-century recipes and has now begun work on an edition of the correspondence of Humphry Repton held in the Huntington Library, California. email: [email protected]. luc hens is Associate Professor of Economics at Vesalius College and at the Department of Applied Economics, Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His research deals with international economics and development. Recent work (with Sofie Van den waeyenberg) investigated the scope for markets for the poor in developing countries (‘Overcoming institutional distance: Expansion to base-of-the-pyramid markets’, Journal of Business Research, 65, 2012; and ‘Crossing the bridge to poverty, with low-cost cars’, Journal of Consumer Marketing, 25, 2008). Address: Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Department of Applied Economics. Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium; email: [email protected]. david howell is Emeritus Professor of History at Swansea University. His research and publications have been mainly in the field of Welsh agricultural and rural history from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Born and raised in Pembrokeshire, he is currently editing its County History Atlas and is a vice president of the Pembrokeshire Historical Society. email: [email protected]. notes on contributors v mats olsson is a professor in Economic History at Lund University. His research interests lie in the agricultural production, rural transformation, and the role of the manors and the peasantries. He has written a number of articles devoted to these issues, edited several anthologies, and written monographs on the development of manorial demesne production and on taxes on agriculture. Address: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Box 7083, 22007 Lund, Sweden; email: [email protected]. maureen perrie is Emeritus Professor of Russian History in the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, and has published extensively on Russian history from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries (some of her early work was on the peasantry in the revolutions of 1905 and 1917). In retirement, as well as working on seventeenth-century Muscovy, she has developed an interest in the history of Highbury Park, which is a few minutes’ walk from her home. email: [email protected]. tim wales is a Research Associate on ‘The Writings and Speeches of Oliver Cromwell: A New Critical Edition’, a project based at the University of Cambridge. He has worked extensively in the social history of early Modern England, and in particular the administrative development and social relations of poor relief. He has also produced a directory of Parliamentarian army officers for the Cromwell Association, to be published on British History Online this year. Address: Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, West Road, Cambridge, cb3 9e; email: [email protected]. peter m. solar is Professor of Economics at Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and at Universite Saint-Louis–Bruxelles. He has worked and continues to work on Irish agricultural history as well as on the histories of the cotton and linen industries in Europe. Among other contributions he has put together long series of agricultural prices for Ireland (with Liam Kennedy, Irish Agriculture: A Price History [Dublin, 2007]) and for London (with Jan Tore Klovland, ‘London Agricultural Prices, 1770–1913’, Economic History Review, 64, 2011). Address: Vesalius College, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium; email: [email protected]. patrick svensson is an associate professor in Economic History at Lund University. His main research agenda includes the Swedish agricultural revolution and its social and economic consequences. He is also engaged in comparative research on this topic, historically within Europe and across time and space in a global history perspective. Svensson has published a number of articles in peer-review international journals and has edited two anthologies on these subjects. Address: Department of Economic History, Lund University, Box 7083, 22007 Lund, Sweden; email: [email protected]. Forthcoming conferences Institute of Historical Research, London 1 July 2013 Agriculture and Industry: the development of rural England, 1200–1700 Details from [email protected] or [email protected] British Agricultural History Society Winter Conference, 7 December 2013 Augmented Agriculture: tools, fuel and traction in farming. A conference in honour of Ted Collins Details will be circulated and made available on the Society’s website in July British Agricultural History Society Spring Conference, 7–9 April 2014 To be held at Denman College near Abingdon Agricultural History Review looks forward to seeing its readers at Rural History 2013, Bern, Switzerland 19–22 August 2013 Details are to be found at www.ruralhistory2013.org