Members of Conservation-Research may be interested in this conference,
which includes several papers of conservation interest.
Details as below.
Best wishes,
Dr Jeremy Burchardt
Lecturer in History, University of Reading
Chair, Interwar Rural History Research Group
Preliminary programme September 2006
Inter War Rural History Research Group
International conference, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham,
England, from 4-6 January 2007
Rethinking the Rural: Land and the Nation in the 1920s and 1930s
Thursday 4th January 2007
15.00-16.00 Prof. David Danbom (North Dakota State University, USA), ‘From
national identity to national problem: farmers and agriculture in the
United States between the wars.’
4.00 – 16.30 Tea
4.30 – 18.15 Session 1 (3 papers)
Strand 1 Politics and Land Reform
Dr John Dwyer (USA), ‘The economic and Political forces behind Mexican
land reform in the 1930s.’
Dr Paul Brassley (UK), ‘Land reform and reallocation in interwar Europe.’
Dr Amos Nadan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ Tel Aviv University,
Israel), ‘Land reform in mandate Palestine, 1920s-1940s: A story of
colonial bungling’.
Strand 2 Representation, National Identity and Conservation
Caterina Benincasa (UK), ‘Strawberries and Sinners : Lilian Ream’s
photographs of migrant East End labour and the Wishbech Fruiting Campaign.’
Dr Catherine Moriarty (UK), ‘The politician, the pioneer and the soldier:
Monuments to achievement and identity in inter-war rural Australia.’
Leslie C Shores (USA), ‘Charles Belden and the rural Wyoming landscape.’
Strand 3 Rural Life
Dr Lisa Ossian (USA), ‘The early depression dilemmas of rural Iowa,
October 1929-November 1932.’
Dr Yves Segers (Belgium), ‘The agricultural depression and the strategy of
the dairy sector in Belgium, 1920s-1930s,’
19.00- 20.00 Dinner
20.00- 21.00 Professor Kate Darian-Smith, (University of Melbourne,
Australia), ‘Representing land and nation: agricultural shows in interwar
Australia.’
21.00 Bar open until ????
Friday 5th January
9.00 – 10.45 Session 2 (3 papers)
Strand 1 Politics and Land Reform
Drs Connie Lester, Melissa Walker (USA), Claire Strom
(moderator), ‘Markets and memory: the agricultural south in the interwar
years’. CL, ‘To market, to market, The Florida state agricultural
department and co-operative marketing in the interwar years.’
ML, ‘Southern farmers and the New Deal: experiencing state intervention,
remembering state intervention.’
Leslie C Shores (USA), ‘Resettle or bust: Franklin D Roosvelt’s
resettlement administration in Wyoming.’
Strand 2 Representation, National Identity and Conservation
Wade Lough (USA), ‘Three mythic views of rural America in the years of the
great depression.’
Dr Drew Cottle (Australia), ‘Blind in a sunburnt country: land and nation
in Australia during the inter-war period.’
George Simmers (UK), ‘Rural dreams and post-war nightmares: dangerous
landscapes in fiction of the 1920s.’
Strand 3 Rural Life
Dr Stephanie Carter (USA), ‘Rural life and rural change in the Upper
South.’
Dr Jeremy Burchardt (UK), ‘When did the middle class start to take over
the countryside? Counterurbanisation in Berkshire (UK), 1900-1950.’
Dr Edouard Lynch (France), ‘Inter-war France and “exodus rural” (rural
migration): the national myth in peril.
10.45- 11.15 Coffee
11.15- 12.30 Session 3 (2 papers)
Strand 1 Politics and Land Reform
Dr Susanna Wade Martin (UK), ‘Small holdings in England- a social and
farming experiment.’
Dr Inese Sture, Anita Zarina (Latvia), ‘Reshaping the landscape during the
golden age of Latvia’s history (1920-1937).’
Suman Suvedi Bhattarai (Nepal), ‘Agriculture and people in the third
decade of 2oth century Nepal.’
Strand 2 Representation, National Identity and Conservation (2 papers only)
Prof. David Jeremiah (UK), ‘Motoring and the British countryside.’
Dr Tom Williamson (UK),‘Benign neglect? Farming and Wildlife in East
Anglia between the wars.’
Strand 3 Rural Life (2 papers only)
Dr John Broad (London Metropolitan University, UK), ‘Re-building the image
of the rural community between the wars: Council housing, cottage
improvement and the village idyll between the wars.’
Prof. Jonathan Harwood (UK), ‘Expansion, rationalisation and crisis in
interwar German agricultural education.’
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.30 Plenary- Professor Alun Howkins (University of Sussex,
UK), ‘Fascism and the rural world in interwar Europe.’
14.30 – 16.15 Session 4 (3 papers)
Strand 1 Politics and Land Reform
Dr Andrew Moore (Australia), ‘Australia’s interwar militias as rural
phenomena’.
Dr Katharine Griffiths (UK), ‘Green thought in Germany: The role of nature
in National Socialist ideology.’
Dr Andrew Mitchell (UK), ‘ “Farmers for fascism?” The British Union of
Fascists and the east Anglian ‘tithe war’ 1933-34.
Strand 2 Representation, National Identity and Conservation
Anna Machin (USA), ‘Authenticity glamorised: the countryside and the
modern nation in interwar Hungarian entertainment films.’
Sorcha O’Brien (UK), ‘Sean Keating at the Shannon Scheme: documenting the
disfigured rural landscape in 1920s Ireland.’
Catherine Lynch (USA), ‘The country, the city and visions of modernity in
1930s China.’
Strand 3 Rural Life
Dr John Martin (UK), ‘The pace of agricultural innovation and
technological change in British agriculture 1931-9. A reappraisal’ (3.6.06
said prefer this paper awaiting confirmation from John)
Dr Peter Dewey (UK), ‘The European farm tractor industry, 1919-39.’
Robert Bennett (UK), ‘The management of road transport in the rural county
of Herefordshire 1919-1939.’
16.15- 16.45 Tea
16.45- 18.30 Session 5 (3 papers- tighter for time as 90 mins))
Strand 1 Politics and Land Reform
Florence Cartigny (France), ‘The rise of agrarian democracy in Alberta in
the interwar years.’
Geraint Thomas (UK), ‘Rural Conservatism and ‘National appeal’ in the
Thirties.’
Dr Karen Miller (USA), ‘The farm vote and partisan loyalty in the United
States, 1924-1936.’
Strand 2 Representation, National Identity and Conservation
Dr Zachary Jack (USA), ‘ “The Tiller and the Tilled”: Edward H Faulkner,
Walter Thomas Jack, and the art of agricultural apologists in the interwar
years.’
Dr Edward Rafferty (USA), ‘Landscape, regional planning and the
conservation ethic: Lewis Mumford, Robert Marshall, and Benton Mackaye.’
Erin Gill (UK), ‘The interwar interests of Lady Eve Balfour: preparation
for life-long dedication to the organic cause.’
Strand 3 Rural Life
Dr Keith Grieves (UK), ‘Books, bricks and ‘brighter’ villages: The rural
library movement in Britain after the Great War.’
Lynne Thompson (UK), ‘The British state, voluntary bodies and agricultural
education in the interwar years: Young Farmers’ Clubs as a case study.’
Prof. Dr Margreet van der Burg (Netherlands), ‘Were farm women a special
group? Netherlands Interwar dynamics in gender and cultural hegemony.’
19.00- 20.00 Dinner
20.00-21.00 Plenary – Dr Jan Bieleman (University of Wageningen),
Netherlands, ‘Agriculture and government in the Netherlands 1920-1940.’
21.00 Bar open until ???
Saturday 6th January 2007
9.30-11.15 Session 6 (3 papers)
Strand 1 Politics and Land Reform
Dr Mark Rothery (UK) ‘The state, the nation and propertied conservatism:
the Country Landowners Association during the interwar period.’
Dr Julian Mischi (France), ‘National rhetoric and communism in the French
countryside during the interwar period.’
Dr Rebecca Nedostup (USA), ‘ “Superstition” and the politics of Chinese
modernity in rural Jiangsu, 1927-1937.’
Strand 2 Representation, National Identity and Conservation
Dr W P Griffith (UK), ‘Saving the soul of the nation: essentialist
nationalism and inter-war rural Wales.’
Dr Ann-Catrin Ostman (Finland), ‘The fields or the forest? Land and
masculinity in Finnish historiography.’
Dr Carin Israelsson (Sweden), ‘Swedish milk, a Swedish duty.’
Strand 3 Rural Life
Angela Davis (UK), ‘ “There weren’t many opportunities for the likes of
us”: Girls experiences of growing up in rural Oxfordshire c1920-1939.’
Dr Maggie Andrews (UK), ‘Household talks: competing discourses of experts,
knowledge and the rural domesticity.’
Bruno Notteboom (Belgium), ‘Images of the countryside. Landscape and
community in inter-war publications of the National Commission for the
Improvement for Rural Living and the Belgian Union of Farmer’s Wives.’
11.15-11.45 Coffee
11.45-12.45 Round table
Chair: Jeremy Burchardt
Speakers: Dr Clare Griffiths (UK), Dr Claire Strom (USA), and Prof. Dr
Margreet van der Burg (Netherlands).
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 Conference ends
The Inter War Rural History Research Group gratefully acknowledges the
support the conference has received from the Economic History Society and
the British Agricultural History Society.
Inter War Rural History Research Group
Rethinking the Rural: Land and the nation in the 1920s and 1930s
4-6th January 2007, Royal Holloway, Egham, Surrey, UK
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