Land and Society in Edwardian BritainThis revealing new book presents some of the first researches into a trove of hitherto inaccessible primary source material. A controversial component of Lloyd George's People's Budget of 1909-10 was the "New Domesday" of landownership and land values. This documentation, long locked away in the Inland Revenue's offices, became available to the public in the late 1970s. Dr. Short offers both a coherent overview and a standard source of reference to this valuable archive. Part I is concerned with the processes of assembling the material and its style of representation; Part II with suggested themes and locality studies. A final chapter places this new material in the context of discourses of state intervention in landed society prior to the Great War. |
Contents
Lloyd George the 1909 Budget and the land campaigns | 9 |
The national structure of the valuation process | 38 |
The survey procedures and documents | 54 |
The 1910 documents and archival policies | 90 |
Projects and problems | 109 |
Urban social area analysis 19091914 | 153 |
Rural society and economy 19091914 | 187 |
Rural industrial communities on the eve of the Great War | 223 |
Contrasts and comparisons | 252 |
The survey in Ireland | 283 |
Ireland | 307 |
The survey in Scotland | 310 |
a discourse of state power 19091914 | 333 |
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acres agricultural Archives Ashburnham Assessable Site Value Binbrook boundaries brick Brighton buildings Caernarfonshire Carlton cent Chief Valuer civil parish Cleckheaton Corsley cottages County Cromer Cumbria Domesday Domesday Books Dublin East Allington East Sussex Edwardian England and Wales entry farm Field Books Finance Forms 37 Full Site Value Gross Value Heckmondwike hereditament numbers hereditaments houses included Income Tax Parish Increment Value Duty Inland Revenue Ireland Irish Isleham Keelby Land Taxes Land Union Land Valuation Land Values landowners landownership lease legislation Liberal Lincolnshire Lloyd George Loddiswell London Lord LVOS Maerdy maps market value ments Note Books occupied Ordnance Survey owners ownership Penrhyn problems Provisional Valuation Rate Book Record Sheet Plans rent repositories Road rooms rural sample Scotland Scottish Record Office Source South Hams SRO IRS Table Taxation of Land tenant tion tithe urban Valuation Books Valuation Office village Willingham Yorkshire