Publications
The Economy and Social Structure of Rye 1600-1650, by Stephen Hipkin, 1985 at Oxford University (D. Phil. Thesis) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502085]
The Impact of Marshland Drainage on Rye Harbour, 1550-1650, by S. Hipkin and J. Eddison, published 1995 in Oxford University Committee for Archaeology monograph (vol. 41, article, pp.138-)
Buying time. Fiscal policy at Rye 1600-1640, by Stephen Hipkin, published 1995 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 133, article, pp.241-254) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13209] & The Keep [LIB/500288] & S.A.S. library
Romney Marsh: The Debatable Ground, by Stephen Hipkin, published 1 June 1995 in Romney Marsh: The Debatable Ground edited by Jill Eddison and Mark Gardiner (pp.138-147, Oxford University School of Archaeology, ISBN-10: 0947816410 & ISBN-13: 9780947816414) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500169] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
The maritime economy of Rye, 1560-1640, by Stephen Hipkin, published 1998 in Southern History (vol. 20/21, article, pp.108-142)
Tenant farming and short-term leasing on Romney Marsh, 1585-1705, by Stephen Hipkin, published November 2000 in The Economic History Review (vol. 53 issue 4, article, pp.646-676) View Online
The structure of landownership and land occupation in the Romney Marsh Region, 1646-1834, by Stephen Hipkin, published 2003 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 51, no. 1, article, pp.69-94) Download PDF
Abstract:This article offers a contribution to the long-running debate about the causes and chronology of the emergence of large-scale commercial tenant farming in England. Remarkably comprehensive evidence covering 44,000 acres in Romney Marsh (Kent) discloses a consolidation of landownership and the increasing dominance of large tenant farms during the century after the Restoration, but also demonstrates conclusively that these trends were unconnected, and that they were reversed during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when there was a notable revival of owner-occupation on the marsh. It is argued that tenant initiative and shifts in the level of consumer demand were the forces driving developments throughout the long-eighteenth century.