For specialized bibliographies, lists and catalogues, see (3) and (89).

Printed sources

1. 1399 Davis, Richard. A general view of the agriculture of the county of Oxford …. 1794. One of the earliest of many similar county reports prepared for the Board of Agriculture; they were much criticized by contemporaries: see (1402).

2. 1400 Hughes, Anne. The diary of a farmer's wife, 1796–1797. Comp. by Suzanne Beedell. 1964.

3. 1401 Johnson, William Branch (ed.).‘ Memorandums for … ’: the diary between 1798 and 1810 of John Carrington, farmer, chief constable, tax assessor, surveyor of the highways, and overseer of the poor of Bramfield in Hertfordshire. 1973. Johnson's The Carrington diary, 1797–1810, 1956, is based on this diary.

4. 1402 Marshall, William. A review of the reports to the Board of Agriculture. 1808–18, 6 vols. Highly critical of the county by county reports commissioned by the Board.

5. 1403 Marshall, William. The rural economy of Norfolk. 1787, 2 vols. First of a series of similar accounts of Yorkshire (1788, 2 vols.; 2nd edn, 1796); Gloucestershire (1789; 2nd edn, 1796); the Midland counties (1790; 2nd edn, 1796); the West of England (1796; 2nd edn, 1805, 2 vols.) and the Southern counties (1798).

6. 1404 Mingay, Gordon Edmund (ed.). Arthur Young and his times. 1975. Selections, arranged chronologically, with connecting narrative and an introduction.

7. 1405 Palmer, Roy (comp.). The painful plough: a portrait of the agricultural labourer in the nineteenth century from folksongs and ballads and contemporary accounts. Cambridge, 1972.

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