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List members may like to know about the first conference of the Interwar
Rural History Research Group, Dartington Hall, 9-10 January 2002.
Details/booking form as follows:
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 FORM
Registration Fee (payable by all those attending)
£35.......35.....
Full conference,
£44...............
OR
Wed 9 January, including dinner on Wed evening
£15..............
Bed and Breakfast
£20..............
Thursday 10 January, including lunch
£13..............
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TOTAL ENCLOSED
(please make cheques payable to I.R.H.R.G.)
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THIS FORM SHOULD BE SENT TO PAUL BRASSLEY, SEALE-HAYNE FACULTY,
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH, NEWTON ABBOT, DEVON, TQ12 6NQ, TO ARRIVE
BY FRIDAY 21 DECEMBER 2001. 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.
Please state below if you would like them sent to an address other than the
one given above:
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.
Paul Brassley
Seale-Hayne Faculty
University of Plymouth
Newton Abbot
Devon TQ12 6NQ
Tel: 0626 325668
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