A revisionist look at the true state of rural England between the
two world wars. England is the country, and the country is England,
as Stanley Baldwin famously said in 1924, but what kind of country
was it? There are persistent memories of depression and
depopulation, of dilapidated villages and deserted country houses,
in a period of bitter discontent and disturbance when the brief
febrile excitements of the 1920s gave way to the thirties, Auden's
"low dishonest decade". Recent work has radically modified the
history of the interwar years, but largely from an urban and
industrial viewpoint. Hitherto this revisionist perspective has
left unquestioned one of the central components of the old
orthodoxy: that this was a period of unremitting, unmitigated
decline in the countryside. In The English Countryside Between the
Wars an interdisciplinary group of scholars have come together to
challenge this view. Organised into sections on society, culture,
politics and the economy,and embracing subjects as diverse as women
novelists and village crafts, the book argues that almost
everywhere we look in the countryside between the wars there were
signs of new growth and dynamic development. This will be required
reading for everyone with an interest in British history between
the wars and to lecturers, teachers and students studying social,
cultural, political, economic and environmental history, historical
and cultural geography, English literature, performance studies and
art and design history. Contributors: ALUN HOWKINS, CAITLIN ADAMS,
MARION SHAW, MARK RAWLINSON, MICK WALLIS, DAVID JEREMIAH,
CHRISTOPHER BAILEY, JOHN SHEAIL, CLARE GRIFFITHS, NICHOLAS
MANSFIELD, ROY BRIGDEN
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