List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Editorial conventions
1. Introduction: a forest landscape
2. The Natural Capital of Ashdown
3. Ashdown before the Forest
4. Ashdown emerges and the Landscape fills up, 1086-1485
5. Society and Community on Ashdown Forest, 1500-1800
6. Ashdown's forest economy
7. Threats to Ashdown Forest
8. Victorian Ashdown: a changing setting for an escalating conflict
9. The Ashdown Forest Dispute
10. The early years of formal conservation, 1885-1914
11. Ashdown in War and Peace, 1914-1945
12. Ashdown's historic present from 1945
13. Forest conflicts: a conclusion
Glossary
Ashdown Forest: select Bibliography
Index

Brian Short is an emeritus professor of Historical Geography at the University of Sussex. He has a longstanding interest in the rural landscape history and society of South-East England.