1st Edition

English Rural Life Village Activities, Organizations and Institutions

By H. E. Bracey Copyright 1959
    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    286 Pages
    by Routledge

    This is Volume IV of thirteen in a series on Urban and Regional Sociology. First published in 1959, it focuses on the village activities, organisation and institutions of English rural life, providing a background of the history of land tenure, the growth of settlements and the development of agricultural activities from early Britain.

    Chapter 1 Rural People: Master And Man; Chapter 2 Farms and Villages: Distribution, Situation and Form; Chapter 3 Occupations and Crafts; Chapter 4 Rural Migration; Chapter 5 Village Leadership; Chapter 6 Preserving The Countryside; Chapter 7 Local Government In Rural Areas; Chapter 8 Town and Country Planning Applied to Rural Counties; Chapter 9 Voluntary Health and Welfare Services in the Countryside; Chapter 10 Some Statutory Health and Welfare Services; Chapter 11 Voluntary-Statutory Part nership: Rural Community Councils; Chapter 12 Church and Chapel1In the countryside, the people who worship in the chapel support the Chapel which in this form is used throughout the text to indicate the Free Church. The fol lowing pages have been written after the careful study of an earlier script by many clergymen who brought long, personal experience to bear on the problems con fronting rural Churches today.; Chapter 13 The Women's Institute; Chapter 14 Village Pubs, Clubs and Institutes; Chapter 15 Music and Drama; Chapter 16 Rural Reading, Radio and Television; Chapter 17 Rural Education; Chapter 18 Agricultural Education, Training And Advice; Chapter 19 Prospect;

    Biography

    H. E. Bracey