Land Reform in the British and Irish Isles Since 1800 - Paperback

Shaun Evans is Director of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates (ISWE), a research centre based at Bangor University to enhance both academic and public understanding of country houses and landed estates in Wales. This includes a portfolio of projects focusing on the historical impacts and influences of these places, especially in relation to the histories and cultures of Wales, its landscapes, identities and global connections, and a sustained effort to make use of this knowledge to make in the spheres of heritage interpretation, cultural tourism, the rural economy, built environment and visitor experience. His own research focuses on gentry culture and landed estates in Wales, 1500-1900. He is also Chair of the North East Wales Heritage Forum.

Tony Mc Carthy is a PhD graduate of the Department of History, Maynooth University. A qualified accountant and former stockbroker, he holds an MBA from University College Dublin, and an MA in history from Maynooth University. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Newcastle University and a former Writer in Residence at the Princess Grace Library Monaco. He is author of The Shaws of Terenure, a nineteenth-century Dublin merchant family and has contributed to a number of other historical monographs. He is currently working on a book on George Wyndham's time in Ireland.

Annie Tindley is Professor of British and Irish Rural History at Newcastle University and Head of the School of History, Classics & Archaeology. Her work interrogates land issues in the modern period including ownership, management and reform. In 2015 she established and became the first director of the Centre for Scotland's Land Futures, an inter-institutional and interdisciplinary research centre, and is the series editor for Scotland's Land, an interdisciplinary book series published by Edinburgh University Press. She is the author of The Sutherland Estate, 1850-1920 (Edinburgh University Press, 2010), and Lachlan Grant of Ballachulish, 1871-1945 (co-edited with Ewen A. Cameron, Birlinn, 2015).