Breaking New Ground (2010)

Ed. J Cooper & J Burchardt

What will I learn from this book and what will I find between the covers?

With fifteen chapters, this 272 page book is published by FACHRS. Based on a nationwide research project, Breaking New Ground examines the importance of allotments in UK History. The chapters include detailed local studies of how allotments developed all over England – in East Anglia, the West Country, southern England, the Midlands and elsewhere. Aspects of allotment history, little explored before, come under the spotlight: the moral dimension of allotment rules, the link between allotments and riots, the intervention of paternalistic employers and the people’s desire for allotments to replace lost rights of common. Allotments Historical Data Collection – Companion CD is included in the purchase price and is a containing a database of over 3,000 allotment sites, by far the most comprehensive yet published, and nearly 1,000 allotment tenants, that will be of particular interest to local and family historians.

The price includes a CD ROM containing the results of the findings in both database and spreadsheet format.

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