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Articles: Survival or adaption? Domestic rural textile production in BEATRICE CRAIG, JUDITH eastern Canada in the later part of the nineteenth century RYGIEL and ELIZABETH TURCOTTE 140 The agricultural labourer and the ‘Hodge’ stereotype, c. 1850- MARK FREEMAN 172 1914 The ownership, occupation and use of land on the South JOHN GODFREY AND Downs, 1840-1940: a methodological analysis of record linkage BRIAN SHORT over time Lotted lands and planned villages in north-east Scotland DOUGLAS G. LOCKHART 17 Rolf Gardiner, English patriot and the Council for the Church R. J. MOORE-COLYER 187 and Countryside The impact of commercialization in early fourteenth-century IAN RUSH England: some evidence from the manors of Glastonbury Abbey Extranei and the market for customary land on a Westminster PHILLIPP R. SCHOFIELD Abbey manor in the fifteenth century The employment of women and children in agriculture: a re- NICOLA VERDON assessment of agricultural gangs in nineteenth-century Norfolk Review article: Farming high and low CORMAC O GRADA Bibliography: Annual list of articles on agrarian history, 1999 JANET COLLETT Work in progress on agrarian and rural history, 2000 BETHANIE AFTON Reviews: Terry Barry (ed.), A history of settlement in Ireland ROBERT A. DODGSHON Robert Bearman, Compton Verney: a history of the house and F. M. L. THOMPSON its owners Michael Benjamin Berger, Thoreau’s late career and ‘The dis- BRIAN DONAHUE persion of seeds’: the saunterer’s synoptic vision Dian Blawer, John Peck of Parson Drove: an exceptional fenman; DENNIS MILLS Dian Blawer, The trade of a farmer: John Peck of Parson Drove John Burnett, Liquid pleasures: a social history of drinks in P. j. ATKINS modern Britain Bruce M.S. Campbell, English seigniorial agriculture, 1250-1450 CHRISTOPHER DYER Jacques Cauvin, The birth oft he gods and the origins of agriculture R. J. MOORE-COLYER Hadrian Cook and Tom Williamson (eds), Water management MICHAEL WILLIAMS in the English landscape, field, marsh and meadow Jacqueline Cooper, The well-ordered town. A story of Saffron ELIZABETH GRIFFITHS Walden, Essex, 1792-1862 Robin W. Doughty, The Eucalyptus: a natural and commercial J. M. POWELL history of the gum tree Robert Dunning (ed.), VCH Somerset, VII, Wincanton and Jj. H. BETTEY neighbouring parishes Michael J. Edmunds and Joanna Martin, The Pennard manor R. J. MOORE-COLYER court book, 1673-1701 F. G. Emmison, Essex wills: the commissary court, 1587-1599 JOHN WALTER Rosamond Faith, The English peasantry and the growth ofl ordship S. H. RIGBY Alan H. Fielding and Paul F. Haworth, Upland habitats G. HALLIDAY H. S.A. Fox and O.J.Padel (eds), The Cornish lands of the MARK PAGE Arundells of Lanherne Katherine L. French, Gary G. Gibbs and Beat A. Kumin (eds), STEVE HINDLE The parish in English life, 1400-1600 James A. Galloway (ed.), Trade, urban hinterlands and market DAVID STONE integration, Cc. 1300-1600 David Gervers (ed.), Dating undated medieval charters RICHARD BRITNELL Joseph A. Gribbin, The Premonstratensian order in late medieval JANET BURTON England D. M. Hadley, The northern Danelaw: its social structure, c. 800-1100 RHYS A. JONES David Hancock, Old farm dogs; Martin Watts, Working oxen; KR. J. MOORE-COLYER Fred Hams, Domestic ducks and geese Paul T. Harding and Tom Wall (eds), Moccas: an English deer OLIVER RACKHAM park H. T. Huang, Science and civilization in China, V1, Biology and E. N. ANDERSON biological technology: Part 5 Fermentation and food science Steve Hindle, The birthpangs of welfare: poor relief and parish LEE BEIER governance in seventeenth-century Warwickshire Steven Hollowell, Enclosure records for historians LEIGH SHAW-TAYLOR Rosemary L. Hopcroft, Regions, institutions and agrarian change JOHN R. WALTON in European history David W. Howell, The rural poor in eighteenth-century Wales R. J. MOORE-COLYER Lloyd C. Irland, The Northeast’s changing forest GRAEME WYNN Bernard Jennings, Yorkshire monasteries: cloister, land and people BRIAN GOLDING Kenneth F. Kiple and Kriemhild Conee Ornelas (eds), The DAVID GREGG Cambridge world history of food Allan Kulikoff, From British peasants to colonial American CARLA GARDINA farmers PESTANA William Linnard, Welsh woods and forests: a history HOWARD OVENS John Majewski, A house dividing: economic development in ANNE KELLY KNOWLES Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War Shawn William Miller, Fruitless trees: Portuguese conservation MARY KARASCH and Brazil’s colonial timber Philip Morgan and A.D.M. Phillips (eds), Staffordshire his- DAVID HEY tories: essays in honour of Michael Greenslade Bernard Morris (ed.), Gabriel Poweil’s survey of Gower, 1764 JOANNA MARTIN Christine M. Newman, Late medieval Northallerton: a small R. W. HOYLE market town and its hinterland, c. 1470-1540 T. Douglas Price (ed.), Europe’s first farmers DAVID R. HARRIS John B. Rehder, Delta sugar: Lousiana’s vanishing plantation J. H. GALLOWAY landscape Steven D. Reschly, The Amish on the Iowa prairie, 1840 to 1910 THOMAS J. MEYERS Werner Résener (ed.), Kommunikation in der landlichen Ge- PAUL WARDE sellschaft vom Mittelalter bis zur Moderne Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Principal family F. M. L. THOMPSON and estate collections, family names A-K and L-W T.C.Smout, Nature contested. Environmental history in Scotland ROBERT A. DODGSHON and northern England since 1600 E.C. Spary, Utopia’s garden. French natural history from old MIKE HEFFERNAN regime to revolution Susan Buck Sutton (ed.), Contingent countryside: settlement, MALCOLM WAGSTAFF economy and land use in the southern Argolid since 1700 David Vaught, Cultivating California: growers, speciality crops PAUL RHODE and labor Heather Williams, The lure of the land. A century of education PAUL BRASSLEY at Harper Adams Angus J.L. Winchester, The harvest of the hills. Rural life in R. W. HOYLE northern England and the Scottish Borders, 1400-1700 Daniel Zohary and Maria Hopf, Domestication ofp lants in the DAVID R. HARRIS old world: the origin and spread ofc ultivated plants in west Asia, Europe and the Nile valley The Society: Conference Report: Winter Conference 2000 JEAN MORRIN Conference Report: Spring Conference, April 2001 S. M. STEVENS Annual report to members, 2000-2001