Printed
Primary
Important sources for the study of the county’s agriculture include:
- Robert Lowe, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Nottinghamshire (1798)
- Parkinson, J. 'On Improvements in Agriculture in the County of Nottingham Since 1800', Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc., 22 (1861), 159-166.
- T. Hall, An Essay on the Farming of Nottinghamshire, with a Description of the Improvements, That Have Taken Place since Mr David Lowe's Report in 1798 (Groombridge, 1845)
- Commission of Inclosures, The Domesday of Inclosures for Nottinghamshire, from the Returns to the Inclosure Commissioners of 1517, in the Public Record Office Edited with introduction, translation ansd summaries, by I.S. Leadham (Thoroton Society, Record Series, 2, [Nottingham] 1904. 101 p. pp. [1]-60 reprinted from TTS, 4 (1900), supplement. [3], [1]-21 and 6 (1902), supplement. [2], 22-60, although not all bound volumes contain these supplements.
- Tate, W.E. A Domesday of English Enclosure Acts and Awards. Edited with an introduction by M. E. Turner (University of Reading Library, 1978. Nt, 204-211.
- Tate, W.E. Parliamentary Land Enclosures in the County of Nottingham During the 18th and 19th Centuries (1743-1868). (Thoroton Society, Record Series, 5). Nottingham, 1935. 215p .ill.
Secondary
- Fowkes, D.V. `Agricultural Change in Nottinghamshire, c.1720-1830’, (M.A. thesis, University of Liverpool, 1972).
- Fussell, G.E. 'Four Centuries of Nottinghamshire Farming, 1500-1900', Nottinghamshire Countryside 17, 2 (1956), 9-19; 17, 3 (1956/57), 7-10, 47; 17, 4 (1957), 7-11, 47.
- Fussell, G.E. '"High Farming" in the East Midlands and East Anglia, 1840-1880', Economic Geography, 27 (1951), 72-89. 'Nottingham[shire]´, 72-74, 88.
- Jones, R.B. The Pattern of Farming in the East Midlands (Sutton Bonington, University of Nottingham School of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Economics, 1954).
- King, E. 'The East Midlands (Farming Practice and Techniques)', in E. Miller, ed., The Agrarian History of England and Wales, v. 3: 1348-1500 (Cambridge UP, 1991), 210-222.
- King, E. 'The East Midlands (The Occupation of the Land)', in The Agrarian History of England and Wales, v. 3: 1348-1500 (Cambridge UP, 1991), 67-77.
- Mingay, G.E. 'The East Midlands', in The Agrarian History of England and Wales, in Mingay, ed v. 5, pt. 1: 1640-1750 (Cambridge UP, 1984), 89-128.
- Mingay, G.E. `Landownership and Agrarian Trends in the Eighteenth Century’, (Ph.D. thesis, University of Nottingham, 1958).
- Phillips, A.D.M. 'Agricultural Land Use, Soils and the Nottinghamshire Tithe Surveys circa 1840', East Midland Geographer, 6, 46 (Dec 1976), 284-301.
- Raftis, J.A. 'The East Midlands [farming techniques]', in The Agrarian History of England and Wales v. 2: 1042-1350 (Cambridge UP, 1988), 325-340.
- Thirsk, J. 'The Farming Regions of England', Agrarian History of England and Wales , 4 [covering] 1500-1640 (Cambridge UP, 1967). 'The East Midlands', 89-99.
- Thirsk, J. 'Field Systems of the East Midlands', in A.R.H. Baker and R.A. Butlin, eds., Studies of Field Systems in the British Isles (Cambridge UP, 1973), 232-280
See also Nottinghamshire Bibliography, especially pp. 31, 157-60.
Agrarian change in Nottinghamshire, 1730-1830. Unpublished thesis, University of Liverpool, 1970.