During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, much of England's common land was eradicated by the processes of parliamentary enclosure. However, despite the f

An examination of the treatment of common land in the work of English painters, at a time when much of it was to disappear forever. A most elegantly written boo

The first authoritative survey of the history of common land in Great Britain from the medieval period to present day.

The life of the poor rural worker appears to have been one of unmitigated toil within an unequal society, a reality seldom endorsed in paintings of the eighteen

From country lanes to thatch roofs, a stroll through the enduring appeal of the nineteenth-century trope of rural English bliss. A Sweet View explores how write