RHN 34/2026 | Publication
Rural History: Economy, Society, Culture
Volume 37 – Issue 01 – April 2026
Table of Contents:
Where Next in Rural History?
Rural worlds remembered: A thematic journey through historiographical shifts
Chen Zhan, Amir Karimi
Research Articles
Rural parish workhouses during the later Old Poor Law
Matthew Bayly
Exploring women’s work in early modern rural Italy: Insights from the Republic of Venice
Andrea Caracausi, Mattia Viale
Weather, agriculture, and economic stability: Reassessing the impact of temperature and precipitation on early modern Tuscany (16th–17th century)
Luigi Oddo, Paul Erdkamp
That sticky feeling: The evolution and impact of wool cooperatives in the American West, 1880–1930
Iker Saitua
Private interest and public policy: land reclamation in the Tuscan Maremma (1860s–1950s)
Elisabetta Novello
Spring piglets or autumn piglets? Negotiating the role of nature in the spaces and practices of raising piglets in Finland, c. 1910s–30s
Eeva Nikkilä
The Loddon Drainage Association: A landowner controlled local drainage scheme after the Great War
Gareth Richard Jones
Central–local relations in early People’s Republic of China’s agricultural procurement reform: The case of the ‘Three-Fix’ policy in Funan County
Weiwen Zhou, Jian Xue
Technology, labour, livestock, and the Maoist developmental state: Four-wheeled tractors in China, 1953–1963
Joseph Lawson, Chunji Wang, Zheng Li
Migrants’ slavery in the rural areas of the continental Mezzogiorno
Francesco Dandolo, Renato Raffaele Amoroso, Mattia Muscherà
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