The Account Book of Richard Latham
The accounts book of an eighteenth-century Lancashire farmer in searchable database format (Lorna Scammell)

Country House Database
Country houses in the British Isles from the late medieval period to ca. 1850, together with an index to all the families so far traced as having occupied them. Organised by region (England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, islands) (Robin Alston)

Enclosure and Resistance in Oxfordshire: A Tradition of Disorder?
essay by Steve Hindle on the importance of commons rights for the rural poor and on their resistance to enclosures which threatened these (BBC Online)

Families in Early Modern Appleby Magna
A ‘breakdown of the early modern village social order by social rank and status’ (Alan Roberts)

Farms and Fields of Deddington 1500-1950
Outline of the changes in farming patterns that took place in one Oxfordshire parish (Deddington Online)

Hierarchy and community in the Elizabethan parish: the Swallowfield articles of 1596
article by Steve Hindle, discussing the ‘articles’ listing expected standards of behaviour, drawn up by the leading inhabitants of a Wiltshire community
From Historical Journal, 42:3 (1999)

‘The bull is half the herd’: property rights and enclosures in England 1750-1850
essay by Elaine Tan, discussing the impact of enclosures on small farmers who owned cattle (U. Oxford)
Discussion Papers in Economic and Social History, 46 (2002)

Recent work on French rural history
historiographical review article by Peter Jones (U. Birmingham ePrints)
From Historical Journal, 46:4 (2003)