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Publications of the Lincoln Record Society: Occasional Ser.: Farming and Society in North Lincolnshire : The Dixons of Holton-Le-Moor, 1741-1906 by Richard Olney (2018, Hardcover)

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North Lincolnshire Farming Society (Publications of the Lincoln Record Society: Occasional) by Richard Olney [Hardcover]

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Product Identifiers

PublisherLincoln Record Society

ISBN-101910653055

ISBN-139781910653050

eBay Product ID (ePID)239694515

Product Key Features

Number of Pages232 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFarming and Society in North Lincolnshire : the Dixons of Holton-Le-Moor, 1741-1906

Publication Year2018

SubjectSociology / General, Europe / Great Britain / General, Modern / General, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorRichard Olney

SeriesPublications of the Lincoln Record Society: Occasional Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsA rich and interesting work of local history. JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES Olney's well-structured, immensely readable book is the product of nearly fifty years' association with the Dixon family and their remarkable collection of family and estate papers. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW, Olney's well-structured, immensely readable book is the product of nearly fifty years' association with the Dixon family and their remarkable collection of family and estate papers. AGRICULTURAL HISTORY REVIEW

Series Volume Number2

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal630.924283209034

Table Of ContentPreface The Rural Context The Grazier: William Dixon (1697-1781) The Tenant Farmer: Thomas Dixon (1729-1798) The Old-Style Farmer: William Dixon (1756-1824) William Dixon (1756-1824) as Philosopher and Philanthropist The Man of Business: Thomas John Dixon (1785-1871), the Early Years The Man of Property: Thomas John Dixon, the Later Years The Ladies of Holton 1871-1906 Farming and Landowning Class and Community Appendix 1: The Dixon Archive Appendix 2: Genealogical tables Principal Sources Index

Synopsis"Proputty, proputty, proputty": Tennyson's "Northern Farmer, New Style" could hear the word in the rhythm of his horse's hooves as he cantered between his fields. The Dixon family built up their estate in Holton-le-Moor, between Market Rasen and Caistor, from a minor purchase in 1741 to the point where they owned the whole parish, with a fine house, a governess for their daughters, and a phaeton in which to ride out. But despite these marks of status, they remained working farmers well into the Victorian era. Even more remarkably, they created and preserved a comprehensive archive, including farming accounts, diaries and correspondence. Dr Richard Olney has known this archive for nearly fifty years, first uncovering the documentary riches at Holton Hall (where manuscripts from the loft had to be lowered in baskets to the study below) and subsequently cataloguing the entire collection in the Lincolnshire Archives. In this book he creates a vivid portrait of the building up of a farming estate over several generations, revealing the introduction of agricultural improvements, the use of canals and, later, railways to access wider markets, and the place of "the middling sort" in nineteenth-century English rural society. Richard Olney was an archivist at the Lincolnshire Archives Office from 1969 to 1975, and an Assistant Keeper with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1976 to 2003. His publications include Lincolnshire Politics 1832-1885 (Oxford 1973) and Rural Society and County Government in Nineteenth-Century Lincolnshire (History of Lincolnshire Committee 1979)., Engaging account of the fortunes of a farming family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Proputty, proputty, proputty: Tennyson's "Northern Farmer, New Style" could hear the word in the rhythm of his horse's hooves as he cantered between his fields. The Dixon family built up their estate in Holton-le-Moor, betweenMarket Rasen and Caistor, from a minor purchase in 1741 to the point where they owned the whole parish, with a fine house, a governess for their daughters, and a phaeton in which to ride out. But despite these marks of status, they remained working farmers well into the Victorian era. Even more remarkably, they created and preserved a comprehensive archive, including farming accounts, diaries and correspondence. Dr Richard Olney has known this archive for nearly fifty years, first uncovering the documentary riches at Holton Hall (where manuscripts from the loft had to be lowered in baskets to the study below) and subsequently cataloguing the entire collection in the LincolnshireArchives. In this book he creates a vivid portrait of the building up of a farming estate over several generations, revealing the introduction of agricultural improvements, the use of canals and, later, railways to access wider markets, and the place of "the middling sort" in nineteenth-century English rural society. Richard Olney was an archivist at the Lincolnshire Archives Office from 1969 to 1975, and an Assistant Keeper with the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts from 1976 to 2003. His publications include Lincolnshire Politics 1832-1885 (Oxford 1973) and Rural Society and County Government in Nineteenth-Century Lincolnshire (History of Lincolnshire Committee 1979)., Engaging account of the fortunes of a farming family during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

LC Classification NumberS522