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Farming and Society in North Lincolnshire - The Dixons of Holton-le-Moor, 1741-1906 (Hardcover)
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Farming and Society in North Lincolnshire - The Dixons of Holton-le-Moor, 1741-1906 (Hardcover)
Series: Publications of the Lincoln Record Society: Occasional Series
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Engaging account of the fortunes of a farming family during the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Proputty, proputty, proputty:
Tennyson's "Northern Farmer, New Style" could hear the word in the
rhythm of his horse's hooves as he cantered between his fields. The
Dixon family built up their estate in Holton-le-Moor, betweenMarket
Rasen and Caistor, from a minor purchase in 1741 to the point where
they owned the whole parish, with a fine house, a governess for
their daughters, and a phaeton in which to ride out. But despite
these marks of status, they remained working farmers well into the
Victorian era. Even more remarkably, they created and preserved a
comprehensive archive, including farming accounts, diaries and
correspondence. Dr Richard Olney has known this archive for nearly
fifty years, first uncovering the documentary riches at Holton Hall
(where manuscripts from the loft had to be lowered in baskets to
the study below) and subsequently cataloguing the entire collection
in the LincolnshireArchives. In this book he creates a vivid
portrait of the building up of a farming estate over several
generations, revealing the introduction of agricultural
improvements, the use of canals and, later, railways to access
wider markets, and the place of "the middling sort" in
nineteenth-century English rural society. Richard Olney was an
archivist at the Lincolnshire Archives Office from 1969 to 1975,
and an Assistant Keeper with the Royal Commission on Historical
Manuscripts from 1976 to 2003. His publications include
Lincolnshire Politics 1832-1885 (Oxford 1973) and Rural Society and
County Government in Nineteenth-Century Lincolnshire (History of
Lincolnshire Committee 1979).
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