Regional Farming in England
Hoskins, W. G.
Agricultural History Review, Volume 2 (1954)
Abstract
It is gratifying to be asked to address what is, I believe, the first full meeting of the new British Agricultural History Society, and I hope that I may do justice to the occasion. It is also somewhat intimidating to face so many who must know much more about practical farming than I do, not only in the new society but also in the Association of Agriculture, with whom this conference is being jointly held. I speak as a historian and not as a farmer, though–like many in this room–I am descended from a long line of farmers (five hundred years of them) which ended in the great depression of the I82O’S and a consequent migration to the town, a movement which constituted a fundamental break with the past for most English families, a revolution in English cultural and social history, and one which has produced little but disastrous consequences for the economy and fortunes of this country. But let us tiptoe quietly away from such immediate controversy and apply ourselves to the more distant past.
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