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The Edwardian Farm

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The Edwardian Farm

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The Edwardian period is often seen as something of a gilded age. War would imminently remove hundreds of thousands of men from the labour force, and instigate progress to mechanise.

Illustrated with a wealth of archive material, this book tells the story of farming in Britain in the early years of the twentieth century an age of horse, steam and intensive labour. Looking at the structure of farming and its output, alongside the lives of the people who worked the land, this is a fascinating picture of British agriculture at a turning point in history.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The Victorian Legacy in Farming
Who Worked the Farms?
What the Farmer Grew: the Mixed Farm
Pastoral Farming
Dairy Farming
Horse Power, Manpower and Machines
Farming Fit for War?
Further Reading
Index

Product details

Published 10 Sep 2010
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Pages 64
ISBN 9780747808077
Imprint Shire Publications
Illustrations 60 b/w; 20 col
Dimensions 210 x 149 mm
Series Shire Library
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Jonathan Brown

Jonathan Brown is an Honorary Fellow of the Museum…

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