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Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day LANDSCAPES BOOK REVIEW Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day,by Angus J. L. Winchester, Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2022, 328 pp., 64 figures, £60 (hbk), ISBN: 9781783277438 It is a popular misconception that common land has no owner, and can be used by anyone for anything. At least as perceived, this is untamed land, waste, a resource open to all. Not so, of course, as Winchester demonstrates in a notably rich study. First, some basics about the book. Geographically, the coverage is ‘all three nations of Great Britain’, the timescale is from the pre-Norman Conquest centuries to the present, while the landscape types where ‘commons’ are (or were) to be found are mountains, moorland, heath, marsh, fens and saltmarsh, to name but some. Alongside these, which we might term permanent commons, were those which were seasonal, such as open-field fallows, meadows, and woods and forests in the mast month. All are treated – seasonal commons more briskly - in what is one of the best overviews of a landscape type and its uses published in recent decades. Chapter 2 on ‘Custom and Law’ looks back to the pre-Conquest period where the limited source http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

Stamper, Paul
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Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day

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LANDSCAPES BOOK REVIEW Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day,by Angus J. L. Winchester, Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2022, 328 pp., 64 figures, £60 (hbk), ISBN: 9781783277438 It is a popular misconception that common land has no owner, and can be used by anyone for anything. At least as perceived, this is untamed land, waste, a resource open to all. Not so, of course, as Winchester demonstrates in a notably rich study. First, some basics about the...
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LANDSCAPES BOOK REVIEW Common Land in Britain. A History from the Middle Ages to the Present Day,by Angus J. L. Winchester, Boydell Press: Woodbridge, 2022, 328 pp., 64 figures, £60 (hbk), ISBN: 9781783277438 It is a popular misconception that common land has no owner, and can be used by anyone for anything. At least as perceived, this is untamed land, waste, a resource open to all. Not so, of course, as Winchester demonstrates in a notably rich study. First, some basics about the book. Geographically, the coverage is ‘all three nations of Great Britain’, the timescale is from the pre-Norman Conquest centuries to the present, while the landscape types where ‘commons’ are (or were) to be found are mountains, moorland, heath, marsh, fens and saltmarsh, to name but some. Alongside these, which we might term permanent commons, were those which were seasonal, such as open-field fallows, meadows, and woods and forests in the mast month. All are treated – seasonal commons more briskly - in what is one of the best overviews of a landscape type and its uses published in recent decades. Chapter 2 on ‘Custom and Law’ looks back to the pre-Conquest period where the limited source

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