English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 1963
Category : England
ISBN :
English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century
Author : G.E Mingay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 15,43 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1134529228
Book Description
First published in 2006. This book is based on research into estate records and studies around the three broad categories of landowners: peers, gentry, and freeholders. Landed property was the foundation of eighteenth-century society. The soil itself yielded the nation its sustenance and most of its raw materials, and provided the population with its most extensive means of employment; and the owners of the soil derived from its consequence and wealth the right to govern.
English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
Author : F.M.L. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 35,65 MB
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1317828526
Book Description
First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with its role as a social group and includes much agrarian and some industrial history as seen from the landowners' point of view. The first seven chapters of the book aim to present an analysis and description of the main elements in the institutions and way of life of the landed classes, suggesting their significance for society at large, and emphasizing the forces of change which were at work within an order which in many ways presented a remarkably stable appearance to the outside world. The last five chapters take up the theme of change and examine the dynamic elements in the economic social and political life of the group, in a sequence of chronological subdivisions of the century and a half with which this book is concerned.
English Landed Society in the Great War
Author : Edward Bujak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 36,40 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1472592166
Book Description
The extent to which the Great War impacted upon English landed society is most vividly recalled in the loss of young heirs to ancient estates. English Landed Society in the Great War considers the impact of the war on these estates. Using the archives of Country Life, Edward Bujak examines the landed estate that flourished in England. In doing so, he explores the extent to which the wartime state penetrated into the heartlands of the landed aristocracy and gentry, and the corrosive effects that the progressive and systematic militarization of the countryside had on the authority of the squire. The book demonstrates how the commitment of landowners to the defence of an England of home and beauty - an image also adopted in wartime propaganda - ironically led to its transformation. By using the landed estate to examine the transition from Edwardian England to modern Britain, English Landed Society in the Great War provides a unique lens through which to consider the First World War and its impact on English society.
English Landed Society in the Great War
Author : Edward Bujak
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 23,84 MB
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1472592174
Book Description
The extent to which the Great War impacted upon English landed society is most vividly recalled in the loss of young heirs to ancient estates. English Landed Society in the Great War considers the impact of the war on these estates. Using the archives of Country Life, Edward Bujak examines the landed estate that flourished in England. In doing so, he explores the extent to which the wartime state penetrated into the heartlands of the landed aristocracy and gentry, and the corrosive effects that the progressive and systematic militarization of the countryside had on the authority of the squire. The book demonstrates how the commitment of landowners to the defence of an England of home and beauty - an image also adopted in wartime propaganda - ironically led to its transformation. By using the landed estate to examine the transition from Edwardian England to modern Britain, English Landed Society in the Great War provides a unique lens through which to consider the First World War and its impact on English society.
Who Owns England?: How We Lost Our Land and How to Take It Back
Author : Guy Shrubsole
Publisher : Collins
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : 9780008321710
Book Description
Who own's England? Behind this simple question lies this country's oldest and darkest secret. This is the history of how England's elite came to own our land - from aristocrats and the church to businessmen and corporations - and an inspiring manifesto for how we can take control back.
The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy
Author : David Cannadine
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 9780141023137
Book Description
At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige and political significance.David Cannadine shows how this shift came about and how it was reinforced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Lucidly written and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Author : Mary Ann Shaffer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,55 MB
Release : 2009-05-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408803313
Book Description
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over 5 million copies worldwide - now a major film starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope Wilton To give them hope she must tell their story It's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton has writer's block. But when she receives a letter from Dawsey Adams of Guernsey – a total stranger living halfway across the Channel, who has come across her name written in a second hand book – she enters into a correspondence with him, and in time with all the members of the extraordinary Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society. Through their letters, the society tell Juliet about life on the island, their love of books – and the long shadow cast by their time living under German occupation. Drawn into their irresistible world, Juliet sets sail for the island, changing her life forever.
English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
Author : Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson
Publisher :
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,14 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Gentry
ISBN : 9787800558061
Book Description
Land and Society in Edwardian Britain
Author : Brian Short
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1997-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521570350
Book Description
This 1997 book is a standard reference to the 1910 'New Domesday' data; essential for historians of Edwardian Britain.
