Titlebook: Landed Estates and Rural Inequality in English History; From the Mid-Sevente Eric L.‘Jones Book 2018 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The

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The Landed Interest,or centuries the largest sector in the economy. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 was not the start of change but was a stage in the national expansion of commercial influence. The estate system was perpetuated by prolonged inflows of trading profits and the entry of new merchant personnel. They were

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Cotton into Land,ncentrated study is made of Lancashire cotton masters as they entered land in sequence, first close to their mills, then further afield and finally in distant counties. Some chose to move to fashionable spa towns and all tended to furnish their houses with museum quality goods like paintings. Among

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Expelling the People, improve the view from their houses. The process sometimes involved the actual demolition of entire villages and occasionally their rebuilding on new sites. An associated development was the erection of long, high walls around parkland. Many landowners did lose out during the arable depression of th

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Killing Grounds,ised killing of birds and animals, the latent function being male bonding among the elite. Blood sports were ancient pastimes of those with access to land but were formalised by the Victorians. A side-effect was the protection of the preferred prey by severe Game Laws that came to dominate rural soc

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Living by Rapine & Plunder,he same family on the Earl of Ailesbury’s Wiltshire estate are described on the basis of unusual evidence, one in the 1780s and the other in the 1810s. In the first case, the Earl’s corrupt agent used circumstantial reports to secure a conviction against a small farmer but this was overturned when a

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Institutions and Inequality in the Countryside, industry to the northern coalfields and the interruptions brought about by the agricultural depression that lasted with little break from 1880 to 1940. Labour was deskilled by the former process and impoverished during the latter because it failed to migrate fast enough. Against these trends nothin

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The Estate System as Market Failure,umstances are rehearsed. Social stability was created and enforced: a better term might be social stagnation. Numerous instances are supplied of the poverty at the base of the system and the steep social hierarchy and economic stasis that rested on it. The negative implications of the continued sole

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