English Rural Poor 1850-1914 Vol 4

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 4: Life on the Land: the 1890s J Theodore Dodd, Local Rights and Interests of Farm Labourers (1890); Scrivener C Scrivener, The Depopulation of Villages (1891); English Land Restoration League, Special Report 1891: Among Suffolk Labourers with the 'Red Van' (1891); Earl of Thring, William E Bear and Henrietta Batson, 'The Rural Voter' (1892); Arnold D Taylor, 'Hodge and His Parson' (1892); J Morrison Davidson, The Villagers' Magna Charta: 'The Village for the Villagers (1894); A G Butler, Hodge and the Land (1907); Arthur Wilson Fox, Reports on Glendale, Northumberland, and Garstang, Lancashire: Royal Commission on Labour: Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors and Others (1893-4); Report by Mr Wilson Fox on the Wages and Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in the United Kingdom, with Statistical Tables and Charts (1900); C Cochrane, Papers on Rural Housing: The Present Condition of the Cottage Home of the Agricultural Labourer (1901)