Mark Overton

Jack Winters Campmates Mark Overton

Publisher Marketing: Sure, walk right in, Toby. My latch-string is always out to my chums. I see you managed to pick up Steve on the way across; but I wager you had really to pry him loose from that dandy new volume on travel he was telling me about, because he's such a bookworm. The two boys who hastened to accept this warm invitation, and enter Jack Winters' snug den were his most particular chums. Those who have been lucky enough to read the preceding volume of this series ] will of course require no introduction to Steve Mullane and Toby Hopkins. However, as many newcomers may for the first time be making the acquaintance of the trio in these pages, it might be just as well to enumerate a few of their leading characteristics, and then we can get along with our story. Contributor Bio:  Overton, Mark Mark Overton is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter. Before moving to Exeter he taught in the Geography Departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Newcastle, and held a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. His research interests are in the agrarian history of England from the middle ages to the present day and in the economy and society in early modern England. He is currently President of the British Agricultural History Society and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Economic History Society. He was also Vice-Chair of the Training and Skills Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council. His books include Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500 1850 (Cambridge, 1996); Farming to Halves: The Hidden History of Sharefarming in England from Medieval to Modern Times (2008); and Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600 1750 (2004). He also co-edited Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity (1991) with Bruce Campbell.