Author: James Loch
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
An account of the improvements on the estates of the marquess of Stafford in the counties of Stafford and Salop, and on the estate of Sutherland. [With] Appendix
Author: James Loch
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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The Gentleman's Magazine
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
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Category : Early English newspapers
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
The "Gentleman's magazine" section is a digest of selections from the weekly press; the "(Trader's) monthly intelligencer" section consists of news (foreign and domestic), vital statistics, a register of the month's new publications, and a calendar of forthcoming trade fairs.
Gentleman's Magazine: and Historical Chronicle
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ...
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
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Category : English essays
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Land Agent
Author: Lowri Ann Rees
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474438881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power, 'The Land Agent' explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474438881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book brings together leading researchers of British and Irish rural history to consider the role of the land agent, or estate manager, in the modern period. Land agents were an influential and powerful cadre of men, who managed both the day-to-day running and the overall policy direction of landed estates. As such, they occupy a controversial place in academic historiography as well as popular memory in rural Britain and Ireland. Reviled in social history narratives and fictional accounts, the land agent was one of the most powerful tools in the armoury of the British and Irish landed classes and their territorial, political and social dominance. By unpacking the nature and processes of their power, 'The Land Agent' explores who these men were and what was the wider significance of their roles, thus uncovering a neglected history of British rural society.
The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century
Author: A. D. M. Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521364447
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of England is subject to waterlogging and is in need of some form of underdraining, rendering the improvement both technically and economically basic to much of English agriculture. By removing excess soil water, the object of underdraining was to reproduce as far as possible the conditions of free-draining land, which was workable all year round, and to create an optimum soil-moisture content for both plant growth and cultivation. Despite the necessity for the improvement, a wide-ranging debate exists in the literature on the extent, effectiveness and agricultural importance of underdraining in the nineteenth century. The present study attempts to resolve this debate. By examining the evidence of draining loans under the Public Money Draining Acts and of the various land improvement companies and the accounts of estates in Devon, Northamptonshire and Northumberland, a precise record has been provided for the, first of the spread of underdraining in England in the nineteenth century, of the factors involved in its adoption and of its impact on agricultural practice in that period.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521364447
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of England is subject to waterlogging and is in need of some form of underdraining, rendering the improvement both technically and economically basic to much of English agriculture. By removing excess soil water, the object of underdraining was to reproduce as far as possible the conditions of free-draining land, which was workable all year round, and to create an optimum soil-moisture content for both plant growth and cultivation. Despite the necessity for the improvement, a wide-ranging debate exists in the literature on the extent, effectiveness and agricultural importance of underdraining in the nineteenth century. The present study attempts to resolve this debate. By examining the evidence of draining loans under the Public Money Draining Acts and of the various land improvement companies and the accounts of estates in Devon, Northamptonshire and Northumberland, a precise record has been provided for the, first of the spread of underdraining in England in the nineteenth century, of the factors involved in its adoption and of its impact on agricultural practice in that period.
The Geology of the Country Around Wem. (Explanation of Sheet 138)
Author: Roy Woodhouse Pocock
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Memoirs
Author: Geological Survey of Great Britain
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Supplements the geological map series of England and Wales. May be written as much as 30 years after the map.
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Supplements the geological map series of England and Wales. May be written as much as 30 years after the map.
Salt
Author: Christopher A. Whatley
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland's oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along the country's coastline and are reflected in many of Scotland's placenames. The industry was a high-status activity, with the monarch initially owning salt pans. Salt manufacture was later organised by Scotland's abbeys and then by landowners who had access to the sea and a nearby supply of coal. As salt was an important source of tax revenue for the government, it was often a cause of conflict (and military action) between Scotland and England. The future of the industry – and the price of salt for consumers – was a major issue during negotiations around the Union of 1707. This book celebrates both the history and the rebirth of the salt industry in Scotland. Although salt manufacturing declined in the nineteenth century and was wound up in the 1950s, in the second decade of the twenty-first century the trade was revived. Scotland's salt is now a high-prestige, green product that is winning awards and attracting interest across the UK.
Publisher: Birlinn Ltd
ISBN: 1788855906
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
Salt is a vital commodity. For many centuries it sustained life for Scots as seasoning for a diet dominated by grains (mainly oats), and for preservation of fish and cheese. Sea-salt manufacturing is one of Scotland's oldest industries, dating to the eleventh century if not earlier. Smoke- and steam-emitting panhouses were once a common sight along the country's coastline and are reflected in many of Scotland's placenames. The industry was a high-status activity, with the monarch initially owning salt pans. Salt manufacture was later organised by Scotland's abbeys and then by landowners who had access to the sea and a nearby supply of coal. As salt was an important source of tax revenue for the government, it was often a cause of conflict (and military action) between Scotland and England. The future of the industry – and the price of salt for consumers – was a major issue during negotiations around the Union of 1707. This book celebrates both the history and the rebirth of the salt industry in Scotland. Although salt manufacturing declined in the nineteenth century and was wound up in the 1950s, in the second decade of the twenty-first century the trade was revived. Scotland's salt is now a high-prestige, green product that is winning awards and attracting interest across the UK.