What is the IRHRG?
This informal research group was established in December 2000. Its purpose is to facilitate and support research into life in the countryside during the inter-war period. What makes it unique is the interdisciplinary approach taken by the group. So members represent a variety of disciplines - the performing arts, cultural, social, political and economic history, literature and geography.
The IRHRG provides an academic forum for the informal exchange of ideas and knowledge on a relatively specialised but complex period of history. Principally, the IRHRG questions the adequacy of the view that interwar rural Britain was depressed and stagnant, since various academics working in this area have shown that the British countryside was not one of unremitting gloom. It was this issue that the first IRGHG national conference addressed at Dartington in January 2001.
