Description
Edited by: Jemery Burchardt and Jacqueline Cooper
Breaking New Ground makes an important contribution to our understanding of 19th-century England. It is based on a project organised by the Family & Community Historical Research Society (FACHRS) under the guidance of Dr Jeremy Burchardt of Reading University. The book uses a wide range of new evidence from local sources, to change the way we look at 19th-century allotments, demonstrating that in many parts of the country they were deeply embedded in famly and community life for a wide cross-section of society. Allotments formed a mainstream part of the Victorian community, rather than just being for poor labourers.
Contents: This book includes a preface by historian Dr Kate Tiller. It has fifteen chapters covering a wide range of geographically and thematically based chapters.
Part One: is an overview of the important findings by Dr Jeremy Burchardt
Part Two: comprises studies on 19th-century allotment history in Devon, Essex, Gloucestershire, Kent, Staffordshire, Suffolk and Warwickshire.
Part Three: covers themes including: Swing ritos and allotments; allotment rules; allotments and newspapers; a micro-study of one particular site at Loughton in Essex; industrial allotments; the link with fuel allotments; guinea gardens; and finally, unusual allotments.
