This Companion brings together 32 new essays by leading historians to provide a reassessment of British history in the early twentieth century. The contributors

Glen O'Hara draws a compelling picture of Second World War Britain by investigating relations between people and government: the electorate's rising expectation

This book will appeal not only to historians and geographers, but to many who maintain a deep interest in the British countryside and its past, and to those who

This book traces the decline of landed power in England between 1815 and 1939, primarily in political, but also in economic and social terms. The essays, by lea

Farmers held a pivotal role in the capitalist agriculture that emerged in England in the eighteenth century, yet they have attracted little attention from rural