A Social History of the English Countryside

by G.E. Mingay

Traces the rise and fall of rural England from the Middle Ages to the Second World War and the nature of the changes which have occurred.

260 pages, Hardcover

First published December 20, 1990

About the author

Professor Gordon Edmund Mingay, 1923-2006, was a British agrarian historian and lecturer.

Mingay served to lieutenant Commander in the Royal Navy from 1942 to 1947.

Lecturer London School of Economics, 1957-1965.
Reader University Kent, Canterbury, 1965-1968,
Professor agrarian history, 1968-1986,
Emeritus professor agrarian history, from 1987.

He was a member of the British Agricultural History Society (and it's president from 1986).