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Small farms in a Sussex Weald parish, 1800-60, by June A. Sheppard, published 1992 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 40, no. 2, article, pp.127-141)   Download PDF

The Sussex Weald is an area where many small farms survived into the nineteenth century, and their fate in Chiddingly parish between 1800 and i860 is explored. They thrived up to 1815; between 1816 and 1842, nearly half were lost, many of the remainder changed from owner- occupancy to tenancy, and a few additional ones appeared on newly-enclosed land; after 1842, changes were few. The timing points to the post-Napoleonic agricultural depression as the fundamental cause of change, mediated by a range of personal and holding characteristics that resulted in varying ability to withstand economic pressure. Changes were greater during this depression, than during those of the early eighteenth and late nineteenth centuries, because the small farmer's cash outgoings, especially in paying his poor rates, frequently exceeded his income.

Housing the Agricultural Worker in Nineteenth-Century Sussex. A Case Study, by June A. Sheppard, published 1993 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 131, article, pp.185-192) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 12210] & The Keep [LIB/500300] & S.A.S. library

Out-migration 1821-1851 from a Wealden parish: Chiddingly, by June A. Sheppard, published Autumn 1997 in Local Population Studies Society (Issue 59, article, pp.13-25)   Download PDF

Population Change 1851-1911, by June Sheppard, published 1 January 1999 in An Historical Atlas of Sussex (pp.90-91, Chichester: Phillimore & Co. Ltd, ISBN-10: 1860771122 & ISBN-13: 9781860771125) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14026][Lib 18777] & The Keep [LIB/501686][LIB/508903] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries

Brighton's railway workers in the 1850s, by June A. Sheppard, published 2001 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 139, article, pp.191-201) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 14916] & The Keep [LIB/500292] & S.A.S. library   View Online

The arrival of the railway in 1840/41 led to many changes in Brighton, including the provision of new employment opportunities on the trains, in the station, and in the workshops. Most of the railway workers lived in streets close to the station and workshops. The approximate numbers and types of workers in the 1850s are identified using both the records of the railway company itself and the 1851 Census Enumerators' Books. Birthplace details in the latter source show that many of the less-skilled jobs were filled by Sussex born men, while engine-drivers and workshop artisans had frequently migrated from more distant parts of the country. In a small sample of Sussex-born men, a smaller percentage appear to have come from an agricultural background than might have been expected.

The provenance of Brighton's railway workers, by June Sheppard, published Spring 2004 in Local Population Studies Society (Issue 72, article, pp.16-33)   Download PDF

Agricultural workers in mid nineteenth-century Brighton, by June A. Sheppard, published 2006 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 54, no. 1, article, pp.93-104)   Download PDF

Like many other English towns, Brighton had a number of residents who described themselves as agricultural workers in the 1861 census. This article examines where they were born, when they moved to Brighton, their housing and occupational histories. Most seem likely to have been casual workers on South Downs farms within walking distance of the town.

Brighton's Railway District in the mid-nineteenth century, by June A. Sheppard, published 2008 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 146, article, pp.189-198) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 15997] & The Keep [LIB/500364] & S.A.S. library   View Online

An area close to the railway stations and engineering works is identified as Brighton's Railway District c. 1860. It comprised streets of small terraced houses built between 1820 and 1860, most rented for a few shillings a week, where railway employees formed at least 10 per cent of household heads. Rateable values, though generally low, varied from street to street, and there was a broad correlation between these values and the employment grades of the railwaymen household heads who resided in each street. Four sample streets illustrate the income levels and some of the other factors that influenced the choice of place of residence.