All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
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The End of the Old Order? The Land Question and the Burden of Ownership in the UK, c.1880-c.1925
| Between c.1880 and 1914 a number of issues focussed attention on the land question in the UK. The agricultural depression, the impact of the encumbered estates legislation, the introduction in 1894 of death duties, and the fears of the landed interest relating to Lloyd George’s proposed land taxes, put pressure on landowners as never before. Few major estates came on the market prior to 1914, but after the War the business of owning and operating an estate no longer seemed attractive. By one contemporary calculation one-quarter of the land of England changed hands 1918-21, as landowners offloaded their estates and country houses. If true this would have been nothing short of revolutionary – a turnover unknown since the Dissolution of the Monasteries or even the Norman Conquest. This paper revisits the land question on the eve of World War I, and uses previously neglected data to assess turnover in the wake of the 1918 Armistice. The data enable us to question the credibility of contemporary claims. Was the country close to a revolution in landownership post-1918, or were the fears expressed by landowners before 1914, and by commentators after 1918, exaggerations which led to a misunderstanding of the reality of the land question in these years?
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