Agricultural History Review, Volume 72 (2024)

Articles, Part 1

Peter J. Atkins, Pressura or pressure? Cheese-making in England, 1200–1500 C.E., pp. 1–25

Zeynep Akçakaya, Sheep, natural conditions and large estates (çiftlik) in Mihaliç in the nineteenth century: a reappraisal of çiftlikization, pp. 26–44

Janne Mäkiranta, Managing patterns of death: animal insurance and the changing hazards of farm animals in twentieth-century Finland, pp. 45–64

David Arnold, The making of the modern cow: India, 1860–1940, pp. 65–83

Nicola Verdon, A distinctive service: Ruth Uzzell, the National Union of Agricultural Workers, and the place of women in inter-war rural trade unionism, pp. 84–100

Articles, Part 2

Steve Hindle, The view from the yardlands: Common property rights and the parliamentary enclosure of Warmington (Warwickshire) c.1750–1820, pp. 139–168

Jane Whittle and Li Jiang, Gender, wages and agricultural day labour in England, c.1480–1680, pp. 169–190 (Open Access)

Sue Jones, Kussmaul’s ‘strange perch’ revisited: A case study of marriage seasonality and agricultural change, Surrey 1561–1740, pp. 191–222

Mikhail Kolosov, Farm servants in north Wiltshire: The evidence of hiring fairs, 1837–1860, pp. 223–252

Gareth Jones, OBE, Jeremy Burchardt and Richard Tranter, Did home farms pay? The performance of the Stratfield Saye estate home farm and its local peers in the early twentieth century, pp. 253–277

Alan Swinbank, A ‘little Neddy’ for agriculture? ‘Sit on the hornet’s nest but don’t stir it up’, pp. 278–302

Reviews, Part 1

Mark Mckerracher and Helena Hamerow (eds), New perspectives on the medieval ‘agricultural revolution’: crop, stock and furrow (Liverpool University Press, 2022), reviewed by Andrew Margetts, p. 115

Martin Biddle, Jane Renfrew and Patrick Ottaway (eds), Environment and agriculture of early Winchester (Winchester Studies 10; Archaeo-Press, 2022), reviewed by Christopher Dyer, p. 116

I. G. Simmons, Fen and sea: the landscapes of south- east Lincolnshire AD 500–1700 (Windgather, 2022), reviewed by John Morgan, p. 117

Dave Fogg Postles, Some medieval taxation returns: Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire, 1327 and 1341–2 (Dave Fogg Postles, 2020), reviewed by Spike Gibbs, p. 118

Richard Oram (ed.), ‘With our backs to the ocean’: land, lordship, climate change, and the environment in the north-west European past. Essays in memory of Alasdair Ross (Brepols Publishers, 2023), reviewed by Robert A. Dodgshon, p. 120

Lee Raye, The atlas of early modern wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the middle ages and the Industrial Revolution (Pelagic Publishing, 2023), reviewed by Eric L. Jones, p. 121

Richard Hoyle (ed.), The estates of Thomas Talbot and John Talbot of Longford (List and Index Society, 2023), reviewed by James Bowen, p. 122

Anthea Jones (ed.), Thomas Baskerville: journeys in industrious England and writings personal and topographical (The Hobnob Press, 2023), reviewed by Eric L. Jones, p. 123

William Franklin (ed.), Agriculture in Cambridgeshire, 1792–1815 (Cambridgeshire Record Society, 2022), reviewed by Shirley Wittering, p. 124

Susan Flood (ed.), John Carrington, farmer of Bramfield, his diary, 1798–1810, II, 1805–1810 and John Carrington junior’s diary, May 1810–December 1812 (Hertfordshire Record Society, 2022), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 125

Keith Laybourn (ed.), The Ascott Martyrs: why did the rural establishment imprison sixteen women and two babies in 1873? (Ascott Press, 2023), reviewed by Leonard Baker, p. 126

Jane Rowling, Environments of identity: agricultural community, work and concepts of local in Yorkshire, 1918–2018 (White Horse Press, 2022), reviewed by Sarah Holland, p. 127

Fiona Davison, An almost impossible thing: the radical lives of Britain’s pioneering women gardeners (Little Toller Books, 2023); David Crouch, Colin Ward, The allotment: its landscape and culture (1988, repr. Little Toller Books, 2023), reviewed by Rebecca Ford, p. 128

Linda M. Ross, Katrina Navickas, Ben Anderson, and Matthew Kelly (eds), New lives, new landscapes revisited: rural modernity in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2023), reviewed by Gary Willis, p. 130

Guido Alfani and Erik Thoen (eds), Inequality in rural Europe (late middle ages–18th century) (Brepols, 2020), reviewed by Paul Warde, p. 131

Fabien Knittel, La fabrique du lait Europe occidentale, Moyen Âge – XXe siècle (CNRS Editions, 2023), reviewed by P. M. Jones, p. 132

Didier Guignard, 1871 – L’Algérie sous séquestre (CNRS Editions, 2023), reviewed by Dónal Hassett, p. 133

Margaret E. Derry, Made to order: the designing of animals (University of Toronto Press, 2022), reviewed by Alison Skipper, p. 135

Claiton Marcio Da Silva, The making of modern agriculture: Nelson Rockefeller’s American International Association (AIA) in Latin America (1946–1968) (White Horse Press, 2023), reviewed by Shane Hamilton, p. 136

Thomas Fleischman, Communist pigs: an animal history of East Germany’s rise and fall (University of Washington Press, 2020), reviewed by Frank Uekötter, p. 137

Reviews, Part 2

Christopher Dyer, Peasants making history: Living in an English region, 1200–1540 (OUP, 2022), reviewed by Andrew Margetts, p. 303

Mark Bailey, After the Black Death: Economy, society and the law in fourteenth-century England (OUP, 2021), reviewed by Spike Gibbs, p. 304

Michael Heaney, The ancient English morris dance (Archaeopress, 2023), reviewed by Chloe Middleton-Metcalfe, p. 305

James Davis and Joanne Sear (eds), Records of medieval Newmarket: Manor court rolls 1399–1413 (Boydell, 2023), reviewed by Vivienne Aldous, p. 306

Dolly Jorgensen, The medieval pig (Boydell, 2024), reviewed by Andrew Margetts, p. 307

Jonathan McGovern, The Tudor sheriff: A study in early modern administration (OUP, 2022), reviewed by Spike Gibbs, p. 307

Michael Worboys, Julie-Marie Strange and Neil Pemberton, The invention of the modern dog: Breed and blood in Victorian Britain (John Hopkins University Press, 2018), reviewed by Ruth Barbour, p. 309

Sue Edney and Tess Somervell, Georgic literature and the environment: Working land, reworking genre (Routledge, 2022), reviewed by Liou Heng, p. 310

Jeremy Harte, Cloven country: The devil and the English landscape (Reaktion Books, 2022), reviewed by Francis Young, p. 311

Jennie Butler and Sue Lane, The Victoria County History of Hampshire: Dummer and Kempshott, two chalkland parishes (University of London Press, 2022), reviewed by Gale Pettifer, p. 312

Richard Hoffmann, The catch: An environmental history of medieval European fisheries (CUP, 2023), reviewed by Richard Oram, p. 313

Alexandra Kruse (ed.), Enclosed landscapes as part of the European agricultural heritage (Society for Landscape Studies Supplementary Series, 2022), reviewed by R. W. Hoyle, p. 314

Roberta Cevasco, Valentina Pescini and Robert Hearn (eds), Situating foodways and foodscapes: Dalla tavola al terreno (Genova University Press, 2023), reviewed by Serin Quinn, p. 315

Daniel Lanero Taboas, Carin Martiin, Lourenzo Fernandez Prieto and Laurent Herment (eds), From breeding and feeding to medicalization. Animal farming, veterinarization and consumers in twentieth-century western Europe (Brepols, 2023), reviewed by Camille Bellet, p. 316

Heinrich Hartmann and Julia Tischler (eds), Planting seeds of knowledge: Agriculture and education in rural societies in the twentieth century (Berghahn, 2023), reviewed by Carrie de Silva, p. 317

Neal A. Knapp, Making machines of animals: The International Livestock Exposition (John Hopkins Univeristy Press, 2023), reviewed by Jack Hanlon, p. 319

Helen Anne Curry, Endangered maize: Industrial agriculture and the crisis of extinction (University of California Press, 2022), reviewed by Francesca Bray, p. 320

Venetia Johannes, Nourishing the nation: Food as national identity in Catalonia (Berghahn Books, 2019), reviewed by Maria Jose Sevilla, p. 321