Basic history of English, Scottish and Welsh farming methods and farm structure from medieval times with the manorial system to Tudor times with the open-field system and later to the eighteenth century with the enclosing of open-fields with emphasis on the unprofitability of land under common tillage or common pasture, includes
Notes on repeal of corn laws, agricultural depression from 1875-1912, Duke of Richmond's Commission (1879) , appointment of Royal Commission (1893), establishment of Board of Agriculture 1889, state efforts to emancipate tenant farmers from landlords with Agricultural Holdings' Act (1875)
Material on the agricultural revolution, 1750-1880

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