Dear Richard, I would love to come to your conference but will be at another
beanfeast in the Czech Republic. I have a particular interest in hunting
issues and a large amount of sources languish in the NLW. You may have come
across my piece in the Welsh History Review "Field Sports, Conservation and
the countryside in Georgian and Victorian Wales" 16, 1993 which identifies
some of these. Due to a combination of manegerial incompetence and other
factors this department is being forced to downsize with the result that
yours truly is taking early retirement and my wife(a nutritional scientist
is being made redundant--all of which is a bit of a bummer! The upshot is
that I am going to have to find alternative ways of earning a crust! I shall
do some journalism and am also offering my services to any colleagues who
might want research doing in the Welsh/western British archives. If you know
of anyone who may be interested my charges will be ludicrously modest! Did
you get anywhere with the AHRB bid? All hte best , Richard ([log in to unmask] )
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Interwar Rural History Mailing List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of R.W.HOYLE
> Sent: 06 August 2004 11:14
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Reading Conference on field sports
>
>
> Field sports and rural society since 1850
>
> 13-14 September 2004
>
> The School of History at the University of Reading has convened a
> conference
> on the modern history of field sports in England. Despite the political
> antagonism over hunting with hounds in particular, little work
> has been done
> by historians on the character of field sports, their role in rural life,
> place in rural economy and employment, the identity of
> participants in them
> and the campaigns, current through most of the twentieth century
> in one form
> or another, to ban them. The conference hopes to open up the subject to
> historians and demonstrate the potential contribution that it can make to
> historical understandings of twentieth-century rural change.
>
> Papers will be presented on game keeping, foxhunting, otter hunting, hare
> coursing and wildfowling from a wide range of perspectives.
>
> Further details from R. W. [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask],
> 0118 378 8147.
>
> Apologies for any crossposting.
>
> R. W. HOYLE
> Prof of Rural History, School of History, University of Reading,
> Whiteknights, PO Box 218, Reading, RG6 6AA 0118 378 8662; fax
> 0118 378 6440
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