What Caused Victorian Britain's Great Agricultural Depression?
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- Опубликовано: 4 окт 2024
- The Great Depression in British Agriculture: A time that had significant impacts on British society and your family history.
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Further Reading
Thomas, D. Lleufer. 1896. The Welsh Land Commission: A Digest of its Report. London: Whittaker & Co. babel.hathitru...
Cooper, Kathryn C. 2011. Exodus from Cardiganshire: Rural-Urban Migration in Victorian Britain. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.
Cragoe, Matthew. 1996. An Anglican Aristocracy: The Moral Economy of the Landed Estate in Carmarthenshire 1832-1895. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Perry, P. J. 1972. “Where Was the ‘Great Agricultural Depression’? A Geography of Agricultural Bankruptcy in Late Victorian England and Wales.” The Agricultural History Review 20 (1): 30-45.
Sheppard, Ronald, and Edward Newton. 1957. The Story of Bread. UK: Routledge & Paul.
Really good video. The economics of agriculture in Britain didn’t really improve (apart from a blip during WW1) until the time of the second world war.
I’ve seen the effects while researching my ancestors with many families who had been living on the land for generations suddenly upping sticks to live in South Wales or London. Some lived a double life, leaving their families on a smallholding in West Wales while lodging in the valleys so that could work down the mines to keep their old home going.
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing. I haven't found many examples of the back and forth travel like that in my family yet, but I'm sure it happened way more than is reflected in the records. Definitely something to keep an eye out for :D
One of my gt gt grand fathers, Daniel Williams was listed as an Agricultural Labourer living in Troedyraur in 1851 and 1861. But in 1871 and 1881 he is a boarder in someone’s house first in Rhondda and then in Maesteg, working as a miner. While his wife and children remain in Troedyraur.
Very cool
Very informative video. My great grandfather was an agriculture labourer near Aberystwyth.
Glad you enjoyed and found it useful!
My ancestors had long since moved to America by this time, but considering they were former Confederates in the South likely weren’t doing much better. If not worse.
Humorously my great grandfather reversed the Farm-to-Factory trend in the 1930s Depression. He worked at a paper mill that manufactured paper bags and boxes where he was injured. He suffered a massive hernia and received some sort of fairly sizable settlement. But instead of using it to pay for surgery he used it as a down payment on 80 acres of land out i. The country.
He, his wife and two surviving children farmed cotton and vegetables along with a black family they brought on as share croppers. They apparently had quite a nice house for the time because they had a wooden floor. Which was uncommon at the time in this area. My grandfather ten took his GI Bill funds from a stint at the tail end of WW2 and went to university for the first of two times.
The family has kept our land and we are surviving the current Not-Depression on it after being forced out by the current banking aristocracy after 2008.
The more things change and all that.
Very interesting. Thanks for sharing!
Another great presentation Dai, thank you.
Thanks :D Glad you're enjoying!
Great work🎉
Thanks :D Glad you enjoyed
And British agriculture is going to the dogs again
I don't really know anything about British agriculture today, but it certainly wouldn't surprise me that people are struggling.
@@GenealCymru the lack of EU subs has hit farmers in the pockets since we left the common market, but in other ways it has allowed UK farmers more freedom in what they grow or raise. But there is very little money to made in agriculture, farmers would probably make more money if they grew flowers and bio fuel than if they planted food crops.