John Anthony Chartres (born January 1946) is the former professor of economic and social history at the

University of Leeds , mottoeng = And knowledge will be increased , established = 1831 – Leeds School of Medicine1874 – Yorkshire College of Science1884 - Yorkshire College1887 – affiliated to the federal Victoria University1904 – University of Leeds , ...

. He is a specialist in the

economic history Economic history is the academic learning of economies or economic events of the past. Research is conducted using a combination of historical methods, statistical methods and the application of economic theory to historical situations and ins ...

agriculture in England Agriculture in England is today intensive, highly mechanised, and efficient by European standards, producing about 60% of food needs with only 2% of the labour force. It contributes around 2% of GDP. Around two thirds of production is devoted ...

Selected publications

Books

* ''Internal trade in England, 1500-1700''. Macmillan, London, 1977. * ''Pre-Industrial Britain''. Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1994. (Editor & contributor) * ''Agricultural Markets and Trade, 1500-1750''.

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, 2003. (Editor)

Other

* "English Landed Society and the Servants Tax of 1777" in N. Harte & R. Quinault (Eds.) (1996) ''Land and Society in Britain, 1700-1914: Essays in Honour of F. M. L. Thompson'', Manchester,

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, pp. 34–56. * "Foires et Marchés en Angleterre de 1500 à 1850" in C. Desplat (Ed.) (1996) ''Foires et Marchés dans les Campagnes de l'Europe médiévale et moderne, Actes des XIVes Journées Internationales d'Histoire de l'Abbaye de Flaran'', Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse, pp. 153–175. * "Leeds: Regional Distributive Centre of Luxuries in the later Eighteenth Century", ''

Northern History ''Northern History'' is an academic journal of the history of the northern counties of England. It was first published in 1966 under the auspices of the School of History, University of Leeds. It is indexed by Scopus. The journal's founding editor ...

'', XXXVIl (2000), pp. 115–132. * "Part IV: Trade, Commerce and Industry" in E.J.T. Collins (Ed.) (2000) ''The Agrarian History of England & Wales, VII, 1850-1914'', Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 947–1225. * "The Eighteenth-century English Inn: a transient "Golden Age" " in B. Kümin & B.A. Tlusty (Eds.) (2002) ''The World of the Tavern: Public Houses in Early Modern Europe'', Ashgate, Aldershot, pp. 205-226. * "Producers, crops and markets 1600-1800" in J. Broad (Ed.) (2009) ''A common agricultural heritage? Revising French and British rural divergence'', Agricultural History Review, Supplement Series 5, British Agricultural History Society, Exeter, pp. 138–154.

References

Academics of the University of Leeds 1946 births Living people Historians of agriculture Historians of England Economic historians English historians {{UK-historian-stub