A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire

A Glossary of Words used in the Country of Wiltshire
Author: George Edward Dartnell
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2019-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Discover the fascinating language and customs of the county of Wiltshire with this comprehensive glossary compiled by George Edward Dartnell and E.H. Goddard. Unravel the mysteries of Wiltshire's folk-speech with over half of the words listed never before appearing in any Wiltshire vocabulary. Learn the history and etymology of each word, and their relation to other English dialects. The glossary also includes examples of actual folk-talk, short stories illustrating the dialect, and appendices on various matters of interest.

Library List

Library List
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 1967
Genre: Agriculture
ISBN:

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England

Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-century England
Author: Nicola Verdon
Publisher: Boydell Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780851159065

The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvement of women in the rural labour market as farm servants, as day labourers in agriculture, and as domestic workers, are all examined using a wide range of printed and unpublished sources from across England. The roles village women performed in the informal rural economy (household labour, gathering resources and exploiting systems of barterand exchange) are also assessed. Changes in women's economic opportunities are explored, alongside the implications of region, age, marital status, number of children in the family and local custom; women's economic contribution to the rural labouring household is established as a critical part of family subsistence, despite criticism of such work and the rise in male wages after 1850. NICOLA VERDON is a Research Fellow in the Rural History Centre, University of Reading.

The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century

The Underdraining of Farmland in England During the Nineteenth Century
Author: A. D. M. Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1989-11-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521364447

Underdraining has been recognized as one of the major capital-intensive agricultural improvements of the nineteenth century. Over half the agricultural area of England is subject to waterlogging and is in need of some form of underdraining, rendering the improvement both technically and economically basic to much of English agriculture. By removing excess soil water, the object of underdraining was to reproduce as far as possible the conditions of free-draining land, which was workable all year round, and to create an optimum soil-moisture content for both plant growth and cultivation. Despite the necessity for the improvement, a wide-ranging debate exists in the literature on the extent, effectiveness and agricultural importance of underdraining in the nineteenth century. The present study attempts to resolve this debate. By examining the evidence of draining loans under the Public Money Draining Acts and of the various land improvement companies and the accounts of estates in Devon, Northamptonshire and Northumberland, a precise record has been provided for the, first of the spread of underdraining in England in the nineteenth century, of the factors involved in its adoption and of its impact on agricultural practice in that period.