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Alun Howkins's Degrees

PhD History University of Sussex
Masters History University of Sussex
Bachelors History University of Sussex

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According to Wikipedia, Alun Howkins was an English social historian, specialising in the history of English rural society. Regarded as a leading historian of the English countryside and its working class, Howkins was a professor of history at the University of Sussex and co-founder of the journal Rural History.

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The Death of Rural England: A Social History of the Countryside Since 1900 (2003) (63)
Reshaping Rural England: A Social History 1850-1925 (1991) (57)
Mistresses and Marriage: or, a Short History of the Mrs (2014) (28)
The state and the farm worker: the evolution of the minimum wage in agriculture in England and Wales, 1909-24 (2009) (26)
From Diggers to Dongas: the Land in English Radicalism, 1649–2000 (2002) (24)
Gentlemen and poachers : the English game laws 1671-1831 (1983) (21)
‘Wee be black as Hell’: Ritual, Disguise and Rebellion (1993) (17)
Rurality and English identity (2001) (17)
Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk, 1870-1923. (1986) (16)
Early green politics: Back to nature, back to the land, and socialism in Britain, 1880–1900: Peter C. Gould, (Sussex and New York: Harvester, 1988. Pp. x + 211. £29.95) (1990) (15)
Adaptable and Sustainable? Male Farm Service and the Agricultural Labour Force in Midland and Southern England, C.1850-1925 (2008) (14)
Labour History and the Rural Poor, 1850–1980 (1990) (12)
A Country at War: Mass-Observation and Rural England, 1939–45. (1998) (12)
Edwardian Liberalism and Industrial Unrest: a class view of the decline of Liberalism (1977) (12)
‘The Time's Alteration’: Popular Ballads, Rural Radicalism and William Cobbett (1987) (11)
Structural conflict and the Farmworker: Norfolk, 1900–1920 (1977) (10)
'Dewy-eyed veal calves'. Live animal exports and middle-class opinion, 1980-1995 (2000) (10)
Bread or Blood (1981) (8)
Poor Labouring Men: Rural Radicalism in Norfolk 1870-1923 (1988) (8)
The Liberal Party in Rural England, 1885-1910: Radicalism and Community (2005) (7)
Raphael Samuel, 1934–96 (1997) (5)
Structures and Transformations in Modern British History: The commons, enclosure and radical histories (2011) (5)
History workshop : a journal of socialist and feminist historians (1984) (5)
The Use and Abuse of the English Commons, 1845–1914 (2014) (4)
Death and rebirth? English rural society, 1920-1940 (2006) (4)
Qualifying the evidence: Perceptions of rural change in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century (2003) (3)
Land, locality, people, landscape: The nineteenth century countryside (1997) (3)
Digital Sources, Access and 'History of a Nation'? (2011) (3)
The Left and Folk Song (2009) (2)
HISTORY WORKSHOP 19A very personal overview (1986) (2)
George Ewart Evans (1976) (2)
The Nineteen Thirties: A Revisionist History (1979) (1)
The Sources of Stability and Harmony (2021) (1)
Raphael Samuel 1938–1996 (1997) (1)
From Hodge to Lob re-inventing the English farm labourer (1996) (1)
George Ewart Evans, 1909–1987 (1988) (1)
The Small Shopkeeper in Industrial and Market Towns (2021) (1)
The Crisis of Rural Society: ‘The Labouring Poor’ (2021) (0)
Review: Social Investigation and Rural England, 1870–1914 (2005) (0)
The Great War and its aftermath, 1914–21 (2003) (0)
ARTICLES AND ESSAYS From Diggers to Dongas: the Land in English Radicalism, (2016) (0)
The Problems of Consensus: Disorder and Crime (2021) (0)
The misfortunes of agriculture, 1921–37 (2003) (0)
INVENTING EVERYMAN: GEORGE EWART EVANS, ORAL HISTORY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY* (2016) (0)
Barry Reay, Microhistories: Demography, Society and Culture in Rural England, 1800–1930 , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. 288 pp. £40/$59.95 ISBN 0521 57028 x. (1998) (0)
The countryside in crisis, 1990–2001 (2003) (0)
'The Time's Alteration': Popular Ballads, (2016) (0)
Review: God Speed the Plough. The Representation of Agrarian England 1500–1660 (1998) (0)
The Crisis of Rural Society: ‘The Wealthy and Great’ (2021) (0)
Nicholas Mansfield, English farmworkers and local patriotism, 1900-1930 (2003) (0)
Landowners and farmers (2003) (0)
John Gurney (1960–2014) (2016) (0)
Bob Copper (1915-2004) (2005) (0)
Editorial (2006) (0)
Rural society and community (2000) (0)
The Rural World: Nation and Community (2021) (0)
New countrymen and women: Workers and trippers (2003) (0)
'Those lost landscapes', ruralism. Englishness and historical change in the countryside 1890-1990 (2002) (0)
ARCHIVES AND SOURCES: Recordings of working-class Songs and Music (1976) (0)
Historic Towns: Coventry (1977) (0)
Reshaping Rural England (2021) (0)
Christine Bloxham, May Day to Mummers: Folklore and Traditional Customs in Oxfordshire, Charlbury, The Wychwood Press, 2002. 312 pp. £12.99. 1 902279 11 5 (2003) (0)
A New Rural England (2021) (0)
Andy Durr, 1917–2014: a Memoir (2017) (0)
NEW ZEALAND LABOUR WEEKEND: Wellington, 1990 (1991) (0)
The countryside in a new century, 1900–14 (2003) (0)
Aftermath 1918–1925 (2021) (0)
‘Tractors plus chemicals’: Agriculture and farming, 1945–90 (2003) (0)
Kenneth Neale (ed.), Victorian Horsham: The Diary of Henry Michell 1809–1874 . Chichester: Phillimore, 1975. iv + 109 pp. £4·25. Enid Porter, Victorian Cambridge: Josiah Chater's Diaries 1844–1884 . Chichester: Phillimore, 1975. xviii + 227 pp. 27 plates. £4·95. (1977) (0)
The Problems of Consensus: The Contradictions of the System (2021) (0)
'Blue rembered hills': painting and history (2002) (0)
Routledge Revivals: Poor Labouring Men (1985): Rural Radicalism in Norfolk 1870-1923 (2016) (0)
Defending the natural order?: Environment and conservation, 1945–90 (2003) (0)
History's Value? (2011) (0)
War and state agriculture, 1937–45 (2003) (0)
The traditionalists: Farm workers and domestic servants (2003) (0)
Popular Culture and Custom in Nineteenth Century England, Edited by Robert D. Storch (London: Croom Helm; New York: St. Martin's Press, 1982. 212 pp.) (1984) (0)
In the sweat of thy face: the labourer and work (2021) (0)
A place to work and a place to play: Incomers and outgoers, 1945–90 (2003) (0)
Tithe war, 1918-1939. The countryside in revolt (2005) (0)
Barbara Kerr, The Dispossessed: An Aspect of Victorian Social History . London: John Baker, 1974. 271 pp. 38 plates. 18 line drawings. £4·90. (1976) (0)
Cinderellas of the Soil (2010) (0)
A. L. Lloyd (1908–1982) (1983) (0)
Further Reading (2021) (0)
The Rural Social Structure 1895–1914: Continuity and Discontinuity (2021) (0)

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