Mark Overton is Professor of Economic and Social History at the University of Exeter. Before moving to Exeter he taught in the Geography Departments of the Universities of Cambridge and Newcastle, and held a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, Oxford. His research interests are in the agrarian history of England from the middle ages to the present day and in the economy and society in early modern England. He is currently President of the British Agricultural History Society and has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Economic History Society. He was also Vice-Chair of the Training and Skills Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council. His books include Agricultural Revolution in England: The Transformation of the Agrarian Economy 1500–1850 (Cambridge, 1996); Farming to Halves: The Hidden History of Sharefarming in England from Medieval to Modern Times (2008); and Production and Consumption in English Households, 1600–1750 (2004). He also co-edited Land, Labour and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity (1991) with Bruce Campbell.
