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| Joe and Caroline Hillaby, Leominster minster, priory and borough, c.660–1539 (The Friends of Leominster Priory & Loaston Press, 2006), reviewed by M. J. Franklin, p. 215 |
| Mark Bailey, Medieval Suffolk. An economic and social history, 1200–1500 (Boydell Press, 2007), reviewed by Phillipp R. Schofield, p. 215 |
| Adrian R. Bell, Chris Brooks and Paul R. Drybergh, The English wool market, c.1230–1327 (CUP, 2007), reviewed by Janet Burton, p. 216 |
| Brian Barker, Law and disorder in the Medieval North-East: the Claxtons and the Barony of Dilston in Northumberland, 1373–1441 (Papers in North Eastern History, 16, North-East England History Institute, 2007), reviewed by Ben Dodds, p. 217 |
| Margaret Yates, Town and countryside in western Berkshire, c.1327–c.1600: social and economic change (Boydell Press, 2007), reviewed by Ben Dodds, p. 217 |
| Robert Liddiard (ed.), The medieval park. New perspectives (Windgather Press, 2007), reviewed by Jean Birrell, p. 218 |
| Andy Wood, The 1549 rebellions and the making of early modern England (CUP, 2007), reviewed by Jane Whittle, p. 219 |
| H. R. French and R. W. Hoyle, The character of English rural society. Earls Colne, 1550–1750 (Manchester UP, 2007), reviewed by John Walter, p. 220 |
| Peter Edwards, Horse and man in early modern England (Hambledon Continuum, 2007), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 221 |
| Dave Postles, The North through its names. A phenomenology of medieval and early modern England (Oxbow Books, 2007), reviewed by David Hey, p. 223 |
| John Gurney, Brave community. The Digger movement in the English revolution (Manchester University Press, 2007), reviewed by Darren Webb, p. 224 |
| J. Finch and K. Giles (eds), Estate Landscapes. Design, improvement and power in the post-medieval landscape (Boydell Press, 2007), reviewed by Susanna Wade-Martins, p. 225 |
| Adrian Randall, Riotous assemblies. Popular protest in Hanoverian England (OUP, 2006), reviewed by Roger Wells, p. 226 |
| David Oldroyd, Estates, enterprise and investment at the dawn of the industrial revolution. Estate management and accounting in the north-east of England, c.1700–80 (Ashgate, 2007), reviewed by Anne L. Murphy, p. 228 |
| Cheryl Schonhardt-Bailey, From the Corn Laws to Free Trade. Interests, ideas and institutions in historical perspective (The MIT Press, 2006), reviewed by Peter T. Marsh, p. 229 |
| H. Kristensen (ed.), The diaries of William Brewis of Mitford, 1833–1850 (Wagtail Press, 2007), reviewed by Ian D. Roberts, p. 230 |
| Geoffrey Tudor, Brunel’s Hidden Kingdom. The full story of the estate he created and his planned house at Watcombe, Torquay, compiled by Helen Hilliard (Creative Media Publishing, 2007), reviewed by Michael Duffy, p. 230 |
| Edward Bujak, England’s Rural Realms. Landholding and the agricultural revolution (Tauris Academic Studies, 2007), reviewed by J. V. Beckett, p. 231 |
| Gary Moses, Rural moral reform in nineteenth-century England. The crusade against adolescent farm servants and hiring fairs (The Edwin Mellen Press, 2007), reviewed by Andrew J. Gritt, p. 232 |
| Joyce Burnette, Gender, work and wages in industrial revolution Britain (Cambridge University Press, 2008), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 233 |
| Elizabeth T. Hurren, Protesting about pauperism. Poverty, politics and poor relief in late Victorian England, 1870–1900 (Royal Historical Society/Boydell, 2007), reviewed by Mark Freeman, p. 234 |
| Alan Crossley, Tom Hassall and Peter Salway (eds), William Morris’s Kelmscott. Landscape and history (Windgather Press, 2007), reviewed by Martin Haggerty, p. 235 |
| K. Redmore (ed.), Ploughs, chaff cutters and steam engines. Lincolnshire’s agricultural implement makers (Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 2007), reviewed by Peter Dewey, p. 237 |
| Bromyard and District Local History Society, A pocketful of hops (New edition, 2007), reviewed by Graham Gardner, p. 238 |
| Peter Dewey, ‘Iron Harvests of the Fields’: the making of farm machinery in Britain since 1800 (Carnegie Publishing Ltd., 2008), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 239 |
| M. Masheder, Carrier’s Cart to Oxford. Growing up in the 1920s in the Oxfordshire village of Elsfield (The Wychwood Press, 2007), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 240 |
| Lady Eve Balfour, The living soil (Soil Association, 2006); Sir Albert Howard, Farming and gardening for health or disease (Soil Association, 2006); Lionel Picton, Thoughts on feeding (Soil Association, 2006), reviewed by Erin Gill, p. 241 |
| Mark Hamilton Lytle, The gentle subversive. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring and the rise of the environmental movement (New York: OUP, 2007), reviewed by Lisa H. Sideris, p. 242 |
| Arthur Staniforth, Straw and Straw Craftsmen (Shire Publications, 2008), reviewed by R. J. Moore-Colyer, p. 243 |
| Eric Wood, The south-west Peak. A landscape history (Landmark Publishing, 2007), reviewed by Roger Dalton, p. 244 |
| Gary J. West, An historical ethnography of rural Perthshire, 1750–1950. Farm, family and neighbourhood (The Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., 2007), reviewed by Heather Holmes, p. 245 |
| L. Kennedy and P. M. Solar, Irish Agriculture: A price history from the mid-eighteenth century to the First World War (The Royal Irish Academy, 2007), reviewed by Michael Turner, p. 246 |
| Cormac Ó Gráda, Richard Paping and Eric Vanhaute (eds), When the potato failed: causes and effects of the last European subsistence crisis, 1845–1850 (Brepols, 2007), reviewed by Joel Mokyr, p. 247 |
| Samuel Leturcq, Un village, la terre et les hommes. Toury en Beauce (XII-XVII siècle) (Editions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, Paris, 2007), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 248 |
| N. Locklin, Women’s work and identity in eighteenth-century Brittany (Ashgate, 2007), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 249 |
| Philippe Madeline and Jean-Marc Moriceau (eds), Bâtir dans les campagnes. Les enjeux de la construction de la protohistoire au XXIe siècle (Presses universitaires de CAEN-MRSH coedition, 2007), reviewed by Gwen Jones, p. 250 |
| Pierre Cornu and Jean-Luc Mayaud (eds), Au nom de la terre. Agrarisme et agrariens en France et en Europe du 19e siècle à nos jours (Paris, La Boutique de l’Histoire, 2007), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 251 |
| René Bourrigaud and François Sigaut, Nous Labourons. Actes du colloque technique de travail de la terre, hier et aujourd’hui, ici et là-bas (Editions du Centre d’histoire du travail, Nantes, 2007), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 252 |
| Annie Antoine and Dominique Marguerie (eds), Bocages et sociétés (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2007), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 253 |
| Vicente Pinilla Navarro (ed.), Gestión y usos del agua en la cuenca del Ebro en el siglo XX (Prensas Universitarias de Zaragoza, 2008), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 254 |
| David Celetti, La canapa nella Repubblica veneta. Produzione nazionale e importazioni in età moderna (Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti), reviewed by F. M. Vianello, p. 255 |
| Andreas Dix and Ernst Lanthaler (eds), Grüne Revolutionen. Agrarsysteme und Umwelt im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag. Jahrbuch für Geschichte des ländlichen Raumes, 2006), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 256 |
| Corinne Gaudin, Ruling Peasants. Village and state in late Imperial Russia (Northern Illinois University Press, 2007), reviewed by T. K. Dennison, p. 257 |
| James S. Duncan, In the shadows of the tropics. Climate, race and biopower in nineteenth-century Ceylon (Ashgate, 2007), reviewed by James L. A. Webb, Jr., p. 258 |
| Colin Grier, Jangsuk Kim and Junzo Uchiyama (eds), Beyond affluent foragers. Rethinking hunter-gather complexity (Oxbow Books, 2006); Marjan Mashkour (ed.), Equids in time and space (Oxbow Books, 2006); Deborah Ruscillo (ed.), Recent advances in ageing and sexing animal bones (Oxbow Books, 2006), reviewed by Alasdair Whittle, p. 259 |
| R. Compatangelo-Soussignan, J.-R. Bertrand, J. Chapman and P-Y. Laffont (eds), Landmarks and socio-economic systems. The construction of pre-industrial landscapes and their perception by contemporary societies. Proceedings of the Le Mans COST Conference (7–9 December, 2006), reviewed by Ross Balzaretti, p. 260 |
| Linda Kalof, Looking at animals in human history (Reaktion Books, 2007), reviewed by Keith R. Benson, p. 262 |
| Marcel Mazoyer and Laurence Roudart, A history of world agriculture from the Neolithic age to the current crisis (Earthscan, 2006), reviewed by L. T. Evans, p. 262 |
| J. Radkau, Nature and Power. A global history of the environment (Cambridge University Press, 2008), reviewed by Timothy Cooper, p. 263 |