The Land Question in Britain, 1750–1950

1. Introduction
Matthew Cragoe, Paul Readman

2. The Common Field Landscape, Cultural Commemoration and the Impact of Enclosure, c. 1770–1850
Ian Waites

3. ‘Witnesses for the Defence’: The Yeomen of Old England and the Land Question, c. 1815–1837
Kathryn Beresford

4. Chartism and the Land: ‘The Mighty People’s Question’
Malcolm Chase

5. The ‘Manchester School’ and the Landlords: The Failure of Land Reform in Early Victorian Britain
Anthony Howe

6. ‘A Contemptible Mimic of the Irish’: The Land Question in Victorian Wales
Matthew Cragoe

7. Setting the Heather on Fire: The Land Question in Scotland, 1850–1914
Ewen A. Cameron

8. Irish Land and British Politics
Philip Bull

9. Richard Cobden, J. E. Thorold Rogers and Henry George
Antony Taylor

10. London and the Land Question, c.1880–1914
Roland Quinault

11. The Edwardian Land Question
Paul Readman

12. Unemployment, Taxation and Housing: The Urban Land Question in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Ian Packer

13. Land Reform and the English Land Market, 1880–1925
John Beckett, Michael Turner

14. Socialism and the Land Question: Public Ownership and Control in Labour Party Policy, 1918–1950s
Clare Griffiths

15. Epilogue: The Strange Death of the English Land Question
F. M. L. Thompson

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Economic History, Political History, Modern History