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.

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 2Contents: Rural society and agricultural change in nineteenth-century Britain, from George Grantham and Carol S. Leonard (eds.), Agrarian organisation in the century of industrialisation: Europe, Russia, and North America (Greenwich, Conn., JAI Press, 1989); Life after death: how successful nineteenth-century businessmen disposed of their fortunes, Economic History Review, 2nd ser, 43 (1990); English landed society in the twentieth century, 1, Property: collapse and survival, (Presidential address), Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser. 40 (1990); English Landed Society in the Twentieth Century. 1: Property: Collapse and Survival, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 5th ser., Vol. 40., 1990; English landed society in the twentieth century, 2: new poor and new rich, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 1 (1991); English landed society in the twentieth century, 3, Self help and outdoor relief, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 2 (1992); English landed society in the twentieth century, 4, Prestige without power? Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, 6th ser. 3 (1993).Desirable properties: the town and country connection in British society since the late eighteenth century, Historical Research, 64 (1991); Stitching it together again (Reply to W.D. Rubinstein), Economic History Review, 2nd ser. 45 (1992); Changing Perceptions of Land Tenure in Britain, 1750-1914, from Donald Winch and Patrick K. O'Brien (eds.), The Political Economy of British Historical Experience 1688-1914 (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002); Moving frontiers and the Fortunes of the Aristocratic Town 1830-1930, The London Journal, Vol.2, No.1, 1995; The Land market, 1880-1925: A reappraisal reappraised, The Agricultural History Journal, Vol.55, Part II, 2007; The Strange Death of the English Land question, from Matthew Cragoe and Paul Readman (eds.), The Land Question in Britain, 1750-1950 (Houndsmill, Palgrave, 2010).

First published in 2006. This book contributes towards a more just appreciation of the relative importance of the different major social groups in the life of the country. It deals in the main with the economic history of the landed interest, and with its role as a social group and includes much agrarian and some industrial history as seen from the landowners' point of view. The first seven chapters of the book aim to present an analysis and description of the main elements in the institutions and way of life of the landed classes, suggesting their significance for society at large, and emphasizing the forces of change which were at work within an order which in many ways presented a remarkably stable appearance to the outside world. The last five chapters take up the theme of change and examine the dynamic elements in the economic social and political life of the group, in a sequence of chronological subdivisions of the century and a half with which this book is concerned.