This book is the first available survey of English agriculture between 1500 and 1850. Written specifically for students, it combines new material with an analysis of the ...

The agrarian history of England and Wales from pre-Norman times to the outbreak of the Black Death.

This is a detailed study of the material lives of the middle classes in the pre-industrial era, a period which saw considerable growth in consumption. Lorna Weatherill has ...

This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. It blends historical and anthropological perspectives to suggest novel and exciting approaches to the ...

Papers presented at the Leeuwenborch Conference (Wageningen, 5-7 May 1980).

This is the first book to study in detail the making of the rural English landscape in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For decades historians have debated the nature ...