The Land Question in Britain, 1750–1950

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction....Pages 1-18
The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration and the Impact of Enclosure, c. 1770–1850....Pages 19-36
‘Witnesses for the Defence’: The Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c. 1815–1837....Pages 37-56
Chartism and the Land: ‘The Mighty People’s Question’....Pages 57-73
The ‘Manchester School’ and the Landlords: The Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain....Pages 74-91
‘A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish’: The Land Question in Victorian Wales....Pages 92-108
Setting the Heather on Fire: The Land Question in Scotland, 1850–1914....Pages 109-125
Irish Land and British Politics....Pages 126-145
Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George....Pages 146-166
London and the Land Question, c.1880–1914....Pages 167-180
The Edwardian Land Question....Pages 181-200
Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: The Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain....Pages 201-218
Land Reform and the English Land Market, 1880–1925....Pages 219-236
Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918–1950s....Pages 237-256
Epilogue: The Strange Death of the English Land Question....Pages 257-270
Back Matter....Pages 271-281