Nicola Verdon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1075879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicola Verdon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicola |
| FAMILY NAME | Verdon |
| SIGNATURE | VERDON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sheffield Hallam University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3538-9496 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Shepherdesses in the Bush: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 th Century
Skill, Status and the Agricultural Workforce in Victorian England
Alun Howkins, 1947–2018: Introduction
Feature: Remembering Alun Howkins, 1947-2018
The death of Alun Howkins in July 2018 has deprived modern British history of one of its most influential and charismatic academics and History Workshop Journal of one of its original, long-serving collective members. Whilst Alun’s interests and publications were broad, cutting across disciplinary boundaries and historical approaches, his central commitment was always to the history of the modern British countryside and the men and women who live…
Working the Land
Introduction: The Farmworker, Past and Present
In numerical terms farmworkers were the most significant occupational group in mid-Victorian England. At the beginning of the twenty-first century their numbers had dwindled to less than 100,000 men and women working on a full- or part-time basis. This introduction provides the backdrop to these stark figures and outlines the book’s aims and structure. Historiographical trends are placed alongside an overview of the broad economic and social chan…
Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant, Cultivating History: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement
Left out in the Cold: Village Women and Agricultural Labour in England and Wales during the First World War’
The Women’s Land Army (WLA), formed in 1917, has featured prominently in recent academic and popular account of First World War Britain. This interest reflects the attention the WLA drew from politicians, government reporters and contemporary commentators during and immediately after the war itself. Yet, the WLA, which at its peak had 16,000 women working on the land, was just one strand of wartime female agricultural labour, an auxiliary to the …
The first poverty line? Davies' and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in the late 18th-century England
Business and Pleasure: Middle-Class Women’s Work and the Professionalization of Farming in England, 1890–1939
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Out of the hay and into the hops: Hop cultivation in Wealden, Kent and hop marketing in Southwark, 1744-2000 - By Celia Cordle
Breaking new ground: Nineteenth-century allotments from local sources - Edited by Jeremy Burchardt and Jacqueline Cooper
The Modern Countrywoman: Farm Women, Domesticity and Social Change in Interwar Britain
This article analyses the home pages of the two dominant weekly agricultural periodicals of interwar Britain ¿ Farmer and Stockbreeder and Farmers Weekly -in order to examine the roles and representations of British farmwomen in the 1920s and 30s. It shows that although these home pages replicated the content of contemporary women's magazines, focusing largely on domesticity and motherhood, they did so within the framework of a rural agenda which…
Agricultural Labour and the Contested Nature of Women's Work in Interwar England and Wales
This article uses a case-study of agriculture to explore the range of anxieties and contradictions surrounding women's work in the interwar period. National statistics are shown to be inconsistent and questionable, raising questions for historians reliant on official data, but they point to regional variation as the continuous defining feature of female labour force participation. Looking beyond the quantitative data a distinction emerges between…
Adaptable and sustainable? Male farm service and the agricultural labour force in midland and southern England, c. 1850–1925 1
This article argues that farm service was an adaptable and sustainable system of hiring labour in areas of midland and southern England after 1850, having much in common with the model recently identified for northern England and Scotland. Analysing the Census Enumerators Books from selected parishes in seven counties in 1851, 1871, and 1891, we reveal an intricate pattern of farm service ‘survival’ both within and between counties. We then use a…
Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century
Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvemen…
The rural labour market in the early nineteenth century: Women's and children's employment, family income, and the 1834 Poor Law Report
This article revisits a familiar source-the 1834 Poor Law Report-to provide a fresh overview of the regional map of female and child labour in the early nineteenth-century countryside. Patterns of employment in domestic industry and agricultural labour (particularly haymaking, weeding, and harvesting) are investigated alongside labourers' contributions to the annual family income. The results indicate that orthodox accounts of rural employment an…
Adaptable and sustainable? Male farm service and the agricultural labour force in midland and southern England, c. 1850–1925 1
This article argues that farm service was an adaptable and sustainable system of hiring labour in areas of midland and southern England after 1850, having much in common with the model recently identified for northern England and Scotland. Analysing the Census Enumerators Books from selected parishes in seven counties in 1851, 1871, and 1891, we reveal an intricate pattern of farm service ‘survival’ both within and between counties. We then use a…
The rural labour market in the early nineteenth century: Women's and children's employment, family income, and the 1834 Poor Law Report
This article revisits a familiar source-the 1834 Poor Law Report-to provide a fresh overview of the regional map of female and child labour in the early nineteenth-century countryside. Patterns of employment in domestic industry and agricultural labour (particularly haymaking, weeding, and harvesting) are investigated alongside labourers' contributions to the annual family income. The results indicate that orthodox accounts of rural employment an…
Agricultural Labour and the Contested Nature of Women's Work in Interwar England and Wales
This article uses a case-study of agriculture to explore the range of anxieties and contradictions surrounding women's work in the interwar period. National statistics are shown to be inconsistent and questionable, raising questions for historians reliant on official data, but they point to regional variation as the continuous defining feature of female labour force participation. Looking beyond the quantitative data a distinction emerges between…
The Modern Countrywoman: Farm Women, Domesticity and Social Change in Interwar Britain
This article analyses the home pages of the two dominant weekly agricultural periodicals of interwar Britain ¿ Farmer and Stockbreeder and Farmers Weekly -in order to examine the roles and representations of British farmwomen in the 1920s and 30s. It shows that although these home pages replicated the content of contemporary women's magazines, focusing largely on domesticity and motherhood, they did so within the framework of a rural agenda which…
Shepherdesses in the Bush: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 th Century
Skill, Status and the Agricultural Workforce in Victorian England
The first poverty line? Davies' and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in the late 18th-century England
Business and Pleasure: Middle-Class Women’s Work and the Professionalization of Farming in England, 1890–1939
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Rural Women Workers in Nineteenth-Century England: Gender, Work and Wages
The range of women's work and its contribution to the family economy studied here for the first time. Despite the growth of women's history and rural social history in the past thirty years, the work performed by women who lived in the nineteenth-century English countryside is still an under-researched issue. Verdon directly addresses this gap in the historiography, placing the rural female labourer centre stage for the first time. The involvemen…
The rural labour market in the early nineteenth century: Women's and children's employment, family income, and the 1834 Poor Law Report
This article revisits a familiar source-the 1834 Poor Law Report-to provide a fresh overview of the regional map of female and child labour in the early nineteenth-century countryside. Patterns of employment in domestic industry and agricultural labour (particularly haymaking, weeding, and harvesting) are investigated alongside labourers' contributions to the annual family income. The results indicate that orthodox accounts of rural employment an…
Rural Englands: Labouring Lives in the Nineteenth Century
Adaptable and sustainable? Male farm service and the agricultural labour force in midland and southern England, c. 1850–1925 1
This article argues that farm service was an adaptable and sustainable system of hiring labour in areas of midland and southern England after 1850, having much in common with the model recently identified for northern England and Scotland. Analysing the Census Enumerators Books from selected parishes in seven counties in 1851, 1871, and 1891, we reveal an intricate pattern of farm service ‘survival’ both within and between counties. We then use a…
Agricultural Labour and the Contested Nature of Women's Work in Interwar England and Wales
This article uses a case-study of agriculture to explore the range of anxieties and contradictions surrounding women's work in the interwar period. National statistics are shown to be inconsistent and questionable, raising questions for historians reliant on official data, but they point to regional variation as the continuous defining feature of female labour force participation. Looking beyond the quantitative data a distinction emerges between…
The Modern Countrywoman: Farm Women, Domesticity and Social Change in Interwar Britain
This article analyses the home pages of the two dominant weekly agricultural periodicals of interwar Britain ¿ Farmer and Stockbreeder and Farmers Weekly -in order to examine the roles and representations of British farmwomen in the 1920s and 30s. It shows that although these home pages replicated the content of contemporary women's magazines, focusing largely on domesticity and motherhood, they did so within the framework of a rural agenda which…
Breaking new ground: Nineteenth-century allotments from local sources - Edited by Jeremy Burchardt and Jacqueline Cooper
Business and Pleasure: Middle-Class Women’s Work and the Professionalization of Farming in England, 1890–1939
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Out of the hay and into the hops: Hop cultivation in Wealden, Kent and hop marketing in Southwark, 1744-2000 - By Celia Cordle
The first poverty line? Davies' and Eden's investigation of rural poverty in the late 18th-century England
Cecilia Gowdy-Wygant, Cultivating History: The Women's Land Army and the Victory Garden Movement
Left out in the Cold: Village Women and Agricultural Labour in England and Wales during the First World War’
The Women’s Land Army (WLA), formed in 1917, has featured prominently in recent academic and popular account of First World War Britain. This interest reflects the attention the WLA drew from politicians, government reporters and contemporary commentators during and immediately after the war itself. Yet, the WLA, which at its peak had 16,000 women working on the land, was just one strand of wartime female agricultural labour, an auxiliary to the …
Working the Land
Introduction: The Farmworker, Past and Present
In numerical terms farmworkers were the most significant occupational group in mid-Victorian England. At the beginning of the twenty-first century their numbers had dwindled to less than 100,000 men and women working on a full- or part-time basis. This introduction provides the backdrop to these stark figures and outlines the book’s aims and structure. Historiographical trends are placed alongside an overview of the broad economic and social chan…
Skill, Status and the Agricultural Workforce in Victorian England
Alun Howkins, 1947–2018: Introduction
Feature: Remembering Alun Howkins, 1947-2018
The death of Alun Howkins in July 2018 has deprived modern British history of one of its most influential and charismatic academics and History Workshop Journal of one of its original, long-serving collective members. Whilst Alun’s interests and publications were broad, cutting across disciplinary boundaries and historical approaches, his central commitment was always to the history of the modern British countryside and the men and women who live…
Shepherdesses in the Bush: Representations of Women’s Shepherding Labour, from Britain to the Australian Colonies in the 19 th Century
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