Books on agricultural and rural history

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Harriet Cornell, Julian Goodare, and Alan R. MacDonald (ed.s),
Agriculture, Economy and Society in Early Modern Scotland
(Boydell & Brewer, 2024)

James Simpson, Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action: An Alternative Economic History of Interwar Europe

Simpson, James,
Family Farmers, Land Reforms and Political Action: An Alternative Economic History of Interwar Europe
(Palgrave Studies in Economic History, 2024)

Ashton, Robert,
Where are the Fellows who Cut the Hay? The story of how almost forgotten trades and ways are being rediscovered in rural Britain today
(Unbound, 2024)

Grattan, Patrick,
Oasts and Hop Kilns
(Liverpool University Press, 2021)
978-1-789-62251-5

Bailey, Mark,
After the Black Death: Economy, society, and the law in fourteenth-century England
(OUP, 2021)
9780198857884

Hoyle, Richard W. (ed.),
Histories of People and Landscape: Essays on the Sheffield region in memory of David Hey
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2021)
978-1-912260-40-9

Edwards, A Path Through the Trees

Edwards, Vivien,
A Path Through The Trees. Mary Sutherland – forester, botanist & women’s advocate
(Summerfield Books, 2021)
9780994149442

Béaur, Gérard,
Alternative Agriculture In Europe (Sixteenth-Twentieth Centuries)
(Brepols, 2020)
978-2-503-58674-8

Kilby, Susan,
Peasant Perspectives on the Medieval Landscape: A study of three communities
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2020)
978-1-912260-20-1

Slavin, Experiencing Famine

Slavin, Philip,
Experiencing Famine in Fourteenth-Century Britain
(Brepols, 2019)
978-2-503-54780-0

Holland, Sarah,
Communities in Contrast: Doncaster and its rural hinterland, c.1830-1870
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2019)
978-1-912260-12-6

Hare, John,
Basingstoke: A Medieval Town, c. 1000-1600
(VCH/Boydell and Brewer, 2018)
9781909646612


Whittle, Jane,
Servants in Rural Europe, 1400-1900
(Boydell and Brewer, 2017)
978178327239620


Impey, Edward,
The great barn of 1425–27 at Harmondsworth, Middlesex
(Historic England, 2017)
978-1-84802-371-0


Williamson, Tom, Barnes, Gerry and Pillatt, Toby,
Trees in England: Management and disease since 1600
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017)
978-1-909291-96-6


Alfani, Guido and O Grada, Cormac (eds),
Famine in European History
(Cambridge University Press, 2017)
978-316631836


Croot, Patricia,
The World of the Small Farmer: Tenure, profit and politics in the early-modern Somerset Levels
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2017)
978-1-909291-86-7


Brassley, Paul, Burchardt, Jeremy and Sayer, Karen (eds),
Transforming the Countryside: The Electrification of Rural Britain
(Routledge, 2017)
9781472441270


Brown, A. T.,
Rural Society and Economic Change in County Durham: Recession and Recovery, c.1400-1640
(Boydell and Brewer, 2016)
978-1-7832-7075-0


Hey, David,
The Grass Roots of English History: Local Societies before the Industrial Revolution
(Bloomsbury Academic, 2016)
9781474262514


Barnes, Gerry and Williamson, Tom,
Rethinking ancient woodland: the archaeology and history of woods in Norfolk
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016)
978-1-909291-58-4


Finnegan, Oliver; Glover, Catherine; and Hoyle Richard W. (eds),
British Farm Surveys, 1941 to 1943: Reports and statistical analysis
(List and Index Society, 2014)
978-1-906875-41-1


Dyer, Christopher,
A Country Merchant, 1492-1520
(Oxford University Press, 2012)
978-0-1992-1424-2


Hoyle, Richard W.,
Custom, Improvement and the Landscape in Early Modern Britain
(Routledge, 2011)
9781409400523


Currie, Jean Ila,
Three Centuries of a Herefordshire Village: Putley, 1685 Until Now
(Owlstone Developments Ltd, 2009)
978-0956445506

Larson, Peter L.,
Rethinking the Great Transition: Community and Economic Growth in County Durham, 1349-1660
(OUP, 2022)
9780192849878


Spain, Jonathan,
Fruit Farming in the Cam Valley, an horticultural, social and economic history
(RiverRhee Publishing, 2021)
9780992632311


Brassley, Paul; Harvey, David; Lobley, Matt; and Winter, Michael,
The Real Agricultural Revolution: The Transformation of English Farming, 1939-1985
(Boydell and Brewer, 2021)
9781783276356


Margetts, Andy,
The Wandering Herd: The Medieval Cattle Economy of South-East England c.450-1450
(Oxbow Books, 2021)
9781911188797


Costello, Eugene,
Transhumance and the Making of Ireland’s Uplands, 1550-1900
(Boydell and Brewer, 2020)
9781783275311


Shannon, William D.,
Seventeenth-century Lancashire restored: the life and work of Dr Richard Kuerden, antiquary and topographer, 1623-1702
(Chetham Society, 2020)
978-0-9554276-7-1


Griffin, Carl,
The politics of hunger: Protest, poverty and policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840
(University of Manchester Press, 2020)
9781526145628


Everard, Judith; Bowen, James P.; and Horton, Wendy,
Wem
(VCH Shropshire, 2019)
978-1-912702-08-4


Currie, Jean Ila,
Three Centuries Of East Herefordshire Farms And Families
(Owlstone press for Owlstone Developments Ltd, 2018)
978-0-9564455-2


Evans, William,
The Victorian model farm in south Gloucestershire and north Somerset
(Avon Local History and Archaeology, 2018)
AvonHistArch


Sansome, Geoff,
The Diary of a Claines Farmer, 1883: Isaac John Sansome, of Oak Farm, Bevere, Claines, Worcestershire
(Independent Publishing Network, 2017)
978-1788082051


Verdon, Nicola,
Working the Land: A History of the Farmworker in England from 1850 to the Present Day
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
9780230304390


Thompson, F. M. L.,
English Landed Society Revisited: The Collected Papers of F.M.L. Thompson, Volume II
(Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd., 2017)
9781911204657


Holt, Jennifer S.,
The Hornby Castle Estates: Agrarian Change from the 1582 Survey to the 1751 Sederunt
(Chetham Society, 2017)
978-0-9554276-5-7


Bowen, J. P. and Brown, A. T. (eds),
Custom and Commercialisation in English Rural Society: Revisiting Tawney and Postan
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016)
978-1-909291-44-7


D’Onofrio, Federico,
Observing Agriculture in Early Twentieth-Century Italy: Agricultural economists and statistics
(Routledge, 2016)
9781472443588


Jones, Richard and Dyer, Christopher (eds),
Farmers, Consumers, Innovators: The world of Joan Thirsk
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2016)
978-1-909291-56-0


Griffiths, Elizabeth (ed.),
Her Price is Above Pearls: Family and Farming Records of Alice Le Strange, 1617-1656
(Norfolk Record Society, 2015)
978-0-9556-3578-6


Whittle, Jane (ed.),
Landlords and Tenants in Britain, 1440-1660: Tawney’s Agrarian Problem Revisited
(Boydell and Brewer, 2013)
978-1-8438-3850-0


Brassley, Paul, Segers, Yves and Van Molle, Leen(eds),
War, Agriculture, and Food: Rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s
(Routledge, 2012)
9780415522168


Overton, Mark,
Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850
(Cambridge University Press, 2010)
9780521568593


Thirsk, Joan,
Alternative Agriculture: A History: From the Black Death to the Present Day
(Oxford University Press, 1997)
9780198206620

Griffiths, Elizabeth,
Managing for Posterity: The Norfolk Gentry and their Estates c.1450–1700
(University of Hertfordshire Press, 2022)
978-1-912260-44-7


Kümmeler, Fabian; Majorossy, Judit; and Hovden, Eirik,
Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600)
(Brill, 2021)
978-90-04-46577-0


Wadsworth, Alan,
The farming diaries of Thomas Pinniger, 1813-1847
(Wiltshire Record Society, 2021)
978-0-901333-51-3


Curthoys, Judith,
Cows and curates: The story of the land and livings of Christ Church, Oxford
(Profile Books, 2020)
9781788162500


Collantes Gutiérrez, Fernando,
The Political Economy of the Common Agricultural Policy: Coordinated Capitalism or Bureaucratic Monster?
(Routledge, 2020)
9780367858209


Faith, Rosamond,
The Moral Economy of the Countryside: Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England
(Cambridge University Press, 2019)
9781108720069


Davies, John E.,
The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976: The Campbells of Cawdor and their Welsh Estates
(Boydell and Brewer, 2019)
9781783274345


Warde, Paul,
The Invention of Sustainability: Nature and Destiny, c.1500–1870
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
9781316584767


Yates, Margaret,
Berkshire Feet of Fines 1307-1509 (two volumes)
(Berkshire Record Society, 2017)
9780957393745


Worsley, Peter,
The Darwin Farms: The Lincolnshire Estates of Charles and Erasmus Darwin and Their Family
(Tucann Books, 2017)
978-1-907516-41-2


McDonagh, Briony,
Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700–1830
(Routledge, 2017)
978-1409456025


Thompson, F. M. L.,
English Landed Society Revisited: The Collected Papers of F.M.L. Thompson, Volume I
(Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd., 2017)
9781911204633


Congost, Rosa, Gelman, Jorge and Santos, Rui (eds),
Property Rights in Land: Issues in social, economic and global history
(Routledge, 2017)
9781848935808


Jones, Peter M.,
Agricultural enlightenment: Knowledge, Technology, and Nature, 1750-1840
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
978-0-19-871607-5


Martiin, Carin, Pan-Montojo, Juan and Brassley, Paul(eds),
Agriculture in Capitalist Europe, 1945–1960: From food shortages to food surpluses
(Routledge, 2016)
9781472469656


Brassley, Paul and Soffe, Richard,
Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction
(Oxford University Press, 2016)
978-0-198725-96-1


Fox, Alan (ed.),
Parish Government in a Leicestershire Village: The Buckminster Town Book 1665-1767 and Constable’s Book 1753-1813
(Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society, 2015)
978-0-9542-3884-1


Hoyle Richard W. (ed.),
The Farmer in England, 1650–1980
(Ashgate (now Taylor and Francis), 2013)
978-1-4094-3961-5


Holt, Jennifer S. (ed.),
The Diary of Thomas Fenwick Esq. of Burrow Hall, Lancashire and Nunriding, Northumberland, 1774-1794
(List and Index Society, 2011, 2012)
978-1-906875-29-9, 978-1-906875-34-3


Thick, Malcolm,
Sir Hugh Plat. The Search for Useful Knowledge in Early Modern London
(Prospect Books, 2010)
978-1-903018-65-1