Encountering Rus in Urbe in the Twentieth-Century County Town: Lincoln's Fairs and Its Agricultural Show

Abstract

Recent work has ·suggested that the boundaries between rural and urban England were somewhat blurred during the nineteenth century. Barry Reay, for instance, in Rural Englands, notes the fluidity of movement which marked a number of districts where urban inhabitants undertook work on the land for part of the year and, when agricultural work was limited, rural inhabitants sought temporary work in the town. 1