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Biografisk notat
Lowri Ann Rees is Lecturer in Modern History, School of History and Archaeology, Bangor University. Her research interests centre on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Wales, in particular the landed elite and their country estates. Lowri has published on paternalism and rural protest, the Rebecca Riots, Welsh sojourners in India, and is currently researching upward social mobility in Wales. Ciarán Reilly is based at the Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses & Estates, Maynooth University and is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish history. Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. In 2015 she established and became the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre, and is the series editor for Scotland's Land, an interdisciplinary book series published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).
Through their thematic and chronological approach, the editors have created a volume which begins to fill the gaps in the literature. Although this is just the beginning of our understanding of the extent to which the land agent influenced the diurnal management of the estate and the management of local society its case study methodology demonstrates how the approach needed varied, locally, regionally and nationally... At the core of the volume are the different relationships which land agents had to develop and thus this research will have a broad appeal, not just to those interested in rural history, but also to those whose research lies in the relationships forged in the rural community more generally.
- Geoff Monks, University of Leicester, Family & Community History
This is a very important and pioneering comparative study of land agents in Ireland and Britain, a class often reviled in historiography and literature. Ambitious in its scope, and accessible in its scholarship, it is crammed with significant original details about the lives, social backgrounds, education, training, capabilities and weaknesses of a class central to Irish and British rural life in the long nineteenth centuries.
- Prof Terence Dooley, Maynooth University.,
Through their thematic and chronological approach, the editors have created a volume which begins to fill the gaps in the literature. Although this is just the beginning of our understanding of the extent to which the land agent influenced the diurnal management of the estate and the management of local society its case study methodology demonstrates how the approach needed varied, locally, regionally and nationally... At the core of the volume are the different relationships which land agents had to develop and thus this research will have a broad appeal, not just to those interested in rural history, but also to those whose research lies in the relationships forged in the rural community more generally.
- Geoff Monks, University of Leicester, Family & Community History
This is a very important and pioneering comparative study of land agents in Ireland and Britain, a class often reviled in historiography and literature. Ambitious in its scope, and accessible in its scholarship, it is crammed with significant original details about the lives, social backgrounds, education, training, capabilities and weaknesses of a class central to Irish and British rural life in the long nineteenth centuries.
- Prof Terence Dooley, Maynooth University.,