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This two-volume set brings together the essential and extensive publications by Professor Thompson otherwise scattered in many journals. These pieces form a major supplement to his classic book English Landed Society.Volume 1 Contents: Victorian England: the horse-drawn society. Inaugural lecture as Professor of Modern History, Bedford College, 1970; The end of a great estate, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 8, (1955); The land market in the nineteenth century, Oxford Economic Review, new. Ser. 9 (1957); English landownership: The Ailesbury Trust, 1832-56, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 11 (1958); English Great Estates In The 19th Century, 1790-1914, First International Conference of Economic Historians, Stockholm, 1960; Land and Politics in England in the nineteenth century, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser. 15 (1965); The social distribution of landed property in England since the sixteenth century, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 19 (1968); The Second Agricultural Revolution, 1815-1880, Economic History Review, 1, 4, 1968; Landownership and economic growth in England in the eighteenth century, from E.L. Jones and S.J. Woolf (eds.) , Agrarian change and economic development: the historical problems (1969); Nineteenth-century horse sense, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 29 (1976); Social control in Victorian England, Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 34 (1981).Horses and hay in Britain, 1830-1918, from F.M.L. Thompson (ed.), Horses in European economic history: a preliminary canter(British Agricultural History Society, 1983); English landed society in the nineteenth century, from Pat Thane, Geoffrey Crossick and Roderick Floud (eds.), The power of the past: essays for Eric Hobsbawm (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984); Aristocracy, gentry, and the middle classes in Britain, 1750-1850, from Adolf M. Birke and Lothar Kettenacker (eds.), Burgertum, Adel; und Monarchie (Munich, 1989).
