Cambridge University Press по журналам "Rural History"
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-03-01)In 1976 the RSPCA finally adopted a policy of opposition to fox hunting and the shooting of birds for sport after a long history of highly controversial internal debate and external lobbying by pressure groups. This article ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1998-04-01)The … history of the rural areas during the Second World War is virtually unstudied. There is some work on agriculture and agricultural policies, but the extent to which these rely on K.A.H.Murray's ‘official’ history, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2011-03-01)Documentary, cartographic and archaeological sources suggest that agrarian practice in the north east of Scotland from the late sixteenth to the mid eighteenth centuries was more diverse, dynamic and targeted than often ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1994-04-01)In 1833 in a small village in the eastern Netherlands, a school opened for training weavers in using a new technology imported from England: the flying shuttle. The school began by training boys and girls between the ages ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1993-04-01)For the vast majority of men and women in seventeenth-century England the act of marriage created an indissoluble union and represented a life long commitment. Legal divorce was a lengthy and costly procedure which ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1990-10-01)The game of camping or camp-ball, best described as a blend of football and handball, was played for centuries in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Essex. It survived well into the nineteenth century, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-10-01)In just over two hundred years, the United States has been transformed from a very largely rural and wilderness nation into an urban one. Rural Americans have gone from being the first majority to the last minority, to ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1994-10-01)Among the global transformations that have involved rural women, few have been as historically significant as the removal of dairy processing from individual farms to central plants. In most cases, as butter and cheese ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1999-04-01)Agricultural historians have long been aware that a major increase in productivity and output characterised the so-called ‘agricultural revolution’. Usually, however, this has been measured by indirect means: the fact, for ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997-04-01)The agricultural economy of eighteenth-century England exhibited many paradoxes, being in part progressive and even entrepreneurial, yet existing in a legal context which preserved many ancient customs, rights, duties and ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2000-04-01)This paper draws on and forms part of the growing body of literature which examines critically the relationships between landscape and Englishness in the first half of the twentieth century. In particular this paper develops ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1998-10-01)As recently as the first half of this century, leaf- and twig-fodder cut from trees played a major role in animal husbandry across most of Europe and, in many areas, stored leafy hay was of critical importance to the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2001-04-01)Against the background of the economic and cultural environment of inter-war rural Britain, this article seeks to trace the history of the ‘Kinship in Husbandry’, a group of like-minded ruralists opposed to modernising ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1992-10-01)Brewing was an important part of the medieval peasant economy. There are different views, however, about the nature and position of those who brewed. It has been suggested that brewing was an integral part of the household ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1995-10-01)Agricultural output per man had risen substantially in the early nineteenth century, partly as a result of greater specialisation. This, in turn, stimulated demand for those trades which served the entire rural community, ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1999-10-01)In the burgeoning literature on war memorials and the commemoration of the war dead in Britain after 1918, the growth of village halls in rural areas has not been extensively analysed. K.S. Inglis has alerted us to the ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1997-04-01)In a recent article Willem de Blécourt highlighted how little we really know about cunning-folk in the context of European witchcraft, and stressed the need for further substantial research. The study of English cunning-folk ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 1995-10-01)The myriad forms of ‘popular culture’ have attracted an increasing amount of attention from historians of early modern and modern England. Students of English social relations are now familiar with several episodes of ...
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(Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, UK, 2008-04-01)Since the publication of Hobsbawm and Rudé's Captain Swing our understanding of the role(s) of covert protests in Hanoverian rural England has advanced considerably. Whilst we now know much about the dramatic practices of ...
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