The Death of Rural England
by Alun Howkins
The Death of Rural England is written by Alun Howkins, a historian who officially retired last year, but is still actively writing. Its subtitle, The Social History of the Countryside Since 1900, again gives away what the book is about. It is looking at the changes to the countryside that we are familiar with and it implicitly poses the question of whether a rural society remains as something different from urban society any more.
