Brian Short
Emeritus Professor (Geography)

Selected publications

Article

Taylor, Katherine J, Walford, Nigel, Short, Brian and Armitage, Richard (2012) Cautionary notes on linking the National Farm Survey with other records for investigating the agrarian history of Second World War Britain. Agricultural History Review, 60 (1). pp. 77-96. ISSN 0002-1490

Short, Brian (2012) A man in his landscape: Peter Brandon 1927-2011. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 150. pp. 193-207. ISSN 0143-8204

Taylor, Katherine J, Walford, Nigel and Short, Brian (2010) Assessing the land use of inter-war Britain: a comparison of the first land utilisation survey field sheets and 1:63,360 scale maps. Applied Geography, 30 (1). pp. 50-62. ISSN 0143-6228

Short, Brian and Godfrey, John (2010) The duke and the radical: an Edwardian land conflict in Sussex. Sussex Archaeological Collections, 148. pp. 225-46. ISSN 0143-8204

Short, Brian (2008) Death of a farmer: fortunes of war and the strange case of Ray Walden. Agricultural History Review, 56 (2). pp. 189-213. ISSN 0002-1490

Book

Short, Brian (2012) Apples and orchards in Sussex. Action in Rural Sussex, Lewes. ISBN 9781873850237

Short, Brian, Watkins, Charles and Martin, John (2007) The front line of freedom: British farming in the Second World War. Agricultural history review - supplement series, 4 . British Agricultural History Society, London. ISBN 9780903269049

Short, Brian (2006) England’s landscape: The South East. Collin/ English Heritage, London. ISBN 139780007155705

Short, Brian, Watkins, Charles, Foot, William and Kinsman, Phil (2000) The National Farm Survey, 1941-1943: state surveillance and the Countryside in England and Wales in the Second World War. CAB International, 234pp. ISBN 0851993893

Book Section

Short, Brian (2013) Corsley: a hamlet parish in Wiltshire. In: Howells, Jane (ed.) Life in an English village [revised edition]. Hobnob Press, Salisbury, pp. 295-305. ISBN 9781906978051

Short, Brian (2012) The social impact of state control of agriculture in Britain, 1939-1955. In: Brassley, Paul, Segers, Yves and Van Molle, Leen (eds.) War, agriculture and food: rural Europe from the 1930s to the 1950s. Routledge studies in modern European history (18). Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 172-192. ISBN 9780415522168

Short, Brian and Robinson, David (2011) Geography. In: Gray, Fred (ed.) Making the future: a history of the University of Sussex. University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, pp. 279-82. ISBN 9780904242690

Short, Brian (2011) The past in the present: the campus landscape before 1960. In: Gray, Fred (ed.) Making the future: a history of the University of Sussex. University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton, pp. 58-63. ISBN 9780904242690

Short, Brian (2007) The dispossession of farmers in wartime Britain. In: Short, Brian, Watkins, Charles and Martin, John (eds.) The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War. Agricultural History Review - Supplement Series . British Agricultural History Society, London. ISBN 9780903269049

Short, Brian, Watkins, Charles and Martin, John (2007) 'The front line of freedome': state-led agricultural revoluation in Britan, 1939-45. In: Short, Brian, Watkins, Charles and Martin, John (eds.) The Front Line of Freedom: British Farming in the Second World War. British Agricultural History Society.

Matless, David, Short, Brian and Gilbert, David (2003) Emblematic landscapes of the British Modern. In: Gilbert, David, Matless, David and Short, Brian (eds.) Geographies of British Modernity. Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 978-0631235019

Gilbert, David, Matless, David and Short, Brian (2003) Aterwood: emblematic landscapes of the British modern. In: Gilbert, David, Matless, David and Short, Brian (eds.) Geographies of British Modernity: Space and Society in the Twentieth Century. Blackwell.

Edited Book

Short, Brian (1997) The Ashdown Forest dispute 1876-1882: environmental politics and custom. Sussex Record Society, Lewes, 303pp. ISBN 9780854450725

Short, Brian, ed. (1981) Scarpfoot parish: Plumpton 1830-1880. CCE occasional paper (16). University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton. ISBN 9780904242188