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THE CONTESTED COUNTRYSIDE: Rural Controversies in Historical Perspective
A conference organised by the Rural History Centre, University of Reading,
UK.
Monday 18th September, 2000.
The countryside is one of the most hotly debated and contentious aspects
of modern Britain. Fierce debates take place in Parliament, in the media
and among the public about rural issues such as hunting, rambling, the
rural environment, and the crisis in farm incomes. But notwithstanding
the high visibility of countryside problems in recent years, the issues at
stake are far from new. The main aim of 'The Contested Countryside' is to
set the British rural crisis in a long-term perspective. The speakers,
all of whom are leading authorities on their subjects, will each take a
different facet of the rural crisis and set it in historical context.
Delegate participation will play a key role in the conference, with thirty
minute papers to allow maximum time for discussion and debate after each
paper. A brief final session will draw the themes and issues raised
during the day together.
Programme:
10.00-10.30: Arrival and registration
10.30-11.15: Professor Berkeley Hill - 'Agricultural incomes: a damaging
history of disjunction between policy concern and evidence'
11.15-11.30: COFFEE
11.30-12.15: Paul Brassley - 'Murrains to mad cows: a very short history
of governments and animal diseases'
12.15-13.00: Dr Philip Conford - 'An organic countryside: agriculture for
body, soul and nation'
13.00-14.00: LUNCH
14.00-14.45: Graham Cox - 'Listen to us: country sports and the
mobilisation of a marginalised constituency'
14.45-15.30: Marion Shoard - 'A private place: trespass and the struggle
against it'
15.30-15.50: TEA
15.50-16.35: Professor Simon Miller - 'Landuse and leisure: Leslie Scott
and the contested countryside'
16.35-17.20: Professor Alun Howkins - '"Those lost landscapes": rural
ideals in twentieth-century England'
17.20-17.30: Dr Jeremy Burchardt - Rural controversies in historical
perspective
The conference will be chaired by Professor Richard Hoyle, the Director of
the Rural History Centre.
Further details and a booking form are available from Dr Jeremy Burchardt,
'The Contested Countryside', Rural History Centre, PO Box 229,
Whiteknights, University of Reading, RG6 6AG, UK. Phone: 0044 (0)118
9318665. Fax: 0044 (0)118 975 1264. Email: [log in to unmask]
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