Financing the Landed Estate : Power, Politics and People on the Marquis of Anglesey¿s Estate, 1812¿1854

Carol Beardmore

ISBN 10: 3030145514 / ISBN 13: 9783030145514

Editore: Springer International Publishing, 2019

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - While there is an extensive historiography which explores English agriculture in the nineteenth century, there has been less attention paid to individual estates and in particular the role of the land agent within their management, administration and participation in rural community relationships. Nowhere is this more obvious in the lack of research into the financial history of the landed estate, even though in the early nineteenth century these were some of the largest businesses in England. The Castleman letters are a rich source which detail the intricate working, financial, social and political relationships which constituted the foundation of the landed estate. The vouchers of which more than 10,000 have survived alongside the rental accounts have rarely been examined. On their own they illustrate, for example: the sums paid out on maintenance, the interest payments on mortgages, charitable expenditure, spending on property repairs and one-off payments for a wide and diverse range of items. Together with the diurnal correspondence all three aspects of the archive detail the daily financial undertakings and form the foundation of a new financial history of the estate. This book will show that estate management was underpinned by an inherent understanding of the financial decisions which needed to be taken, and will be of interest to academics and researchers of financial history.

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• Titolo: Financing the Landed Estate : Power, Politics and People on the Marquis of Anglesey¿s Estate, 1812¿1854
• Editore: Springer International Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2019
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3030145514
• ISBN 13: 9783030145514
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 216 L x 153 A x 19 P (millimetri) 216 millimetri di larghezza per 153 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 438 grammi

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While there is an extensive historiography which explores English agriculture in the nineteenth century, there has been less attention paid to individual estates and in particular the role of the land agent within their management, administration and participation in rural community relationships. Nowhere is this more obvious in the lack of research into the financial history of the landed estate, even though in the early nineteenth century these were some of the largest businesses in England. The Castleman letters are a rich source which detail the intricate working, financial, social and political relationships which constituted the foundation of the landed estate. The vouchers of which more than 10,000 have survived alongside the rental accounts have rarely been examined. On their own they illustrate, for example: the sums paid out on maintenance, the interest payments on mortgages, charitable expenditure, spending on property repairs and one-off payments for a wide and diverse range of items. Together with the diurnal correspondence all three aspects of the archive detail the daily financial undertakings and form the foundation of a new financial history of the estate. This book will show that estate management was underpinned by an inherent understanding of the financial decisions which needed to be taken, and will be of interest to academics and researchers of financial history.

Informazioni sull?autore

Carol Beardmore holds Research Fellowships at the University of Leicester, UK and part-time lectureships at De Montfort University, UK, and the Open University, UK. Dr. Beardmore has had articles published in Rural History and Family and Community History and chapters in The Land Agent in Britain: Past, Present and Future (2016), Living the Family: A Study of Family Life, c.1650-1900 (2019) and Disability Matters (2018).