Farming had been 'the lifeblood of Lincolnshire' for centuries, but the century up to 1945 was to see a transformation of the county's agriculture. Jonathan Brown traces in great detail the fluctuations in prosperity brought about by free trade, war and the return to lower prices in peacetime; industrialization; and agriculture's loss of primacy in the national economy and society. Studies in the History of Lincolnshire. Volume 2. Off-mint.