Forestry has been witness to some dramatic changes in recent years, with several Western
countries now moving away from the traditional model of regarding forests merely as …

Abstract Historic Landscape Characterisation is the most significant methodology within
recent initiatives to understand and manage the historic landscape in the UK. This paper will …

Those who study village origins have historically concentrated on two facets of the
phenomenon. First, considerable effort has been made to establish the date of their …

Recreational hunting may be important to the shaping of the agricultural landscape. Land
owners who hunt or lease out hunting rights have an incentive to promote landscapes that …

The debate leading up to the ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales in 2005
focused on the practical aspects such as the possible economic and social affect and issues …

South Cambridgeshire has some of the richest arable land in England and has been
cultivated for millennia. By the turn of the nineteenth century industrialisation and massive …

This paper considers the effects of blood sports on the landscape, wildlife and farming, and
assesses the implications of the topic for some matters of historical interpretation. Histories …

By Jonathan Finch and Kristine Dyrmann government and jurisdiction. The presence of such
a social and economic institution can be seen to create a distinct cultural landscape, made …

Recent research emphasises parallels between agrarian enclosure campaigns in
eighteenth and nineteenth century Britain and Ireland, and neo-colonial discourses. Both …

This thesis re-evaluates the field of garden history and demonstrates that there is great
potential to apply a different kind of analysis to gardens to produce new conclusions about …