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120 A. Byfield, ‘Victorian pteridomania – Britain’s fern craze’, British Wildlife
17 (2006), 411–19.

121 D. A. Ratcliffe, ‘Post-medieval and recent change in British vegetation: the
culmination of human influence’, New Phytologist 98 (1984), 73–100.

122 Secord, ‘Science in the Pub’, p. 288.

123 M. Shrubb, Birds, Scythes and Combines: a history of birds and agricultural
changes (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 319–20. B. Mearns
and R. Mearns, The Bird Collectors (London: Academic Press, 1998).

124 R. Morris, Chester in the Plantagenet and Tudor Reigns (Chester, 1893),
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125 W. H. Hudson, Birds of London (London, 1898), p. 31.

Chapter 8

1 R. Perren, Agriculture in Depression 1870-1940 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995). P. J. Perry, British Farming in the Great Depression:
an historical geography (Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1974).

2 H. Williamson, The Story of a Norfolk Farm (London: Faber, 1940), p. 206.

3 Norfolk Record Office MC3.

4 F. M. L. Thompson, English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century
(London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963), pp. 325, 330.

5 H. Clemenson, English Country Houses and Landed Estates (London: Croom
Helm, 1982).

6 J. Sheail, An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain (London:
Palgrave, 2002), p. 110.

7 M. Shrubb, Birds, Scythes and Combines: a history of birds and agricultural
change (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 120; O. Rackham,
The History of the Countryside (London: Dent, 1986), p. 223.

8 Rackham, History of the Countryside, p. 223.

9 B. R. Mitchell and P. Deane, Abstract of British Historical Statistics
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1971), pp. 8–10.

10 N. Cossons, The BP Book of Industrial Archaeology (Newton Abbot: David
and Charles, 1987), p. 278.

11 A. J. P. Taylor, English History 1914-1945 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965),
p. 302.

12 K. Hudson, The Archaeology of the Consumer Society (London: Heinemann,
1981).

13 A. Bell, ‘The family farm’, in H. J. Massingham (ed.), England and the Farmer
(London: Batsford, 1941). Williamson, Story of a Norfolk Farm. R. J. Moore-
Collyer, ‘Aspects of the urban-rural divide in inter-War Britain’, Rural History
10 (1999), 103–24. R. J. Moore-Collyer, ‘Back to basics: Rolf Gardiner,
H. J.Massingham and “A kinship in husbandry”’, Rural History 12 (2002),