XI - AGRICULTURAL HISTORY

Summary

Printed sources

1917 Bensusan, Semuel L. Latter-day rural England 1927. 1928. Based on a fourmonth visit to agricultural counties.

1918 Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero, Lord. Whippingham to Westminster, 1938. Reminiscences of a leading agriculturalist.

1919 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. A century of agricultural statistics, Great Britain, 1866–1966. 1968.

1920 Pratt, Edwin, A. The transition in agriculture. 1906. As it looked early in the century.

1921 Thompson, Flora. Lark Rise to Candleford: a trilogy. 1945. On rural society.

Surveys

1922 Ernle, Rowland Edmund Prothero, Lord. English farming, past and present. With introductions by George E. Fussell and Oliver R. McGregor. 6th ed., 1961.

1923 Green, Frederick E. A history of the English agricultural labourer, 1870–1920. 1920.

1924 Harvey, Nigel. The farming kingdom. 1955. On transformation in twentieth century.

1925 Russell, E. John. A history of agricultural science in Great Britain, 1620–1954. 1966. More than half is devoted to the twentieth century.

1926 Symon, J. A. Scottish farming past and present. Edinburgh, 1959.

1927 Trow-Smith, Robert. English husbandry, from the earliest times to the present day. 1951.

1928 Whetham, Edith Holt. Agrarian History of England and Wales. Vol. VIII (1914–39). 1978. See also her British farming, 1939–49. 1952.