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Agricultural History Review, Volume 71 (2023–2024)

Articles, Part 1

Christopher Dyer, Peasant consumption in late medieval England: food and drink served at funerals, pp. 1–20

John Martin, The rise and fall of an oasis of grassland husbandry: the Market Harborough area, Leicestershire, from c.1840 to c.1945, pp. 21–44

Henry French and Leonard Baker, ‘The result never quite equalled the promise’: risk, reward, and reclamation on Exmoor, 1840–1897, pp. 45–65

Gareth Jones, OBE, The sale of timber as a source of income on the Duke of Wellington’s Stratfield Saye Estate, 1892–1936, pp. 66–86

Pippa Marland, From typewriter to ploughshare: the agricultural writings of E. M. Barraud, Women’s Land Army, 1939–44, pp. 87–107

Articles, Part 2

Elly Robson, Eugene Costello and John Morgan, Roundtable: environmental histories of agriculture in early modern Britain and Ireland, pp. 137–159

Alan Swinbank, The Heath Government’s ‘fundamental change’ to agricultural policy: an interim import levy scheme (and restitutions?) for cereals, pp. 160–181

Tiia Sahrakorpi, Dissent, humour, and acceptance: exploring rural emotions about technological change in England and Finland, 1890s–1920s, pp. 182–202

Martin Karl Skoglund, Farming at the margin: climatic impacts on harvest yields and agricultural practices in central Scandinavia, c.1560–1920, pp. 203–233 (Open Access)

Per Lundin, The limits of academization: agricultural policy and the shaping of Swedish higher agricultural education during the interwar and war years, pp. 234–257

Pablo Delgado and Adrián Espinosa-Gracia, Food consumption models and unequal access to meat: the case of Spain (1964–2018), pp. 258–283

Reviews, Part 1

Simon Townley (ed.), The Victoria History of the County of Oxford: Volume XX, The South Oxfordshire Chilterns: Caversham, Goring, and Area (Boydell and Brewer, 2022), reviewed by Abigail Lloyd, p. 121

Robert Rickett, Post-Roman and Medieval Drying Kilns. Foundations of Archaeological Research, edited and with an introduction by Mark McKerracher (Archaeopress, 2021), reviewed by Marijke Van Der Veen, p. 122

Vivienne Aldous (ed.), Monks Eleigh Manorial Records, 1210-1683 (Boydell and Brewer, 2022), reviewed by Spike Gibbs, p. 123

Mark Stoyle, A Murderous Midsummer: The Western Rising of 1549 (Yale University Press, 2022), reviewed by Martin Empson, p. 124

Keith Pluymers, No Wood, No Kingdom: Political Ecology in the English (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021), reviewed by Dan Beaver, p. 125

James Fisher, The Enclosure of Knowledge: Books, Power and Agrarian Capitalism in Britain, 1660–1800 (Cambridge U. P., 2022), reviewed by Esben Bøgh Sørensen, p. 126

Malcolm Thick, William Ellis: Eighteenth-century farmer, journalist & (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022), reviewed by John Broad, p. 128

Ema Vyroubalová and James Robert Wood (eds), The Literary Papers of the Reverend Jermyn Pratt (1723-1791) (Norfolk Record Society, vol. 86, 2022), reviewed by Liz Bellamy, p. 129

Claire Weeda, Robert Stein, and Louis Sicking (eds), Communities, Environment and Regulation in the Premodern World: Essays in Honour of Peter Hoppenbrouwers (Comparative Rural History Network vol 20; Brepols, 2022), reviewed by Daniel R. Curtis, p. 130

Fulgence Delleaux and Michel Hermans (eds), La plume et la terre: Écrire sur son exploitation agricole en Europe occidentale (1650-1850) (Presses universitaires de Namur, 2022), reviewed by Jérôme Brillaud, p. 131

Mònica Bosch Portell, Viure de renda. La gestió del patrimoni Carles, 1770-1860 (Associació d’Història Rural/Centre d’Història Rural de la Universitat de Girona, 2021), reviewed by Julie Marfany, p. 132

Marie-Claude Maurel, Terre et propriété à l’est de l’Europe depuis 1990: Faisceau de droits, relations de pouvoir (Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021), reviewed by Elodie Douarin, p. 133

Jim Handy, Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression (Columbia University Press, 2022), reviewed by Jaskiran Kaur Chohan, p. 134

J. Pettifer and M. Vickers, Lakes and Empires in Macedonian History: Contesting the Waters (Bloomsbury Academic, 2022), reviewed by Ante Batistić and Matija Vinković, p. 135

Reviews, Part 2

Angus J. L. Winchester, Common land in Britain: a history from the middle ages to the present day (Boydell Press, 2022), reviewed by Carl J. Griffin, p. 284

Christopher Dyer (ed.), Changing approaches to local history: Warwickshire history and its historians (Boydell Press, 2022), reviewed by Ruth Barbour, p. 285

Peter Roebuck, Cattle droving: Scotland & Ireland through Cumbria to the south (Bookcase, 2022), reviewed by Eugene Costello, p. 287

Jim Handy, Apostles of inequality: rural poverty, political economy, and the Economist, 1760–1860 (University of Toronto Press, 2022), reviewed by Ted McCormick, p. 289

Peter Dale and Brandon C. Yen, Versed in living nature: Wordsworth’s trees (Reaktion, 2022), reviewed by Charles Watkins, p. 290

Ted Woodgate, Brothers, be united: The Farm Workers’ Union in the Basildon area, 1872–94 (Ted Woodgate, 2023), reviewed by Ken Worpole, p. 291

Paul Brassley, David Harvey, Matt Lobley and Michael Winter, The real Agricultural Revolution: the transformation of English farming 1939–1985 (Boydell, 2021), reviewed by John Martin, p. 292

Alper H. Çolak, Simay Kirca and Ian Rotherham (eds), Ancient woods, trees and forests: ecology, history and management (Pelagic Publishing, 2023), reviewed by Emily Sloan, p. 293

Carla Cevasco, Violent appetites: hunger in the early Northeast (Yale University Press, 2023), reviewed by Rachel Winchcombe, p. 294

Fulgence Delleaux, Inquiétude dans les champs: essai sur la gestion des exploitations agricoles dans l'espace francophone (vers 1730–vers 1830) (Presses Universitaires de Louvain, 2022), reviewed by John Broad, p. 295

Bruce A. Ragsdale, Washington at the plow: the founding farmer and the question of slavery (Belknap Press, 2021), reviewed by James MacKay, p. 297

Yves Seger and Leen Van Molle (eds), Agricultural knowledge networks in rural Europe, 1700–2000 (Boydell Press, 2022), reviewed by James Fisher, p. 298

Douglas Sheflin, Legacies of dust: land use and labor on the Colorado Plains (University of Nebraska Press, 2019); Timothy H.H. Thoresen, River, reaper, rail: agriculture and identity in Ohio’s Mad River Valley, 1795–1885 (De Gruyter, 2023), reviewed by Maurits W. Ertsen, p. 299

Liesbeth Van De Grift, Dietmar Müller and Corinna R. Unger (eds), Living with the land: rural and agricultural actors in twentieth-century Europe – a handbook (De Gruyter, 2023), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 301

Henri Lefebvre, On the rural: economy, sociology, geography, , eds, Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton; trans., Robert Bononno (University of Minnesota Press, 2022), reviewed by Nathan Kerrigan, p. 302

Marci Baranski, The globalization of wheat: a critical history of the Green Revolution (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), reviewed by Jonathan Harwood, p. 303

Lyndsie Bourgon, Tree thieves. Crime and survival in the woods (Hodder and Stoughton, 2022), reviewed by Charles Watkins, p. 304

Nancy Castaldo, The World that feeds us: discover how our food is produced in a sustainable way, , illustrated by Ginnie Hsu (Quarto Press, 2023), reviewed by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, p. 305