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Agricultural History Review, Volume 73 (2025)

Articles, Part 1

Colin Shepherd, The demise of the sheep: Evidence of large-scale agricultural change between c.1500 and c.1800 in north-east Scotland, pp. 1–32

Paul Poornan and Andrew Godley, Advances in animal nutrition in Britain from 1840 to 1875 and the origins of the animal feedstuffs sector, pp. 33–52

Martin Andersson, The cottage economy in sixteenth-century Sweden, pp. 53–71 (Open Access)

Carolina Uppenberg and Malin Nilsson, The crofter is a woman: Gender division of labour in rural semi-landless households, Sweden 1850–1900, pp. 72–95 (Open Access)

Eline Lathouwers, Yves Segers and Gert Verstraeten, Flood-plain transformations: Balancing agriculture and nature in Belgian land consolidation (1980s–2000s)., pp. 96–118

Articles, Part 2

Richard Jones, ‘No better Manure than stinking Fish’: Manuring with raw fish on the north Atlantic littoral c.1750–1900, pp. 155–178

Philip Slavin, Animal blues: Weather, fodder crisis and animal health in early fourteenth-century England and Wales, pp. 179–207

Brian Short, Late Stuart farming on the Sussex coast: The Cakeham manor dispute in the early eighteenth century, pp. 208–231

Julian Hoppit, Corn exchanges in nineteenth-century Britain (Includes an online-only appendix), pp. 232–256

Andrew Fleming, St Kilda: A Rosetta stone for early races of sheep?, pp. 257–277

Reviews, Part 1

Barbara Tearle (ed.), Bedfordshire probate inventories before 1660 (Bedfordshire Hist Rec Soc, 2024), reviewed by Jane Whittle, p. 135

Joan Dils (ed.), Stanford in the Vale churchwardens’ accounts 1552–1705 (Berkshire Record Society, 2024), reviewed by Valerie Hitchman, p. 136

John Gaisford (ed.), Clothiers & merchants in Spanish cloth 1627–1665: The Ashe family of Somerset, Wiltshire & London and their account books (Somerset Record Society, 2024), reviewed by Peter Maunder, p. 137

Steve Hindle, The social topography of a rural community: Scenes of labouring life in seventeenth-century England (OUP, 2024), reviewed by Mark Hailwood, p. 138

Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare and Alan R. Macdonald (eds), Agriculture, economy and society in early modern Scotland (Boydell and Brewer, 2024), reviewed by Juliette Desportes, p. 139

Joanna Crosby, Apples and orchards since the eighteenth century: Material innovation and cultural tradition (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024), reviewed by Susan Wilkin, p. 141

Bridget Howlett (ed.), William Wilshere’s Hitchin farm and garden, 1809–1824, , with an introduction by Bridget Howlett and Tom Williamson (Hertfordshire Record Society, 2023), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 142

John Bulaitis, The Tithe War in England and Wales, 1881–1936: A curious rural revolt (Boydell and Brewer, 2023), reviewed by Michael Tichelar, p. 143

Helen Mort, Ethel: The biography of countryside pioneer Ethel Haythornthwaite (Adventure Books by Vertebrate Publishing, 2023); Matthew Kelly, The women who saved the English countryside (Yale University Press London, 2023), reviewed by Nicola Verdon, p. 144

W. B. Crump, The Little Hill Farm, , rev. edn (Hebden Bridge Local History Society, 2023), reviewed by Angus J. L. Winchester, p. 146

Bernard Jarman, The biodynamic movement in Britain: A history of the first 100 years (Floris Books, 2023), reviewed by Philip Conford, p. 147

Peter Coates, Squirrel nation: Reds, greys and the meaning of home (Reaktion Books, 2023), reviewed by Harrie Neal, p. 148

Andrew Gilson, The German occupation of Jersey: Agriculture and survival in a time of war (Amberley Publishing, 2023), reviewed by John Martin, p. 150

Denise Parkinson (ed.), The Great Sea Floods of 1953: The records of P. J. O. (John) Trist (Suffolk Records Society, 2023), reviewed by Petra Codato, p. 151

Katherine Lock, Herefordshire farming through time: Fellers, tillers and cider makers (Logaston Press, 2023), reviewed by John Martin, p. 152

Robert Dees, The power of peasants: Economics & politics of farming in medieval Germany (Commons Press, 2023), reviewed by Martin Empson, p. 153

Jeannie Whayne (ed.), The Oxford handbook of agricultural history (OUP, 2023), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 154

Reviews, Part 2

Christopher Dyer, From slavery to freedom: How Worcestershire people gained their liberty 1000–1600 (Wocestershire Historical Society, 2024), reviewed by Matt Raven, p. 278

Allan Kennedy and Susanne Weston (eds), Life at the margins in early modern Scotland (The Boydell Press, 2024), reviewed by Juliette Desportes, p. 279

Pamela M. Slocombe, Traditional farm buildings of Wiltshire (The Hobnob Press, 2025), reviewed by Alan Wadsworth, p. 280

Henry French, Leonard Baker, and Ralph Fyfe, The reclamation of Exmoor revisited: Rethinking the consequences of nineteenth-century landscape change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), reviewed by Annie Tindley, p. 281

Mick Henry, The Oxley Farm diaries (Sussex Record Society, 2025), reviewed by John Broad, p. 282

Jay R. Roszman, Outrage in the age of reform: Irish agrarian violence, imperial insecurity, and British governing policy, 1830–1845 (CUP, 2022), reviewed by Constantin Torve, p. 283

Alexandra Harris, The rising down: Lives in a Sussex landscape (Faber and Faber, 2024), reviewed by Brian Short, p. 284

Louise Beaton and David Clark, Halls for all: A history of village halls (Amberley Publishing, 2025), reviewed by Rosemary Shirley, p. 286

Ben Cowell, The British country house revival (The Boydell Press, 2024), reviewed by Sarah Moody, p. 287

Arnau Barquer i Cerdà, Visch de mon treball y seguint los amos. Francesos i treballadors a la Catalunya de mas (Bisbat de Girona, 2023), reviewed by Julie Marfany, p. 288

Ian D. Rotherham and Jennifer A. Moody (eds), Countryside history: The life and legacy of Oliver Rackham (Pelagic, 2024), reviewed by Carl J. Griffin, p. 289

James Simpson, Family farms, land reforms and political action: An alternative economic history of interwar Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024), reviewed by Paul Brassley, p. 290

Ines Prodöhl, Globalizing the soya bean, fat, feed, and sometimes, food, c.1900–1950 (Routledge, 2023), reviewed by John Martin, p. 293