Dr Jeremy Burchardt

Biography

Dr. Jeremy Burchardt is currently working as a Associate Professor in the Department of History, University of Reading , United Kingdom. Responsibilities: I contribute to our Part I course on 'Approaches to History' and 'Landmarks in World History'. Amongst the other courses I teach most have a rural focus, including 'Rural England 1800-2000: Agriculture, Countryside and Nation' (2nd year Period) and 'The Countryside in English Culture' (3rd year 'Special Subject'). My current administrative responsibilities include acting as convenor of the Department's Part One provision. Areas of Interest: My research interests are in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English rural society. In particular, I am interested in land holding by rural workers and the allotment movement in the nineteenth century and in leisure provision in the countryside in the twentieth century. My interests also include related issues such as the changing balance of power in rural areas, the decline of the aristocracy, middle-class migration to the countryside, rural preservationism and attitudes to the countryside. I am currently chair of the Interwar Rural History Research Group

Research Interest

Areas of Interest: My research interests are in the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English rural society. In particular, I am interested in land holding by rural workers and the allotment movement in the nineteenth century and in leisure provision in the countryside in the twentieth century. My interests also include related issues such as the changing balance of power in rural areas, the decline of the aristocracy, middle-class migration to the countryside, rural preservationism and attitudes to the countryside. I am currently chair of the Interwar Rural History Research Group