English Rural Poor, 1850-1914

'will be a most valuable library acquisition for many academic libraries' Rural History 'A 'must-read' for any historian of social structure, poverty, welfare or rural England. Freeman is to be commended.' Economic History Review 'these volumes deserve to reach as wide an audience as possible' Agricultural History Review 'The range of material, as selected temporally and geographically, is impressive... that Freeman manages to combine several 'classics' of the genre with some hitherto not widely known texts is further testament to his growing reputation as the foremost scholar of rural social investigation in the period...[a] splendid resource' Journal of Historical Geography

• Volume 1: The Moral and Material Condition of the Mid-Victorian Rural Poor, General Introduction, The Agricultural Labourer as He Really Is, or Village Morals in (1854), Statute Fairs: Their Evils and Their Remedy (1856), Four Letters to His Royal Highness Prince Albert… on the Dwellings and Condition of Eleven Hundred of the Working Classes and Poor of Fordington (1854), An Essay on the Moral and Religious Improvement of the Farm Servant and Labourer (1855), An Address upon the ‘Condition of the Agricultural Labourer’, Delivered… on the 25th November 1858 (1858), ‘The Life of a Farm Labourer’ (1864), How to Supply the Agricultural Labourer with Good Beer at a Low Price (1865), ‘Agricultural Gangs: Sixth Report of the Commissioners of the Children’s Employment Commission 1867; Seventh Report of the Medical Officer of the Privy Council 1864’ (1867), A Hampshire Agricultural Labourer, A Few Words on Courtship and Marriage, or, Trials and Struggles, Sweets and Bitters [1867], ‘Landowners, Land and Those Who Till It’ (1868), Agricultural Labourers (1870), The Home of the Agricultural Labourer: Its Defects, and How to Remedy Them … [1874], Volume 2. The ‘Revolt of the Field’, ‘How May the Condition of the Agricultural Labourer be Improved?’ (1872), The Strike in the Agricultural Districts: The Life and Experiences of a Warwickshire Labourer, with His Own Thoughts and Opinions on the Strike, as Told by Himself (1872), The Agricultural Labourers’ Union (1872), The Agricultural Labourer (1873), The Cry of the Labourer Against Landlord, Farmer and Priest: A Sermon (1873), The Skeleton at the Plough, or the Poor Farm Labourers of the West, with the Autobiography and Reminiscences of George Mitchell, ‘One from the Plough’ (Contains the Rules and Constitution of the National Agricultural Labourers’ Union) [1874], The NALU Melody Book: Original Hymns and Songs (1874), Songs for Singing at Agricultural Labourers’ Meetings [1875], The Farm Labourers’ Catechism, Prepared for the Special Use of those Agricultural Labourers Who Are Not in the Union [1875?], Volume 3: Life on the Land: the 1880s, Cow-Keeping by Farm Labourers (1880), The Dorsetshire Labourer (1883), ‘Clouds Over Arcady’ (1883), ‘The Wiltshire Labourer’ (1883),‘After the County Franchise’ (1884), The Position of the Agricultural Labourer in the Past and in the Future (1885), The Rural Exodus: The Problem of the Village and the Town (1892), Volume 4: Life on the Land: the 1890s, Local Rights and Interests of Farm Labourers [1890], The Depopulation of Villages: An Address to the Trade Unionists on the Influx of Population to Towns, with a Proposal for Its Abatement (1891), Special Report 1891: Among the Suffolk Labourers with the ‘Red Van’ (1891), ‘The Rural Voter’ (1892), ‘Hodge and His Parson’ (1892), The Villagers’ Magna Charta: ‘The Village for the Villagers’ (1894), Hodge and the Land (1907), Reports on Glendale, Northumberland and Garstang, Lancashire, Royal Commission on Labour: The Agricultural Labourer (1893), Report by Mr Wilson Fox on the Wages and Earnings of Agricultural Labourers in theUnited Kingdom, with Statistical Tables and Charts (1900), Papers on Rural Housing: The Present Condition of the Cottage Home of the Agricultural Labourer (1901), Volume 5: The Edwardian Rural Poor, ‘Life in an Agricultural Village in England’ (1905), Life in an English Village: An Economic and Historical Survey of the Parish of Corsley in Wiltshire (1909), Peer or Peasant? The Ruin of Rural England and the Remedy [1909], The English Agricultural Labourer (1912), The Labourer and the Land (1914), Index