| Peter Fowler, Farming in the first millennium ad: British agriculture between Julius Caesar and William the Conqueror (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Andrew Fleming, p. 226 |
| Philip Riden (ed.), The Victoria history of the counties of England. A history of the county of Northampton, V, Cleyley hundred (Boydell and Brewer for the Institute of Historical Research, 2002), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 227 |
| Maryanne Kowaleski (ed.), The havener’s accounts of the earldom and duchy of Cornwall, 1287–1356 (Devon and Cornwall Record Society, new ser. 44, 2001), reviewed by Bruce M. S. Campbell, p. 228 |
| J. L. Kirby and Janet H. Stevenson (eds), Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and other analogous documents preserved in the Public Record Office, XXI, 6 to 10 Henry V (1418–1422) (Boydell / Public Record Office, 2002), reviewed by Bruce M. S. Campbell, p. 229 |
| C. P. Lewis, A history of Kirtling and Upend. Landowners and people in a Cambridgeshire parish, 1000–2000 (Wallasey: Magazine Lane Press for Kirtling and Upend Parish Council, 2000), reviewed by Elizabeth Griffiths, p. 229 |
| Pamela Sharpe, Population and society in an east Devon parish. Reproducing Colyton, 1540–1840 (University of Exeter Press, 2002), reviewed by Nigel Goose, p. 230 |
| Charles F. Foster, Seven households. Life in Cheshire and Lancashire, 1582 to 1774 (Arley Hall Press, 2002), reviewed by Peter Edwards, p. 231 |
| Margaret Spufford, The scope of local history and the potential of the hearth tax returns (British Association for Local History, 2000); Nesta Evans and Susan Rose (eds), Cambridgeshire hearth tax returns, Michaelmas 1664 (British Record Society/Cambridgeshire Records Society, 2001); Duncan Harrington, Sarah Pearson and Susan Rose (eds), Kent hearth tax assessment, Lady Day 1664 (British Record Society/Kent Archaeological Society, 2001), reviewed by Elizabeth Parkinson, p. 232 |
| Rachel Crawford, Poetry, enclosure, and the vernacular landscape, 1700–1830 (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Bridget Keegan, p. 233 |
| Nicola Verdon, Rural women workers in nineteenth-century England. Gender, work and wages (Boydell Press, 2002), reviewed by Jane Humphries, p. 234 |
| Jeremy Burchardt, Paradise lost. Rural idyll and social change since 1800 (I.B. Tauris, 2002), reviewed by Brian Short, p. 235 |
| Patricia Lynch, The Liberal party in rural England, 1885–1910. Radicalism and community (OUP, 2003), reviewed by Paul Readman, p. 236 |
| Heather Holmes, ‘As good as a holiday’. Potato harvesting in the Lothians from 1870 to the present (Tuckwell Press, 2000), reviewed by Alun Howkins, p. 238 |
| Alun Howkins, The death of rural England. A social history of the countryside since 1900 (Routledge, 2003), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 238 |
| Helena Hamerow, Early medieval settlements. The archaeology of rural communities in north-west Europe, 400–900 (OUP, 2002), reviewed by H. T. Waterbolk, p. 240 |
| Cédric Lavigne, Essai sur la planification agraire au moyen age. Les paysages neufs de la Gascogne médiévale (XIIIe-XIVe siècles) (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2002), reviewed by Elisabeth Zadora-Rio, p. 241 |
| Martina de Moor, Leigh Shaw-Taylor and Paul Warde (eds), The management of common land in north-west Europe, c. 1500–1850 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2002), reviewed by Elinor Ostrom, p. 242 |
| William W. Hagen, Ordinary Prussians. Brandenburg Junkers and villagers, 1500–1840 (CUP, 2002), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 242 |
| Eric Pawson and Tom Brooking (eds), Environmental histories of New Zealand (OUP, 2002), reviewed by J. M. Powell, p. 243 |
| William D. Walters Jr., The heart of the cornbelt: an illustrated history of corn farming in McLean County (Bloomington IL: McLean County Historical Society, 1998), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 244 |
| Tom Griffiths, Forests of ash. An environmental history (CUP, 2001), reviewed by Michael Roche, p. 245 |
| Margreet Van Der Burg, ‘Geen tweede boer’. Gender, landbouwmodernisering en onderwijs aan plattelandsvrouwen in Nederland, 1863–1968 (A.A.G. Bijdragen, 41, 2002), reviewed by Hilde Krips Van Der Laan, p. 246 |
| Helene Albers, Zwischen Hof, Haushalt und Familie: Bäuerinnen in Westfalen-Lippe, 1920–1960 (Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2001), reviewed by John Perkins, p. 246 |
| A. E. Luloff and R. S. Krannich (eds), Persistence and change in rural communities. A fifty-year follow-up to six classic studies (CABI Publishing, 2002), reviewed by Willis Goudy, p. 247 |
| Norman Wirzba (ed.), The art of the commonplace. The agrarian essays of Wendell Berry (Washington DC: Counterpoint, 2002), reviewed by Philip Conford, p. 248 |