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THE AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW edited by R. W. Hoyle and H.R. French Volume 57 PUBLISHED BY THE BRITISH AGRICULTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY Published by the British Agricultural History Society, Department of History, The University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter, Ex 4 4R) Typeset by Carnegie Publishing, Chatsworth Road, Lancaster Printed and bound by Short Run Press, Exeter ISSN 0002-1490 Articles: The form, function and evolution of irregular field systems MARK BAILEY in Suffolk, c.1300 to ¢.1550 George Boswell of Puddletown (1735-1815): progressive farmer JOSEPH BETTEY and author The Smithsonian Bequest, Congress, and nineteenth-century DANA G. efforts to increase and diffuse agricultural knowledge in DALRYMPLE the United States Dales, long lands, and the medieval division of land MARK GARDINER in eastern England The state and the farm worker: the evolution of the minimum ALUN HOWKINS and wage in agriculture in England and Wales, 1909-24 NICOLA VERDON Farm rents and improvement: East Lothian and Lanarkshire, MUIR JOHNSTONE 1670-1830 Subverting the ground: private property and public protest BRIONY A. K. in the sixteenth-century Yorkshire Wolds MCDONAGH A cattle panzootic in early fourteenth-century Europe TIMOTHY P. NEWFIELD Between ideology and science: higher agricultural education YVES SEGERS and in Belgium and the development of a Catholic agricultural ROELAND HERMANS network, 1850-1914 Horse-stealing in Wales, 1730-1830 NICHOLAS WOODWARD Review Article: Simply a better class of people? The Clark JAN LUITEN thesis assessed VAN ZANDEN Book Reviews S. Antrobus, ‘We wouldn't have missed it for the world’. JOHN MARTIN The Womens Land Army in Bedfordshire, 1939-1950 Geoffrey Ball, Land, agriculture and industry in north-west B. Re FRENCH Essex. Spotlights on a land remembered C. Barciela, ‘Ni un espanol sin pan’ La red nacional de silos TIM REES y graneros Toby Barnard, Improving Ireland? Projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786 P. Bartrip, Myxomatosis. A history of pest control and the rabbit JOHN MARTIN Daniel C. Beaver, Hunting and the politics of violence before Rs OW. HOYLE the English Civil War Jonathan Bell and Mervyn Watson, A history of Irish farming, MICHAEL TURNER 1750-1950 Jan Bieleman, Boeren in Nederland. Geschiedenis MAARTEN PRAK van de Landbouw, 1500-2000 Martin Bodman, Devon leather. An outline history of a lost MIKE BONE industry: nineteenth-century tanners and tanneries Mark Bowden, Graham Brown and Nicky Smith, An H. R. FRENCH archaeology of town commons in England: a very fair field indeed’ Chris Briggs, Credit and village society in fourteenth-century MARGARET YATES England Jonathan Brown, Steam on thef arm. A history of agricultural PETER DEWEY steam engines, 1850 to 1950 Henry Buckton, The lost villages. In search of Britain’ a. J. MOORE-COLYER vanished communities Gill Clarke, The Women’s Land Army: a portrait NICOLA VERDON Ben Dodds and Richard Britnell (eds), Agriculture and rural MARGARET YATES society after the Black Death. Common themes and regional variations T. Dooley, The murders at Wildgoose Lodge. Agrarian crime CARL J. GRIFFIN and punishment in pre-famine Ireland C. Dyer, P. Coss and C. Wickham (eds), Rodney Hiltons BEN DODDS Middle Ages. An exploration of historical themes Scott M. Eddie, Landownership in eastern Germany before the PAUL WARDE Great War. A quantitative analysis Jeremy Hayhoe, Enlightened feudalism. Seigneurial justice DREW GRAY and village society in eighteenth-century northern Burgundy W. G. Hoskins, The Midland Peasant. Economic and social JOAN THIRSK history ofa Leicestershire village C. James and J. A. Fitzgerald (eds), Of the land and the ERIN GILL spirit. The essential Lord Northbourne on ecology and religion David Johnson, Ingleborough: landscape and history ALASDAIR ROSS Elizabeth B. Jones, Gender and rural modernity. Farm women NICOLA VERDON and the politics of labor in Germany, 1871-1933 P. Lains and V. Pinilla (eds), Agriculture and economic PAUL BRASSLEY development in Europe since 1870 Donna Landry, Noble brutes. How eastern horses transformed R. J. MOORE-COLYER English culture P. L. Larson, Conflict and compromise in the late medieval MIRIAM MULLER countryside. Lords and peasants in Durham, 1349-1400 William Lockeretz (ed.), Organic farming: an international ERIN GILL history Edward Martin and Max Satchell, ‘Wheare most inclosures MARK BAILEY be’. East Anglian fields: History, morphology and management Jennifer Munroe (ed.), Making gardens oft heir own: JOAN THIRSK advice for women, 1550-1750 and Gender and the garden in early modern English literature David Neave and Susan Neave, A history of the County of York: BRIONY A. K. East Riding VIII, East Buckrose: Sledmere and the northern MCDONAGH Wolds Andrew G. Newby, Ireland, Radicalism and the Scottish MALCOLM Highlands, ¢.1870-1912 BANGOR-JONES Elizabeth Parkinson, The establishment of the Hearth Tax, H. R. FRENCH 1662-66 Larry Patriquin, Agrarian capitalism and poor relief in England, 1500-1860. Rethinking the origins of the welfare state Peter Razzell, Population and disease: transforming English ROBERT LEE society, 1550-1850 Paul Readman, Land and nation in England. Patriotism, MARK ROTHERY national identity and the politics of land, 1880-1914 B. K. Roberts, Landscapes, documents and maps. Villages in STEPHEN RIPPON northern England and beyond, AD 900-1250 I. Roberts, Telling tales out ofs chool. A history of education and Kk. J. MOORE-COLYER school life in North Tyneside and Redesdale from 1870 to 1944 Anne Rowe, Medieval parks of Hertfordshire; Hugh Prince, OLIVER CREIGHTON Parks in Hertfordshire since 1500 William D. Rubinstein, Who were the rich? A biographical KEVIN CAHILL directory of British wealth-holders. Volume One, 1809-1839 S. Sheehan, Jack’ world: Farming on the Sheeps Head - J. MOORE-COLYER Peninsula, 1920-2003 Lisa H. Sideris and Kathleen Dean Moore (eds), Rachel ERIN GILL Carson: legacy and challenge Robin Stanes, Andrew Jewell and Richard Bass, The husbandry MICHAEL HAVINDEN of Devon and Cornwall Shuzo Teruoka (ed.), Agriculture in the modernization ofJ apan, ALAN BOOTH 1850-2000 Avis R. Wilson, Forgotten labour. The Wiltshire agricultural JOSEPH BETTEY worker and his environment 4500 BC-AD 1950 Mary Young with Abernyte Heritage Group, Abernyte. HEATHER HOLMES The Quiet Revolution Deborah Youngs, Humphrey Newton (1466-1536). . J. POLLARD An early Tudor gentleman De lestime au cadastre en Europe. Les systemes cadastraux HUGH CLOUT aux XIXe et XXe siécles. Colloque des 20 et 21 janvier 2005 sous la direction scientifique de Florence Bourillon, Pierre Clergeot et Nadine Vivier Yorkshire West Riding Hearth Tax assessment, Lady Day 1672, edited by David Hey, Colum Giles, Margaret Spufford and Andrew Wareham Annual list of publications on Agrarian History, 2007 PETER MCSHANE Conference Report: Society's Winter Conference, 2008 JEAN MORRIN Conference report: The Society's Spring Conference, 2009 JOE BARKER