the agricultural history review history the agricultural contents the The Bishop and the Prior: demesne agriculture in medieval Hampshire john hare agricultural Scottish environmental history and the (mis)use of Soums alasdair ross history The case of John Dyer’s fat-tailed sheep and their tail-trolleys: ‘a thing to some scarce credible’ john goodridge review Parliamentary enclosure and changes in landownership in an upland environment: Westmorland, c.1770–1860 ian whyte 54 volume Farewell to the peasant republic: marginal rural communities and European industrialisation, 1815–1990 fernando collantes Farm service, seasonal unemployment and casual labour ii part in mid nineteenth-century England nigel goose Smallholdings in Norfolk, 1890–1950: a social and farming experiment susanna wade martins Children’s labour in the countryside during World War II: a further note a journal of agricultural r. j. moore-colyer and rural history Obituaries Book Reviews Conference Report 2006 Volume 54, Part I issn 0002-1490 2006 The Agricultural History Review Volume 54 Part I 2006 CONTENTS Assarting and the dynamics of Rhineland economies in the 1 ninth century: Scarae at Werden, Weissenburg and Prüm Abbeys Between fact and fiction: Henry Brinklow’s Complaynt against 24 rapacious landlords The circulation of Scottish agricultural books during 45 the eighteenth century Female agricultural labour on the Dixon Estate, Lincolnshire, . 79 1801–17 Agricultural workers in mid nineteenth-century Brighton . 93 From ideals to reality: The women’s smallholding colony 105 at Lingfield, 1920–39 The development of irrigated agriculture in twentieth-century 122 Spain: a case study of the Ebro basin Annual list of publications on Agrarian History, 2004 142 Book Reviews David Stone, Decision-making in medieval agriculture . 158 James Bond, Monastic landscapes 159 Amanda Richardson, The forest, park and palace of Clarendon, 160 c. 1200–c. 1650. Reconstructing an actual, conceptual and documented Wiltshire landscape Christian D. Liddy and Richard H. Britnell (eds), 161 North-east England in the later middle ages Christopher Dyer, An age of transition? Economy 162 and society in England in the later middle ages John S. Lee, Cambridge and its economic region, 1450–1560 163 Michael A. Faraday (ed.), Worcestershire taxes in the 1520s. . 164 The military survey and forced loans of 1522–3 and the lay subsidy of 1524–7 T. C. Smout, Alan R. Macdonald and Fiona Watson, A history 164 of the native woodlands of Scotland, 1500–1920 John Barnatt and Tom Williamson, Chatsworth. A landscape 166 history A. J. Gritt and J. M. Virgoe with C. P. Brownrigg (eds), 166 The memoranda books of Basil Thomas Eccleston, 1757–1789 Stephen Randolph Gibbons, Captain Rock, night errant. 167 The threatening letters of pre-famine Ireland, 1801–1845 Philip Heath (ed.), Melbourne, 1820–1875. A diary . 168 of John Joseph Briggs Michael Freeman, Victorians and the prehistoric. . 168 Tracks to a lost world Keith Grieves, Nick Mansfield, George Sheeran, Winifred 169 Stokes, Melanie Tebbutt, Andrew Walker and John Walton, Rural and urban encounters in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: regional perspectives Abigail Woods, A manufactured plague? The history of 170 foot and mouth disease in Britain Jonathan Bell, Ulster farming families, 1930–1960 . 171 Colin Pearse, The whitefaced drift of Dartmoor’s ‘prapper’ 172 sheep: commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Whitefaced Dartmoor Sheep Breeders’ Association Michael Clayton, Endangered species. Foxhunting – the . 173 history, the passion and the fight for survival Lawrence Garner, Dry stone walls; Tom . - 173 Williamson, The archaeology of rabbit warrens Tom Williamson, Sandlands: The Suffolk coast and heaths 175 Robin Stanes, Old farming days. Life on the land in Devon . - 175 and Cornwall Elsewhere and General Richard W. Unger, Beer in the middle ages and the renaissance . 176 Viljo Rasila, Eino Jutikkala and Anneli Mäkelä-Alitalo (eds), . 177 Suomen maatalouden historia, I, Perinteisen maatalouden aika, Esihistoriasta vuoteen 1870 Jean-Marc Moriceau, Histoire et géographie de l’élevage français 178 du moyen âge à la révolution Gérard Béaur, Christian Dessureault and Joseph Goy (eds), 180 Familles, terre, marchés. Logiques économiques et stratégies dans les milieux ruraux (XVIIe-XXe siècles). Actes du colloque France-Québec-Suisse, Paris, novembre 2002 John McKendrick Hughes (ed. John R. Hughes), 180 The unwanted. Great War letters from the field Jonathan Harwood, Technology’s dilemma. Agricultural 181 colleges between science and practice in Germany, 1860–1934 Fernando Collantes Gutiérrez, El declive demográfico 182 de la montaña española (1850–2000) ¿una drama rural? Giovanni Federico, Feeding the world. An economic history 183 of agriculture, 1800–2000 Conference report: The Society’s Winter Conference, 2005 . 185 Notes on Contributors , , , a primary school headteacher for ten years, took her first degree in History at the University of Kent in 1990. She obtained an MA from King’s College London in 1991. She has published in The Mariner’s Mirror, the Historical Metallurgy Newsletter, Friends of Rochester Cathedral Report and Archaeologia Cantiana. She is currently working on aspects of ninth-century Europe. Address: 2 Finglesham Farm Barns, Marley Lane, Finglesham, near Deal, 14 0, e.mail [email protected] works for the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department. She received her PhD on potato harvesting in the Lothians, 1870–1995 at the University of Edinburgh in 1996. This won the Michaelis-Jera Ratcliffe prize in 1996 and was published in 2000 under the title of As good as a holiday. Potato harvesting in the Lothians from 1870 to the present. She has published numerous articles on seasonal agricultural workers and on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Scottish agricultural books, newspapers and journals. Address: 37 Heatherfield Glade, Adambrae Parks, Livingston, West Lothian, 54 9, e.mail [email protected]. received her D.Phil, entitled ‘Middle-class women and horticultural educa- tion, 1890–1939’ from the University of Sussex in 2002. Since then she has taught part-time in the adult and continuing education departments of the Universities of Surrey and Reading. Address: 23 Mareschal Road, Guildford, Surrey, 2 4, e.mail [email protected]. is a Senior Lecturer in Economic History at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. His research interests lie in the international trade in agricultural products, Spanish agricultural production and mountain economies, depopulation and migration. He is the author of several books and numerous papers devoted to these issues. He is currently co-director of the Centre for Depopulation and Development of rural areas (Zaragosa). Address: Facultad de Ciencias Economicas y Empresariales, Gran Via 4, 50005, Zaragoza, Spain, e.mail [email protected]. is Reader Emeritus in Geography at Queen Mary, University of London. Her earlier work was on field systems, village plans and agricultural labourers in Yorkshire. She is currently working on Brighton’s railway workers in the nineteenth century. Address: c/o Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London, 1 4. received her PhD, ‘Lincolnshire rural women, their employment and repre- sentation in contemporary written records, c. 1800–1875’, from the University of Lincoln in 2004. She is currently engaged in research concerning the impact of historical flood events on the lives of vulnerable groups. Address: High Point House, Cambridge Crescent, Brookenby, Lincolnshire, 8 6, e.mail [email protected]. is lecturer in history at the University of Reading where she teaches, researches and publishes on the social history of the period of transition from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries. Her monograph From medieval to modern. Society and economy from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries in western Berkshire is with the publishers. Address, The Department of History, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading 6 6, e.mail [email protected]. Work in Progress At intervals the British Agricultural History Society revises of its listing of work in progress on rural and agrarian history. We are currently undertaking a new survey which will appear in the Review in 2007. This will cover any research on British and Irish rural/agrarian society (social, economic, political or technical) with a historical dimension from any period up to the end of the twentieth century. No one is excluded from these lists: they are open to all scholars of rural society working in the British Isles or researchers based abroad concerned with the rural/agrarian history of the British Isles. We encourage all researchers to respond: post-graduate students, established academics and non-university scholars. Whether you have contributed to our work in progress list before, or are a new or returning researcher in these fields, please make a return by filling in the form inserted in this edition of the Review and returning it to Dr Nicola Verdon, History Subject Group, Faculty of Develop ment and Society, Sheffield Hallam University, Collegiate Crescent Campus, Sheffield, 10 2 by 1 January 2007. Alternatively you can access the form on the BAHS website (www.bahs.org.uk) and submit it online. Forthcoming conferences The British Agricultural History Society Winter Conference Saturday 2 December 2006,