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Family and Inheritance
This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers …
Alternative Agriculture: A History
People like to believe in a past golden age of `traditional' English countryside, before large farms, machinery, and the destruction of hedgerows changed the landscape forever. …
The Agrarian History of England and Wales 8 Volume Set in 12 Paperback Parts
This series, initiated under the general editorship of the late H. P. R. Finberg, comprises eight volumes covering the agrarian history of England and Wales from the Neolithic …
English Peasant Farming
English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally …
English Peasant Farming
English society until the mid-eighteenth century was a predominantly rural and a peasant society. Yet we know surprisingly little about peasant life. This volume originally …
Food in Early Modern England
This book explores changes in the English diet and the specific differences between each generation. What did ordinary people eat and drink five hundred years ago? How much did …
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 4, 1500–1640
This 1967 volume was the result of a project which originated a decade before its publication, when scholars from eleven British universities met under the presidency of the late …
The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 1, Prehistory to AD 1042
The agrarian history of Britain begins not with the earliest written documents but with the archaeological evidence marking the advent of the first agriculturalists from the …
Rural Economy of England
No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and …
Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 3, Agricultural Change: Policy and Practice, 1500–1750
Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, volumes IV and V part II, now appear for the first time in five paperback volumes, designed primarily for a student …
Social Relations and Ideas
This volume of essays in honour of Professor R. H. Hilton is presented by some of his numerous friends and pupils. It attempts to reflect his wide-ranging interests while …
Rural Economy of England
No one has done more to emphasise the significance of the land in early modern England that Joan Thirsk, whose writings are both an important contribution to its history and point …