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The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 (Paperback)
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The Allotment Movement in England, 1793-1873 (Paperback)
Series: Royal Historical Society Studies in History New Series
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The first systematic analysis of the early nineteenth-century
allotment movement. The living standards of the rural poor suffered
a severe decline in the first half of the nineteenth century as a
result of high population growth, changing agricultural practices,
enclosure and the decline of rural industries. Allotment provision
was the most important counterweight to the pressures. This book
offers the first systematic analysis of the early
nineteenth-century allotment movement, providing new data on its
chronology and on the number, geographical distribution, size,
rents, cultivation yields and effect on living standards of
allotments. It thus shows how the movement brought the culture of
the rural labouring poor more closely into line with the mainstream
values of respectable mid-Victorian England, and casts new light on
central aspects of early and mid-nineteenth-century social and
economic history, agriculture and rural society. JEREMY BURCHARDT
is lecturer in Rural History,University of Reading.
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