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Henry Rolf Gardiner (5 November 1902 – 26 November 1971) was an English rural revivalist who helped to bring back folk dance styles including Morris dancing and sword dancing. He also founded groups significant in the British history of organic farming ; his forestry methods were far ahead of their time and he was a founder member ...
22 de oct. de 2011 · Rolf Gardiner was perhaps the most prominent figure in England's own version of a voelkisch tendency which, whilst it did not achieve the prominence of its German counterpart, is increasingly recognized as a significant constituent of mid-twentieth-century English cultural life.
Rolf Gardiner (1902-1971) farmer, forester, folk dancer, poet and visionary, has recently been the subject of considerable attention on the part of agricultural, ecological, political and social. historians of the inter-war period. Interest has tended to focus in particular on his close.
'A very perfect form of discipline': Rolf Gardiner, folk dance and occult landscapes. Clare Button. 2018, The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947. Edited by Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford. Oxford and New York: Routledge.
Description. Folk dancer, forester, poet and visionary, Rolf Gardiner (1902-71) is both a compelling and troubling figure in the history of twentieth-century Britain. While he is celebrated as a pioneer of organic farming and co-founder of the Soil Association, Gardiner's organicist outlook was not confined to agriculture alone.
Abstract. Rolf Gardiner (1902–71) excites deep affection and instinctive dissent in equal measure. An inspirational man of boundless ‘energy and enthusiasm and tenacity’, 1 he devoted himself unswervingly for 50 years to his cause of rescuing Western civilisation from soulless mechanisation.
Against the background of the economic and cultural environment of inter-war rural Britain, this article seeks to trace the history of the ‘Kinship in Husbandry’, a group of like-minded ruralists opposed to modernising tendencies in agricultural and the rural economy.
