Rural History 36, 2 (2025)

RHN 102/2025 | Publication

Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture

Volume 36 – Issue 02 – October 2025

 

Table of Contents:

Research Articles

Poachers, politicians, and the police: The Poaching Prevention Act of 1862
John Archer, Harvey Osborne, Carl Griffin

Where Next in Rural History?

Releasing the genie: English manorial records and their (huge) potential for interdisciplinary studies
Philip Slavin

Research Articles:

Two hundred barrels of manure: Fertilisation, environmental stewardship, and short-term leasehold in Cambrésis, 1330–1400
Arnoud Jensen

Wealth, work, and industriousness, 1670–1860: evidence from rural Swedish probates
Marcus Falk, Erik Bengtsson, Mats Olsson

Conspicuous charity and agrarian capitalism: Rural poor relief in Western Flanders c. 1700
Thijs Lambrecht, Anne Winter

Life and death under son preference: Economic stress, fertility, and early-life mortality in rural Spain, 1800–1910
Francisco J. Marco-Gracia, Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, Víctor A. Luque de Haro

The legacy of history: women and the ownership of land in Ireland
Mary Curtin, Caroline Murphy, Una Woods, Christine Cross

The kitchen’s grip: Energy, cooking, and gendered work in rural France (1860–1960)
Martin Bruegel

Japan’s rural electrification before the mid-1930s: Private-owned utility, local community, and policy
Chenxiao Li

State intervention to bridge the gap: The modernisation of rural Southern Italy (1950–1962)
Gerardo Cringoli

‘Co-ordinated Under one Machine’: International and faith-based rural development, 1950s–1980s
Andreas Stucki

 

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