A Answer to Poverty in Sussex, 1830-45, by A. C. Todd, published 1956 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 4, no. 1, article, pp.45-51) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/502300] Download PDF
Further notes on shepherds' staves, by Francis W. Steer, published 1965 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 13, no. 1, article, pp.47-49) Download PDF
Concerns Bignor Park and Petworth, for which house John Flaxman had in 1825 made a sculpture of Apollo holding a stave.
Demesne Arable Farming in Coastal Sussex during the Later Middle Age, by P. F. Brandon, published 1971 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 19, no. 2, article, pp.113-134) Download PDF
The Sussex Breed of Cattle in the Nineteenth Century, by J. P. Boxall, published 1972 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 20, no. 1, article, pp.17-29) Download PDF
John Ellman of Glynde in Sussex, by Sue Farrant, published 1978 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 26, no. 2, article, pp.77-88) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10393/p77-88] & The Keep [LIB/506099] Download PDF
"The Art and Craft of Chicken Cramming": Poultry in the Weald of Sussex, 1850-1950, by Brian Short, published 1982 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 30, no. 1, article, pp.17-30) Download PDF
The size of open field strips: a reinterpretation, by Alan Nash, published 1985 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 33, no. 1, article, pp.32-40) Download PDF
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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
Abstract: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.
The ownership, occupation and use of land on the South Downs, 1840-1940: a methodological analysis of record linkage over time, by John Godfrey and Brian Short, published 2001 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 49, no. 1, article, pp.56-78) Download PDF
Abstract:Three major complexes of documents are now available for the study of agriculture from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. The tithe surveys, already well known, are now joined by the Lloyd George 1910 Valuation Office material, and the National Farm Survey of 1941-3. This paper expl ores the methodological issues arising from the use, and especially the comparison, of the three sources in the context of a case study from the South Downs in Sussex.
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.
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
Abstract: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.
The regulation of cottage building in seventeenth-century Sussex, by Danae Tankard, published 2011 in Agricultural History Review (vol. 59, no. 1, article, pp.18-35) Download PDF
Abstract:In 1589 a statute was passed entitled 'An act against erecting and maintaining cottages' which sought to regulate cottage building and the multiple occupation of cottages. This article examines the context of the act's passage and its relationship to other legislation of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. It then offers a detailed exploration of the way the act's cottage clauses were enforced in seventeenth-century Sussex. It also considers the legal status of cottages that were 'continued' and looks at evidence for methods of cottage construction and the range of cottage types.