ROBERT TITTLER is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal.

Overall, one major contribution of this volume is the detailed local perspective on the volatile decades at the close of the eighteenth century. Furthermore, in addition to adding to the corpus of published personal narratives of the northern middling sort in general, historians of agriculture, scientific inquiry and the environment, in particular, will find much of interest in both diaries.

• Introduction'An account of the weather at Stockton from 1779 kept by John Chipchase, including an account of remarkable seasons &c. by Robert Stock from 1675 to 1716''Elihu Robinson's notes on the weather, agriculture and events mainly relating to Eaglesfield, Cumberland, and the adjacent area, 1779-1807'Appendix I: The Will of Elihu RobinsonAppendix II: Identification of Place-Names mentioned in the journalsBibliography

ROBERT TITTLER is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal.

Overall, one major contribution of this volume is the detailed local perspective on the volatile decades at the close of the eighteenth century. Furthermore, in addition to adding to the corpus of published personal narratives of the northern middling sort in general, historians of agriculture, scientific inquiry and the environment, in particular, will find much of interest in both diaries.

• Introduction'An account of the weather at Stockton from 1779 kept by John Chipchase, including an account of remarkable seasons &c. by Robert Stock from 1675 to 1716''Elihu Robinson's notes on the weather, agriculture and events mainly relating to Eaglesfield, Cumberland, and the adjacent area, 1779-1807'Appendix I: The Will of Elihu RobinsonAppendix II: Identification of Place-Names mentioned in the journalsBibliography

ROBERT TITTLER is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at Concordia University, Montreal.

Overall, one major contribution of this volume is the detailed local perspective on the volatile decades at the close of the eighteenth century. Furthermore, in addition to adding to the corpus of published personal narratives of the northern middling sort in general, historians of agriculture, scientific inquiry and the environment, in particular, will find much of interest in both diaries.

• Introduction'An account of the weather at Stockton from 1779 kept by John Chipchase, including an account of remarkable seasons &c. by Robert Stock from 1675 to 1716''Elihu Robinson's notes on the weather, agriculture and events mainly relating to Eaglesfield, Cumberland, and the adjacent area, 1779-1807'Appendix I: The Will of Elihu RobinsonAppendix II: Identification of Place-Names mentioned in the journalsBibliography