The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950

List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; M.Cragoe & P.Readman The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration, and the Impact of Enclosure, c.1770-1850; I.Waites 'Witnesses for the Defence': the Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c.1815-1837; K.Beresford Chartism and the Land: 'the Mighty People's Question'; M.Chase The 'Manchester School' and the Landlords: the Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain; A.Howe 'A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish': the Land Question in Victorian Wales; M.Cragoe Setting the Heather on Fire: the Land Question in Scotland, 1850-1914; E.Cameron Irish Land and British Politics; P.Bull Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George; A.Taylor London and the Land Question c.1880-1914; R.Quinault The Edwardian Land Question;  P.Readman Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: the Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain; I.Packer Land Reform and the English land Market, 1880-1925; J.Beckett  & M.Turner Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918-1950s; C.Griffiths Epilogue: the Strange Death of the English Land Question; F.M.L.Thompson