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Alun Howkins (8 August 1947 – 12 July 2018) was an English social historian, specialising in the history of English rural society. Regarded as a leading historian of the English countryside and its working class, Howkins was a professor of history at the University of Sussex and co-founder of the journal Rural History.
In historiography, rural history is a field of study focusing on the history of societies in rural areas. At its inception, the field was based on the economic history of agriculture. Since the 1980s it has become increasingly influenced by social history and has diverged from the economic and technological focuses of " agricultural history ".
Bygones is an Anglia Television documentary series exploring East Anglian history and traditional rural crafts. Bygones won the Royal Television Society Television Professionals' All-time Favourite Regional Series Award in 2000. [1] It first ran from 1967 to 1989 and returned in 2007 for two more series. [2]
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The organisation changed its name in 1912 to the National Agricultural Labourers and Rural Workers Union (NALRWU), and in the same year officially registered as an Approved Society under the National Insurance Act 1911.
A challenge came from a dissident tradition that looked chiefly at the negative social costs of agricultural progress, especially enclosure. In the late 20th century there arose a new school, associated with the journal Rural History. Led by Alun Howkins, [152] it links rural Britain to a wider social history. Burchardt calls for a new ...
Histoire & Sociétés Rurales (History and Rural Societies) is an academic journal dedicated to rural history from prehistory to the present day. It was established in 1994 and is published biannually by the Association d'Histoire des Sociétés Rurales.
South Mimms is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of South Mimms and Ridge, in the borough of Hertsmere in Hertfordshire in the East of England.It is a small settlement located near to the junction of the M25 motorway with the A1(M) motorway.