Paul Brassley
Biographic Data
| ID | 696951 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Brassley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Brassley |
| SIGNATURE | BRASSLEY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Entertaining Ginnie
Recent studies of the context of cinema as cultural practice have, for the Second World War period, inevitably had to rely on memories for evidence, and have often concentrated on those of working-class cinemagoers. This study, however, interrogates a largely-unused archive of letters and diaries for contemporary evidence of the wartime entertainment experiences of a relatively wealthy American woman living in Britain. It analyses quantitative an…
Twentieth-Century Georgic and Agricultural Technology
This chapter argues that the way in which authors of both fiction and non-fiction wrote how agriculture changed around the years of the Second World War. For the first fifty years of the century the extent and popularity of georgic writing was sufficient for the cultural significance of the countryside to outweigh its economic importance. However, those works that dealt seriously with farming tended to emphasise its problems, and mostly described…
Nourrir la population
Le défi de se nourrir a toujours été le plus angoissant pour les sociétés humaines et il s'est amplifié avec la croissance urbaine. Les échanges de cette table ronde essaient de voir comment les sociétés ont fait face à cet impératif. En balayant rapidement l'échelle du temps depuis le Moyen Âge, on voit que les intempéries ne sont pas le seul facteur de pénuries. Les décisions des pouvoirs politiques ont été déterminantes, et parmi elles les méc…
Joan Thirsk (1922-2013)
JOAN THIRSK, THE DOYENNE OF BRITISH rural history, died on October 3, 2013. She was ninety-one. Joan’s record of research and writing lasted for more than sixty years, and she was important to British and continental European historians for several reasons. In her work on the early modern period, she demonstrated the use of a much wider range of documentation than had hitherto been employed to reveal local variations in farming and rural economie…
War, Agriculture, and Food
Food production and food processing in western Europe, 1850-1990
Iron harvests of the field
Cutting across nature? The history of artificial insemination in pigs in the United Kingdom
Farming in Lincolnshire, 1850-1945 - Jonathan Brown
The Professionalisation of English Agriculture
Following Perkin's suggestion that western European society is increasingly professionalised, and given the emergence of a stratum of large commercial farms in twentieth-century England, this paper examines the contention that, to some extent at least, English agriculture has been professionalised over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It briefly surveys the literature on professionalisation, identifies a list of professi…
Rolf Peter Sieferle, The Subterranean Forest
The Wild and the Sown
Foreword Joan Thirsk Preface Introduction 1. Translations and classification of the natural environment from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century 2. From medieval agronomy to Renaissance agriculture 3. Lucerne in Italy 4. Forage crops in France: diffusion and retreat 5. Tradition and innovation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England 6. The new crops and English agriculture 7. From theory to seed production: England and continental Europ…
On the unrecognized significance of the ephemeral landscape
This paper argues that the ephemeral components of the landscape have a significant, but hitherto unrecognized, effect upon the way in which it is perceived and evaluated. These ephemeral components, or landscape ephemera, are those which change with the weather, the seasons, the growth and decay of plants, the choice of farm crop, and so on. Their nature is explored, and they are contrasted with the more permanent components of the landscape, su…
On the unrecognized significance of the ephemeral landscape
This paper argues that the ephemeral components of the landscape have a significant, but hitherto unrecognized, effect upon the way in which it is perceived and evaluated. These ephemeral components, or landscape ephemera, are those which change with the weather, the seasons, the growth and decay of plants, the choice of farm crop, and so on. Their nature is explored, and they are contrasted with the more permanent components of the landscape, su…
The Professionalisation of English Agriculture
Following Perkin's suggestion that western European society is increasingly professionalised, and given the emergence of a stratum of large commercial farms in twentieth-century England, this paper examines the contention that, to some extent at least, English agriculture has been professionalised over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It briefly surveys the literature on professionalisation, identifies a list of professi…
The Wild and the Sown
Foreword Joan Thirsk Preface Introduction 1. Translations and classification of the natural environment from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century 2. From medieval agronomy to Renaissance agriculture 3. Lucerne in Italy 4. Forage crops in France: diffusion and retreat 5. Tradition and innovation in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England 6. The new crops and English agriculture 7. From theory to seed production: England and continental Europ…
On the unrecognized significance of the ephemeral landscape
This paper argues that the ephemeral components of the landscape have a significant, but hitherto unrecognized, effect upon the way in which it is perceived and evaluated. These ephemeral components, or landscape ephemera, are those which change with the weather, the seasons, the growth and decay of plants, the choice of farm crop, and so on. Their nature is explored, and they are contrasted with the more permanent components of the landscape, su…
Rolf Peter Sieferle, The Subterranean Forest
The Professionalisation of English Agriculture
Following Perkin's suggestion that western European society is increasingly professionalised, and given the emergence of a stratum of large commercial farms in twentieth-century England, this paper examines the contention that, to some extent at least, English agriculture has been professionalised over the course of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It briefly surveys the literature on professionalisation, identifies a list of professi…
Farming in Lincolnshire, 1850-1945 - Jonathan Brown
Cutting across nature? The history of artificial insemination in pigs in the United Kingdom
Food production and food processing in western Europe, 1850-1990
Iron harvests of the field
War, Agriculture, and Food
Joan Thirsk (1922-2013)
JOAN THIRSK, THE DOYENNE OF BRITISH rural history, died on October 3, 2013. She was ninety-one. Joan’s record of research and writing lasted for more than sixty years, and she was important to British and continental European historians for several reasons. In her work on the early modern period, she demonstrated the use of a much wider range of documentation than had hitherto been employed to reveal local variations in farming and rural economie…
Twentieth-Century Georgic and Agricultural Technology
This chapter argues that the way in which authors of both fiction and non-fiction wrote how agriculture changed around the years of the Second World War. For the first fifty years of the century the extent and popularity of georgic writing was sufficient for the cultural significance of the countryside to outweigh its economic importance. However, those works that dealt seriously with farming tended to emphasise its problems, and mostly described…
Nourrir la population
Le défi de se nourrir a toujours été le plus angoissant pour les sociétés humaines et il s'est amplifié avec la croissance urbaine. Les échanges de cette table ronde essaient de voir comment les sociétés ont fait face à cet impératif. En balayant rapidement l'échelle du temps depuis le Moyen Âge, on voit que les intempéries ne sont pas le seul facteur de pénuries. Les décisions des pouvoirs politiques ont été déterminantes, et parmi elles les méc…
Entertaining Ginnie
Recent studies of the context of cinema as cultural practice have, for the Second World War period, inevitably had to rely on memories for evidence, and have often concentrated on those of working-class cinemagoers. This study, however, interrogates a largely-unused archive of letters and diaries for contemporary evidence of the wartime entertainment experiences of a relatively wealthy American woman living in Britain. It analyses quantitative an…
History (7 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · Art (4 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Classics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works) · Rural development and sustainability (3 works)