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Tithe Surveys for Historians, by Roger P. Kain and Hugh C. Prince (Chichester: Phillimore, 2000; pp. xiv+146. 14.99 £). Phillimore & Co. have for some years been recognized as probably [...]

by Jeremy Burchardt (Woodbridge: Boydell P., for the Royal Historical Soc., 2002; pp. 287. 45 £). The long running debate about the condition of rural society in the 1830s and [...]

ed. Anne Orde (Oxford: Oxford U.P., for the British Academy, 2002; pp. 274. 35 £). Matthew, George, and the rather more shadowy James, Culley, were among the pioneers of English [...]

ed. Blake Tyson, from a transcript by Revd B. G. Fell (Kendal: Cumberland and Westmorland Antiquarian and Archaeological Soc., 2001; pp. 400. 40 £). Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal was [...]

ed. S. D. Smith (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2002; pp. cxxxii+796. 65 £). Joseph Symson was a Kendal woollen merchant, who was mayor of the town in 1691 and 1709. Born [...]

In the introduction to Political Thought in Ireland since the Seventeenth Century, ed. D. George Boyce, Robert Eccleshall and Vincent Geoghan (London: Routledge, 1993; pp. 227. £40), the editors explain [...]

by Glenford Deroy Howe (Oxford: James Currey P., 2002; pp. xv + 270. 19.95 £). Glenford Howe has set out to recover what he regards as the 'hidden history' of [...]

In 1750 approximately six or seven people in every ten derived their living directly or indirectly from the land: today only about one in fifty of the population is employed [...]

Wales has never had an equivalent of the Victoria County History, but Pembrokeshire has been well served by its Local History Society. When it was clear that the historic name [...]

The Parnell Split, 1890-91, by Frank Callanan (Cork: U.P., 1992; pp. xxiv + 327. 35 £), provides a new account of one of the most controversial events in the political [...]

Thousands upon thousands of Land Tax Assessments survive, but for historians they have often seemed more like a dangerous quicksand than a sun-kissed beach. Land Tax Assessments, or duplicates, provide [...]

Twenty years ago A. D. M. Phillips penned a brief essay on underdrainage; since then he has written a series of articles about the subject usually in relation to particular [...]

Famine: The Irish Experience, 900--1900, ed. E. Margaret Crawford (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1989; pp. ix + 242. £20) contains papers read at a symposium on 'Famines and Subsistence Crises in [...]