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Title
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The Museum of English Rural Life
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short title
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Museum of English Rural Life
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Description
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The Museum of English Rural Life tells the story of the history of the English countryside and its people. The Museum was established in 1951 to capture and record England’s rapidly changing countryside following the Second World War. The Museum’s archive collections range from papers of individual farms and large estates through the institutional archives of major countryside organisations to the trade records of agricultural firms, as well as over a million rural photographs, films relating to the countryside, tens of thousands of engineering drawings, personal records and journals of farmers, farm workers, land girls and evacuees. The Museum’s library is the most significant specialist collection of printed material in the country for the study of the history of British agriculture, the countryside and rural society.
The Museum of English Rural Life is part of the University of Reading’s Museums and Collections which also include Special Collections, Art Collections, and more.
University of Reading Museums and Collections
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