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History Theses 1970-2014: Historical research for higher degrees in the universities of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland
… grass, in Tunisia; Trade, external, of Tunisia; Tunisia Farm labour relations and the regional economy of the Western … in South Africa; Western Cape, South Africa; South Africa; Farm labourers, in South Africa Ga state and society in early …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… European market' planned for 1992 drew nearer. 10 British farm incomes began to falter about the same time. In 1982 … useful option in the event of cereal prices falling. 11 As farm incomes were checked and the value of agricultural land … 14 Large-scale drainage schemes enhancing the value of farm land were resented by some as unwarranted interference …
A History of the County of Middlesex
… if inclosed they might have been made more profitable. Farm buildings were well constructed and in good repair on … such as foreign competition and the fall in the prices of farm produce. On the other hand, high railway rates do not … and Barrington Duchess 31st might in 1906 be seen on his farm. The last-named had an extraordinary record, winning the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… be an impossibility. The number of sheep and cattle a farm can keep almost entirely depends on these two crops, and … they are not more so than any other crop sold off the farm, and the potato quarter is at any rate always clean and … no hay and straw is proof positive that the produce of a farm should be consumed upon it. There are exceptional …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… a supply of straw, fodder, and food for consumption on the farm and for the restoration of grassland depleted by the … to the lower proportional working costs of the large farm. This advantage, whether accompanied by the extinction … flock, fold, and shepherd. Without these the family farm was not an economic proposition, for the simple reason …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… to inclosure in an area where the cost of new farm roads on wet deep soil had made it slow. 7 Activity, … there can be no doubt. In 1790, for example, one farm of 75 acres had 89 separate parcels of land scattered … in pieces of less than 1 acre each. In 1804 another farm of 146 acres was found to have 98 pieces. 32 While such …
A History of the County of Wiltshire
… in 1870 there were 83,475, in 1954 there were 217,950. The farm horse has, of course, become a rarity in that time. 8 … of both horse and human labour, bad and insufficient farm buildings, and the lack of any compensation for … income seems to have formed only 20 per cent. of the net farm product, while the landlord took 45 per cent. In other …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… the ancient seat of the Sherburne family, and of the farm, on moderate terms, from the late Thomas Weld, Esq.; and …
A History of the County of Somerset
… and West Holcombe, possibly a settlement around Durborough Farm at the head of the valley, was named in the 15th … the valley in 1833. 13 By the 20th century only Durborough Farm and two cottages, one probably medieval, the other with 16th-century origins, survived. 14 Durborough Farm is a Tshaped house in which the short central arm …
A History of the County of Somerset
… was reduced to a landless cottage while Postridge farm included land in Charlinch and amounted to over 200 a. Lower Aisholt farm was then 180 a. and Higher Aisholt 110 a. 89 A further 9 … 92 By 1919 farms had been further amalgamated; one old farm house was used for storage and a cottage as a fowl …