Overview

Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians.

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Author:   Mark Freeman
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd
Weight:   4.377kg
ISBN:  

9781851968220

ISBN 10:   1851968229
Pages:   2144
Publication Date:   01 December 2005
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Volume 1: The Moral and Material Condition of the Mid-Victorian Rural Poor John Eddowes, The Agricultural Labourer as He Really Is, or Village Morals in 1854 (1854); Rev. Henry Moule, Four Letters to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, as President of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, on the Dwellings and Condition of Eleven Hundred of the Working Classes and Poor of Fordington (1854); John Stokes, An Essay on the Moral and Religious Improvement of the Farm Servant and Labourer (1855); Henry Tucker, An Address upon the 'Condition of the Agricultural Labourer', Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Faringdon Agricultural Library on the 25th November 1858 (1858); J Y Stratton, 'The Life of a Farm Labourer' (1864); J B Haynes, How to Supply the Agricultural Labourer with Good Beer at a Low Price (1865); J H Tremenheere, 'Agricultural Gangs' (1867); Edward Girdlestone, 'Landowners, Land, and Those Who Till It' (1868); A Hampshire Agricultural Labourer, A Few Words on Courtship and Marriage, or, Trials and Struggles, Sweets and Bitters (1867); Charles Whitehead, Agricultural Labourers (1870); Francis T Bond, The Home of the Agricultural Labourer: Its Defects, and How to Remedy Them (1873) Volume 2: The 'Revolt of the Field' Baldwyn Leighton, William Morris and E L O'Malley, 'How May the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer be Improved?' (1872); The Strike in the Agricultural Districts: The Life and Experiences of a Warwickshire Labourer, with His Own Thoughts and Opinions on the Strike, as Told by Himself (1872); Rev. W H Ridley, The Agricultural Labourers' Union (1872); A Farmer's Son, The Agricultural Labourer (1873); S Reynolds Hole, The Cry of the Labourer against Landlord, Farmer and Priest: A Sermon (1873); George Mitchell, The Skeleton at the Plough, (1874) (contains the constitution and rules of the National Agricultural Labourers' Union); Edward Richardson, The NALU Melody Book: Original Hymns and Songs (1874); Howard Evans, Songs for Singing at Agricultural Labourers' Meetings (1875); The Farm Labourers' Catechism, Prepared for the Special Use of those Agricultural Labourers Who Are Not in the Union (1875) Volume 3: Life on the Land: the 1880s Henry Evershed, Cow-Keeping by Farm Labourers (1880 - reprinted from 1879); Thomas Hardy, The Dorset Farm Labourer Past and Present (1884); Rev. Augustus Jessopp, 'Clouds Over Arcady' (1883); Richard Jefferies, 'The Wiltshire Labourer' (1883); Richard Jefferies, 'After the County Franchise' (1884); An Agricultural Labourer, The Position of the Agricultural Labourer in the Past and in the Future (1885); P Anderson Graham, The Rural Exodus: The Problem of the Village and the Town (1892) Volume 4: Life on the Land: the 1890s J Theodore Dodd, Local Rights and Interests of Farm Labourers (1890); Scrivener C Scrivener, The Depopulation of Villages (1891); English Land Restoration League, Special Report 1891: Among Suffolk Labourers with the 'Red Van' (1891); Earl of Thring, William E Bear and Henrietta Batson, 'The Rural Voter' (1892); Arnold D Taylor, 'Hodge and His Parson' (1892); J Morrison Davidson, The Villagers' Magna Charta: 'The Village for the Villagers (1894); A G Butler, Hodge and the Land (1907); Arthur Wilson Fox, Reports on Glendale, Northumberland, and Garstang, Lancashire: Royal Commission on Labour: Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors and Others (1893-4); Report by Mr Wilson Fox on the Wages and Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in the United Kingdom, with Statistical Tables and Charts (1900); C Cochrane, Papers on Rural Housing: The Present Condition of the Cottage Home of the Agricultural Labourer (1901) Volume 5: The Edwardian Rural Poor H H Mann, 'Life in an Agricultural Village in England' (1905); Maud F Davies, Life in an English Village: An Economic and Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley in Wiltshire (1909); R L Outhwaite, Peer or Peasant? The Ruin of Rural England and the Remedy (1909);Rev. A H Baverstock, The English Agricultural Labourer (1912); B S Rowntree, The Labourer and the Land (1914)

Reviews

'will be a most valuable library acquisition for many academic libraries' Rural History 'A 'must-read' for any historian of social structure, poverty, welfare or rural England. Freeman is to be commended.' Economic History Review 'these volumes deserve to reach as wide an audience as possible' Agricultural History Review 'The range of material, as selected temporally and geographically, is impressive... that Freeman manages to combine several 'classics' of the genre with some hitherto not widely known texts is further testament to his growing reputation as the foremost scholar of rural social investigation in the period...[a] splendid resource' Journal of Historical Geography

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