Between the 1930s and the 1950s rural life in Europe underwent profound changes, partly as a result of the Second World War, and partly as a result of changes w

In the years before the Second World War agriculture in most European states was carried out on peasant or small family farms using technologies that relied mai

Food for War is a ground-breaking study of Britain's food and agricultural preparations in the 1930s as the nation once again made ready for war. Historians wri

This volume of essays examines one of the crucial periods in the evolution of the European rural economy and society, assessing the effects of the Second World