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Taking Stock
David (Lectu Howell
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Description for Taking Stock
Paperback.
After a late and shaky start because of the jealousies of local agricultural societies, the Welsh National Agricultural Society founded in 1904 (to be renamed the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society in 1922) was to surmount many problems and difficulties in its first seventy years or so to become by the 1980s one of the three major agricultural societies in the United Kingdom. This remarkable success story is traced by David Howell in fourteen chapters which cover the holding of the show at Aberystwyth from 1904 to 1909, the migratory years between 1910 and 1962 when some 37 'canvass towns' were ... Read more
After a late and shaky start because of the jealousies of local agricultural societies, the Welsh National Agricultural Society founded in 1904 (to be renamed the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society in 1922) was to surmount many problems and difficulties in its first seventy years or so to become by the 1980s one of the three major agricultural societies in the United Kingdom. This remarkable success story is traced by David Howell in fourteen chapters which cover the holding of the show at Aberystwyth from 1904 to 1909, the migratory years between 1910 and 1962 when some 37 'canvass towns' were ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
27
Condition
New
Number of Pages
27
Place of Publication
Wales, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780708318256
SKU
V9780708318256
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Ref
99-15
About David (Lectu Howell
David W. Howell was Reader in History at the University of Wales, Swansea.
Reviews for Taking Stock
' As a narrative history of the Society, this handsomely-produced volume will give much pleasure...' The Agricultural History Review '...a splendid history, well researched and well presented. It should please the Society and its members, for whom it is primarily intended, whilst at the same time providing professional historians with valuable insights into Welsh agriculture during the twentieth-century.' ... Read more