Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F.M.L. Thompson

by Francis Michael Longstreth Thompson (Editor)

Ten essays by scholars who have been influenced by the specialist in the history of British landed society, who retired in 1990. The topics include the rivalry between landed and other gentry, the Servants Tax of 1777, attitudes toward foreign farming, agricultural laborers and the third Reform Act in Suffolk, the political economy of death duties, the political extremism of Willoughby de Broke and Walter Long, golf and Edwardian politics, and mobility after the horse. Distributed in the US by St. Martin's Press. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Hardcover

First published December 31, 1996

About the author

Francis Michael Longstreth (F.M.L.) Thompson is a British historian specializing in 19th and 20th century British social history. He was educated at Bootham School, York and Queens College, Oxford, where he took his Ph.D. in 1956. He was Reader in Economic History at University College London from 1963 until 1968 and was Professor of Modern History at Bedford College from 1968 until 1977. From 1977 until 1990 he was director of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and he served as president of the Royal Historical Society from 1989 to 1993.