The Scientist behind Modern Britain

Описание: Episode 19 - Stapledon and the Depression. A look at the urban-centric ideas about the Landscape emerging during hte agricultural depression in the 1930s and 30s. John Boys Orr and Christopher Addison saw nutrition as a problem, and the eyesores and inefficiencies of suburbia led J B Preistley to push for more central planning. Green Belts and National Parks are promoted to give townspeople access to the countryside, make them interact with country people and ultimately push Britian towards a healthy, enlightened, modern society.

0:00 - Introduction
1:12 - Rural Decay
8:02 - Urban Malnourishment
8:41 - Suburbia
9:58 - Government Intervenes
11:30 - The Plan
14:43 - National Parks
18:31 - Progressive Environmentalism

Sources:
Geroge Stapledon, 'The Land: Now and To-Morrow', 1935
F G Thomas, 'The Changing Village', 1939
J B Preistley 'The Beauty of Britain', 1942
Christopher Addison, 'A Policy for British Agriculture', 1939
Dudley Stamp, ‘Land Utilization Survey of Britain’, in Geographical Review, Vol.24, No. 4 (1934), pp. 646-650.
Menzies-Kitchen, A. W., 'The Future of British Farming', 1945

David Matless, 'Landscape and Englishness', 1998
Jonathan Brown, 'Farming in the 1920s and 30s', 2012
How hungry were the poor in late 1930s Britain? Ian GAzeley, Andrew Newell, Kevin Reynolds, Hector Rufrancos, 4 May 2021.
John Martin, 'The Development of Modern Agriculture', 2000
P. Brassley, J. Burchardt and L. Thompson eds. The English Countryside Between the Wars: Regeneration or Decline?', 2006
R J Hammond, Food and Agriculture in Britain, 1935-45, 1954



Media Used:
Interview with Arthur Pick, EMOHA, LO/244/295
Interview with Albert Cookes, EMOHA, LO/294/245
Interview with Stanley Siddons, EMOHA, LO/475/425
Interview with Kenneth Barnett, EMOHA, LO/258/209
British Council Film 'Merseyside'
British Council Film 'The Green Girdle'
British Council Film 'The People's Land'
British Council Film 'A Lowland Village'
British Council Film 'Make Fruitful The Land'
British Council Film 'Power on the Land'