This volume surveys the evolution of the man-made landscape in Britain over the period of some three millennia before the Roman conquest.
The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.
This is the first detailed study of English and Welsh agriculture and agricultural change in the period 1640 to 1750.
The unifying theme of this volume is the changing role of the countryside in national life, and the impact upon it of the social and economic forces unleashed by industrialisation and the growth of towns.
Movable hangings, such as tapestries and even glazed window casements, which could be carted from one house to ... By 1600 it was found not only in large houses of the West Country and Yorkshire, but also in small manor houses of a size ...
... 135 , 138 , traction , 241 , 350 , 399 138 ; East Midlands , 121 ; ground ancestry of , 306 , 397 , 398-9 plans for ... bone remains , 134 , 318 , 325 , 398 Neolithic Eastern European , 46 ; breeding , 310 , 397–8 , 400 Northumbrian ...
Nevertheless, the geographical distribution of these two classes, and their absence from the rest of England, tells in favour of their descent from the rank and ... 379; The Domesday Geography of Midland England, Cambridge, 1954, p.
... History of England and Wales , v , London , 1920 Devon and Cornwall Record Society H. C. Darby , The Domesday Geography of ... The Domesday Geography of Midland England , Cambridge , 1954 H. C. Darby and I. S. Maxwell , The Domesday ...
In 1439 the church was ruinous and there were only two inhabited houses in the parish ( both outside the village area ) .194 At Brookend there may well have ... 191 K. R. Davis , The Deserted Medieval Villages of Hertfordshire , Herts .
This period included four years of war, during which there was a rapid rise in prices, the post-war deflation and the depression. The author assesses the effects of these political and economic conditions on farming and farm workers.
This 1989 volume continues the detailed account of the agrarian history of England and Wales, and with volumes IV and V provides a continuous comprehensive study for the whole of the period 1500 to 1850.
This period included four years of war, during which there was a rapid rise in prices, the post-war deflation and the depression. The author assesses the effects of these political and economic conditions on farming and farm workers.
The Agrarian History of England and Wales