Books in the Agrarian History of England and Wales series

This 1988 volume examines the agrarian history of England and Wales from the beginning of the reign of Edward the Confessor to the outbreak of the Black Death in 1348. It divides the counties into regions and deals with each under the headings of new settlements, agriculture and pastoralism, yield ratios and techniques.

The third volume of The Agrarian History of England and Wales, which was first published in 1991, deals with the last century and a half of the Middle Ages. It concerns itself with the new demographic and economic circumstances created in large measure by endemic plague.

Volume IV of the Agrarian History (1967) deals with such topics as the structure of farming regions, agricultural techniques, and estate management by the crown. Based on studies that span the entire kingdom, a picture of Tudor and early Stuart England and Wales emerges which differs from textbook conventions.

Volume VIII of the Agrarian History of England and Wales, first published in 1978, provides a technical, social and economic history of rural England and Wales between 1914 and 1939. The author assesses the effects on farming of the rapid wartime rise in prices, the post-war deflation and the depression.

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 European continent before 3000BC. This volume surveys this evolution of the man-made landscape over the period of some three millennia before the Roman conquest.