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The National Farm Survey 1941-1943: State Surveillance and the Countryside In England and Wales in the Second World War
Brian Short, Charles Watkins and Phil Kinsman CABI Publishing Wallingford 2000 viii + 262 pp. ISBN 105199 389 3 L37.50 ($70.00)
Keywords Agriculture, Farms, United Kingdom, History
A chance meeting at a University College London dinner in 1992 saw the genesis of this ground-breaking book. At that meeting two of the authors discussed their mutual interest, the National Farm Survey records. Shortly afterwards they mulled over their project with the third when applying for research funding. Happily their interests coincided and overlapped, and The National Farm Survey 1941-1943 came into being.
During the years of the Second World War there was great concern, especially when the U-boat war against the Merchant Navy was approaching its most intensive period, as to the continuing ability of the UK to feed its population should the flood of imported food dwindle to...