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Land and Society in Edwardian Britain

Brian Short author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:7th Apr '97

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This 1997 book is a standard reference to the 1910 'New Domesday' data; essential for historians of Edwardian Britain.

Lloyd George's 'New Domesday', initiated in 1910, yields valuable insights into Edwardian Britain. Using previously untapped sources, in this 1997 book Dr Short presents a coherent overview of this diverse and stimulating material, which will be of special interest to the growing number of scholars of early twentieth century Britain.This revealing 1997 book in the Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography series presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909–10 was the 'New Domesday' of landownership and land values. This rich documentation, for long locked away in the Inland Revenue's offices, became available to the public in the late 1970s. For the growing number of scholars of early twentieth century urban and rural Britain, Dr Short offers both a coherent overview and a standard source of reference to this valuable archive. Part I is concerned with the processes of assembling the material and its style of representation; Part II with suggested themes and locality studies. A final chapter places this new material in the context of discourses of state intervention in landed society prior to the Great War.

'… this pathbreaking book … is a valuable study … an unrivalled source [for the early twentieth century] which, particularly when it can be coupled with the 1911 census returns in 2012, offers the chance for a detailed study of the economic history and social geography of Britain before the First World War.' Economic History Review
'This is a book that no historian … who is any way concerned with the first decades of this century can afford to ignore.' The Local Historian
'… of enormous value to the historian … The impact of his analysis is enhanced by the excellent illustrations and high production standards of this volume … the result is the revelation of an archive of unrivalled importance for the historian of Britain, whether the interest be in political, economic, social, rural or urban history. Future historians and the profession as a whole are greatly in his debt.' History

ISBN: 9780521570350

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm

Weight: 700g

400 pages