1st Edition

The English Rural Poor, 1850-1914 Vol 1

By Mark Freeman Copyright 2006

    Drawing on the difficult-to-access pamphlets, reports, periodical literature and political tracts, this five-volume set reproduces in facsimile a large number of neglected sources relating to rural life in the latter half of the nineteenth century. It is of interest to scholars in nineteenth-century studies and to all social historians.

    Volume 1: The Moral and Material Condition of the Mid-Victorian Rural Poor John Eddowes, The Agricultural Labourer as He Really Is, or Village Morals in 1854 (1854); Rev. Henry Moule, Four Letters to His Royal Highness Prince Albert, as President of the Council of the Duchy of Cornwall, on the Dwellings and Condition of Eleven Hundred of the Working Classes and Poor of Fordington (1854); John Stokes, An Essay on the Moral and Religious Improvement of the Farm Servant and Labourer (1855); Henry Tucker, An Address upon the 'Condition of the Agricultural Labourer', Delivered at the Annual Dinner of the Faringdon Agricultural Library on the 25th November 1858 (1858); J Y Stratton, 'The Life of a Farm Labourer' (1864); J B Haynes, How to Supply the Agricultural Labourer with Good Beer at a Low Price (1865); J H Tremenheere, 'Agricultural Gangs' (1867); Edward Girdlestone, 'Landowners, Land, and Those Who Till It' (1868); A Hampshire Agricultural Labourer, A Few Words on Courtship and Marriage, or, Trials and Struggles, Sweets and Bitters (1867); Charles Whitehead, Agricultural Labourers (1870); Francis T Bond, The Home of the Agricultural Labourer: Its Defects, and How to Remedy Them (1873)