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Industry, literature, and sociability: The effects of industrialisation of Asturian parishes according to Armando Palacio Valdés Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 María Gómez-Martín, Verónica Cañal-Fernández
Armando Palacio Valdés characterised the Asturian village of Sama de Langreo in his novel La aldea perdida (1903), as an unusual example of an industrialised population entity through four variables: the sale of fresh meat, the existence of street lighting, cafés, and public greenspaces. The aim of this article is to verify the author’s approach by comparing the state of the rest of the Asturian parishes
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Tradition counts. The boom in the Spanish broiler chicken and pork sectors, 1955–2020 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-21 Ernesto Clar
The economic success of the intensive poultry and pork sectors is a milestone in the Spanish economic history of the past seven decades. This work analyses the boom in the chicken and pork businesses in Spain, verifying the strengths and weaknesses of both livestock models, and drawing conclusions in relation to the agribusiness system. The influence of chicken and pork in the booming Spanish meat
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Unravelling the nutritional transition in Spain: From meat shortages to excess (1958–1990) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Pablo Delgado Perea
The nutritional transition, together with the demographic and epidemiological transitions, stands as one of the most crucial phenomena shaping societies in the 20th century. A prominent characteristic of the nutritional transition is the increased consumption of animal-origin protein, particularly meat. Within this context, the present article utilises Spain as a case study to provide a close examination
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The survival of three large agricultural estates on the north Hampshire-south Berkshire border during the interwar period Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Gareth Jones, Jeremy Burchardt, Richard Tranter
Historians credit the interwar period with the demise of the great agricultural estates but many survived, reduced in area and refocussed on new priorities. Three estates lying in close proximity in north Hampshire and south Berkshire had very divergent interests, but there were similarities, and significant differences, in the manner in which they survived the interwar period. One invested in a programme
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Subjects’ strategies against lordship in Burgundian and Habsburg Flanders Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Tom De Waele
From the thirteenth until the 18th century, the county of Flanders knew a special citizen status for rural residents. Country dwellers, normally residing under the jurisdiction and fiscality of lordships, could register themselves as external citizens or ‘outburghers’. Outburghership has primarily been researched within the context of state building and urban studies. This contribution prioritizes
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Temperance lives and landscape: Lady Elizabeth Biddulph, Lady Henry Somerset, and late nineteenth-century Ledbury Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 David Beckingham, Charles Watkins
This article considers the relationship of two prominent leaders of British women’s temperance, Lady Henry Somerset and Lady Elizabeth Biddulph. They were noteworthy for taking opposing sides when the British Women’s Temperance Association divided on the question of the political reach of its work. Somerset and Biddulph were elite women, daughters of earls and near neighbours around Ledbury, a centre
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‘In constant fear of some dire epidemic breaking out’: Rural responses to infectious and epidemic disease, 1870–1920 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Keir Waddington
Based on extensive archival research encompassing over eighty rural authorities in Wales, this essay pieces together fragmentary evidence to reveal the main contours of rural responses to infectious outbreaks from the 1870s to the 1918/10 influenza pandemic. At the centre of the essay are those practical, short-term measures that have hitherto been overlooked in the historiography. While infectious
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Licit or Illicit? Encroachments on ‘the Lord’s Waste’ in North-east Scotland, c.1400 – c.1800 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Colin Shepherd
This paper seeks to show that encroachments in the North-east resulted from a range of social and economic drivers. Encroachments were enacted by members of a wide social spectrum, resulting in both top-down and bottom-up manifestations of engrossment of holdings. In this respect, it may be argued, North-east encroachments have a distinctive nature compared to English enclosures. The factors effecting
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Pre-industrial ‘charity land’ and the dynamics of rural poverty in south-west England, 1656–1739: a case study Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Hideaki Inui
Post-enclosure charity lands in the period before the establishment of the charity commission in 1818 pose some fundamental questions. The amount and types of payment that recipients received, how they shifted over the period, and how the spectrum of relief adjusted to the massive macro-level changes – particularly the improvement in poor labourers’ standards of living that occurred between c.1660
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A Rebato: Popular uprisings and the striking of the bells in eighteenth-century Castile Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Mauro Hernández
This paper delves into the dynamics of popular revolt in early modern Castile, taking as a viewpoint a revealing feature of these disturbances, the bell-ringing widely known as rebato, an equivalent to the French tocsin. While alarm bells have long been recognised as a prevalent element of popular revolt in Europe from medieval times, they have received limited specific scholarly attention. This study
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Public education and professionalisation of Italian Agriculture (1861–1914) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Manuel Vaquero Piñeiro
This paper analyses the formation in Italy of a school system focused on the training of technical and managerial personnel in the agricultural sector. Drawing on a rich literature on the relationship between school training, social change, and economic modernisation, this study details an under-researched aspect of the formation of the national state. Italy constitutes an exemplary case study as for
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Prospering despite the adverse terms of emancipation? Accumulation of wealth by peasant farmers in the tsarist Russian province of Livonia, 1853–1913 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Kersti Lust
The article addresses the issue of wealth accumulation by peasant farmers in the post-emancipation era in the Russian Baltic province of Livonia. The Baltic emancipation schemes stand out as the least beneficial for peasants as they set neither time limits nor land price levels, and the state government did not provide any credit to the purchasers of farms. However, in northern Livonia the nominal
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The role of quality in the grain market: wheat prices formation in eighteenth-century Northern Italy Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Giulio Ongaro, Laura Prosperi, Wouter Ronsijn
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role of wheat quality in the formation of wheat prices in the early modern period, adopting eighteenth-century northern Italy as a case study. Wheat prices have been widely used by economic historians to calculate living standards, determine the degree of market integration, and date famines. Rarely, however, have economic historians focused on how wheat prices
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Productive practices in Andean rural areas and their relationship to extractive markets (Atacama Desert, northern Chile, 1915–2019) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Matías Calderón-Seguel, Manuel Prieto
Extractivism has marked the history of Latin America whose operations are in rural territories inhabited mainly by indigenous populations. Mining has had a remarkable expansion in rural territories of the Andes. Critical studies of these processes have focused on the disruptive aspects and conflict between companies, local populations, and States. However, mining has also been intertwined with the
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The Sandringham Estate: the Prince of Wales’s 1862 purchase and implications for local people, wildlife and landscape Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Rachael Jones
The Sandringham Estate was purchased in 1862 by the Prince of Wales to be his home away from London. This article uses a variety of sources to chart the changes to the estate as the prince developed his new holding. The acquisition required staff at all levels and in many and varied roles, which gave opportunities to local people and to those who moved in from further away. The countryside changed
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Migration and decentralised industrialisation: the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850–1950) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-29 Samuel Sundvall
This article investigates the development of rural migration in northern Sweden (1850–1950). During this period, northern Sweden experienced a slower rate of urbanisation than the rest of the country. This study proposes that decentralised industrialisation (i.e., rural-industrial labour, predominantly in the timber industry) introduced inertia to the urbanisation process by lowering the rate of rural-to-urban
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Current trends and future directions in the rural history of later medieval England (c. 1200–c. 1500) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Chris Briggs
This article surveys a range of work on the later medieval English countryside published since 2000, and offers some predictions and suggestions about future research. It shows that the field of ‘rural history’ has rarely been closely defined, and indeed has tended to be treated as a broad church that can accommodate many different kinds of approach, themselves drawing on a variety of disciplinary
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How farmers adopt new technologies: connections between farmer and technician knowledges in Galicia (NW Iberian Peninsula) (1880–1940) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Lourenzo Fernández-Prieto, David Soto-Fernández, Bruno Esperante
Who chooses new technology? And how? In this article, we explore the diffusion of agricultural science and technology in Galicia (Spain), and the ways in which farmers adopted innovations in the period of 1880–1940 within the Atlantic Iberian agricultural context of small farms. To answer these questions, we adopt a socio-institutional approach and also an environmental one, changes in breeding techniques
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Rural social engineering: reordering the countryside in decolonising India and Malaysia (1947–60) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Clemens Six
In an interview in the early 1980s, Michel Foucault predicated that, from the eighteenth century on, modern government rationality has essentially been a form of urban planning. This article challenges this argument. It discusses the formation of rural social engineering, that is, the state-led efforts to design new men and new social orders outside the cities through plans, during decolonisation in
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More industrious and less austere than expected: evidence from inventories of agricultural workers in north-eastern Catalonia (1725–1807) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Rosa Congost, Rosa Ros, Enric Saguer
This article studies the changes in ownership of real estate, livestock and objects belonging to agricultural workers in the region of Girona, north-eastern Catalonia, through the analysis of a sample of nearly one thousand postmortem inventories dated between 1725 and 1807. It shows that a sizable number of agricultural workers gained greater access to property rights in land and other means of production
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Which rural settlements have lost the most population? An analysis of a case study of north-east Spain (Aragón) (1900–2001) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 María Isabel Ayuda, Pablo Gómez, Vicente Pinilla
The aim of this article is to investigate how the characteristics of the different types of human settlements explain their demographic dynamics and, therefore, which of these have been affected to a greater extent by depopulation processes. For this purpose, we analyse the evolution of the population of Aragón (north-east Spain) in the period 1900–2001, according to the different types of population
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Exploring changes in gamekeeper numbers in England (1851–1921) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Juliet Bailey
The gamekeeper played an important role in the development of modern gamebird shooting but has been peripheral in many analyses of the sport, which have tended to focus on the poacher, the landed elite, or the game laws. This study places the gamekeeper in a central position and, for a selection of counties, provides a detailed examination and comparison of changes in gamekeeper numbers between 1851
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‘Aspire, persevere and indulge not’: new wealth and gentry society in Wales, c. 1760–1840 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Lowri Ann Rees
This article examines the various ways new wealth infiltrated the Welsh gentry during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the behaviours and actions of new men, together with the processes they followed to assimilate into the world of the old families. This study emphasises a level of openness of landed society to new arrivals able to comport themselves according to the
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‘Success to the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture’: a reappraisal of the role of chambers of agriculture in Britain during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 James P. Bowen
The central and associated county or district chambers of agriculture have attracted little attention from historians. Their origins have been attributed to the perceived lack of a national coordinating body for agriculture highlighted by the 1865–7 cattle plague. This article based on the records of the Shropshire Chamber of Agriculture, newspapers and printed histories reconsiders their role. Members
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Changes in food consumption from an agricultural-based economy to industrialisation: Uruguay (1900–70) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Maximiliano Presa, Carolina Román
The literature about the nutrition transition has been discussing the existence of different paths. The case of Uruguay is introduced as a different case of transition. We focus on the period 1900–70 when the country shifted from an agricultural-based economy to industrialisation through import substitution. We estimate the annual historical time series of per capita consumption of the main food items
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Future directions in rural history: Ireland, the First World War and the search for historical evidence Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Emmanuel Destenay
A social history of Ireland (encompassing rural communities) is needed if historians are to fully come to terms with what really happened between 1914 and 1918 and to properly tackle the question of ‘consent’ and ‘constraint’ in relation to the war effort. In addition, historians need to devote a comprehensive book-length research to the April 1918 Conscription Crisis in Ulster (but more generally
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Traces of disappearing heritage: upcycling of wooden vessels preserved in the vernacular architecture of a large river valley in Central Europe Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-12-02 Dariusz Brykała, Paweł Marek Pogodziński, Robert Piotrowski
The article presents a trend in rural and small-town architecture, in central Poland, consisting in the reuse of material from river-going vessels. As part of the research, twenty objects (existing and non-extant) were identified that had been constructed using material from wooden vessels that had navigated the Vistula River in the past (nineteenth and twentieth centuries). There was also a reinterpretation
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Rural electrification in Spain: territorial expansion and effects on the agricultural sector (c. 1900–c. 2000) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-28 Josean Garrués-Irurzun, Iñaki Iriarte-Goñi
Rural electrification is closely linked one way or another to rural development, and enables the understanding of the complexity of social and economic development paths. The objective of this work is to analyse rural electrification in a European peripherical country like Spain throughout the twentieth century, contributing to the international debate on the issue. The article studies the territorial
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Famines in the manorial economy of eighteenth-century Poland Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-11-22 Piotr Miodunka
On the basis of eight available terriers of a large royal estate of Niepołomice in southern Poland and of the vital records of two parishes located on its area, all dating from the early eighteenth century, this article examines the effect of famines on the economic situation of both feudal lords and their peasant tenants. The restrictive framework of the second serfdom in Poland did not prevent two
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Away but connected: from the mountains of Babia to the plains of Cáceres. A study of Spanish transhumance at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-10-24 Pablo Vidal-González
One of the most important systems of sheep transhumance since the Middle Ages in Spain occurred between the mountains of northern Leon and the Extremadura Meadow lands – a 500-kilometre journey on foot. We analyse here an interesting collection of thirty letters, written at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth century, and sent by the shepherds responsible for the flock from the wintering land
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Gender, work, and family economies: wet nurses in rural Galicia (1850–1900) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Isidro Dubert, Luisa Muñoz-Abeledo
In this article we study the distinct formative stages of the labour market for external wet nurses employed by Galician foundling hospitals in the second half of the nineteenth century. We focus on changes in the nature of wet nurses’ work due to the benevolence laws (1822, 1836, 1849) that were driven by Spain’s liberal state. We also examine wet nurses’ socio-demographic profile and the geographic
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How hiking reinvented rural areas: social transformation and leisure activities in Brittany during the 1970s Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-19 Michaël Attali, Yohann Fortune, Doriane Gomet, Yohann Rech
This study looks at the role of hiking in the development and the identity of a French region. Both rural and agricultural, Brittany saw a reorganisation of its territory during the 1970s, partly due to activities such as hiking. By becoming a political focus, the activity contributed to making paths, only previously used for field labour, a tool for territorial development. It also rejuvenated Brittany’s
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The peasant and the nation plot: a distant reading of the Romanian rural novel from the first half of the twentieth century Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-06 Cosmin Borza, Daiana Gârdan, Emanuel Modoc
Our article conducts a critical reassessment of one of the most influential cultural myths in Eastern Europe throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: the nationalist definition of peasantry as embodying the quintessence of the nation. In order to evaluate the imagological scope and ideological implications engendered by this so-called ‘people-nation myth’, we focus on the Romanian culture
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From grassland to forest: the puzzle of land tenure and forest conservation in Costa Rica (1962–2014) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Wilson Picado-Umaña, Elisa Botella-Rodríguez
This article discusses Costa Rica’s policies and institutions created by the state to redistribute land during the 1960s and 1970s, when Latin American was implementing agrarian reforms. The paper also addresses the creation of the national parks system and forest conservation state policy supported by different scientific organisations during the same period. Within this context, this research seeks
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The persistent workforce: female day labour on capitalist farms in eighteenth-century Flanders Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Lore Helsen
Female day labourers regularly appear in the accounts of capitalist Flemish farmers throughout the eighteenth century. Their persistent employment challenges the dominant view that female day labour was marginalised in areas of agrarian capitalism across the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The hitherto unexplored accounts of nine capitalist farms reveal the seasonal employment patterns, sexual
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Agrarian development and state building in Spain: the contest for irrigation in the Valencian Region, 1770–1860 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Salvador Calatayud, Jesús Millán, María Cruz Romeo
A determined expansion in the productive capacity of Spanish agriculture was a fundamental and contentious objective during the crisis of the country’s ancien régime and the formation of the liberal state, in the years of transition from the eighteenth to the nineteenth centuries. In this study we examine a fundamental reorientation that occurred in an ambitious project for the expansion of irrigation
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The archaeology of peasant protagonism: new directions in the early medieval Iberian countryside Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-22 Robert Portass
The inherent complexity of early medieval rural society is now widely recognised by scholars; this is in no small part thanks to the transformative effect that archaeology has had on our understanding of many aspects of peasant life. Yet it is only in the last twenty years that an archaeology of peasant society of early medieval Christian Iberia has emerged to challenge the supremacy of deeply entrenched
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Classrooms of democracy: cultivating change and social cohesion through rural community centres in postwar Hesse Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Kevin T Hall
Influenced by proposals (spanning back to the Kaiser Reich) to hinder the urban-rural divide, Hessian Social Democrats introduced the Hessenplan in 1951 to rebuild the war-torn cities, reconstruct state infrastructure, and integrate displaced persons. A key component of this plan was the establishment of rural community centres, which provided modern amenities and leisure activities, attempted to reduce
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The UK landscape evaluation movement (1965–85) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Moa Carlsson
Tracing developments in British town and country planning during the 1960s and 1970s, this article describes the sudden upsurge of landscape evaluation method-development among landscape architects and planners, and the disputes that made such efforts come to an end in the late 1970s. In this burst of activity, here referred to as the UK landscape evaluation movement, we can observe competing definitions
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Cottages for farm labouring families: plans, exhortations and realities (1825–50) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-05-26 John Agnew
Loudon’s 1825 Encyclopedia of Agriculture set out why and how ‘comfortable’ family cottages should be built for the farm labouring workforce. Over the next quarter-century, published ‘prize essays’ on cottage-design appeared alongside articles advocating ‘high farming’. Low labourer wages and insecure farm tenancies handicapped investment in both, though a parliamentary inquiry showed improvement projects
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Horse-related title taking and animal cruelty in colonial eastern Nigeria: re-examining the economic rationale behind the introduction of humane killers Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Uche Uwaezuoke Okonkwo, Joy N. U. Ejikeme, Victor Okoro Ukaogo
Horse trading was an important aspect of the Igbo economy and horse-related title taking was a unique feature among various Nigerian groups, especially in eastern Nigeria. The demand for the introduction of humane horse killers in eastern Nigeria was heightened by the economic drive of the colonial political economy, and was not necessarily a consideration for the harmful treatment of animals. Horse-related
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Bush-lost children’s place in new ‘moral communities’: the emergence of a cultural rite in colonial Victoria (and across Australia), 1850s–1890s Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-03-09 Tim Calabria, Tash Joyce
In the 1850s goldrush, new communities emerged in Victoria with members from diverse origins of place, faith and ethnicity. Settlers usually migrated to pursue wealth; however, the social cohesion these young towns required often came from beyond logics of economy. As the goldrush waned from the 1860s, communal searches for children lost in the bush became a secular ‘rite’ that helped produce ‘moral
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‘Scotland’s fighting fields’: the mobilisation of workers in rural Scotland during the Second World War Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Michelle Moffat
As the Battle of the Atlantic threatened Britain’s importation of food and forestry supplies, authorities intensified plans to rapidly increase domestic production. In Scotland, this was a herculean task in rural communities decimated by land clearances, economic depression, and population decline. Against the odds, the mobilisation of a range of workers enabled Scottish agriculture and forestry to
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Agrarian measures in the kingdom of Granada before and after the Castilian conquest: the lands of the Alpujarra Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2022-01-25 Ana María Carballeira Debasa
The aim of this article is to broaden our knowledge of the metrological system of the Morisco period in the kingdom of Granada and, more specifically, in the rural area of the Alpujarra. The sources used in the analysis are two inventories of ecclesiastical goods from Islamic origin, drawn up in 1527 and 1530, four decades after the culmination of the Christian conquest of al-Andalus. The article explores
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‘K is for Keeper’: the roles and representations of the English gamekeeper, c. 1880–1914 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-13 Stephen Ridgwell
The gamekeeper was an important but controversial presence in the late Victorian and Edwardian countryside. Admired by some for his skills in woodcraft and deep understanding of nature, for others the keeper was much less benign: a destroyer of wildlife; a barrier against wider public access to the land; and the upholder of fiercely contested laws. At a time when debates about the land and its present
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Household budget management and women’s position in peasant families in the Polish lands in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Elwira Wilczyńska
This article attempts to answer the question about the position of women in Polish peasant families in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries based on the memoirs of rural women. Contrary to the claim that taking control over the household budget gave women more power on the farm, memoirs of peasant women show that it was rather an additional duty and responsibility. This problem mainly
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Unions and agricultural protests in inland Spain during the Transition: the example of Burgos province (1975–80) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-12-10 Jesús-Ángel Redondo-Cardeñoso
This article analyses the creation of unions and the evolution of protests (demonstrations, tractor blockades) instigated by farmers in the province of Burgos, in the interior of northern Spain, during the period following the death of the dictator Francisco Franco known as the Transition (1975–80). The study uses press articles, documentation from the Civil Government and information gathered through
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Conscription, rural populations and the dynamics of war and revolution in Ireland (1914–18) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-16 Emmanuel Destenay
Drawing on secret witness reports from Intelligence Officers of the Royal Irish Constabulary, and diplomatic correspondence from France’s representatives to Dublin and London, this article seeks to complement recent historiography and qualify our understanding of the period 1914–18 by engaging fully with the issue of compulsory military service from the outbreak of the conflict. It contemplates how
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The evolving economic importance of Polish forests between 1918 and 1945 Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Błażej Jendrzejewski
Poland, going through three partitions and two wars, has suffered enormous losses across many dimensions. Polish forests have been damaged or destroyed by direct or indirect results of those tragic events and at the same time, timber and non-timber forest products played an important role in rebuilding the nation. This article illustrates the scale of the losses and the economic importance of Polish
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The language of space and ownership in rural New South Wales in the mid-nineteenth-century: rural workers Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-08-13 Paula Jane Byrne
Language used in depositions in colonial New South Wales shows a mobile non-Aboriginal society of close surveillance, rumour and informing. This derived from the convict system. In response to this there was considerable play with marking and markers, including the widespread use of nicknames and emphasis on personal space. Outside of this was the dreamlike realm of entertainment to be had in public
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Women and estate management in the early eighteenth century: Barbara Savile at Rufford Abbey, Nottinghamshire (1700–34) Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-22 Sarah Law, Susanne Seymour, Charles Watkins
There is a rich and increasing body of research pointing to the significant role that elite women played in property management during the eighteenth century. In this article we examine the contribution of an elite widow, Barbara Savile, to the management of her son Sir George Savile’s extensive landholdings in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire from 1700 until her death in 1734. We establish that Barbara
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Cattle rights versus human rights: herdsmen–farmer clashes in Nigeria Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Apex Anselm Apeh, Christian Chukwuma Opata, Chidi Mike Amaechi, Onwuka Ndukwe Njoku
Climate change across West Africa has provoked recurrent herdsmen–farmer clashes in the subregion. In Nigeria, the frequency and magnitude of the clashes and the resultant destruction of lives and property has become a cause for concern to both government and citizens. This is especially so because of the danger it poses to society and national security. Accordingly, the need for a close study of the
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Clothing the New Poor Law workhouse in the nineteenth century Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Peter Jones, Steven King, Karen Thompson
The workhouse remains a totemic institution for social historians, yet we still know very little about the day-to-day experiences of the indoor poor. Nowhere is this clearer than in discussions about workhouse clothing, which remain overwhelmingly negative in the literature and consistent with the predominant view of the workhouse as a place of suffering and humiliation. Yet more often than not, this
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Early Australian rabbit-proof fences: paling, slab and stub fences, modified dry stone walls, and wire netting Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-15 John Pickard
Fences were critical in the fight against rabbits in colonial Australia. Initially, domestic rabbits were farmed in pens or paddocks fenced with paling fences or walls. Wild-caught rabbits imported from England escaped and became serious pests from the 1850s. As their status changed from protected private property to a major pest, the functions of fences changed to fencing rabbits out. Legislation
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Manufacturing agricultural working knowledge: the scientific study of agricultural work in industrial Europe, 1920s–60s Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Juri Auderset
After the First World War, agricultural work became a subject of intense interdisciplinary scientific inquiry. The shortage of agricultural labour, the nutritional and agricultural crises and the increasing significance of the movement for the rationalisation of work contributed to the creation of new scientific institutions that focused on the study and improvement of agricultural work. This contribution
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Manufacturing in Puritan rural towns in New England 1630–60: ‘A Miller Never Goes to Heaven’ Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 John R. Mullin, Zenia Kotval
This article is an analysis of the influence of blacksmiths, and saw and grain millers on the development of Puritan communities in the Massachusetts Bay Colony between 1630 and 1660. During this period these artisans played a significant role in defining the physical form of the rural Puritan town and its economic development, without intent and in a social and cultural climate where they were often
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Past and present land reform in Cuba (1959–2020): from peasant collectivisation to re-peasantisation and beyond Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Elisa Botella-Rodríguez, Ángel Luis González-Esteban
Cuba is a paradigmatic case where the term and concept of the peasantry remains of lived importance. Cuban peasants had a significant role in the past as they did return to the political agenda after the Revolution with particular emphasis under Raul Castro’s administration. However, the Cuban case has not been significantly explored from a long-term perspective that connects the old debates and dimensions
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Rural poverty in Poland between the wars Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-06-14 Sławomir Kalinowski, Weronika Wyduba
Poverty is the consequence of not having sufficient income to sustain lives and ways of life. While there are many papers addressing poverty in today’s Poland, no comprehensive study was done to explain and describe rural poverty also in a historical aspect. Therefore, this article attempts to synthetically identify the patterns and particularities of rural poverty in Poland between the wars, and to
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The Loes and Wilford Poor Law Incorporation 1765–1826: ‘A Prison with a Milder Name’ Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Matthew Bayly
Are you a parachutist or a truffle hunter? A curious question from which to start in regards this publication by the Suffolk Records Society, bringing together a collection of transcribed records of the Loes and Wilford Poor Law Incorporation from over its sixty-one-year lifespan. Shaw adopts such a metaphor from Le Roy Ladurie, the French Annales historian, to explain the scope of this work: historians
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Rural History: the prospect before us, revisited Rural History (IF 0.3) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Carl Griffin,Tom Williamson