By Jeremy Burchardt
The residing criteria of the agricultural bad suffered a critical decline within the first half the 19th century due to excessive inhabitants progress, altering agricultural practices, enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision used to be an important counterweight to the pressures. This publication bargains the 1st systematic research of the early nineteenth-century allotment flow, offering new information at the chronology of the stream and at the quantity, geographical distribution, measurement, rents, cultivation yields and impression on dwelling criteria of allotments, exhibiting how the stream introduced the tradition of the agricultural labouring negative extra heavily into line with the mainstream values of decent mid-Victorian England. This ebook casts new mild on imperative points of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and financial historical past, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT is lecturer in Rural background, collage of analyzing.
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37 Fourth it was sometimes thought that providing agricultural labourers with land would teach their children skill in husbandry from an early age. Finally, it was also occasionally suggested that labourers with land would themselves become ‘better servants’. The benefits expected for the country at large were first, greater social stability, and second, increased national production. The first of these was mentioned by a number of writers, perhaps most revealingly by Glasse and by Bernard. ’39 Increased national production took on particular importance in the war years because of the disruption of trade with continental Europe.
Ibid. i (1797–8), 93. Ibid. iii. 163. Ibid. iv (1802–5), 200–1. Thomas Stone, A review of the corrected agricultural survey of Lincolnshire, by Arthur Young, London 1800, 408. 30 SBCP, Reports, iv. 200–1; ibid. i. 241. vp 01 October 2002 10:01:04 Color profile: Generic CMYK printer profile Composite Default screen c. 31 Moreover, the possession of land would make labourers more thrifty. 32 Another argument sometimes used in favour of providing labourers with land was that this could prevent crime.
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