English Landed Society Revisited

Volume 1 

Contents: Victorian England: the horse-drawn society. Inaugural lecture as Professor of Modern History, Bedford College, 1970; The end of a great estate, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 8, (1955);  The land market in the nineteenth century, Oxford Economic Review, new. Ser. 9 (1957); English landownership: The Ailesbury Trust, 1832-56, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 11 (1958); English Great Estates In The 19th Century, 1790-1914, First International Conference of Economic Historians, Stockholm, 1960; Land and Politics in England in the nineteenth century, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser. 15 (1965); The social distribution of landed property in England since the sixteenth century, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 19 (1968); The Second Agricultural Revolution, 1815-1880, Economic History Review, 1, 4, 1968; Landownership and economic growth in England in the eighteenth century, from E.L. Jones and S.J. Woolf (eds.), Agrarian change and economic development: the historical problems (1969); Nineteenth-century horse sense, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 29 (1976); Social control in Victorian England, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 34 (1981).

Horses and hay in Britain, 1830-1918, from F.M.L. Thompson (ed.), Horses in European economic history: a preliminary canter(British Agricultural History Society, 1983); English landed society in the nineteenth century, from Pat Thane, Geoffrey Crossick and Roderick Floud (eds.), The power of the past: essays for Eric Hobsbawm (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984); Aristocracy, gentry, and the middle classes in Britain, 1750-1850, from Adolf M. Birke and Lothar Kettenacker (eds.), Burgertum, Adel; und Monarchie (Munich, 1989).

Volume 2

Contents: Rural society and agricultural change in nineteenth-century Britain, from George Grantham and Carol S. Leonard (eds.), Agrarian organisation in the century of industrialisation: Europe, Russia, and North America (Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1989); Life after death: how successful nineteenth-century businessmen disposed of their fortunes, Economic History Review, 2nd ser, 43 (1990); English landed society in the twentieth century, 1, Property: collapse and survival, (Presidential address), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser. 40 (1990); English Landed Society in the Twentieth Century. 1: Property: Collapse and Survival, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., Vol. 40., 1990; English landed society in the twentieth century, 2: new poor and new rich, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 1 (1991); English landed society in the twentieth century, 3, Self help and outdoor relief, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 2 (1992); English landed society in the twentieth century, 4, Prestige without power? Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 3 (1993).

Desirable properties: the town and country connection in British society since the late eighteenth century, Historical Research, 64 (1991); Stitching it together again (Reply to W.D. Rubinstein), Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 45 (1992); Changing Perceptions of Land Tenure in Britain, 1750-1914, from Donald Winch and Patrick K. O’Brien (eds.), The Political Economy of British Historical Experience 1688-1914 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002); Moving frontiers and the Fortunes of the Aristocratic Town 1830-1930, The London Journal, Vol.2, No.1, 1995; The Land market, 1880-1925: A reappraisal reappraised, The Agricultural History Journal, Vol.55, Part II, 2007; The Strange Death of the English Land question, from Matthew Cragoe and Paul Readman (eds.), The Land Question in Britain, 1750–1950 (Houndsmill, Palgrave, 2010).