Mark Overton
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mark Overton, FAcSS, is a British agricultural historian and formerly Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter, where he was Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2006 to 2013. Career Overton completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Exeter, graduating with a degree in economic history and geography. In 1972, he began his doctoral studies in historical geography at the University of Cambridge; the PhD was awarded in 1981 for his thesis "Agricultural change in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1580–1740." He was appointed an assistant lecturer at Cambridge in 1974 and then a Fellow at Emmanuel College. In 1979, he was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Geography at Newcastle University, where he was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader. In 1995, he was appointed Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter. He also served as Dean of Postgraduate Studies at Exeter from 1998 to 2001, and was Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 2006 to 2013, when he became Dean of Taught Programmes. He had retired from Exeter by 2016. Overton was a long-serving Treasurer of the Agricultural History Society, of which he was also President from 2013 to 2016.
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- Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500-1850 (1996) (284)
- British Economic Growth, 1270-1870 (2015) (282)
- BRITISH ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1270-1870: AN OUTPUT-BASED APPROACH (2011) (121)
- A new perspective on medieval and early modern agriculture: Six centuries of Norfolk farming (1993) (94)
- Land, Labour, and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity (1991) (87)
- Estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: An Example from EastAnglia, 1585–1735 (1979) (57)
- Production and Consumption in English Households 1600-1750 (2004) (42)
- The Diffusion of Agricultural Innovations in Early Modern England: Turnips and Clover in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1580-1740 (1985) (40)
- British economic growth, 1300-1850: some preliminary estimates (2010) (28)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Index (1996) (27)
- Norfolk livestock farming 1250–1740: a comparative study of manorial accounts and probate inventories (1992) (27)
- Computer analysis of an inconsistent data source: the case of probate inventories (1977) (24)
- English Agricultural Output and Labour Productivity, 1250- 1850: some preliminary estimates (2008) (21)
- Agricultural Productivity in Eighteenth‐Century England: Some Further Speculations (1984) (18)
- 7. Statistics of production and productivity in English agriculture, 1086-1871 (1999) (18)
- English Economic Growth: 1270 - 1870 (2010) (12)
- Clark's Malthus Delusion: Response to 'Farming in England 1200–1800' (2018) (9)
- Household wealth, indebtedness, and economic growth in early modern England (2012) (9)
- Re-estimating Crop Yields from Probate Inventories: A Comment (1990) (9)
- Electromyography of neck and shoulder muscles in instrumental musicians with musculoskeletal pain compared to asymptomatic controls: A systematic review and meta-analysis. (2018) (8)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: The agricultural revolution reconsidered (1996) (7)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: The agricultural revolution (1996) (7)
- English economic growth, 1270-1700 (2010) (7)
- Farming to Halves: The Hidden History of Sharefarming in England from Medieval to Modern Times (2009) (7)
- Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity. (1992) (6)
- Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography (1996) (6)
- Index to the Probate Accounts of England and Wales (2002) (6)
- An Assessment of the Ability of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Services to Measure and Track Language and Culture Training and Capabilities Among General Purpose Forces (2012) (5)
- Agricultural Revolution? England, 1540–1850 (1989) (4)
- A Computer Management System for Probate Inventories (1995) (4)
- The Critical Century? The Agrarian History of England and Wales 1750-1850 (1990) (4)
- Historical geography at the I.B.G. (1982) (3)
- Agricultural change in Norfolk and Suffolk, 1580-1740 (1981) (3)
- Physical activity levels and injury prevention knowledge and practice of a cohort of carpentry students (2016) (3)
- Coke of norfolk: A financial and agricultural study 1707–1842: R. A. C. Parker, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1975. Pp. viii + 222. £7·50) (1979) (3)
- The IDAR Graph (2017) (3)
- British Economic Growth, 1270–1870: Epilogue: British economic growth, 1270–1870 (2015) (3)
- Rooms and room use (2004) (2)
- The IDAR graph (2017) (2)
- Harvests of change: The royal agricultural society of England 1838–1988: Nicholas Goddard, 359 + xii pp., 1988, Quiller Press, London, £16.00 (1991) (2)
- Agronomy and agricultural history in England (2007) (2)
- Romu: Fast Nonlinear Pseudo-Random Number Generators Providing High Quality (2020) (2)
- Depression or Revolution? English Agriculture, 1640–1750 (1986) (1)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Institutional change, 1500–1850 (1996) (1)
- British Economic Growth, 1270–1870: Industrial and service-sector production (2015) (1)
- British Economic Growth, 1270–1870 (2015) (1)
- Farming to Halves (2009) (1)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Farming in the sixteenth century (1996) (1)
- Prologue: Historical national income accounting (2014) (1)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Agricultural output and productivity, 1500–1850 (1996) (1)
- Measuring economic growth (2015) (0)
- Real wage rates and GDP per head (2014) (0)
- Profit-sharing and Land Reform in the Nineteenth Century (2009) (0)
- Changing the speed of the drip emissions in an ink jet head (2003) (0)
- British Economic Growth, 1270–1870: Agricultural production (2015) (0)
- ReviewThe Farming and Memorandum Books of Henry Best of Elmswell 1642, Donald Woodward (Ed.), in: Records of Social and Economic History, New Series, VIII, Oxford University Press for the British Academy, London (1984), p. lxxiv (1985) (0)
- A note on weights, measures, money and boundaries (1996) (0)
- Britain in an international context (2015) (0)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Preface (1996) (0)
- British Economic Growth, 1270–1870: GDP and GDP per head (2015) (0)
- 1. CALL TO ORDER - Chairperson (2015) (0)
- John Chartres and David Hey (eds), English Rural Society, 1500–1800: Essays in Honour of Joan Thirsk , Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990, x + 384 pp. £37.50. ISBN 0 521 34565 0. (1993) (0)
- Sharefarming in England: Theory and Practice (2009) (0)
- Linking Language, Regional Expertise, and Culture Capabilities to Military Readiness (2012) (0)
- Vector to raster conversion processes. (1989) (0)
- Purpose of Meeting: Environmental Sustainability Dual Assurance (2011) (0)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Guide to further reading (1996) (0)
- Agricultural land use (2015) (0)
- Are Ecological Momentary Assessments of Pain Valid and Reliable? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis (2022) (0)
- Andrew McRae, God speed the plough. The representation of agrarian England, 1500-1660 (2000) (0)
- Sharefarming Comes to Light: Early Modern Evidence (2009) (0)
- Sharefarming before 1500: A Hidden Practice (2009) (0)
- Agriculture and the industrial revolution: E. L. Jones, (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1974. Pp. xiii + 233. £5·50) (1976) (0)
- A celebration of Robert Clark's legacy (2018) (0)
- The Critical Century ? The Agrarian History of England 1750-- 1850 * By MARK OVERTON and Wales (2006) (0)
- Anthony Buxton, Domestic culture in early modern England (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2015). Pages xx + 302, including figures 98. £75 hardback. (2017) (0)
- The social distribution of income (2014) (0)
- British Economic Growth, 1270–1870: Bibliography (2015) (0)
- Sharefarming Disappears from the Documents in the Eighteenth Century (2009) (0)
- General and Miscellaneous (1984) (0)
- A Return to Halves in the Twentieth Century (2009) (0)
- Seventeenth-Century Case Studies: Farming to Halves on Four Norfolk Estates (2009) (0)
- Sharefarming at the Turn of the 21st Century (2009) (0)
- Agricultural Revolution in England: Bibliography (1996) (0)
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