Agricultural History Review, Volume 58 (2010)

Articles, Part 1

Philip Slavin, Goose management and rearing in late medieval eastern England, c.1250–1400, pp. 1–29

Angus J. L. Winchester and Eleanor A. Straughton, Stints and sustainability: managing stock levels on common land in England, c.1600–2006, pp. 30–48

Jane Bevan, Agricultural change and the development of foxhunting in the eighteenth century, pp. 49–75

Paul Sharp, 1846 and All That’: the rise and fall of British wheat protection in the nineteenth century, pp. 76–94

Bonnie White, Feeding the war effort: agricultural experiences in First World War Devon, 1914–17, pp. 95–112

Articles, Part 2

Mark Bailey, Beyond the Midland field system. The determinants of common rights over the arable in medieval England, pp. 153–171

Carsten Porskrog Rasmussen, Innovative Feudalism. The development of dairy farming and Koppelwirtschaft on manors in Schleswig-Holstein in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, pp. 172–190

E. J. T. Collins, The latter-day history of the draught ox in England, 1770–1964, pp. 191–216

Stephen Matthews, Underwriting disaster: risk and the management of agricultural crisis in mid-nineteenth century Cheshire, pp. 217–235

John Sheail, The White Paper, Agricultural Policy, of 1926: its context and significance, pp. 236–254

John Martin, The wild rabbit: plague, polices and pestilence in England and Wales, 1931–1955, pp. 255–276

Reviews, Part 1

M. Audouy and A. Chapman (eds), Raunds: the origin and growth of a Midland village AD 450–1500: excavations in North Raunds, Northamptonshire, 1977–87 (Oxbow Books, 2008), reviewed by Carenza Lewis, p. 128

Margaret E. Briston and Timothy M. Halliday (eds), The Pilsgate manor of the Sacrist of Peterborough Abbey, Part B of the Register of George Fraunceys, Sacrist, c.1404 (Dean and Chapter of Peterborough, Anthony Mellows Memorial Trust vol. IV; Northamptonshire Record Soc. 43, 2009), reviewed by M. J. Franklin, p. 129

Guy Beresford, Caldecote: the development and desertion of a Hertfordshire village (Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 28, 2009), reviewed by Stephen Rippon, p. 130

Bruce M. S. Campbell, Field systems and farming systems in late medieval England (Ashgate Variorum Collected Studies series, 2008), reviewed by Chris Briggs, p. 131

Claire Noble (ed.), Calendar of inquisitions postmortem, XXV, 16 to 20 Henry VI (1437–1442) (The Boydell Press & National Archives, 2009); M. L. Holford (ed.), Calendar of inquisitions postmortem, XXVI, 21 to 25 Henry VI (1442–1447) (The Boydell Press & National Archives, 2009), reviewed by Marilyn Livingstone, p. 132

Christopher Dyer (ed.), The self-contained village? The social history of rural communities, 1250–1900 (University of Hertfordshire Press, Explorations in Local and Regional History 2, 2007), reviewed by Barry Reay, p. 132

Andrew McRae, Literature and domestic travel in early modern England (Cambridge UP, 2009), reviewed by Mark Brayshay, p. 133

Elizabeth Griffiths and Mark Overton, Farming to halves. The hidden history of sharefarming in England from medieval to modern times (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 135

Gerry Barnes and Tom Williamson, Hedgerow history, ecology, history and character (Windgather Press, 2008), reviewed by Nicola Whyte, p. 135

Susanna Wade Martins, Coke of Norfolk 1754–1842: a biography (Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2009), reviewed by Mark Rothery, p. 136

J. H. Andrews, Maps in those days. Cartographic methods before 1850 (Four Courts Press, 2009), reviewed by W. D. Shannon, p. 137

Susanna Wade Martins and Tom Williamson, The countryside of East Anglia: changing landscapes, 1870–1950 (Boydell Press, 2008), reviewed by Paul Readman, p. 138

Kenneth F. Kiple, A movable feast. Ten millennia of food globalization (Cambridge University Press, 2007), reviewed by Alfred W. Crosby, p. 139

T. C. Smout, Exploring environmental history: selected essays (Edinburgh UP, 2009), reviewed by Alasdair Ross, p. 140

Philip Conford (ed.), The poet of ecology: a selection of writings in memory of Robert Waller (Norroy Press, 2008), reviewed by Erin Gill, p. 141

Ruth Tittensor, From peat bog to conifer forest. An oral history of Whitelee, its community and landscape (Packard Publishing Limited, 2009), reviewed by Heather Holmes, p. 142

Miles Glendinning and Susanna Wade Martins, Buildings of the land. Scotland’s farms, 1750–2000 (Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland, 2008), reviewed by Shirley Brook, p. 143

Peter Hillis (ed.), Journal of my life and everyday doings 1879–81, 1885–92, James Wilson, farmer of Banffshire (Scottish Hist. Soc., fifth ser., vol.18, 2008), reviewed by Heather Holmes, p. 144

Nadine Vivier (ed.), Élites et progrès agricole, XVIe– XXe siècle (Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 145

Bas J. P. Van Bavel and Phillipp Schofield (eds), The development of leasehold in north-western Europe, c.1200–1600 (Brepols, 2008), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 146

Jordi Bolòs and Enric Vicedo (eds), Poblament, Territori i Història Rural. VI Congrés Sobre Sistemes Agraris, Organització Social i Poder Local (Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, 2009), reviewed by Joseph Harrison, p. 147

C. A. Bayly, The C.A.Bayly Omnibus (Oxford, Delhi, 2009), reviewed by Justin Jones, p. 148

Lyle Dick, Farmers ‘making good’. The development of the Abernethy district, Saskatchewan, 1880–1920 (second edition, University of Calgary Press, 2008), reviewed by Peter A. Russell, p. 149

Alan L. Olmstead and Paul W. Rhode, Creating abundance: biological innovation and American agricultural development (Cambridge University Press, 2008), reviewed by W. E. Doolittle, p. 150

Reviews, Part 2

Bruce M. S. Campbell, Land and people in medieval England (Ashgate Variorum Collected Studies series, 2009), reviewed by P. D. A. Harvey, p. 277

John Barratt and Nicola Bannister, The archaeology of a great estate: Chatsworth and beyond (Windgather Press, 2009), reviewed by Mark Gardiner, p. 278

Glenn Foard, David Hall and Tracey Partida, Rockingham Forest. An atlas of the medieval and early-modern landscape (Northamptonshire Record Society 44, 2009), reviewed by Oliver Creighton, p. 278

John Mullan and Richard Britnell (eds), Land and family. Trends and local variations in the peasant land market on the Winchester bishopric estates, 1263–1415 (University of Hertfordshire Press, Studies in Regional and Local History 8, 2010), reviewed by Chris Briggs, p. 279

Sherri Olson, A mute gospel. The people and culture of the medieval English common fields (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2009), reviewed by Mark Page, p. 280

Christopher Dyer and Richard Jones (eds), Deserted villages revisited (University of Hertfordshire Press, Explorations in Local and Regional History 3, 2010), reviewed by Nicola Whyte, p. 281

Nicola Whyte, Inhabiting the landscape: place, custom and memory, 1500–1800 (Windgather Press, 2009), reviewed by Alexandra Walsham, p. 282

Tom Arkell with Nat Alcock (eds), Warwickshire Hearth Tax returns: Michaelmas 1670, with Coventry Lady Day 1666 (British Rec. Soc. Hearth Tax Ser. 7; co-published as Dugdale Society 43, 2010), reviewed by Heather Falvey, p. 283

Colin Phillips, Catherine Ferguson and Andrew Wareham (eds), Westmorland Hearth Tax, Michaelmas 1670 and surveys, 1674–5 (British Rec. Soc., Hearth Tax Ser. 6; co-published as Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Arch. Soc. Rec. Ser., 29, 2008), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 284

Alan W. Fox, A lost frontier revealed. Regional separation in the East Midlands, Studies in Regional and Local History 7 (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2009), reviewed by H. R. French, p. 285

J. Brent and P. Goodwin, Working the land in Romsey: a history of farms and farming in a Hampshire parish (Romsey: Lower Test Valley Archaeological Study Group, 2009), reviewed by C. E. M. Glover, p. 286

Michael Heaton, A farming history of Spratton, 1766–1914 (Spratton Local Hist. Soc., 2009), reviewed by Briony McDonagh, p. 287

Val Porter, British pigs (Shire Publications, 2009), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 288

Matthew Reed, Rebels for the soil: the rise of the global organic food and farming movement (Earthscan, 2010), reviewed by Erin Gill, p. 288

Charles Bowden (Director), The last sheep sale (Bellingham: The Heritage Centre, n.d.), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 289

James G. Patterson, In the wake of the Great Rebellion. Republicanism, agrarianism and banditry in Ireland after 1798 (Manchester UP, 2008), reviewed by Carl J. Griffin, p. 290

Deborah Wilson, Women, marriage and property in wealthy landed families in Ireland, 1750–1850 (Manchester UP, 2009), reviewed by F. M. L. Thompson, p. 291

Corinne Beck, Fabrice Guizard-Duchamp and Jacques Heude, Lit mineur, lit majeur, lit voyageur: mémoires et cours d’eau (Revue du Nord. Hors série. Collection art et archéologie 14, 2009), reviewed by Hugh Clout, p. 292

Jonas Lindström, Distribution and differences. Stratification and the system of reproduction in a Swedish peasant community, 1620–1820, Studia Historica Upsaliensia 235 (University of Uppsala, 2008), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 293

Susanne Freidberg, Fresh. A perishable history (Belknapp Press of Harvard UP, 2009), reviewed by Rengenier Rittersma, p. 294

Robert Bevan-Jones, Poisonous plants. A cultural and social history (Windgather, 2009), reviewed by Marion R. Cooper, p. 295

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