Farming Industry

Drawing on prestigious archives of photographs, this pictorial charts the history of Britain's farming heritage with 120 rarely seen photographs.

Nearly eleven thousand years ago humans moved away from hunting and gathering and began to raise livestock and plant crops. Our nostalgia for the way the countryside once was is an enduring passion. Photography emerged at a crucial time when farming tasks could be done with a speed and on a scale previously unimaginable. Farming history has been driven by experimentation, innovation, and invention and the 19th century was one of those times marked by such change. This pictorial history looks at that pivotal period in after which the British countryside would never be the same.