This book traces the nature of change within the country community of England and Wales between 1870 and 1918--a period that was, in many respects, a watershed

The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social his

The English countryside in the nineteenth century experienced the shifting power struggle from the great landed estates towards democratisation. Challenging rec

This book shows how governance regimes before the 1970s suppressed rural prospects of housing improvement and created conditions for middle-class capture. Using