This book traces the decline of landed power in England between 1815 and 1939, primarily in political, but also in economic and social terms. The essays, by lea

Volume VIII of the Agrarian History of England and Wales was first published in 1978, and provides a technical, social and economic history of rural England and

Food for War is a ground-breaking study of Britain's food and agricultural preparations in the 1930s as the nation once again made ready for war. Historians wri

This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors

Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectation