The Land Agent in Britain: Past, Present and Future
- Submitting institution
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De Montfort University
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 28065
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781443899338
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2016
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Beardmore first conceived of this volume alongside Steven King and Geoff Monks as the result of a two-day conference of the same title held in 2013. The concept behind the volume was to fill a gap in the literature on the role of the land agent across time. This was achieved by bringing together a range of academics and practising land agents. As a volume it brings together aspects of continuity and change in the work carried out by those who manage or study large-landed estates. A selected number of the conference speakers were asked to contribute including Jeremy Moody secretary of the Central Association of Agricultural Valuers, Nick Morris Chief Executive Officer of Stowe House Preservation Trust, Caroline Dakers, John Martin and Elizabeth Hurren. This resulted in a book which is now considered as the beginnings of an innovative and revisionist approach to understanding how land agents have practised since the eighteenth century. Beardmore was instrumental in the editing process working closely with the other editors to ensure that the volume reads more as a monograph than a collection of conference papers. Beardmore contributed not just to the overall editing of the volume and its formatting to the Cambridge Scholars template but also to the jointly written introduction (pp. 1-15). Besides working alongside the authors to help frame their chapters Beardmore contributed her own chapter based on her own research, ‘William Castleman and Sons: Agents to the Marquis of Anglesey, 1814-1854’ (pp. 87-106).
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