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Description: | Archives and Business Records.
A major national repository for archives of agriculture and rural life. Collections include; Trade Records: Business records of firms in agricultural engineering, processing, and farm and garden seed production from John Allen & Sons (Oxford) Ltd, engineers, Bomford & Evershed Ltd, engineers, Clayton & Shuttleworth, engineers, John Fowler & Co (Leeds) Ltd, R Hunt & Co Ltd, Earls Colne, engineers,
International Harvester Company of Great Britain, Lawes Chemical Company, McHattie & Co Ltd, seedsmen, Marshall, Sons & Co, Nalder & Nalder Ltd, Ranks Hovis McDougall Ltd, Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies Ltd, Suttons Seeds, Wallis & Steevens Ltd, engineers, Wantage Engineering Co Ltd;
Society Records: Records of major organisations connected with agriculture and the countryside including Council for the Protection of Rural England, Country Landowners Association, National Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers, National Farmers' Union, Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, Royal Agricultural Society of England, Co-operative Records, Records of agricultural trading co-operatives,;
Other Records: The Centre holds a wide range of other archives covering such subjects as crafts and rural industries; literary papers; research papers; scientific papers including: Research papers of E.S.Beaven on barley and malt, Research papers of J.R.Bellerby, agricultural economist, Papers of Herbert Hunter, agricultural scientist, Papers of H.D.Parry, agricultural biologist, on scrapie, Papers of Sir George Stapledon, on grassland development;
The Archives collection also includes Farm records and a Document collection.
- | Subjects: | Agriculture agricultural engineering Rural life farming Crafts | Source: | Cornucopia - Discovering UK Collections | Address: | Redlands Road Reading Berkshire United Kingdom,
RG1 5EX | FAX: | 0118 378 5632 | Telephone: | 0118 931 8660 | Identifier: | oai:www.cornucopia.org.uk:4868 | Go to resource |
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