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How to Grow a Weetabix

James Meek: Farms and Farmers, 16 June 2016

... promote much older ideas. A fiercer attack came from Robert Allen in his book Enclosure and the Yeoman (1992). Allen describes two English agricultural revolutions, one by small yeoman farmers in the 17th century, another by landlords in the 18th. The yeomen’s revolution, he maintains, led to a big increase in crop ...

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