English Peasant Farming

Joan Thrisk Senior Research Fellow in English Agrarian History, University of Leicester

• Introduction 1. Fenland Farming in the Sixteenth Century 2. The Marshland in the Sixteenth Century 3. The Chalk and Limestone Uplands in the Sixteenth Century 4. The Lincolnshire Claylands and Miscellaneous Soils in the Sixteenth Century 5. The Fenland, 1600-1740 6. The Marshland, 1600-1740 7. The Uplands, 1600-1740 8. The Claylands and Miscellaneous Soils, 1600-1740 9. Population and Prosperity, 1740-1870 10. The Fenland, 1740-1870 11. The Marshland, 1740-1870 12. The Uplands, 1740-1870 13. The Clays and Miscellaneous Soils, 1740-1870 14. Lincolnshire Agriculture and Rural Society, 1870-1914