This conference on the British Countryside between the two World Wars might
interest some of the subscribers to this list.
With best wishes,
Martin Haggerty.
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>Dear H-RURAL
>
>May I draw attention to an interdisciplinary conference of rural
>historians, design, environmental and art historians, and literature and
>drama specialists, which will be held in a building which is itself a
>classic example of modernist design this coming January?
>
>Paul Brassley
>
>
>
>Regeneration or Decline?
>The British Countryside between the two World Wars
>
>A CONFERENCE ORGANISED BY
>
>THE INTERWAR RURAL HISTORY RESEARCH GROUP,
>
> AT HIGH CROSS HOUSE, DARTINGTON, DEVON.
>
>9-10 January, 2002
>
>Sponsored by the British Agricultural History Society and the University
>of Plymouth.
>
>
>Programme
>
>
>WEDNESDAY 9 JANUARY 2002
>
>1330 - 1445 Registration
>
>1445 - 1530 Keynote paper: Professor Alun Howkins (University of
>Sussex) - Death and Rebirth? English Rural Society 1920-1940
>
>1530 - 1700 Land and Politics
>
> Clare Griffiths (University of Sheffield) -
> Farming in the public
>interest: constructing and reconstructing agriculture on the political
>left
>
> Edmund Penning-Rowsell (Middlesex University) -
> The British
>countryside between the two world wars: agriculture in crisis
>
> John Sheail (Centre for Ecology and Hydrology,
> Monks Wood) - The
>integration of agricultural land in inter-war Britain
>
>1700-1715 Tea
>
>1715-1845 Beauty and Truth
>
> Christopher Bailey (University of Northumbria) -
> Design, rural
>industry, and progress in the countryside
>
> Paul Brassley (University of Plymouth) - The
> wheelwright, the
>carpenter, two ladies from Oxford, and the construction of socio
>economic change between the wars
>
> Simon Miller (Queens University of Belfast) - Use
> and beauty: image
>and mindset in rural development 1920-1942
>
>1845 - 2000 Dinner
>
>2000 - 2100 Work in Progress in the Dartington archive: the
>Dartington
>experiment
>
> Lynne Thompson (University of Exeter) - agriculture
>
> Rachel Harrison (University of Exeter) - the
> visual arts
>
>
>
>THURSDAY 10 JANUARY 2002
>
>0800 - 0900 Breakfast
>
>0900 - 0915 Angie St. John Palmer (Dartington Hall Trust) -
>the archive
>at High Cross House
>
>0915 - 1000 Keynote paper: Professor Marion Shaw (University of
>Loughborough) - Cold Comfort times: women rural writers in
>the
>interwar period
>
>1000 - 1100 Actions and Words
>
> Mick Wallis (Loughborough University) - The ends
> of patronage:
>Dartington, drama and rural adult education
>
> Mark Rawlinson (University of Leicester) - Dead
> chickens: Henry
>Williamson, British agriculture and European war
>
>1100 - 1130 Coffee
>
>1130 - 1230 Cottages and Halls
>
> Jeremy Burchardt (University of Reading) - 'A new
> rural
>civilisation': village halls, community and citizenship in the 1920s
>
> Nick Mansfield (National Museum of Labour
> History) - Farmworkers,
>local identity and conservatism, 1914 - 1930
>
>1230 - 1330 Lunch
>
>1330 - 1430 Education and Regeneration
>
> Caitlin Adams (London) - Teaching villagers to be
> themselves: rural
>education between the wars
>
> Anne Meredith (University of Sussex) -
> Agricultural education in the
>1930s: a question.
>
>1430-1445 Tea
>
>1445 - 1545 Estates and Ideas
>
> Roy Brigden (University of Reading) - Leckford: a
> case study of
>interwar development
>
> David Jeremiah (University of Plymouth) -
> Dartington Hall: the
>landscape of an experiment in rural reconstruction
>
>1545 - 1600 Closing remarks - Jeremy Burchardt
>
>
>
>
>
>BOOKING
>
>Registration Fee (payable by all those
>attending) #35...............
>
>plus
>
>Full
>conference,
>#44...............
>
>OR
>
>Wed 9 January, including dinner on Wed
>evening #15..............
>
>Bed and
>Breakfast
>#20..............
>
>Thursday 10 January, including
>lunch #13..............
>
>
>Please send details of your
>name
>institution
>address
>postcode
>email
>phone no.
>Special dietary requirements
>and a cheque for the appropriate amount (registration fee plus full or
>partial conference fee - see above) payable to IRHRG, to
>
> PAUL BRASSLEY, SEALE-HAYNE FACULTY, UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, NEWTON
>ABBOT, DEVON, TQ12 6NQ,
>
>to arrive by Friday 21 December 2001
>
>A paper version of this programme, which includes a booking form, is
>also available from Paul Brassley ([log in to unmask]). No receipt
>will be sent unless specifically requested. Numbers are limited to 40,
>so early booking is advised.
>
>The conference papers will be sent to those attending the conference by
>Friday 4 January 2002.
>
>
>
>High Cross House and the Foxholes Centre
>
>
>The conference will be held in High Cross House, which is now the
>archive centre for the Dartington Hall Trust. There could be no more
>appropriate setting, for the house was built in modernist style as part
>of the reconstruction of the Dartington Hall estate, for the use of the
>first headmaster of Dartington Hall School. It was designed, down to the
>furniture, by the Swiss-American architect William Lescaze, and
>completed in 1932. The exterior is of concrete plastered white, '...as
>appropriate to Devon', wrote Pevsner in the South Devon volume of his
>Buildings of England series, 'as [it] would be to California or the
>river Hudson, a symbol of enlightened internationalism...'. Much of the
>original furniture is still in place, and there will be opportunities to
>examine the archive and the pottery and picture collections in the
>house.
>
>Meals and accomodation (which is not en suite) will be in the White
>House, part of the Foxholes Centre, which was the former Dartington Hall
>School, designed by Oswald Milne, a pupil of Lutyens.
>
>Further information about these buildings (not about the conference) may
>be found on the Dartington Hall website, www.dartington.u-net.com
>
>
>I.R.H.R.G.
>
>The Interwar Rural History Research Group is an informal
>inter-disciplinary (art history, literature, drama, history, and
>geography so far) group of scholars with no formal membership or fixed
>abode. We first met in December 2000, and aim to arrange three
>peripatetic meetings each year. The two meetings held so far (at
>Loughborough and Exeter) have been notable for the fruitful interaction
>of historians with drama specialists, geographers with art historians,
>and so on, and we hope to maintain and extend this at the Dartington
>conference. We have an email discussion list which can be joined via
>http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk.
>
>
>
>
>For IRHRG
>Paul Brassley
>Seale-Hayne Faculty
>University of Plymouth
>Newton Abbot
>Devon TQ12 6NQ
>Tel: 0626 325668
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