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This volume brings together a wide-ranging and seminal debate about the nature of English rural society in the eigthteenth and nineteenth centuries. Previously published in The Journal of Peasant Studies, the contributions challenge many of the existing premises of rural historiography. Together with major new contributions by the editors, the collection will be essential reading for all interested in rural England in modern times.

Contents

1. Class and Conflict in Rural England: Some reflections on a Debate

Mick Reed

2. The Development of the English Rural Proletariat and Social Protest, 1700-1850

Roger Wells

3. The Development of the English Rural Proletariat and Social Protest, 1700-1850: A Comment

Andrew Charlesworth

4. Social Conflict and Protest in the English Countryside in the Early Nineteenth-Century: A Rejoinder

Roger Wells

5. The Wells-Charlesworth Debate: A Personal Comment on Arson in Norfolk and Suffolk

J. E. Archer

6. Social Change and Social Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England: The Use of the Open-Closed Village Model

Dennis Mills and Brian Short

7. Social Change and Social Conflict in Nineteenth-Century England: A Comment

Mick Reed

8. Peasants and Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Rural England: A Comment on Two Recent Articles

Dennis Mills

9. Social Protest, Class, Conflict and Consciousness in the English Countryside, 1700-1880

Roger Wells

10. An Agenda for Modern English Rural History?

Mick Reed and Roger Wells

Consolidated Bibliography